«HOr a provocative proposal: work only four days a week ». He was convinced, Damiano Michielettowhen he talked about it with I woman in 2020. He thought about it. It is evident. With four working days it could not have a debut a Wedding to the convent from Prokof’ev, on March 26 in Vienna; the world premiere of The name of the squad On 27 April at the Scala in Milan; the creation of the billboard of Caracalla Festival (“summer emanation” of the Rome Opera Theater)from 29 July to 7 August; the debut in the feature film with Springprotagonist Tecla Insolia.
And let’s stop here, why His commitments actually arrive at 2030. They accused him of being over the top, excessive for his visionary royal (La Bohème with Mimì style Amy Winehouse, Madama Butterfy Between sex tourism and Hello Kitty, So fan all in the hotel for swingers) and – Nemo propheta at homeyou know – was writing in particular abroad.
“I trust in the female gaze”
Damiano Michieletto during the tests (photo Richard Hubert Smith).
He is now a “venerated teacher”. Who makes him debut in the cinema?
Attention! As Arbasino said, from the “venerated teacher” it is a moment to move on to the category “Usual Str …”. (Risatona) Curiosity pushes me. The desire to get involved, learn.
The artistic direction is also new. What guided it in choosing Caracalla’s appointments?
Desire – through a wide proposal that goes from the Baroque to West Side Story – to break down the prejudice that distinguishes “high music” and “popular music”. What matters are emotions, and they come from many sides.
Cooperated two colleagues: Ilaria Lanzino for The resurrection of Händel and Sláva Daubnerová for The traviata.
I trust a lot in the female gaze: the works are written by males and – in the vast majority – if the heroine is a woman or dies or suicide. An exception is Jenlex by Leoš Janáček: a very tragic story, yet for the protagonist there is a sort of happy ending. The reason is clear to me: it is based on the piece of an author (Gabriela Preissová, editor’s note)!
Damiano Michieletto and Umberto Eco
What should we expect from The name of the squad Scaliger version?
The idea of transforming Umberto Eco’s novel into score came to the composer, Francesco Filidei, who created a “geometric” structure with a division on days and rooms. The aesthetic will be contemporary, almost a series of installations that follow one another on stage: I avoided medieval clichés while drawing on the imaginative elements of that universe. The chorus will play a basic role and will be sitting in the cantoria of a huge cathedral: the action will take place below. When there is the fire, in the end, metal beds such as the morgue, with the seven corpses above.
“Cultivate our vegetable garden”
It is the second work that keeps baptism in two years later Animal Farm, The animal farm. Why does it thus consider it essential to renew not only the fittings, but the repertoire itself?
For me it is a “mission” to plant small seeds that can enter the programming in the future and avoid a “museum effect” for the work. Let’s take West Side Story: Leonard Bernstein wrote it in the 1950s as a musical for Broadway. It is a “commercial” product, today it is a classic.
And the role of tradition, therefore?
It must be understood as a trampoline, not as an indissoluble bond with the past. Tradition means resources, it means pride, means roots and the roots are essential to let the plant grow, to enlarge its hair and to welcome birds, nests, children who climb …
From 24 February the series will be broadcast on Rai1 Belcantoon the lyric environment. That the work is becoming fashionable and is imposing itself among young people?
I would not know. However, in truth, the personal theme does not worry me. The complex language of this art form involves a certain maturity to be understood: it is quite normal that a fifteen year old prefer to dance at a pop concert rather than staying three hours sitting in the audience. Maybe he will begin to appreciate later. It is fundamental that what you propose is exciting, both of quality: if a boy once approaches us and discovers something that involves him, he comes back. Certainly if it goes and runs into a boring stuff, it will keep it far away, and with reason!
It gives the impression of being very balanced.
Well, I think it is thanks to my origins. I come from Scorzè, a Venetian village, and from a simple family, of peasant origin: this remains inside you. I always try to be concrete, and positive. If you sow well, you will have fruits. As he urged Voltaire in White: “We must cultivate our vegetable garden”, and not in the sense of “our vegetable garden”. Cultivate their qualities, with passion and without envy for those who own others: there is a place for everyone. I thank the province also for the push impressed on my imagination.
Damiano Michieletto on the red carpet of the Rome Feast with Ambra Angiolini (Getty Images).
Face d‘art, lived d‘Love
In what sense?
Living there assures you that right dose of boredom that allows you to bring out your resources, to ask you what you really want. I spent my days playing with friends, inventing me pastimes. To that type of inventiveness I also draw now.
His career has lasted for over twenty years. Which considers the turning points?
La Gazza Ladra of Rossini, in Pesaro in 2007: a little because after that show they started calling me in Austria, Spain, Germany; A bit because they “buuo” to death and, since then, no whistle turns me if I am convinced that I have given the best.
In the list there will be another Rossini: the Guillaume Tell of London, in 2015. The Guardian He decreed that, in the history of the Royal Opera House, that representation would have marked a before and after.
I would rather add La Bohème of Salzburg, who did not go perfectly: it is not the successes that allow us to grow, but the things in which you perceive your limits and so they allow you to improve yourself. The failures exist only if they consider them such, otherwise they are opportunities.
We saw her on the red carpet with Ambra Angiolini. Do you have professional projects?
For now no. It could be beautiful, we will see where life will take us.
The “face of art, I lived in love” exerts an attraction …
The important thing is to live with sincerity, both in art and in love.
Damiano Michieletto with Tecla Insolia Sl Set of “Spring” (Photo Kimberley Ross).
“Mirror of the soul”
In November he will turn 50. Will he celebrate them?
Yes, big. I’m fine with myself, I feel more solid than once. And they are full of good intentions.
Type?
In the cell phone custody I keep a note found in a Fortune CookiAnd, those luck biscuits of Chinese restaurants: “Take care of your relationships: they are the mirror of your soul”. Give space and time and attention to my affections … this is the direction.
And maybe work four days a week.
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