DrammaturgiaPub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.36253/dramma-13545
Elisabetta Papone
{"title":"Fotografi, pittori, attori a Genova tra fine Ottocento e primo Novecento","authors":"Elisabetta Papone","doi":"10.36253/dramma-13545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/dramma-13545","url":null,"abstract":"The essay analyses the close relationship established by the three major photographic studios active in Genoa between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century with the intellectual and artistic environment, in particular with the theatrical world, both locally and nationally. Starting from a systematic analysis of the cultural and society chronicles published in the newspapers, and comparing the information found with the photographs preserved in the main city and national photographic collections and with the photomechanical reproductions in contemporary publications, an attempt was made to recompose and date the images relating to the opera and dramaturgy produced by the Genoese studios. Despite the sharing of the communication strategy based on the systematic presence in the media and on the often instrumental alliance with the entertainment world, the photographers considered here express themselves with different styles. Among them, the Sciutto photographic studio comes out for quality and awareness, especially with the portraits of Eleonora Duse, memorable for the author and the actress. Finally, light is shed on the influence exerted by the theatrical performances on the taste of the bourgeoisie and on the contamination with the photographic portrait.","PeriodicalId":30797,"journal":{"name":"Drammaturgia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48043016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrammaturgiaPub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.36253/dramma-13543
Linda Baldassin
{"title":"Il teatro in posa nello studio dei fratelli Vianelli","authors":"Linda Baldassin","doi":"10.36253/dramma-13543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/dramma-13543","url":null,"abstract":"Although the name of the Fratelli Vianelli establishment is little known to most, their portraits accompany numerous essays on nineteenth-century theatre. Having lost the archive that documented forty years of activity, the investigation was carried out in the archives dedicated to the conservation of materials related to the theatre, where about one hundred and ninety photographs of actors, playwrights, singers, composers or musicians were found. In the course of the research, important links emerged between the Fratelli Vianelli and the publishing world, in particular with the publisher Ricordi, who in 1876 promoted a collection of life-size portraits made by Venetian photographers to the main artists of the time. Furthermore, immersing oneself in the photographs and paying particular attention to the handwritten dedications, it is possible to reconstruct friendships and work relationships within the theatrical environment and observe how the photographs first had a circulation of a private nature, and then opened up more and more to large-scale diffusion.","PeriodicalId":30797,"journal":{"name":"Drammaturgia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43815930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrammaturgiaPub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.36253/dramma-13550
S. Scattina
{"title":"Mimì Aguglia e Marinella Bragaglia alla prova della fotografia","authors":"S. Scattina","doi":"10.36253/dramma-13550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/dramma-13550","url":null,"abstract":"The pictures featuring Mimì Aguglia and Marinella Bragaglia, actresses from the Sicilian dialect theatre, blur the boundaries between stage and life, fiction and reality. The interior and poetic space of the theatrical action is identified with the physical space, discovering, in the geography of a face, in the arcane outline of an expression, the traces of a submerged landscape. Photos that also allow us to explore the way in which the island (and national) theatre was visually narrated from the second half of the 19th century to the very early years of the 20th century. Starting from photographic documents of the time, the contribution will attempt to outline – taking into account a few, but essential, biographical elements – the portrait of these two significant figures of a more general dramaturgy of actresses. Inhabiting the stories of these actresses means attempting to tune «voices and souls, bodies and writings», in a fertile interweaving, according to the indications left by Claudio Meldolesi, between «intimate images», the «level of techniques» and the «level of the given conditions». We will see, going beyond the image of the actress, how the photos become a model of femininity, success or more generally of life (the performer becomes the object of attention far beyond the stage, as an example of woman, wife and mother), among the female spectators. ","PeriodicalId":30797,"journal":{"name":"Drammaturgia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45283433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrammaturgiaPub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.36253/dramma-13540
Cristina Tosetto
{"title":"Adelaide Ristori dalle ‘cartes de visite’ alla stampa internazionale (1854-1864)","authors":"Cristina Tosetto","doi":"10.36253/dramma-13540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/dramma-13540","url":null,"abstract":"Adelaide Ristori was among the first actresses to build an iconic image of herself, which spread internationally since her Parisian debut in 1855. Aware of the importance of photography, she did not hesitate to be portrayed by the most important photographers. Ristori thus entered the pantheon of illustrious people, known throughout Europe and beyond its borders. Her portraits in carte de visite format quickly integrated into the circuit of the press, establishing a complex relationship with pre-existing graphic techniques, such as engraving. The article analyses the progressive diffusion of Adelaide Ristori’s photographs, focusing in particular on the carte de visite format and on newspapers. The corpus includes three photographs of the actress kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF): a portrait by August Bertsch and two cartes de visite by André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri and Étienne Carjat. What image of the actress do these pictures convey? How do press, graphic arts and photography interact in creating the iconic image of the actress?","PeriodicalId":30797,"journal":{"name":"Drammaturgia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45726624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrammaturgiaPub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.36253/dramma-13542
T. Megale
{"title":"Attori del teatro San Carlino fra storia e fotografia nella collezione Cuocolo","authors":"T. Megale","doi":"10.36253/dramma-13542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/dramma-13542","url":null,"abstract":"The Cuocolo Collection, housed at the Museo Nazionale di San Martino in Naples, is an extraordinary photographic collection, dedicated exclusively to the world of popular theater in Naples in the nineteenth century and especially at the Teatro San Carlino. The essay intends to reconstruct the historical-theatrical events of the Collection, full of eighty-nine shots between portraits and ensemble scenes, and deepen its historical-spectacular meanings. The study is dedicated to this theatre in photographic form, an iconographic finding of exceptional value until now lacking an adequate scientific investigation, continuously subjected to its progressive reduction to fetish.","PeriodicalId":30797,"journal":{"name":"Drammaturgia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49452906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrammaturgiaPub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.36253/dramma-13546
Silvia Paoli
{"title":"Ritratto fotografico degli attori a Milano tra Otto e Novecento. Strategie di rappresentazione","authors":"Silvia Paoli","doi":"10.36253/dramma-13546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/dramma-13546","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout its history, photography has always been in balance between opposite conventions, the technical conventions and the artistic ones, and photographic portrait has been mostly conditioned by these features. On this ground, however, and on the fair balance between these features, photography has founded its development and its quality. Photographic studios were opened in Milan from 1839 and the urban and cultural environment, all scientific and artistic circles, were interested in their activities. Photographers worked in the field of portraiture for aristocracy and middle classes but also for theaters, above all Teatro alla Scala, and for the most important actors and actresses of the period. This essay focuses on some important Milanese photographic studios devoted to portraying stage actors and to theatrical perfomances and scenographies – also in the first film studios – such as Varischi & Artico, Emilio Sommariva, Gigi Bassani, Mario Castagneri, Leopoldo Metlicovitz, Luca Comerio.","PeriodicalId":30797,"journal":{"name":"Drammaturgia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47475734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrammaturgiaPub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.36253/dramma-13539
Francesca Simoncini
{"title":"Iconografia e interpretazioni: ‘Maria Stuarda’ di Adelaide Ristori","authors":"Francesca Simoncini","doi":"10.36253/dramma-13539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/dramma-13539","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines some iconographic sources (two portraits, some photographs, a caricature) that can be traced back to Friedrich Schiller’s interpretation of Maria Stuarda, a famous pièce de resistance of Adelaide Ristori. The identification of the two paintings that the actress used to build the scenic image of the Scottish queen has allowed us to precisely trace the portrait that inspired her for the figurative conception of the character, moving away from the author’s indications. The comparison between the photographs and the caricature allows us to reconstruct still little studied aspects of the actress’s acting style. In the third scene of the third act of Schiller’s play, Adelaide Ristori was able to blend the Italian theatrical tradition with the noblest and most sophisticated features of her new and celebrated manner. The still photos that remained to us, probably conditioned by a precise will for self-representation exercised by the actress-marquise, faithfully render the dignified and composed aspect of her theatrical gestures and pass down the sublime trait, but they do not document the traces of her more energetic physical actions, which can be traced back to her being born into a family of actors. Such traits of realistic prosaicity are instead confirmed by some testimonies and may be found in the image of her vigorous stage action documented by the caricature.","PeriodicalId":30797,"journal":{"name":"Drammaturgia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48688281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrammaturgiaPub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.36253/dramma-13547
Samantha Marenzi
{"title":"La fotografia di danza nei primi decenni del Novecento","authors":"Samantha Marenzi","doi":"10.36253/dramma-13547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/dramma-13547","url":null,"abstract":"What is dance photography? How was it born? How does it develop? How can we study it? Articulated around these questions, this contribution aims at identifying a field and a methodology of study, as well as tracing through some emblematic examples the genesis of an expressive language. Different from the portrait of the dancers and from stage photography, dance photography is configured at the crossroads between different genres such as the nude, the shooting of movement, the staged photography, the tableau vivant. From these visual traditions it takes on the techniques and problems and relaunches them in terms of the relationship between still image and expressive body, which provides new answers to questions stratified over time and history.","PeriodicalId":30797,"journal":{"name":"Drammaturgia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48903654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrammaturgiaPub Date : 2021-03-12DOI: 10.36253/dramma-12693
L. Degl'Innocenti, Caterina Pagnini
{"title":"«Ridurre li drammi all’esigenza». Il modello performativo dell’opera in musica dai libretti del ‘Fondo Bonamici’ della Biblioteca Marucelliana di Firenze: disseminazione e adattamenti (1600-1737)","authors":"L. Degl'Innocenti, Caterina Pagnini","doi":"10.36253/dramma-12693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/dramma-12693","url":null,"abstract":"The essay is a synthesis of a project financed by the University of Florence, focused on the dissemination processes of the Italian opera in the Baroque era. The original perspective of the research sees the libretto as a privileged witness of these ‘adjustments’, through the analysis of the witnesses related to the different occasions which can define the different ways of reception and adaptation of the staging practice and the dramaturgical structure.","PeriodicalId":30797,"journal":{"name":"Drammaturgia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46190735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}