La Mort de Cleopatre / La Dame de Monte Carlo / Erwartung

Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti – Spoleto57 Festival of 2World, Spoleto
2014

LA MORT DE CLÉOPÂTRE
cantata for soprano and orchestra
music by Hector Berlioz
text by Pierre-Ange Vieillard
with Ketevan Kemoklidze mezzo-soprano / Cléopâtre

LA DAME DE MONTECARLO
lyrical monologue for soprano and orchestra
music by Francis Poulenc
text by Jean Cocteau
with Kathryn Harries soprano / la dame de Montecarlo

ERWARTUNG
one-act monodrama for soprano and orchestra
music by Arnold Schönberg
libretto by Marie Pappenheim
with Nadja Michael soprano / Eine Frau

Director: Frédéric Fisbach
Stage and lighting design: Laurent P. Berger
Conductor: John Axelrod
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
mimes: Cecilia Andreasi, Ketty Panarotto, Lapo Sintoni, Matteo Morigi, Stefano Spadin, Francesco Marchesi

technical manager: Ottorino Neri; assistant director: Solène Souriau; assistant costume design: Monia Torchia; piano master: Eugenio Krizanovski; stage master: Roberta Mori; lighting master: Ermelinda Suella; production manager: Maya Dimova; technical management coordinator: Daniele Di Battista; technical secretariat: Silvia Preda; assistants technical manager: Alessia Forcina, Giulia Chiapparelli; stage manager: Fabrizio Pisaneschi; lighting supervisor: Graziano Albertella; sceneshifters supervisor: Paolo Zappelli; head sceneshifter: Michele Colella; sceneshifters: Leonardo Bellini, Generoso Ciociola, Alessandro Gobbi, Massimiliano Marotta, Fabio Pibiri; head electrician: Simone De Angelis; lighting console operator: Francesco Vignati; electrician: Umberto Giorgi; phonic: Luca Starpi; prop manager: Patrizia Valentini; propman: Maurizio Salvatori; costume shop supervisor: Chiara Crisolini Malatesta; seamstresses: Claudia Zampolini, Serenella Orti, Marian Osman Mohamed, Giuliana Rossi; costumes: Brancato Costumeshop Milan; footwear: Calzature Epoca; make-up and wigs: Roberto Maria Paglialunga; scenography: Scenography and Painting Laboratory of Festival of 2Worlds in Spoleto, Tecnoscena S.r.l.; scenography: Technical Staff of Festival of 2Worlds; person in charge: Claudio Balducci; stagehand constructor: Enrico Calabresi; scenographic painters: Moreno Bizzarri, Silvana Luti; sculptor: Massimiano Albanese; assistant: Edoardo Marcolini; lights: Luce E’ S.r.l Florence; show business structures and services: Atmo Divisione Gioform S.r.l.; pianos: Angelo Fabbrini

performances in original languages subtitles by Prescott Studio, Florence
thanks goes to the students of the Scuola del Teatro Musicale

Three female solo, three composers, three stage designs, two nights, one director.