Controluce was born in 1994 when Jenaro Meléndrez Chas, biologist and painter, met Cora De Maria and Alberto Jona, musicians, in Turin, Italy. The idea was to join pictorial arts and the...
"Controluce Shadow Theatre" is a mixture of arts, genres and languages. Features performances with music, motion images, painting and literature...
Controluce's workshops are mainly a path into contemporary Shadows Theatre, following the company's 20 years old experience in staging performances inspired from modern and classic music, often opera. All aspects are included, from technique requirements to construction of puppets, but mainly drammaturgy and stage direction are involved.
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DIDO&AENEAS
Theatre, shadows and dance:
Ghedini Conservatory brings on stage
the drama of Dido and Aeneas with Henry Purcell's masterpiece.
Appointment with free admission Sunday 18th June at 18:00h. at Toselli Theater in Cuneo.
Shadows intervention in
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Music by GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
New production Teatro Coccia (LINK)
12th, 13th and 14th May 2023
Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana
Conductor Christopher Franklin
Direction Alberto Jona
Scenery Matteo Capobianco
Costumes Silvia Lumes
Shadows intervention by Controluce Teatro d'Ombre
Lights Ivan Pastrovicchio
Choir master Massimo Fiocchi Malaspina
Choir As.Li.Co
Conte d’Almaviva Chuan Wang (12-14) / Claudio Zazzaro(13)
Don Bartolo Michele Govi (12-14) / Davide Piva (13)
Rosina Aya Wakizono (12-14) /Magdalena Urbanowicz (13)
Figaro Emmanuel Franco (12-14) / Diego Savini (13)
Don Basilio Abramo Rosalen
Berta Giovanna Donadini
Fiorello/Un ufficiale Matteo Mollica
Ambrogio Edoardo Sgariglia Moresi
The Tales of Hoffmann
Jacques Offenbach
opéra fantastique in a prologue, three acts and an epilogue
Libretto by Jules Barbier
Teatro alla Scala's new production
From 15th to 31st March 2023 (premiere on15th, other performances on18th, 21st, 24th, 28th e 31st)
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala
Conductor Frédéric Chaslin
Direction Davide Livermore
Scenes Giò Forma
Shadows Controluce Teatro d'Ombre
Costumes Gianluca Falaschi
Lights Antonio Castro
24th march 19:15h, direct streaming LaScalaTv
Le Venti Giornate di Torino
dedicated to Guido Ceronetti
at Cetona...
Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi
23th August 21:30h.
The twenty days of Turin were neither a war nor a revolution, but, as we usually say, a phenomenon of collective psychosis, with what this definition underlies as epidemic
idea, direction and original silhouettes Cora De Maria
stage elements Alice Delorenzi
original music Umberto Fantini
production CONTROLUCE Teatro d'Ombre
Duration 50' circa
organization: Aquilegia per Ceronetti
27 January 2022, 20:00 h.
Teatro Regio di Torino
The Diary of Anne Frank
(Il diario di Anna Frank)
Opera monolog in two parts and libretto by Grigorij Frid
Premiere in Torino. Version in Italian language
Translation in Italiano by Rino Alessi
Musical adaptation by Eddi De Nadai
Anna Frank soprano Shira Patchornik
Conductor Giulio Laguzzi
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