Dear Readers,

We have been assailed by an invisible and insidious enemy, an unfair opponent who has entered our homes and divided our families, deprived us of loving hugs and made us diffident of a friendly handshake, one that did not give fair warning, rapidly and relentlessly killing our loved ones, triggering a paralysis that has no precedent in today’s world. We need to do something that is useful, for ourselves as well as others. This is only one of the many challenges that everyday life imposes upon us.

What can we do? Well, we can do something, no matter how small. Whether the gesture be big or small, an offering or a legacy to share, the extent or size of which is less important than the desire to participate. We are not doctors and we are not heroes. We have no weapons and we would not know where to point them. We do not decide the fate of humanity and we do not have the authority to impose anything on anyone. Here, we focus merely on education and entertainment. Like never before, we need to invent tools and applications that can guarantee the use and enjoyment of a wide selection of projects on which to study or work.

So we then decided to enable three key actions:

1. Pending the delivery of the hard copies that will remain in stock then shipped when this pandemic is resolved, we guarantee the immediate sending of digital copies that can be downloaded without any limitation and will all be duplicated. The distribution of digital copies will be done via FTP protocol https://thescenographer.wetransfer.com/ sent to your e-mail address minutes after you have purchased a single copy or taken out a subscription. We will always be available at any time for any kind of information or request.

2. Subscribers to the 2020 digital edition will also receive free of charge the digital issues published in 2019.

3. Students of the Academies of Fine Arts and Design Schools who are currently continuing their studies through online courses organized by educational institutes will have an extra bonus: we have, in fact, launched a Training section - in English and Italian - featuring video presentations in which directors and scenographers illustrate their projects. In addition, we have made available all articles, interviews and other features produced since 2012. You can also view a round-up of opera productions in full. This material will be regularly updated so that students can continue to access additional incentives and tools for their studies.

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Paolo Felici
Editor in chief The Scenographer
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Photo by Yan Revazov "The vital force of dance, the sacredness of gesture, the integration of dance within a total vision of theatre, the musicality and inseparability between choreographic conception and exponent: to me, these are some of the most affective concepts." (Giorgio Madia)

GIORGIO MADIA Director and Choregrapher Photo by Juri Seredenko "For me there is no separation between directing and choreography. I come from dance and I can't help but think of a dynamic staging from its conception.  Also because where words are not enough, the movement begins." (Giorgio Madia)

CARMEN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM: a blue baroque garden recreated with arches constantly maneuvered by the dancers who, to the rhythm of the music, create galleries, pavilions, mazes and forests. "A dancing set" that tends to astound through the dynamics as described in Eukasz Gazur’s critique for Gazeta Krakowska and Dziennik Polski.

Photo by Magdalena Woch DON JUAN The idea of moving scenery is as old as European theatre itself. In ancient Greek theatre, text, music, rhythm and dance were staged using mechanical devices, the "skene", to position and move physical elements on stage.

Photo by Yan Revazov Photo by Juri Seredenko WIENER BLUT whose winning secret are a frenzy of colors and fragrant flowers, a sky of gisteria, delicate rotating scene movements that frame intimate moments, slapstick scenes with a frantic rhythm, duets with gesture.

WIENER BLUT THE MERRY WIDOW THE MERRY WIDOW by Lehar, designed staged and choreographed by Giorgio Madia who here too puts in motion soloists, choir and a large dance corps in large dance ensembles. The scenic elements have been created in such a way as to make this type of direction possible: light, refined and witty.

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