MIlano, 11 Mar. (askanews) – The National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci of Milan presents “On stage”, a new set -up that tells the relationship between theater, music and technique through a historical artifact of the Teatro alla Scala: an original form of the stage to mobile bridges which, from Saturday 15 March it becomes an integral part of the museum’s exhibition itinerary.
“It is a lot of Milan – the general manager of the museum, Fiorenzo Galli, told askanews – because there is the staircase, there is our museum which is an important piece of our city, there is technology, technology, artisan, industrial, artistic ability together and there is the extraordinary artists who have recited on this stage and the great technicians, starting with Franco Malgrande, who is the director of the scenic set -ups of the scale, who has been working with so many decades. Workers and technicians of extraordinary value to give us those emotions that certainly derive from the artists, but it is also the stage technique that manages to keep the staircase at the highest world levels “.
The stage was built in 1938 and made it possible to create quick, safe and complex stage changes, thanks to an advanced hydraulic system built by the Stigler Mechanical Officine in Milan. Used for over sixty years, the stage has witnessed the staging of some of the historical shows of the theater, also surviving the bombings of the Second World War. 6 meters long and 2.40 wide, the form exposed is part of a theater reform project that began with the construction of the new orchestral hole and the lighting innovations of the artist Mariano Fortuny and remained in operation until 2002.
“We – added Claudio Giorgione, curator Leonardo, art and science of the National Museum of Science of Technology – We always have as a museum, precisely in the name of Leonardo, told those tangencies and those intersections between art, science, technique, engineering and this path dedicated to the ancient stage of the Teatro alla Scala represents it well, because obviously we talk about how the stage designed by Luigi Secchi was working, what were its incredible elements. Modernity, but at the same time we tell the whole history of theater, because we cannot speak of engineering detached from the function, that is, that of the entry of culture, of music “.
The project was carried out thanks to the collaboration with the Municipality of Milan, the Teatro alla Scala Foundation, the Superintendency of Archeology Fine Arts and Landscape for the Metropolitan City of Milan and to the contribution of Fimesa – Family Sordi.
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