DONIZETTI EDUCATIONAL
The cultural heritage constituted by the music of the past and of a great composer such as Gaetano Donizetti must be enhanced by continuing to dialogue with the present. A privileged place for this dialogue can only be the school, a fundamental junction between the past and the future.
Educational projects for preschools, primary and secondary schools
Opera can be a dual resource being an opportunity both for knowledge in the most didactic sense of the term and for personal education and experience. Its didactic value, which makes it unique and unparalleled, is that of being the result of the interaction between different linguistic and communicative codes (musical, iconic, literary), lending itself, therefore, for interdisciplinary confrontation with school didactics. The educational value, then, lies in its subject matter: the work stages human stories and events and with them the joys, sorrows, achievements and desires of man, told through the words and gestures of the protagonists of the works. From time to time their emotions, their thoughts are narrated and, in this sense, opera is at the service of that emotional education of children, which is promoted in the school environment today. This is the new direction that moves the proposals of Donizetti Educational: emphasizing the figure of Donizetti as a Master of Emotions and enhancing the multidisciplinary nature intrinsic in opera itself.
Donizetti Educational. Digital Experience
Educational project for Primary and Secondary Schools in Bergamo and Province.
Donizetti educational. Digital experience is the new digital initiative dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti and intended for the world of schooling. It will be for the first time free of charge and entirely in digital format, to provide support and a concrete contribution at such difficult stages in the educational journey of the youngest. Donizetti’s theater and music are intended to be a resource for schools. Thus, fundamental tools will be made available for an original and age-appropriate itinerary to discover the new Donizetti Theater , which, as soon as possible, will reopen its doors to welcome the public: such a fundamental moment for the Foundation and the City must be prepared and shared with the youngest. This is a way to introduce students to the city theater, its history, innovations and changes brought about by the restoration.
The course, from April 6, 2021 until the end of the school year, is differentiated according to school cycle and includes a three-part documentary video at the restored Donizetti Theater, combined with a package of educational activities that will provide a true educational experience to learn about Donizetti and the world of theater.
Educational projects for preschools, primary and secondary schools
The Donizetti Theater Foundation is finally ready to return to the stage in a newly renovated Donizetti Theater, in a city deeply scarred by the events of recent months, but already giving strong signs of restart and vitality, through an energy and courage that have never failed. The proposal dedicated to schools, then to teachers and educators and the young public, starts from this very premise. Our intent is to bring to life the great heritage of the past, particularly of our Gaetano Donizetti, one of the most famous and recognized Bergamasque composers in the world, through the relationship with our present. For the coming school year we celebrate the return to the theater, closed first for restoration, then for pandemic and now ready to welcome all citizens. Like every year, the season dedicated to schools consists of a collection of proposals divided by order and grade, to allow students to learn about opera and musical theater through performances and workshops dedicated to our Gaetano Donizetti.
KINDERGARTEN
Entertainment
Directed by Daniele Cortesi
Donizetti Theatre Redotto
Nov. 23-24 at 9:30 a.m.
Daniele Cortesi’s play tries to explain, with freedom and imagination, how the inspiration to compose L’elisir d’amore might have originated in Gaetano Donizetti, and it ventures the not impossible friendship between the composer Gaetano Donizetti and the character of Gioppino Zuccalunga, both from Bergamo and both born in the late 18th century. The story takes place in Bergamo, in places dear to his fellow citizens: the charming Piazza Vecchia and the beautiful theater that, many years later, was dedicated to the Bergamasque musician himself. To comment live on the scenes, the most famous arias from L’Elisir, played live and sung by a tenor, provide an evocative accompaniment. A truly choral comedy, in which the characters of Gaetano Donizetti and his future wife Virginia
play the roles of Nemorino and Adina, respectively, the protagonists of the melodramma giocoso L’elisir d’amore. Gaetano Donizetti, a young and very shy composer, falls in love with the beautiful Virginia who, like him, adores music. His friend Gioppino incites the composer to declare his love, perhaps dedicating a sweet serenade to the girl, but…
Information:
2-hour workshop (1+1)
Minimum 2 classes Cost: €10 per student (including ticket and teaching materials).
Thanks to the collaboration with the Puppet Museum., a tour of the museum is available for students involved in the project at an additional cost of € 3. For information and reservations contact the museum:
– museo@fondazioneravasio.it
– +39 3755477303
The performance can be staged at schools that request it. For information on prices and conditions contact scuole@fondazioneteatrodonizetti.org
with the contribution of
Visit
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Performances
Directed by Antonio Vergamini
Social Theater
Dec. 1-2 at 9:30 a.m.
A thousand years ago, in a world eager for prodigies, craving for wonders, the roads of our continent were plied by merchants and artisans, but also by another species of characters. Cheats, rascals, scoundrels. False mutes, false blind men, false prophets, false healers…. Often these poor wandering devils came from the world of popular entertainment. These two worlds seemingly so far apart, the charlatanry of the simulators and the castle of wonders of the acrobats, were instead close and traveled on the same cart coveting the same shields. After all, the anxiety of the impossible, the fascination of prophecies, the belief in the supernatural power of mysterious substances are very much alive even today. Who does not wish to find the drink, the prayer, the ritual that “settles all affairs”? Here we are, then, plunging our Dulcamara into the world of the circus, where it is at home in the acrobatics that have been, a way of communicating with the supernatural, with the divine. This creation is shaped by ten multidisciplinary artists. Singing an opera aria while suspended from an upside-down circle, playing a guitar while balancing another on their chins, performing complicated and dangerous acrobatic group choreography without stopping singing in chorus. Doing all this while interpreting characters from Donizetti’s opera. Teachers who will accompany their students attend a training course conducted by the Foundation’s teaching team, during which they are introduced to the opera and the activities that make students the stars of the performance, through sung songs, disguises and objects constructed in the classroom.
Information: Teacher training in preparation for viewing the show with classes is planned and included Cost: €10 per student including teaching materials
Directed by Daniele Cortesi
1st and 2nd grade
Ridotto of Donizetti Theater
Nov. 23-24 at 11 a.m.
Preschool proposal also suitable for 1st and 2nd grade classes. Daniele Cortesi’s play tries to explain, with freedom and imagination, how the inspiration to compose L’elisir d’amore might have originated in Gaetano Donizetti, and it ventures the not impossible friendship between the composer Gaetano Donizetti and the character of Gioppino Zuccalunga, both from Bergamo and both born in the late 18th century. The story takes place in Bergamo, in places dear to his fellow citizens: the enchanting Piazza Vecchia and the beautiful theater that, many years later, was dedicated to the Bergamasque musician himself. To comment live on the scenes, the most famous arias from L’Elisir, played live and sung by a tenor, provide an evocative accompaniment. A truly choral comedy, in which the characters of Gaetano Donizetti and his future wife Virginia
play the roles of Nemorino and Adina, respectively, the protagonists of the melodramma giocoso L’elisir d’amore. Gaetano Donizetti, a young and very shy composer, falls in love with the beautiful Virginia who, like him, adores music. His friend Gioppino incites the composer to declare his love, perhaps dedicating a sweet serenade to the girl, but…
Information:
2-hour workshop (1+1)
Minimum 2 classes Cost: €10 per student (including ticket and teaching materials).
Thanks to the collaboration with the Puppet Museum., a tour of the museum is available for students involved in the project at an additional cost of € 3. For information and reservations contact the museum:
– museo@fondazioneravasio.it
– +39 3755477303
The performance can be staged at schools that request it. For information on prices and conditions contact scuole@fondazioneteatrodonizetti.org
with the contribution of
Visit
Donizetti’s Birthplace + Social Theater
from January to May 2022
Donizetti discovery paths with a visit to Donizetti’s Birthplace and Social Theater and the holding of a musical workshop in the Birthplace.
Information: maximum 2 class groups
Cost: €100 per class (including visit and workshop)
Donizetti Theater
from January to May 2022
Guided tours of the renovated Donizetti Theater led by high school students involved in the school-to-work alternation project
Cost: free subject to availability
with the contribution of
SECONDARY SCHOOL
Performances
Directed by Antonio Vergamini
Social Theater
Dec. 1-2 at 11:30 a.m.
A thousand years ago, in a world eager for prodigies, craving for wonders, the roads of our continent were plied by merchants and artisans, but also by another species of characters. Cheats, rascals, scoundrels. False mutes, false blind men, false prophets, false healers…. Often these poor wandering devils came from the world of popular entertainment. These two worlds seemingly so far apart, the charlatanry of the simulators and the castle of wonders of the acrobats, were instead close and traveled on the same cart coveting the same shields. After all, the anxiety of the impossible, the fascination of prophecies, the belief in the supernatural power of mysterious substances are very much alive even today. Who does not wish to find the drink, the prayer, the ritual that “accommodates all affairs”? Here we are, then, plunging our Dulcamara into the world of the circus, where it is at home in the acrobatics that have been, a way of communicating with the supernatural, with the divine. This creation is shaped by ten multidisciplinary artists. Singing an opera aria while suspended from an upside-down circle, playing a guitar while balancing another on their chins, performing complicated and dangerous acrobatic group choreography without stopping singing in chorus. Doing all this while interpreting characters from Donizetti’s opera. Teachers who will accompany their students attend a training course conducted by the Foundation’s teaching team, during which they are introduced to the opera and the activities that make students the stars of the performance, through sung songs, disguises and objects constructed in the classroom.
Information: Teacher training in preparation for viewing the show with classes is planned and included Cost: €10 per student including teaching materials
Reading with a cappella singing
With Ilaria Pezzera, Miriam Gotti, Barbara Menegardo and Ferruccio Filippazzi
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Donizetti Theater – Music Room
April 5-6, 2022 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.
A longtime storyteller and three actress-singers together to narrate, sing and shape the early years of Gaetano Donizetti’s life.
Cost: €8 per student
The performance can be staged at schools that request it. For information on prices and conditions contact scuole@fondazioneteatrodonizetti.org
with the contribution of
Visit
Donizetti’s Birthplace + Social Theater
from January to May 2022
Donizetti discovery paths with a visit to Donizetti’s Birthplace and Social Theater and the holding of a musical workshop in the Birthplace.
Information: maximum 2 class groups
Cost: €100 per class (including visit and workshop)
Donizetti Theater
from January to May 2022
Guided tours of the renovated Donizetti Theater led by high school students involved in the school-to-work alternation project
Cost: free subject to availability
with the contribution of
SECONDARY SCHOOL
Performances
To accompany adolescents on the complex and STUFFFUL path of growth, through Opera.
Project by Donizetti Theater Foundation, in collaboration with ATS and Territorial School Office
For the 2021-2022 school year, the Donizetti Theatre Foundation intends to add to its usual programs of approaching opera for young audiences, a special project dedicated exclusively to adolescents. This is a new initiative whose primary purpose is not only to transmit the knowledge of opera heritage to adolescents, but also to make use of this heritage and live performance as a tool to accompany adolescents on the complex path of processing and transforming the latest pandemic events. Adolescents, in particular, have experienced moments of major destabilization in the past year and a half. For this reason, the Teatri Donizetti Foundation would like to make itself available to high school teachers by proposing, through an operatic journey, a reinterpretation of their own experience in which they can mobilize their creativity as a resource for resilience, transformation and openness. Thanks to the vicissitudes of the protagonists and the emotional power of the live performance, Opera can in fact become a valuable tool and starting point to accompany students and their educators on the path of introspection that awaits them.
Pathway activities and schedule
SHOW (of your choice)
- Lucia OFF | September 28, 2021 11 a.m. Donizetti Theatre
- Medea in Corinto | Nov. 17, 2021 7 p.m. Social Theater (preview reserved for young people)
SEMINARS
- Training meeting for teachers
The meeting, divided into two different sessions, will provide the theoretical and operatic basis for understanding the proposed course and being able to present it to students.- Oct. 11, 2021 4-6 p.m. Donizetti Theatre with Francesco Micheli
- Oct. 28, 4-6 p.m. online with Francesca Corna
→ To participate, fill out the registration form
- Presentation of Medea in Corinto to students
Digital meeting dedicated to all students who will attend the performance at the Social Theater.- Nov. 9 11 a.m.-1 p.m. online meeting led by Francesco Micheli, director of the play
LABORATORIES
- Training workshop for teachers (December 16, 2021 4-6 p.m. Donizetti Theater)
Encounter animated by Francesca Corna and Maria Teresa Galati - Training workshop for teachers (Feb. 24, 2022 4-6 p.m. Donizetti Theater)
Encounter animated by Francesca Corna and Maria Teresa Galati - Student workshop (from March 2022)
The workshop will be held directly at the schools, on the day and time agreed upon according to the schools’ needs. The duration is 3 hours.
ARTISTIC OUTCOME
Artistic re-processing of the work produced by the children (April and May 2022) WEB
Opera wow will be nurtured by content and proposals that the Foundation will also present in a digital version.
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OPERA EDUCATION
Opera Education is AsLiCo ‘s Italian platform that promotes passion for opera in young audiences. The Fondazione Teatro Donizetti hosts annual performances for the musical and opera education of children and young people, fun educational paths between school and theater.
Primary and secondary school
La Cenerentola. Grand Hotel dei sogni
Social Theater
March 6 and 7, 2022
For the 2021/2022 season, Opera Education AsLiCo together with its co-producing partners Théâtre des Champs Elysées and Opéra de Rouen will present Rossini’s opera La Cenerentola. Daniele Menghini, vincitore del concorso per il progetto di regia, porterà in scena una delle fiabe più famose e amate dal pubblico.
Nella versione di Rossini, sorprendentemente, non ci troviamo di fronte ad una vera e propria fiaba, poiché il compositore ed il suo librettista Ferretti depurano la storia da tutti gli elementi magici e fiabeschi: non ci sono topi che si trasformano in cocchieri, nessuna zucca che si trasforma in una carrozza, non c’è la fata madrina e non c’è nemmeno la scarpetta di cristallo. La storia prende vita in un Grand Hotel: un melting pot di culture e classi sociali differenti, una dimensione che fa dello scambio e dell’incontro una ricchezza, un luogo speciale in cui un ospite illustre come un principe può incontrare e innamorarsi proprio di una cameriera, riconoscendo la vera bellezza che si nasconde dietro un grembiule sporco.
Information: www.aslico.org
Cost:
– €5 show viewing
– €12 show viewing + booklet
with the contribution of
DIGITAL EXPERIENCE
Donizetti educational. Digital experience is a digital initiative dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti and intended for the school world.
Donizetti’s theater and music: two fundamental tools for an original journey of discovery of the Donizetti Theater. A way to introduce students to the city theater, its history, innovations.
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