The Comunale Theatre in Bologna | The Great Italian Theatres

The volume contains images of the new photographic campaign by Scripta Maneant, donated to the Theatre for puposes of study, restoration, and conservation.
Added to these new, richly detailed, unpublished images is a rich photographic array coming from the historical archive and including posters, stage photos, sketches, drawings, figurine plates, and more material so far never made visible to the general public. The volume is a great editorial tribute to the history of the Comunale Theatre in Bologna, a city institution of international fame, and aims to celebrate its unique and overwhelming story also thanks to the text by the author Prof. Piero Mioli.

Index

• Introductions
  Editor’s note
  Virginio Merola
  Fulvio Macciardi
  Raina Kabaivanska
  Daniel Oren
  Rolando Panerai
  With Diego, Arthur, and Carmen
• Intrada
  At a Glance
  A Theatre’s Masks
  Note
  Historical Theatre in Villa Mazzacorati - Aldrovandi
• A Flight Across Time
  From Guasto to Triumph
  All Premieres
  A Half Century Later
  Rossinisti
  New Republic
  Diarchy
  From the South
  Brief at Length
  Fallì l’impresa?
  A Strange Repertoire and Permanent Orchestra
  An Exponential Comunale
  Bringing the Twentieth Century to a Close
  New Faces
  Two in One
  Pentasyllabic Line with Internal Rhyme
  Eighteen
  The 1980s
  The 1990s
  The New Century
  Sketches, Drawings, Fashion-Plates 
• Maîtres et Premières
  Gluck and Il trionfo di Clelia
  Verdi and Don Carlo
  Rossini and the Petite Messe solennelle
  Wagner and Lohengrin
  Gobatti and I goti
  Respighi and Re Enzo
  Mancinelli and Paolo e Francesca
  Puccini and La rondine
  Manzoni and Per Massimiliano Robespierre
  Guarnieri and Il trionfo della notte
  Vacchi and Il viaggio
  Ferrero and Risorgimento!
• Leads and Luminaries
  Head and Hand
  First Quartet of Batons
  Second Quartet at the Podium
  Few Nineteenth-Century Voices
  Among the Abundance of Twentieth-Century Voices

Description of the work

• Hard cover coated with Setalux canvas and printed with hot gold. 4+0 colours printed illustration, matt laminated and applied on the front board. Colour process printing on Fedrigoni Tatami White paper 170 gr/m². Endpapers not printed with Siltex Avorio silk. Insertion 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 bottom.

• Size_ cm 30 x 40

• Pages_ 392

• Images_ 252

• Bilingual edition_ Italian/English

• Rights_ Worldwide

• ISBN_ 978-88-95847-77-1

Author

Prof. Piero Mioli
He is from Bologna and teaches 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 Martini, Rossini, Gluck, Donizetti, Verdi, and on the Opera. He edited a manual on the history of music, several conference proceedings and complete editions of librettos by Verdi, Mozart, Bellini, Rossini and Wagner. Among his latest books, in addition to the reissue of the Dizionario di musica classica in two volumes (BUR), Il melodramma romantico (Mursia) and L’opera italiana del Novecento (Manzoni).

Introductions by
Virginio Merola, Fulvio Macciardi, Raina Kabaivanska, Daniel Oren, Rolando Panerai, Cesare Sughi.

Photographer

Carlo Vannini
He is one of the greatest Italian art photographers. He has published in volumes and magazines as well as collaborating with advertising agencies and other communication companies. He is a Professor of Photography for Cultural Heritage at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.

Under the patronage of the Municipality of Bologna.
The Editor thanks:
Comunale Theatre Foundation;
International Museum and Library of the Music in Bologna.

Volume Datasheet

The Comunale Theatre in Bologna | Limited Edition