Enrico Stinchelli’s Don Giovanni inaugurates the 2019 opera season at the Teatro Filarmonico of Verona. The director entrusted us with the project and the realization of the set design.
The scenes, created by Ezio Antonelli, are inspired by the visionary and revolutionary architecture of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux.
The design of video projections created a visual environment, completely virtual, in constant dynamic evolution, in which immersive virtual images have completed some scenic elements. Front projections on double black tulle (one proscenium and the other interior) are added to a backlit backdrop.
The scene and the actions acquire depth and appear wrapped in plastic environments that, as they move, almost make up a large paper theatre (Toy Theater).
Visual Design
Ezio Antonelli
Set Design Assistant, Graphic Design
Federica Caraboni
Set Design Assistant, Graphic Design
Livio Savini
CG Supervisor
Roberto Santoro
CG Artist
Giuseppe Flora
CG Artist
Francesca Cianniello
Orchestra conductor
Renato Balsadonna
Director and set
Enrico Stinchelli
Costume designer
Maurizio Millenotti
Light Designer
Paolo Mazzon
Maestro del Coro
Vito Lombardi
Direttore Allestimenti scenici
Michele Olcese
Orchestra, Coro
e Tecnici dell’arena di Verona
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.
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
Plácido Domingo
Zaccaria
Marko Mimica
Fenena
Géraldine Chauvet
Ismaele
Arturo Chacón-Cruz
Anna
Elisabetta Zizzo
Macbeth
Plácido Domingo
Macduff
Arturo Chacón-Cruz
Malcolm
Carlo Bosi
Lady Macbeth
Anna Pirozzi
Simon Boccanegra
Plácido Domingo
Gabriele Adorno
Arturo Chacón-Cruz
Amelia
Anna Pirozzi
Fiesco
Marko Mimica