FULL Una storia della musica Mozart TV-Show Lugano 1976 Graziella Sciutti
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Una storia della musica Mozart
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Libretto: various Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Studio di Besso, Lugano, Switzerland
- Recorded: April 1976
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Graziella Sciutti
- Conductor: Christopher Escher
- Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: TSI
- Date Published: 1976
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
It’s episode no. 3, dedicated to Mozart, of “A history of music” by Lorenzo Arruga (in 8 episodes) made by TSI in the Besso studios, April 1976, and with video contributions by Arruga recorded at Cover in Milan, for the inauguration of the new IST studies in Lugano. For Arruga, a celebration of enthusiasm and languages to experiment with. With Mozart he started an instinctive path of approach that will continue throughout his life: with words and music he enters the compositional path, he invites “not only to follow a thread of thoughts to understand but a dialectic of ideas”. In the studio a living room with piano and hints of the eighteenth century; detached the proscenium of a playable theater. In the living room Arruga (author and coordinator of the texts as well), Graziella Sciutti (inspiring muse, interlocutor, robbery prima donna who plays Susanna: “Deh vieni, non tardar”, Zerlina: duet “Là ci darem la mano”, Cherubino: “Non so plus what I am, what I do “), La Contessa: final forgiveness from Le nozze di Figaro, in addition to the theme song by Roberto Hazon) and Silvana De Vidovich (presenter) act and welcome the guest artists.
The new horizons brought by Mozart, the change of form of the Sonata, the Symphony, the Concerto for solo instrument and orchestra, the new conception of the opera…In a game of live performances in the studio and playback with orchestra, soloists and captivating seductions flow of the concerts: Arruga with Concerto for piano and orchestra K 271; Clementine Hoogendoorn, I Solisti Veneti (Concerto K 313 for flute and orchestra); Alessandro Bonelli (Concerto K314 for oboe and orchestra); Ezio Zappatini, Claudio Scimone and I Solisti Veneti (Concerto K 622 for clarinet and orchestra); Maria Pires, Scimone and I Solisti Veneti (Concerto K 595 for piano and orchestra); the Symphony No. 40 K 550 which accompanies in imaginative naturalness the pace of the chaotic traffic of today’s people on the streets of Milan. The culmination of the seduction, with the recitative and duet, intertwined between Graziella Sciutti and the projection of Don Giovanni (Eberhard Wächter, with orchestra, conductor C. M. Giulini) introduces us to Mozart’s work. By car, from Lugano, Arruga and Sciutti arrive at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, to ask Giorgio Strehler for his extraordinary ability to penetrate the secrets of Mozart, to solicit the singers to pursue the celestial vertigo of their characters, of the theater and music of the composer that he, Strehler, and Arruga feel “brother”.
A fervor unites all the performers and operators of this Mozart episode, from the beginning with the recitative and aria by Sciutti/Susanna to the
closing theme while Arruga’s hand traces the names of the three conductors, of the guests to thank, quickly sketching the silhouettes of director Scimone and director Strehler while the opening credits scroll to the music of Roberto Hazon and the words of Shakespeare collected by Arruga, sung by Graziella Sci