FULL Ciottolino (Trecate) TV-Opera Turin 1951 Jolanda Mancini, Nadia Mura Carpi, Maria Luisa Gavioli, Carlo Franzini
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Ciottolino   
- Composer: Trecate Luigi Ferrari   
- Libretto: Giovacchino Forzano    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: RAI Studio Torino  
- Recorded: 1955
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Jolanda Mancini, Nadia Mura Carpi, Maria Luisa Gavioli, Carlo Franzini, Pier Luigi Latinucci, Ornella D'Arrigo, Mario Zorgnotti, Cristiano Dalamangas, Nadia Mura Carpi
- Conductor: Luigi Ferrari Trecate  
- Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI  
- Chorus: Coro di Torino della RAI, Coro di Voci Bianche "Arte e Mestieri"  
- Chorus Master: Ruggero Maghini  
- Stage Director: Vittorio Brignole  
- Stage Designer: Ezio Vincenti  
- Costume Designer:   
- Lighting Designer: Giuseppe della Noce  
Information about the Recording
- Published by: RAI  
- Date Published: 1955  
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 2 Audio:2
- Subtitles: nosubs  
- Video Recording from: ok     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from lubranomusic.com:
Ciottolino, to a libretto by Giovanni Forzano, was first performed at the Piccoli di Podrecca, Palazzo Odescalchi (Sala Verdi) in Rome on February 8, 1922.
“Ferrari Trecate’s talent “found its best expression in music for children, ranging from small piano pieces and choruses to operas: the most successful were Ciottolino (which initially ran for 70 performances when presented by the famous puppet theatre, the Teatro dei Piccoli di Podrecca) and Ghirlino. These deft little stage pieces, pervaded by the simple, fresh spirit of nursery rhymes and seasoned with ‘modernisms’ that never go beyond mild postwar Ravel (as, for example, in the ‘movimento di Fox’ intermezzo from Ghirlino), deserved their success.” John C.G. Waterhouse in Grove Music Online.