L’istituto Italiano di Cultura di Pechino è lieto di invitarvi alla proiezione del documentario italiano “Teatro alla Scala. The Temple of Wonders”, che si terrà il 17 dicembre alle ore 19:00 presso la nostra sala.
Il documentario sarà proiettato in lingua italiana con traduzione in cinese.
Teatro alla Scala. The Temple of Wonders is a documentary dedicated to the place par excellence where art is created and performed, and where it lives and breathes. It is the story of the only theatre in the world which has captured and tied indissolubly to it the all time greatest names in the history of music. Giuseppe Verdi, Arturo Toscanini, and Luchino Visconti turned this place into a legend and it still evokes a sense of the sacred to this day, handed down through the years by Herbert von Karajan, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Patrice Chéreau.
Narrated by an off-screen voice, the film takes us by the hand and leads us through centuries of history, focusing primarily on the Scala but at the same time recounting the main historical, musical, social and political events happening in Italy and the rest of Europe. It is as though there were three types of narrative, starting from the birth of the Theatre, and progressing in a perfectly synchronized manner as the story unfolds. The story is enriched by statements and commentary from musicians, experts and aficionados, and also features photographs, drawings, musical scores, paintings, images, videos from archive material and everything that serves to make it fluid, rich, clear and exhaustive account.