Quadri di un’esposizione

Ecphrasis: the challenge of those who want to recreate the magic of a painting in words. Great was the challenge taken by Mussorgsky, who chose to translate an exhibition by his friend Hartmann for piano. The suite’s fate was to be glorious, the composer’s tragic. Elia Cecino, from an idea for Mittelfest by Alexander Gadjiev, retraces the promenade, Mussorgsky’s fatal walk, with the Estampes by Debussy, always on the edge of ecphrasis, accompanied not by paintings, but by travel narratives voiced by Federica Fracassi. At the end, waiting for us like an inevitable mirage, the great gate to Kiev, already drawn by Hartmann and set to music by Mussorgsky.

In case of bad weather, the show will be held in Teatro Ristori

Musical programme

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Pictures at an Exhibition 

Promenade

Lo gnomo (The Gnome)

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Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Estampes 

La soirée dans Grenade 

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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Pictures at an Exhibition 

Promenade 

Il vecchio castello (The Old Castle)

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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Pictures at an Exhibition 

Promenade 

Tuileries Litigio di fanciulli dopo il gioco (Children’s Quarrel after Games)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Estampes 

Jardin sous la pluie 

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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Pictures at an Exhibition 

Con i morti in lingua morta (With the Dead in a Dead Language)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Estampes 

Pagodes 

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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Pictures at an Exhibition 

La capanna sulle zampe di gallina (Baba Jaga) 

La grande porta (In the Capital in Kiev)