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Queen Rhapsody
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A unique evening to relive the legend of Freddie Mercury and Queen!
“Is it real life or is it fantasy?” Thus begins Queen's manifesto song, the most incredible gamble in the history of rock music. It has everything: shards of hard rock, pop, glam, opera, the eighteenth century, theatricality, human existential anxieties, outcasts, gods, and the underworld.
Yet, 50 years after its release, no one has yet managed to unravel the secret of its meaning or fully understand the mechanisms of its success. More than a song, it's a monster, a kind of Frankenstein created and sung by an ugly duckling who transformed into a god, and played on an exceptional guitar, carved from a fireplace beam, just like Pinocchio.
Perhaps Queen's secret is precisely this: having played at keeping one foot in both camps, one on earth and the other in the world of fairy tales. To understand them, you don't need reason; you just have to surrender to their extraordinary ability to tell a story... from their records, to their live performances, to their lives, especially Freddie's.
A new show in which music, visual fascination, and narration (directed by Daniele Sala) coexist in a more theatrical format, a true pop rhapsody inhabited by cats, ugly ducklings, enchanted guitars, spoiled queens, and a treasure trove of songs that break the heart with every note, giving us the illusion of being able to "live forever."
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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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