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The fairy tales, nursery rhymes and films

Shows with classical and modern texts, films

  The ballets of Maria  Signorelli

 

 

Podrecca Fund 

Trieste puppets 

 

19th-20th century Italian rod and glove puppets

18th century Italian marionettes 

19th-20th century Italian marionettes 

20th century foreign rod and string puppets 

Eastern and Wayang puppets and marionettes

Sicilian, Pugliese and Neapolitan puppets  

 

Shadow puppets

Masks 

Toy rod, glove and string puppets    

Seven trunks of stage properties

  Paper and card theatres, sets and characters  

 

Dolls 

Italian and foreign literature on the history and techniques of puppet theatre

Toy theatres  

Scripts of puppet and marionette plays  

Posters of puppet theatre productions and festivals

The exhibitions

 

 

 

 


‘Theatre is performed in a great variety of styles. 

One must know in which style one wants to work and then find the appropriate techniques. Traditional techniques or new techniques? Puppets or marottes, or shadow or rod puppets?’ 

 

There are thirty-two productions in all in this category, among the most wide-ranging and  born 

of close collaboration with various artists; shows inspired by historical eventts such as Frenzy 

and poetry of the French Revolution by Guido Ceronetti and by literary classics such as The Discovery 

of America by Cesare Pascarella, The Love of Don Pirlimplin with Belisa in his  garden by 

Federico Garcia Lorca, and the tremendous Dante’s Inferno for which M. Signorelli created 

over 500 puppets. 

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SHOWS WITH CLASSICAL  AND MODERN TEXTS, AND FILMS  

 

1. DOCTOR FAUSTUS

by Guido Bonneschk

music by Lidia Ivanova

sets by Alfredo Furiga, Rome,1947

 

2. LARGO AL FACTOTUM

Short film from THE BARBER OF SEVILLE

music by Gioacchino Rossini

sets  by M. Signorelli

directed by Ferdinando Cerchio, Rome,1947

 

3. THE CROW

based on Carlo Gozzi's The Crow

music by Lidia Ivanova

sets  by M. Signorelli, Rome,1949

 

4. THE CORSAIRS

 by Taddeo Sowicki

 music by Sandor Veress

 sets by M. Signorelli

 directed by Giuseppe De Martino, Rome,1949

 

5. A CHRISTMAS PASTORALE

sets by M. Signorelli

directed by G. De Martino, Rome,1949

 

6. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA

by Cesare Pascarella

stanzas by Armano Fefé

directed by L. Wertmüller, Rome,1951

 

7. THE KING STAG
by Carlo Gozzi

music by Domenico Scarlatti

sets by Paolo Tommasi

directed by L. Wertmüller, Rome,1951

 

8. DON PERLIMPLIN AND BELISA IN LOVE IN HIS GARDEN

by F. Garcia Lorca

music by Gino Filippini

sets  by M. Signorelli

directed by Nino Meloni, Rome,1952

 

9. THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE

 by Oscar Wilde

 music by Fernando Candia

 sets by Paolo Tommasi

 directed by L Wertmüller, Rome,1952

 

10. DIALOGUE OF A LIEUTENENT COLONEL OF THE GUARDIA CIVIL

by F. Garcia Lorca

music played by Segovia

sets, puppets and masks by P. Tommasi and M. Signorelli

directed by P. Tommasi, Rome, 1952

 

11. TWO HYMNS OF PRAISE

by anonymous Umbrian author

music by A. Mortari

sets by Nicola Coppola

choreography by Luigi Mian, Rome, 1954

 

12. HARLEQUIN, THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS

by Carlo Goldoni

music by Domenico Scarlatti

sets by Federico Galdi

choreography by Luigi Mian, Rome,1954

 

13. THE TEMPEST

by W. Shakespeare

music by Fernando Candia

sets by Franco Laurenti

directed by Mario Colucci, Rome,195

 

14. THE FARCE OF THE TUB

by anonymous French Medieval author

sets by M. Signorelli

directed by L. Mian, Rome, 1956

 

15. PUPPET SHOW FROM "IRIS"

by Illica

music by Pietro Mascagni

sets by Veniero Colasanti

directed by Margherita Walman, Rome, 1956

 

16. ROMAN ROME

Fantasy of Songs and Dances

Italian folk music

sets by M. Signorelli and Giulio Fefè, Rome,1960

 

17. FOR THE NATIVITY OF OUR REDEEMER

a Poem by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni

sets by Giovanna Recchia

directed by Vincenzo Recchia, Rome,1963

 

18. FAUST

by Guido Bonneschk

music by Alberto Pomeranz

sets by F. Laurenti

directed by Raffaele Meloni, Rome,1964

 

19. KUKLI

Black and white film (16mm.)

(of production by M. Signorelli)

 music by various composers

sets by F. Laurenti

directed by Silvano Agosti, Rome,1964

 

20. WORDS AGAINST WORDS

Show dedicated to Ernesto Ragazzoni

music by Franco Bracardi

sets by L. Pellegrini

 directed by Maurizio Costanzo, Rome,1967

 

21. FEATS

by Dario Serra

music by Gilberto Bosco

puppets by M. Signorelli and D. Serra,

directed by D. Serra, Rome,1971

 

22. FUTURIST  PANTOMIME

by Francesco Cangiullo

sets by M. Signorelli

choreography by Arturo Testa

directed by A. Testa, Rome,1977

 

23. ALICE

by Lewis Carroll

adapted by  D. Serra

puppets by M. Signorelli and D. Serra

music chosen by Erminia Viglietti

directed by D. Serra, Rome,1977

 

24. LUISA AND HER  PAPER  DRESS

 by Alberto Arbasino

 music by Andrea Franchi

group production, Rome,1978

 

25. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE MARIONETTE!

by Edward G. Craig

translated by Marina Maymone Siniscalchi

sets by Enrica Biscossi

directed by Michele Mirabella, Rome,1979

 

26. DANTE'S  INFERNO

adapted by M. Mirabella

sets by Enrica Biscossi

voices: Rodolfo Baldini, Renata Biserni,

Claudio De Angelis, Arnoldo Foà,

Vittorio Gassman e M. Mirabella.

directed by M. Mirabella, 1982

 

27. FRENZY AND POETRY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

by Guido Ceronetti

music by Bruno Nicolai

sets and costumes by Carlo Cattaneo

directed by Adriano Dallea and G. Ceronetti, Rome,1983

 

28. ANTIGONE

based on B. Brecht

opera by Frederic Rzewski

soprano Carol Plantamura   

directed by Pietro Formentini, Rome,1984                   

 

29. THE HAPPY PRINCE

by Oscar Wilde

music by Lino Bianchì

orchestra conducted by Vittorio Bonolis, Rome,1985

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

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