{"id":24782,"date":"2021-09-24T15:17:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T13:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravennafestival.org\/?p=24782"},"modified":"2021-09-24T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T13:37:09","slug":"faust-rapsodia-on-a-journey-with-goethe-e-schumann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravennafestival.org\/en\/faust-rapsodia-on-a-journey-with-goethe-e-schumann\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Faust rapsodia<\/i>: on a journey with Goethe e Schumann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Friday 1 October, at the Alighieri Theatre, the premiere of<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teatroalighieri.org\/events\/faust-rapsodia\/\"><em>Faust rapsodia<\/em><\/a><span style=\"color: #993366;\">. Repeat performances on 2 and 3 October<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A map of the soul and a story no one will ever be done retelling: this is, according to director Luca Micheletti, the myth of Faust, whose last reincarnation, combining Goethe\u2019s verses and Robert Schumann\u2019s music, is being brought to the stage in Ravenna. On Friday, 1 October, the Alighieri Theatre is going to host the premiere of Faust rapsodia (repeat performances on 2 and 3 October), the second of the three new works \u2013 following Sergei Polunin\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dante Met\u00e0noia<\/em>\u00a0and waiting for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravennafestival.org\/en\/events\/paradiso-xxxiii\/\"><em>Paradiso XXXIII<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by and with Elio Germano and Teho Teardo (11-13 Oct) \u2013 that are leading the Autumn Trilogy on a journey through the languages of dance, music, and word to complete the tribute to Dante of the Ravenna Festival\u2019s 32nd edition. The adventures of Faust and his diabolical companion have been entrusted to the direction of Micheletti and the conduction of Antonio Greco, on the podium of the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the Cherubini Chorus. Baritone Vito Priante and actor Edoardo Siravo are both Faust; soprano Elisa Balbo performs as Margherita; bass Riccardo Zanellato and actor Roberto Latini are the two faces of Mephistopheles. The three evenings open in the Basilica of San Francesco, at 19.30, with\u00a0<em>Quanto in femmina foco d\u2019amor<\/em>, a short performance on the women of the\u00a0<em>Commedia<\/em>, accessible with the same ticket of\u00a0<em>Faust rapsodia<\/em>\u00a0and preceding the event, at 21, in the Theatre. Here, the stalls host the orchestra to guarantee its social distancing, while the audience sits in the boxes, the balcony, and the gallery. The Autumn Trilogy of Ravenna Festival, whose main sponsor is Eni, has been made possible by the support of the Municipality of Ravenna, the Chamber of Commerce, the Emilia-Romagna Region, and the Ministry of Culture, with the contribution of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faust had already lived through many lives when he met Goethe and, through his poem, became a universal myth. Born of a late-Medieval German tale, the tormented philosopher, scientist, and necromancer who sold his soul to the Devil to quench his thirst for knowledge and youth had featured among the puppets, on the Elizabethan stage, in all those plays and books more or less explicitly inspired by his story. \u201cFaust\u2019s nature is unbelievably protean \u2013 says director Luca Micheletti \u2013 As it often happens with myths, a uniform and orderly narrative is impossible. We can only explore a galaxy of themes, full of variations and inconsistencies, metamorphoses and ambiguities. Goethe himself surrenders his work to the apparently undisciplined juxtaposition of episodes and styles, re-weaving a plot that turns into an autobiographical reflection on the artist\u2019s creative self, its torments and destinations, its intimate sorrows and ambitions\u201d. According to Goethe\u2019s advice, Micheletti found that theatre is the only place where one can travel through the universe \u201cfrom heaven to hell\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is not by chance, therefore, that the new production chose the word\u00a0<em>rhapsody<\/em>\u00a0to suggest its own visionary quality, able to mirror the fragmentary nature of the source materials.\u00a0<em>Faust rapsodia<\/em>\u00a0is a mosaic comprising parts from Schumann\u2019s incomplete oratorio and scenes from Goethe\u2019s poem \u2013 both presented in 19th-century Italian translations, respectively by Vittorio Radicati, the composer\u2019s son-in-law, and by Andrea Maffei. On the stage, both Faust and Mephistopheles have their \u201cdouble\u201d: the former is both an actor, Edoardo Siravo, when he complains of the nothingness that assails him, and a singer, Vito Priante, embodying the soul of the younger and nobler Faust; Mephistopheles, played by Roberto Latini, doubles as Riccardo Zanellato\u2019s Spirit of the Abyss, who sings the famous scene in the church. On the contrary, Margherita, the most human and humblest of the characters, possesses only one voice, Elisa Balbo\u2019s; she is also, however, the awful ghost of the \u201cCure\u201d. The creative team features Ezio Antonelli (set, sculptures, and video design), Anna Biagiotti (costumes), Fabrizio Ballini (lighting design).<\/p>\n<p>Like Dante, Faust has been redeemed thanks to his beloved; so\u00a0<em>Quanto in femmina foco d\u2019amor<\/em>\u00a0is inspired by the women in the\u00a0<em>Commedia<\/em>, thus becoming an ideal bridge joining the Basilica where Dante\u2019s funerals took place to the stage of the Alighieri Theatre. Based on an idea by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, on a text by Francesca Masi, and directed by Micheletti himself, this \u201cmystery for voices and pilgrims\u201d \u2013 a 30-minute performance \u2013 will see characters such as Francesca, Pia, Sapia, Piccarda, and Cunizza sing their prayers together with Eve and Maria, the beginning and the end of the world, as represented by the mysterious woman Dante meets in the Earthly Paradis, Matelda. A penitent listens to the women and joins them; \u201cpenitent\u201d is also how Margherita is described in the last scene of Goethe\u2019s poem. After all, both Dante and Faust are among the greatest explorers of the human and inhuman. As these travellers journey across hell and heaven, the supernatural and fantastical elements turn into tools to question the human experience, or the human \u201ccomedy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Info and pre-sales\u00a0+39 0544 249244\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravennafestival.org\">www.ravennafestival.org<\/a><br \/>\nTickets from\u00a020 to 40 Euro, under 18 5 Euro<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 1 October, at the Alighieri Theatre, the premiere of Faust rapsodia. 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