I Duellanti
La Fenice Opera House: Sale Apollinee
Musics: Paolo Furlani
Director: Michele Modesto Casarin
Conductor: Alberto Maron
Conception: Marco Gnaccolini
Costumes: Licia Lucchese
Dresser Assistant: Alessandra Dolce/Caterina Volpato
Director Assistant: Matteo Campagnol
Coordination: Emanuele Pasqualini
DUELLANTI
Notturno settecento
Musical Theater performance
with
Ensemble Harmonica Prattica
Anna Girò | Ilenia Tosatto (soprano)
Trepolmoni | Andrea Biscontin (tenor)
Catte | Claudia Bellemo, Manuela Massimi
Carlo Goldoni | Matteo Fresch
Antonio Vivaldi and Tagliacarne | Michele Modesto Casarin
Baldassare Galuppi and Beccaferro | Emanuele Fortunati
committed by La Fenice Opera House
with Pantakin Commedia, Woodstock Teatro and Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello
world premiere
Summoned by the powerful Count Grimani, Carlo Goldoni witnesses the challenge between the mature Antonio Vivaldi and a young Baldassare Galuppi: the great poet was to be given the task of writing a libretto for the winner’s opera. In a nutshell, this is the plot of I duellanti, a performance of theatre and music commissioned by Teatro La Fenice and staged by the Venetian companies Pantakin and Woodstock Teatro: the dispute, which is almost like the finale one of today’s talent shows, takes place in public, amidst the festive, decadent atmosphere of an eighteenth-century Venice. The recited part, which also includes two masks of Commedia dell’Arte, is complemented by music inspired by that period and invented for the occasion by Paolo Furlani.