‹The Impresario from Smyrna

By Carlo Goldoni
Directed by Luca De Fusco

with Eros Pagni,
Gaia Aprea, Max Malatesta, Anita Bartolucci, Alvia Reale, Paolo Serra, Enzo Turrin
  

Music by Nino Rota
Adaptation by Luca De Fusco e Antonio Di Pofi
Set design by Antonio Fiorentino
Costume design by Maurizio Millenotti
Music by Antonio Di Pofi
Choreography by Alessandra Panzavolta
Light editor Emidio Benezzi

Production Teatro Stabile del Veneto, Teatro Stabile di Catania, Fondazione Antonveneta with the support of the Venice Biennial

"The performance tells of a scrubby and peculiar troupe of the 50's that wants to bring, to Smyrna, a curtain raiser set in the Eighteenth century in parallel with the story created by Goldoni that stages the adventures of a third-rate opera troupe. "I was struck by the analogies between the characters and their manager and those who inhabit the world of the first films of Fellini" -  De Fusco points out - "and the accuracy with which Goldoni draws his personas is amazing, so similar to the characters of Fellini's films. I am thinking, for example, about The Road or about Nights of Cabiria.

For the first time, De Fusco stages a "metatheatrical" play, supported by the lightness of two geniuses such as Rota and Fellini, who are among the few to have been able to create a dimension of a "happy melancholy". The impresario from Smyrna will be staged entirely in a theatre, and the hotel rooms designed by Goldoni will be replaced by the company's dressing rooms, in an all-red set dressing - from the costumes by Maurizio Millenotti to the scenery by Antonio Fiorentino.