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Domingo 50th

@ Arena di Verona 2019

featuring Plàcido Domingo

Our collaboration with Placido Domingo, one of the most famous and beloved artists of the opera music scene, began in 2009. In 2019, to celebrate his 50-year career on the Arena di Verona stage, we designed and curated the stage sets and video projections of opera pieces from Nabucco, Macbeth, and Simon Boccanegra.

We wrapped the big arena stage with our video projections to obtain a modular and dynamic scene with an immersive effect, able to quickly change between the three different settings.

The video dynamics and traditional scenic movements led the audience towards liquid or arid, lush or dark, naturalistic or architectural atmospheres. Babylonian palaces, ravines of a nocturnal castle, the forest, the fire of battle, marinas crossed by sails, panoramic views, and deserts have followed one another to frame the extraordinary voice of Placido Domingo.

Credits

Set & Visual Design
Ezio Antonelli

Set & Visual Design Assistant
Federica Caraboni

Set & Visual Design Assistant
Livio Savini

CG Supervisor
Roberto Santoro

CG Artist
Giuseppe Flora
Francesca Cianniello
Fabrizio Centonze

Orchestra conductor
Jordi Bernàcer

Director
Stefano Trespidi

Choreography
Giuseppe Picone

Stage Set Director
Michele Olcese

NABUCCO

Nabucco
Plácido Domingo

Zaccaria
Marko Mimica

Fenena
Géraldine Chauvet

Ismaele
Arturo Chacón-Cruz

Anna
Elisabetta Zizzo

MACBETH

Macbeth
Plácido Domingo

Macduff
Arturo Chacón-Cruz

Malcolm
Carlo Bosi

Lady Macbeth
Anna Pirozzi

SIMON BOCCANEGRA

Simon Boccanegra
Plácido Domingo

Gabriele Adorno
Arturo Chacón-Cruz

Amelia
Anna Pirozzi

Fiesco
Marko Mimica