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Frida, Opera Musical
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FRIDA OPERA MUSICAL, dedicated to the artist and icon of femininity, at TAM!
Following the resounding success of "The Divine Comedy Opera Musical" and "Van Gogh Café Opera Musical," Mic International Company presents "Frida Opera Musical," written by Andrea Ortis and Gianmario Pagano, directed by Andrea Ortis, and featuring Drusilla Foer. This extraordinary journey through the life and work of Frida Kahlo is in collaboration with the Frida Kahlo Museum "Casa Azul" and the Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, and under the patronage of the Mexican Embassy in Italy. This journey recounts the extraordinary life of Frida Kahlo, an artist, an icon of femininity, and a rebellious soul in a turbulent era. This performance offers a profound and vibrant portrait of the painter who transformed pain into color and fragility into creative power. The opera balances the power of musical theater with the visual force of painting. The viewer is immersed in post-revolutionary Mexico, amidst ideological ferment, mural art, European influences, and key figures such as Zapata, Trotsky, Breton, and Tina Modotti, to name a few. It is a choral journey into the heart of an era marked by the desire for change, in which Frida lived with unabashed authenticity.
Program and cast
Directed by Andrea Ortis
Written by Andrea Ortis and Gianmario Pagano
Music and Lyrics Vincenzo Incenzo
Choreography Marco Bebbu
Costumes Erika Carretta
Set Design Gabriele Moreschi
Lighting Design Associate Valerio Tiberi and Virginio Levrio
Video Design Virginio Levrio
Assistant Directors Emma de Nola and Beatrice D'Arienz
Executive Producer Lara Carissimi
Company Administrator Luisa Iandolo
Production Assistant Federica Zangari
Frida Kahlo: Federica Butera
Catrina: Drusilla Foer
Diego Rivera: Andrea Orti
Antonello Angiolillo - Floriana Monici - Valeria Belleudi - Riccardo Maccaferri - Debora Boccuni - Arianna Tale '- Federica De Riggi – Raffaele Rudilosso - Antonio Sorrentino - Elisabetta Dugatto - Giulia Maffei - Rebecca Erroi - Enrico Cava - Omar Barole - Damiano Spitalieri
Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano
The Teatro degli Arcimboldi is a theatre and opera house in Milan which was built over a twenty-seven month period in anticipation of the closure and subsequent nearly three-year long renovation of Milan's La Scala opera house in December 2001. It is located 4.5 miles from the city centre in an abandoned Pirelli tire factory, in an area known as Bicocca.[1]
Designed by Vittorio Gregotti working with architects Mario Botta and Elisabetta Fabbri, the fan-shaped 2,375 seat auditorium, created on two levels, was planned to allow for the continuation of La Scala's 2001/2002 opera season and it was inaugurated with a performance of Verdi's La traviata on 19 January 2002.
An unfortunate accident closed the theatre for seventeen days in February 2001, but it reopened and became the La Scala company's venue until the renovated opera house reopened on its traditional day, 7 December, in 2004.
Performances of many different types of music are still given at the Arcimboldi.
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