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Director’s Notes

Carnaval Vivaldi evokes a lavish 18th-century carnival, where madness manifests itself through vitality, joy and profound transformation, with elaborately detailed costumes and symbolic masks that transform the characters into archetypal figures of the ritual.
Vivaldi’s baroque music accompanies every moment, alternating lively and rhythmic new original pieces with more nostalgic and meditative passages, creating an immersive atmosphere that guides the audience on a journey between reality and illusion. The stage setting creates moments of unbridled celebration, but also of introspection, with plays of light and movement that highlight the metamorphoses of the protagonists, suspended between shifting identities and hidden desires. Carnival thus becomes a special space-time frame that connects past and present, a ritual of freedom and rebirth that invites the search for personal and collective identity.
This work signed by Chiara Ameglio reflects on the human condition and the finiteness of life in a tragicomic way, alternating moments of joy with flashes of melancholy. Through this dual narrative, inside and outside the mask, it offers a reflection on the contemporary world, dominated by an irrationality related to an “infinite carnival” filled with indefinite masks. Vivaldi’s music, with its dynamic contrasts, accentuates this tension between order and chaos, reality and dream, tradition and future.
Carnaval Vivaldi suggests the possibility of collective liberation through the acceptance of transience and the utopia of shared madness, offering the audience an intense and engaging experience, capable of awakening profound emotions and stimulating individual reflection on “to be or not to be”, but above all on how to appear within the new “contemporary mask” which, precisely through maximum personal exposure, increasingly increases the possibility of delete one’s own individuality.

Credits

Coreografia e regia
Chiara Ameglio

Musiche
Antonio Vivaldi

Lighting design
Emanuele De Maria

Costumi
Elena Rossi

Assistente ai costumi
Denise Pegoraro

Maschere
Alessandra Faienza