Illustration • Set Design • Opera
Dittico Buffo Napoletano
Illustrations for the poster and set design of Il Maestro di Musica. A theatrical game from 18th-century Naples.
Illustration • Set Design • Opera
Illustrations for the poster and set design of Il Maestro di Musica. A theatrical game from 18th-century Naples.
Client
Teatro Verdi di Pisa
Year
2022
Location
Pisa, Italy
Services
Illustration, Set Design, Graphic Design
Taking part in the creation of Dittico Buffo Napoletano was for us the most exciting opportunity to bring our surreal and playful illustrated world to the theatre. And "play" was precisely the word used by director Marco Castagnoli to introduce us to these two stories, to these two intermezzi from 18th-century theatre steeped in an irony that, on one hand, teeters on the edge of the absurd, and on the other, is strikingly rooted in the real events of a timeless everyday life.
Colours and drawn objects were our tools to bring to life the biggest game we had ever played... quite literally! A wild space for stage action, an obstacle course for ambitious, cunning, and lovesick adults, a challenging ground where you advance by rolling dice made of cunning and desire.
For Dittico Buffo Napoletano, Imaginarium created the illustrations for the poster and the set design of Il Maestro di Musica. A few words about this baroque occasion, produced by Teatro Verdi di Pisa, directed by Marco Castagnoli, conducted by M° Carlo Ipata, with the general set design by Alejandro Contreras and costumes by Cristina Ricci.
“Each one gifted us with dozens of suggestions and semantic nuances from an ever-evolving dramaturgy.”
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