In occasione della nuova produzione de Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria da parte della compagnia Opera Atelier di Toronto, l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaborazione con Opera Atelier e Villa Charities Columbus Centre è lieto di offrire al pubblico una presentazione dell’opera con esecuzione dal vivo di alcune arie e brani dell’opera.
Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria sarà presentato dal direttore artistico di Opera Atelier Marshall Pynkoski e dall’artista Gerard Gauci autore delle scenografie.
10 aprile, 19:00 | JD Carrier Art Gallery here at the Columbus Centre
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Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
La più malinconica e meditativa delle tre opere monteverdiane giunte sino a noi, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, vide la luce a Venezia nel 1641. Ulisse è qui una sorta di eroe fragile, non pago del sapere acquisito ma più ancora desideroso di riscoprire gli affetti perduti da quattro lustri. Monteverdi raggiunge vertici assoluti nell’invenzione musicale e di introspezione psicologica dei personaggi. Straordinaria la scena dell’agnizione di Ulisse e Telemaco più ancora di quella tra il protagonista e Penelope.
Marshall Pynkoski
Since founding Opera Atelier with his wife Jeannette, Mr. Pynkoski has won numerous awards including the distinction of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Government of France and the Toronto Arts Award. Opera Atelier has introduced Baroque opera to Asia where productions of Lully, Purcell, and Mozart have been enthusiastically received throughout Japan, Singapore, and Korea.
Mr. Pynkoski has collaborated on several films including the award-winningThe Sorceress, Master Peter’s Puppet Show and Inspired By Bach featuring YoYo Ma, all with Rhombus Media. A documentary (produced by Docutainment) on Opera Atelier’s production of Lully’s Persée aired on CBC Television in December 2004, while the full length Persée aired on BRAVO in September, 2005. In March 2003, Time Magazine recognized Mr. Pynkoski as one of Canada’s Best in Music. Most recently, Mr. Pynkoski received the Muriel Sherrin Award for outstanding contribution to music in Toronto.
Gerard Gauci
Gerard Gauci is a painter and a theatre designer whose sensibility is literally and figuratively operatic. As resident set designer for Toronto’s Opera Atelier he creates vast and sumptuous on-stage environments for the works of Monteverdi, Lully and Mozart. As a painter Gauci, creates miniature tableaux depicting famously preserved interiors of grand homes and palaces throughout Europe and America. Looking back to an artistic genre popularized in 19th century Gauci renders these rooms with a precision that documents their theatrical architecture, magnificent decor and intimate personal effects. Acknowledging their creation in 21st century, he subjects the paintings to the splashing, dripping and scraping of pure pigment. These intrusions point to the work’s essential reality as paint on a flat surface and simultaneously suggest the energy held by spaces, whether the ghostly residue of the past or the volatile atmosphere of the present day.