Casta Diva Project
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Digital Archive of Italian Conservatories of Music, Academies of Fine Arts, and Universities. Website created as part of the Casta Diva: An International Research and Production Digital Platform on Women in Italian Musical Theatre Project, funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU, Mission 4 Component 1, CUP: F31B23000450006.
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Istituzione Capofila: Conservatorio A. Vivaldi
Via Parma 1, 15121 Alessandria
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Dipartimento PDTA Sapienza Università
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CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC G. VERDI
Como
The "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory of Music in Como, a higher institute of musical studies within the Higher Artistic and Musical Education (AFAM) area of the Ministry of University and Research, was founded in 1982 as a separate section of the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory of Music in Milan, becoming independent in 1996. It is located in the city center on Via Cadorna, in a historic 15th-century building with additions dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Conservatory is a well-established institution in the city and province, as evidenced by its ties with universities and artistic institutions. The Institute's activities focus on the three fundamental areas of musical education: teaching, production, and research. The outstanding performers of the Como Conservatory participate annually in the National Arts Award; Some students are periodically selected to join the National Conservatory Orchestra and the Milan Symphony Orchestra. The Como Conservatory's vision is to believe in the virtues of music as a source of change, acculturation, and knowledge of oneself and others, while respecting diversity of gender, religious beliefs, and geographical origins, to create a harmonious community, fostering shared values and recognizing the uniqueness of each individual.
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Contacts:
Conservatorio G. Verdi di Como
Via Luigi Cadorna, 4
22100 Como
Tel: +39031279827
pr@conservatoriocomo.it
TURANDA
The work, which began with the rediscovery of the Turanda manuscript, aims to promote this opera, which was staged only once at the Teatro Alla Scala during the Carnival of 1867.
The interest focuses on the singularity of the female figure created by Antonio Bazzini: a young woman who fights alone against everyone, against a social system that would want her to be nothing more than a wife and mother. An opera heroine, extraordinarily modern, who remained buried in a library for years.
The project is structured around a series of performances, conferences, and concerts aimed at a musical, historical, and philosophical reflection on the role of the female in opera, and on the importance of bringing lost texts back to light, which offer a different perspective on the usual repertoire.
Director's Notes
The problem with society is a woman, and the problem with this woman are her wombs.
Turanda is a fantastic story with roots stretching far back in time, blending and merging with Indian legends from the first century and the Commedia dell'Arte of Italian memory: all of these tell of an extraordinary woman, capable in some versions of physically fighting many men at once, and in others of defeating them with her intellectual acumen.
Turanda is an extraordinary girl, not yet a woman!
A girl who lives in a world of adult men, a social and above all religious world, built on age-old rules in which women – as we well know – do not have access to power, but give birth to men, who take power.
The extraordinary girl refuses to be ordinary, refuses to be merely a means of reproduction to ensure offspring, shuns the idea of being simply... a womb with a body around it.
So far, so good. It would seem that Bazzini and Gazzoletti were bastions of feminism ahead of their time, nineteenth-century men with visions of the new millennium, but this is not the case.
Turanda is a young girl who has never known love; in fact, she stubbornly shuns it, but when she encounters it (love), it tames her, changes her and – albeit with difficulty – wins her over: romanticism seems to replace feminism, sentiment triumphs over idealism.
An initial bitter disappointment at not being able to ride Turanda, like a bastion of
nineteenth-century gender equality, is followed by a wonderful epiphany, namely the discovery that Turanda tells exactly what we all are: a brilliant coexistence of moral rules and weaknesses, of strong rational intentions and insinuating and seductive irrational crises, a melting pot of strengths and weaknesses, of masculine and feminine, of opposites that become complementary and vice versa.
The theatre becomes a womb that gives birth to a woman.
The work is the gestation of a stubborn girl who transforms into a complex and accomplished woman, a metaphor for the humanity we all still desire today.
Stefania Panighini
Program booklet
Before Turandot
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First modern performance
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US
News from Italy and around the world about the performance of Turanda by the “G. Verdi” Conservatory of Como
Rai TGR Lombardia
Concertisti Classica
Pierachille Dolfini
L'opera di Antonio Bazzini andò in scena solo una sera al Teatro alla Scala il 13 gennaio 1867, l'esito fu infelice, se ne persero le tracce. Ora è il Conservatorio di Como a darle nuova vita.
Una scoperta che ha reso possibile la rinascita di un’opera dimenticata e il recupero di una pagina preziosa del melodramma italiano ottocentesco.
Un progetto, quello di Turanda, che è molto più di un semplice allestimento di teatro lirico o di un’operazione di recupero filologico
Connessi all'Opera
Scherzo
Opera Wire
Turanda, la ribelle ritrovata: l’opera di Bazzini rinasce dopo 150 anni al Sociale di Como
Bazzini’s ‘Turanda’ Gets Major Revival 150 Years Later
Revive en Como la olvidada ópera ‘Turanda’ de Antonio Bazzini, el profesor de Puccini
MOB Magazine
I teatri dell'est
Fatti italiani
A como rinasce Turanda, l’opera dimenticata di Antonio Bazzini
Il Conservatorio di Como presenta il primo allestimento in tempi moderni dell’opera ispirata alla commedia di Carlo Gozzi
Il primo allestimento in età moderna di Turanda.
Periodico Daily
Forum Opera
Mundo Clasico
Turanda, una protagonista moderna nell’Ottocento
Après Turandot, Turanda !
El Conservatorio de Como revive ‘Turanda’, la ópera olvidada de Antonio Bazzini