Serata Mozart - Vanitas

Set Design

Paolo Calafiore

Coreography

Fabrizio Monteverde

Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Teatro alla Scala di Milano

2006

Photos

Marco Brescia

Abstract

Teatro alla Scala on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of W.A. Mozart's birth presents the world premiere of VANITAS a new creation by Fabrizio Monteverde dedicated to the genius and mystery of the composer, Salzburg. Within the nocturnal and sidereal stage space, a large Ptolemaic structure suspended in space emerges from the depths of darkness, revealing within it the luminous vision of the constellation Cassiopeia. This golden and perfect form appears at times as a large refracted Light sculpture, at times as an enigmatic black hole, in a delicate balance between real and illusory space.

Press review

Mozart enhanced by a feast of agile bodies.
Monteverde's novelty ' Vanitas ' unites the adagio from the Concerto K 488 for piano and orchestra a beautiful aria from the ' Passion ' K42, and composes, in a complex play-scenographic signed by Paolo Calafiore (bodies reflected in a kind of eye-obliteration balanced between spatiality and illusion) an articulate physical discourse.

Mario Pasi. Corriere della Sera (11th june 2006)

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Scala, dance gala honoring Mozart.
An all-Mozart evening. It is a Mozart who comes to us 'on his toes'. The absolute novelty is Vanitas. Inspired by the myth of Cassiopeia, the vain queen condemned to spin incessantly in the sky turning upside down all the time.Worthy of note is the scenic installation by Paolo Calafiore.

Domenico Ricotti. Avvenire (11th june 2006)