AIDA
the music dances in the sand
reduction of Giuseppe Verdi's Opera for ensemble, narrator and lights
The monumental opera AIDA, in the musical version of the Baraccano Orchestra, does not require spectacular forcing on stage, nor colossal spaces or scenographic grandeur. Here even the elephants could stop marching, leaving space, amazed and moved, to the human drama between losers and winners, in war and in love.
We find the suffocating gigantism desired by Giuseppe Verdi and the overwhelming effect on the soul of the young protagonists, in the original reduction and arrangement for instrumental ensemble with ten real parts, in the impetuous style of the director Giambattista Giocoli, in the verses spoken and whispered by Sandra Cavallini, in the desired metric irregularity of Antonio Ghislanzoni's libretto.
Lyrical accents, triumphal traits and sudden suspensions reveal the delicate depths of the work. A reduction and arrangement that will try, even without the singers, to restore the dramaturgy and symphonic power of this Opera and to convey its profound intimacy of feelings and musicality, in addition to the majestic and grandiose moments inspired by the magnificence of Egyptian civilization.
Contrary to the predominant tradition, which made it famous mainly for the magnificence of the scenography, we therefore want to present an innovative reading, focused on the profound intimacy of feelings and reflections on social dynamics.
ORCHESTRA DEL BARACCANO
conductor Giambattista Giocoli
Alessandro Di Marco violin
Francesco Maria Parazzoli cello
Filippo Mazzoli flute and piccolo
Raffaele Damen accordion
Alice Caradente harp
Luca Piazzi trumpet
Valentino Spaggiari trombone
Gianluigi Paganelli bass tuba
Simone Beneventi marimba and percussions
reduction of the Opera Giambattista Giocoli
arrangements Fabio Codeluppi
actress and and theatrical adaptation Sandra Cavallini
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AIDA
la musica danza nella sabbia
Preludio
ATTO I
Celeste Aida - Terzetto
Su del Nilo - Scena Aida
Consacrazione - Finale I
ATTO II
Introduzione - Danza e Duetto
Marcia Trionfale - Gran Finale
ATTO III
Intro - Romanza - Aria Aida
Duetto Aida Radames - Finale
ATTO IV
Aria Amneris
Duetto Aida Radames - Finale ultimo
durata: 80 minuti circa
BARACCANO ORCHESTRA
The Baraccano Orchestra was born within the activities of the Theater of Baraccano in Bologna, where a production and research project on chamber music theater is carried out.
It was founded in 2013 and is directed by its artistic director Giambattista Giocoli.
The Orchestra has produced numerous musical theater shows, both independently and in co-production and collaboration with the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, BSMT productions and the University of Bologna.
Productions include: musicals A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim, the show Histoire du soldat by Igor Stravinskij, the projects All'Opera!, symphonies, intermezzos and overtures of the Italian Opera, and 4th Gustav Mahler, the Mahler's fourth symphony, arranged for chamber orchestra.
In 2017 the Orchestra realized the following project: Popular Songs, with soloist Cristina Zavalloni, a new Histoire du soldat with the voice of Ivano Marescotti and The Barber in comics, the Rossini's Barber of Sevilla with music, animation and Manga drawings of Tsukishiro Yuko, an internation coproduction with Japan.
In 2021 it will be the center of events of the Respighi project, a project on the musician and composer Ottorino Respighi and of Progetto Kafka. In 2022 it was the fulcrum of the PON VoltONE project on AIDA, a reduction of G. Verdi's Opera for ensemble and speaking voice. In 2022, with the RESPIGHI suite program, it toured the Czech Republic and Poland, in 2023 in Hungary and in 2024 in Croatia for the 70th edition of the Split Summer Festival.
SANDRA CAVALLINI
Actress in Le nozze di Figaro with Tullio Solenghi (Compagnia Lavia); in Italiani si nasce and L'apparenza inganna with Solenghi and Maurizio Micheli (Teatro Bobbio TS); in Miles Gloriosus with Vanessa Incontrada and in Lysistrata with Vanessa Gravina (Plautus Festival); in Reparto n.6 directed by Petru Vutcareu from the Ionesco Theater of Chisinau (SantiBriganti TO); in Falstaff and The Merry Wives of Windsor directed by Antonio Salines; in Fedra 2003 by Puppa directed by Angelo Generali (Rosaspina/ERT); in the chamber opera Nell'alba dell'umano with music by M° Adriano Guarnieri, directed by Claudio Longhi (Accademia Filarmonica BO - Teatro Rossini PU) and in La città capovolta, with music by M° Guarnieri and M° Gilberto Cappelli (Conservatorio GB Martini - Rai Trade).
For the Teatro Aperto Dehon company, actress in over a dozen productions.
Actress and co-author in Variazioni sul cielo with Margherita Hack, directed by Iaquone and Stoker, touring for years throughout Italy.Educational background: with the International Stage of Commedia dell'Arte, student, actress, and assistant for the technical gestural part with A. Fava in Italy and abroad in the research and practice of mask theater; in the university context with Prof. Gianfranco Ferri and Matilde Marullo; further studies with Yves Lebreton, Maria Teresa Di Clemente, Philip Radice, Giovanna Giovannini and Germana Giannini, Alain Le Bon, Luciano Leonesi. Academy of Fine Arts Bologna scenography.
Teaching and directing activities: Permanent Comic Laboratory - Bologna, experimental and research activities on the language of theatrical masks from Commedia dell'Arte to Contemporary Comic for vocal, gestural, and deep expressive scores; collaborates with Giorgio De Marchi, sculptor, and mask maker.
Conducts theater workshops at Cooperativa Teatro Laboratorio di Brescia; Jurta Teatro; i Commedianti and Circa Teatro - University of Urbino; SAT Santibriganti of Turin; Atelier Teatro Fisico of Turin, Teatro Binario,
Chancesportout Copenhagen; University Primo Levi. With the Institution of Social Services of Castel San Pietro Terme, leads the Recreational Laboratory. Collaborates on the ARTE e SALUTE Project - I burattini di San Giovanni
GIAMBATTISTA GIOCOLI
Born in 1976 in Matera, initially a clarinetist, he studied clarinet in his hometown and later graduated from the Bologna Conservatory. As an instrumentalist he studies with Perrone, Quarenghi, Tirincanti, Pay and Carbonare, immediately starting an intense concert activity in Italy and abroad.
Performs recordings for Italian and foreign radio stations, recording various CDs of classical and contemporary music. For 10 years he collaborates with the lyrical and symphonic seasons of the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna with which he performs multiple tours in Italy and abroad.
He has collaborated with the FontanaMIX Contemporary Music Ensemble of Bologna and with the Sentieri Selvaggi of Milan ensemble, with a concert activity in Europe and Asia.
In 2013 he made his debut as a conductor in the production of American Musicals and in the same year he founded the Orchestra of the Baraccano, with which he produced chamber music theater projects and symphonic projects that he still toured. Since 2015 he has worked as a guest conductor with the Orchestra of the Toscanini Foundation in Parma and since 2017 with the Rossini Symphony Orchestra of Pesaro. In 2018 he also began working with the Lucana Orchestra Foundation and the Virtuosi of the Italian Opera.In 2022, with his Orchestra he toured Poland and the Czech Republic, in 2023 in Hungary and in 2024 in Croatia.He is the art director of the Teatro del Baraccano in Bologna and of the research and production project of musical theater ATTI SONORI in Bologna.
