San Carlo Theatre in Naples – Limited Edition

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San Carlo Theatre in Naples

The most detailed and exhausve exposure relang to the San Carlo Theatre, an Italian excellence celebrated around the world. The new photographic campaign reveals every corner of the Theatre, from the stalls up to the ers, from the stage and curtain up to the velarium. The images furnished by the Archivio Storico del Teatro di San Carlo have allowed the publicaon of historical photos and rare historical documents. Luigi Cuoco and Sergio Ragni Collecon has granted further unpublished material in order to make the most exhausve and presgious volume ever made on this Theatre. History of the Theatre is enriched by themac focuses dedicated to the Abbia Prize, the Costumes, the Ballet Company, the San Carlo in the world and its restoraon. The volume contains a 32-pages insert with historical drawings, sketches and fashion-plates from 1951 and 1999.

Index

INTRODUCTIONS
Editor’s note Emmanuela Spedaliere Stéphane Lissner Rosanna Purchia Gabriele Ferro
Cecilia Bartoli
Saimir Pirgu
The Dreams of Partenope
INTRADA
From the Sides
Going Back in Time
Ex libris
From the Teatro San Bartolomeo to the Real Teatro di San Carlo
The Theatre Tradition in Naples
The Founding of the San Carlo: from Giovanni Antonio Medrano to Ferdinando Fuga
The First Theatre of Antonio Niccolini and Domenico Barbaja: The Fire of 13 February 1816
The Decorative Programme and Allegories
The New Real Teatro di San Carlo and the Inauguration on 12 February 1817 Further Works after the Demolition of Palazzo Vecchio: The Proposed Designs The Fame of the Real Teatro di San Carlo
A FLIGHT ACROSS TIME
New Spring
Set Designers, Impresarios and Copysts Domenico and Gioachino
Dozzinetti?
Neapolitan Gaetano Mid-Nineteenth Century A Mask at the Dance
No Longer a Capital Born in Naples
A Temple among Temples
A Directorship in the Style of a Viceroyalty Almost a Diarchy
The Lecouvreur!
The Buoys of the Twenty-First Century The 1980s
The 1990s
The New Century
Abbiati Prizes
Sketches, Drawings, Fashion-Plates Costumes
MAITRES ET PREMIERES
Sarro and Achille in Sciro
Jommelli and Armida abbandonata Manfroce and Ecuba
Mayr and Medea in Corinto
Rossini and La donna del lago Donizetti and Lucia di Lammermoor Pacini and Saffo
Mulè and Liolà
Pizzetti and La figlia di Iorio Malipiero and Capitan Spavento
Rota e Aladino and la lampada magica
An Evergreen Tradition: Ballet at the San Carlo Theatre Ballet of the San Carlo Theatre
The Oldest School in Italy
LEADS AND LUMINAIRES
Between Refinement and Farce Rossini’s Company
A Golden Age
Golden Prima Donnas
Queen Renata
A la recherche
The San Carlo Theatre in the World The Restoration

Author

Prof. Piero Mioli

He is from Bologna and teaches the history of music. He is Counsellor of the Accademia Filarmonica and President of the Cappella dei Servi, and writes for the newspaper ‘Resto del Carlino’. He wrote essays and books on Padre Marni, Rossini, Gluck, Donize, Verdi, and on the Opera. He edited a manual on the history of music, several conference proceedings and complete edions of libreos by Verdi, Mozart, Bellini, Rossini and Wagner. Among his latest books, in addion to the reissue of the Dizionario di musica classica in two volumes (BUR), Il melodramma romanco (Mursia) and L’opera italiana del Novecento (Manzoni).

With texts by Emmanuela Spedaliere, Stéphane Lissner, Rosanna Purchia, Gabriele Ferro, Cecilia Bartoli, Saimir Pirgu, Sergio Ragni.

With the collaboraon of Archivio Storico del Teatro di San Carlo.

Description of the volume

Format_ cm 30 x 40 cm
Pages_ 420
Images_ 252
Languages_ Italiano – Inglese
ISBN_ 978-88-95847-96-2
Material
Hard cover coated with Setalux canvas and printed with hot gold. 4+0 colours printed illustraon, ma laminated and applied on the front board. Colour process prinng on Fedrigoni Tatami White paper 170 gr/m2. Endpapers not printed with Siltex Avorio silk. Inseron of fashion plates and drawings on Cordenons Dalì 160 gr/m2. Slipcase coated with colour process printed paper, hot embossing with foil gold and canvas finishes on the top and on the boom.
Limited and Numbered Edition of 777 copies