Client: Guardiagrele Opera
Date: 2017 – 2021 – 2022
Location: Guardiagrele (CH)
Category: Visual Design
Guardiagrele Opera is an opera festival, born in 2015 for which we perform various sets through the use of video art, each time adapted and designed specifically for the needs of the festival and the current edition.
In July 2022 at the D’Annunzio Theater in Pescara, we took care of the set design of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” directed by director Renato Bonajuto supported by an international cast. We dedicated ourselves to the creation of video content, a dozen 3D animated settings, which became the backdrop for the company’s performances, contextualized the show. Finally, we took care of the set-up of the scenes, with the installation and set-up of the rear projection screen that served us for the airing of the animated set design.
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In August of the same year, we created a video art performance, projecting it live on the facades of the houses that frame Piazza Orto Santoleri. The performance accompanied the opera “Les Enfants Terribles,” by Philip Glass, directed by director Aldo Tarabella and staged directly on the pavement, without a stage, in front of a selected audience seated on the steps next to the church, which simulated the terraces of an amphitheater.
We prepared motion graphic and video content, including footage from the previous days with the actors on stage, which translated the narrative structure of the work and its salient moments into video art. We used this content to produce architectural video mapping and a light show synchronized with the scenes. Mystical settings, cartomancy scenes and animated tarot cards illustrated the lyric, further immersing spectators in the story and its dreamlike atmospheres. The temporal sequence of the projections was guided by the skilful direction of Aldo Tarabella and the experience of the soprano Susanna Rigacci
For the 2021 edition of the festival we collaborated with the director Aldo Tarabella and the curator Susanna Rigacci, to create the theatrical scenography of “La Cenerentola” by Gioacchini Rossini. We took care of the scenography and choreography, setting up a rear projection setup to animate the scene behind the actors. Following the director’s idea, we staged the interiors and garden of the Semivicoli castle, and recreated the various Abruzzo settings. We first carried out a photographic shooting of the most enchanting places in the area, and then animated the chosen sites thanks to video compositing, motion graphics and VFX techniques. Finally, we projected the scenarios live during the performance of the opera.
In 2017 we experimented with the same technique, installing a maxi-rear projection screen, designed and built specifically for the association, which served as a scenography for the show “Così fan tutte” by Mozart. We then built the theater sets by reproducing the settings through 3D modeling and animation techniques and then proceeded with the setting and live execution of the projections. We developed and created the work with the Florentine director Manu Lalli.
