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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.
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