Academy Project 2022
From 5 to 19 September 2022, the Teatro alla Scala will once again present the Accademia Project, an opera whose realisation is in part entrusted to the students of the La Scala school, who will flank Pietro Spagnoli, who will interpret Don Geronimo.
The title chosen for 2022 is Il matrimonio segreto by Domenico Cimarosa, in a new Teatro alla Scala production featuring Soloists and Orchestra of the Accademia conducted by Ottavio Dantone and directed by Irina Brook.
Also taking part in the production are the Accademia's master collaborators, photographers and videomakers.
Il matrimonio segreto is Cimarosa's opera that has remained most firmly in the repertoire: the composer, after three years at Catherine's court in St. Petersburg, arrives in Vienna in 1791 (the year of Mozart's death) where he obtains the protection of Emperor Leopold II, who appoints him chapel master, and meets the poet Giovanni Bertati. Based on his verses - modelled on the play The Clandestine Marriage by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick - Cimarosa composed Il matrimonio segreto, which was staged at the Burgtheater on 7 February 1792, arousing such enthusiasm that the emperor asked for an encore performance of the entire opera the same evening.
It was on the wave of this success that Il matrimonio inaugurated the Lenten Season of La Scala in 1793: in the following years it would return at regular intervals and with performers of the calibre of Galli and Lablache until 1828. It was Tullio Serafin who revived it in 1911, followed in 1936 by Gino Marinuzzi (with Mafalda Favero).
The marriage returned in 1949, marking the third direction of a twenty-eight-year-old Giorgio Strehler: Mario Rossi directed and the cast included Sesto Bruscantini, Alda Noni, Tito Schipa, Hilde Güden, Fedora Barbieri and Boris Christoff. A new Strehlerian version, this time directed by Nino Sanzogno, would be presented at the Piccola Scala in 1955 (for the inauguration of the theatre, and then in Vienna and Johannesburg) with revivals in 1957 (also in Edinburgh), 1958 and 1963. In 1972, Lamberto Puggelli proposed a new version with sets by Luciano Damiani and costumes by Ezio Frigerio: Nino Sanzogno, who had adopted Franco Donatoni's revision, was again on the podium; Sergio Pezzetti, Margherita Guglielmi and Luigi Alva, among others, sang. The filming in 1979 and 1980, with Enzo Dara and Claudio Desderi joining the cast, was directed by Bruno Campanella.
For all Academy alumni registered at alumni.accademialascala.it there is a discount on tickets for the first performance.
Partner Progetto Accademia 2022
