Stravinsky's love on stage at the Auditorium is the first appointment of the summer program of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia which offers, as always, new interesting shows. This is a tribute to Igor Stravinsky for the 50th anniversary of his death and focuses on the close relationship between the great Russian composer and dance.The screenplay, based on the writings of Stravinsky, is by the journalist and writer Vittorio Sabadin and the musical consultancy is by Gaston Fournier-Facio.
The protagonist of the scene is Vladimir Derevianko, former principal dancer of the Bolshoi of Moscow, who masterfully interprets the composer: playing some passages on the piano and performing dance steps, he thus introduces the passages taken from the most famous Stravinsky ballets, including: L'Oiseau de feu, Histoire du soldat, Pulcinella and the famous Petrushka and Le Sacre du printemps with their dissonant harmonies. The dancer is accompanied by an international cast of musicians, including Beatrice Rana, Massimo Spada and Simone Lamsma and the talented dancers Sergio Bernal (formerly the National Ballet of Spain), Ashley Bouder (New York City Ballet), Davide Dato (Vienna Opera), Jacopo Bellussi and Alessandro Frola (Ballet of Hamburg), Simone Repele and Sasha Riva (formerly Ballet du GrandThéâtre de Genève).
The show also offers the opportunity to listen to a new composition by the musician John Neumeier: Divertimento, a piece for violin and piano taken from the ballet Le baiser de la fée that Stravinsky wrote in homage to Tchaikovsky. Neumeier's new ballet was conceived for the two Italian dancers of the Hamburg Ballet, Bellussi and Frola.
The costumes are by Anna Biagiotti: that of Pulcinella was made from an original design by Pablo Picasso, while those of Petrushka are creations from the original sketches of Benois.
The production, realized with the Carlo Felice Foundation of Genoa for the Nervi Music Ballet Festival 2021 with the patronage of the Igor Stravinsky Foundation of Geneva, is curated by Daniele Cipriani.
Photo: Auditorium official site
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