2024, September 21
Visconti Prize to Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas for the Puccini project in Caracalla
Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas’ scenography project carried out in July for Tosca and Turandot at the Caracalla Festival 2024 won the Visconti Award for “best opera set design”.
The award ceremony took place on 21 September, during the 7th edition of the Ischia Film & Art Festival Luchino Visconti. The internationally renowned architects, invited by the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma to create a single ‘structure’ for both Puccini titles, were making their opera debut. Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas conceived a ‘foreground’ that would respect the imposing backdrop of the ancient Roman Baths. The absolute space they specially conceived turned out to be ideal to accommodate the two productions designed by Francesco Micheli. The success of the productions, in the Caracalla Festival’s programme to celebrate the centenary of Puccini’s death, had already been sanctioned by the audience attendance figures: a total of more than 45 thousand spectators flocked to the various performances. In particular, Tosca can boast of having surpassed La traviata of 2023 in the historical record of tickets sold at the first performance of an opera in Caracalla since 2001: there were more than 4,300 admissions that evening.
Credits Teatrionline.com
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