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The ballets of Maria Signorelli
19th-20th century Italian rod and glove puppets
19th-20th century Italian marionettes
20th century foreign rod and string puppets
Sicilian, Pugliese and Neapolitan puppets
Toy
rod, glove and string puppets
Paper
and card theatres, sets and characters
Scripts
of puppet and marionette plays
Posters
of puppet theatre productions and festivals
To which the
artist devoted herself with particular passion, are among her most original creations, because instead of using the ballet to close and
round off the end of the play, as was the long-standing custom for theatre performances, she created a good fifty real ballets with
the aid of choreographers, dancers and musicians, also using classical music and aiming a type of theatre usually considered for
children at an audience without age limits.
Maria Signorelli's Ballets
1. Tango Dancing Couple
Exhibited for the first time at the
Bragaglia Art Gallery, Rome 1929
2. La boîte à joujoux
Music by Claude Debussy,
set designs by M. Signorelli, Rome 1937
(string puppets)
3. Bastien et Bastienne
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
set designs by M. Signorelli,
Rome 1937 (string puppets)
4. Little Puppets
Music by Alfredo Casella, set designs
by Toti Scialoja, choreography
by Lina Wertmüller, Rome 1949
5. The Grasshopper and the Ant
Music by Henri Sauguet, set designs
by Nicola Coppola, choreography
by L. Wertmüller, Rome 1951
6. El retablo de maese Pedro
Music by Manuel De Falla, set designs
by Enrico Prampolini, direction by
Bronislaw Horowics, Cagliari 1951
7. Peter and the Wolf
Music by Sergei Prokofiev, set designs
by Paolo Tommasi, choreography
by L. Wertmüller, Rome 1952
8. Boccherini Minuet
Music by Luigi Boccherini,
choreography by L. Wertmüller,
Rome 1952
9. Spanish Song
Music by Isaac Albeniz, set designs
by Paolo Tommasi, choreography
by Luigi Mian, Rome 1954
10. Can Can
Music by Jacques Offenbach,
choreography by L. Wertmüller
and P. Tommasi, Rome 1954
11. Tarantella
Music by Gioachino Rossini,
set designs by P. Tommasi, choreography
by L. Wertmüller, Rome 1954
12. Waltz
Music by Frédéric Chopin (op. 64, n. 2),
choreography by L. Mian,
Rome 1954
13. La boîte à joujoux
Music by C. Debussy,
set designs by M. Signorelli,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1954
14. Suite italica
Music by Ennio Porrino,
set designs by M. Signorelli,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1954
15. Cowboy Quadrille
Popular music,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1955
16. The Fountain
Music by Byrne M’Kernan,
set designs by M. Signorelli,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1955
17. The King’s Dance
Music by Domenico Scarlatti,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1955
18. Tango
Music by Igor Stravinsky,
set designs by Franco Laurenti,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1955
19. Bolero
Music by Maurice Ravel,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1955
20. Flowers’ Waltz
Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
set designs by Loly Pellegrini,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1955
21. Contredance
Music by W. A. Mozart,
choreography by L. Mian,Rome 1955
22. Gathering by the Stream
Ballet to Argentinian folk music,
set designs by Mane Bernardo,
choreography by Sarah Bianchi,
Rome 1956
23. Romeo and Juliet
Ballet based on the tragedy
by William Shakespeare to music
by P. I. Tchaikovsky,
set designs by L. Pellegrini,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1957
24. Sabre Dance
Music by Aram Kachaturian,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1957
25. Tancredi and Clorinda
Ballet based on the poem by Torquato
Tasso to music by Claudio Monteverdi,
set designs by Franco Laurenti,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1958
26. Ballet School
Music by L. Boccherini,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1958
(for the Italian television)
27. La Capricieuse
Music by Edward W. Elgar,
set designs by L. Pellegrini,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1958
28. Russian Dance
Music by P. I. Tchaikovsky,
choreography by L. Mian, Rome 1958
29. Black Dance
Creolo-portuguese folkmusic
by Casamance, choreography by
L. Mian, Rome 1958
30. Spring Waltz
Music by P. I. Tchaikovsky,
choreography by Scilla Brini,
Rome 1959 (for the Italian television)
31. Lully Minuet
Music by Jean Baptiste Lully,
set designs by A. Piletti, choreography
by Sabine Leblanc, Rome 1959
(for the Italian television)
32. Saltarello
Italian folksong,
choreography by Maria Romby, Rome
1959 (for the Italian television)
33. Country Quadrille
Italian folksong,
choreography by S. Brini, Rome 1959
(for the Italian television)
34. Snowmen’s Waltz
Music by Johann Strauss,
choreography by S. Leblanc, Rome
1959 (for the Italian television)
35. Christmas Tree Waltz
Ballet to the “Chinese Dance” from
Tchaikowsky’s Nutcracker,
choreography by Alberto Moro,
Rome 1959 (for the Italian television)
36. Barcarola
Music by J. Offenbach,
choreography by A. Moro,
Rome 1959 (for the Italian television)
37.
Mazurka
Music by Léo Delibes,
choreography by S. Leblanc,
Rome 1960 (for the Italian television)
38. Dance in Commedia dell’arte style
Italian popular music,
choreography unknown, Rome 1960
39.
Flowers’ Waltz
Music by P. I. Tchaikovsky,
choregraphy by A. Moro, Rome 1960
40.CinderellaThe
Struggle
Music by S. Prokofiev (version for the
Italian television), set designs
by Elvira De Luca, choreography
by Vincenzo Recchia, Rome 1963
41.
Between Tancredi and Clorinda
Music by Claudio Monteverdi,
puppets by Elvira de Luca (made
by M. Signorelli), choreography by
Anna Laura
Messeri, Rome 1971
42.
Let’s Try Something New
Music by Felix Letzkin, puppets and
choreography by
Giovanna Recchia
(made by M. Signorelli), Rome 1972
43.
Cinderella
Music by S. Prokofiev,
choreography by Anna Laura Messeri,
Rome 1972 (new version inspired to
children’s drawings)
44.
Peter and the Wolf
Music by S. Prokofiev, sets and puppets
by M. Signorelli (new version),
choreography by A. L. Messeri,
Rome 1973
45. Pas de
quatre
From Act I of Swan Lake
(music by P. I. Tchaikovsky), inserted
in MI, FA,
SOL, LA, SI… or not?,
by Silvano Agosti, choreography
by L. Mian, Rome 1976
46. Elephant Dance
Ballet to
Amilcare Ponchielli’s
“Danza delle
ore”, inserted in Futurist
Pantomimes,
libretto by Francesco
Cangiullo, set designs by M. Signorelli,
choreography by Alberto Testa,
Rome 1977
47.
Peter and the Wolf
Music by S. Prokofiev, choreography
by A. L. Messeri, Rome 1978 (new
version for an open-air performance)
48. Allegro con Brio
Different music pieces:
A)Tarantella,
by G. Rossini;
B) “Sardinian Dance” and
C) “Old-fashioned Rondo” from Suite
Italiana,
by E. Porrino;
D) Flamingos’ Dance, by Bruno Nicolai;
E) an unidentified waltz by J. Strauss;
F) Mazurka, Hungarian folk music.
Choreography by A. L. Messeri,
L. Mian, M.
Mirabella, Rome 1981
49. La boîte
à joujoux
Ballet to music by C. Debussy,
choreography by A. Testa (new version),
Rome 1983
50.
Tango Dancing Couple
Preliminary study for an Argentinian
Tango ballet,
Rome 1990
