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Caruso, Corelli and DiStefano: three myths of Italian singing in a virtual exhibition from La Scala in Milan

2021-08-02T22:39:10.889Z


From this August 1 you can access the exhibition that allows you to discover aspects of the life of the three great tenors.


08/02/2021 19:21

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The virtual exhibition

Caruso, Corelli, Di Stefano 1921-2021 / Myths of the Italian song

 permit from today and for a year, bring visitors to portals

italiana.esteri.it

and

teatroallascala.org

 to discover and delve into the extraordinary lives of the

three great tenors.

It is an initiative of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, created by the Teatro alla Scala Foundation, Museo Teatro alla Scala and curated by Mattia Palma.

The exhibition celebrates a

triple centenary

: the death, on August 2, 1921, of

Enrico Caruso

and the birth, in the same year and a few months away, of

Giuseppe Di Stefano

and

Franco Corelli

, indispensable protagonists of the international lyrical scene.

Enrico Caruso, one of the great lyric myths of all time.

Traces of a pioneer

The exhibition itinerary begins with the figure of Enrico Caruso, a pioneer of record recording and a symbol of the new sensibility of a time when

nineteenth-century performances

gave way to more bourgeois and intimate ones.

Through the

testimonies of the press and the stage photographs

, this section of the exhibition reconstructs the artistic climate of the years in which La Scala and its artists were the leaders of the Italian recovery between the post-war period and the

economic

boom

.

Franco Corelli, on stage at La Scala in Milan, with María Callas and director Antonino Votto, in 1960. AP

A virtual walk through La Scala

When visiting

Caruso, Corelli, Di Stefano ...

, the public will be able to move freely in the virtual environments of the Teatro alla Scala, also the protagonist of an

unprecedented 3D reconstruction

, according to the organizers, "which manages to merge real spaces with totally architectural environments. virtual. "

Through interaction, it will be possible to delve into the theme and content of each section, and access the videos made with a curator of the virtual space that took into account the architectural assembly designed for the occasion. 

The exhibition will travel the world allowing everyone, anywhere, to learn more about

three of the most representative artists

on the Italian opera music scene.

Giuseppe Di Stefano was one of the singers who marked an era in lyrical singing.

AP Photo

The announcement is made just when

It has been a century - on August 2, 1921 - that Enrico Caruso's voice was forever silent in Naples.

Of the famous lyrical tenor it is said, among thousands of other things, that it

was he who taught Carlos Gardel

the resource of using the sound

“r”

instead of

“n”

to perfume some tango passages.

Born between 24 and 25 -no certainties

February 1873

in the then Kingdom of Italy in a city near the Vesuvio, Caruso became one of the pioneers of its kind on record as

declaring their recorded cylinders wax or primitive paste discs.

In its vast trajectory

He visited Argentina on several occasions

and performed at our Teatro Colón.

Il gran finale: the impossible concert

Returning to the virtual proposal,

the grand finale is with the

Impossible Concert

, a virtual anchor of the three artists who interpret

Vesti la Giubba

(Put on the suit), the famous aria from the opera

Pagliacci

, by 

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

.

Enrico Caruso sang "I Pagliacci" at the Teatro Colón in 1915, together with his friend Tita Ruffo.

The sample is available in

Italian and in English

and, soon, it will also be available in

Spanish.

ES


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