Acquaprofonda by Giovanni Sollima returns to the stage at the Teatro Malibran in the context of the Education programme dedicated to school, youth and family audiences and as part of the 2024-2025 Opera and Ballet Season of the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice in Venice. A contemporary ‘civic’ opera for all ages, winner of the Filippo Siebaneck at the Premio Abbiati 2022, Acquaprofonda is based on a libretto by Giancarlo De Cataldo and portrays with great originality one of the most relevant themes of our time, water pollution. It will be staged by AsLiCo with direction by Luis Ernesto Doñas, sets by Chiara La Ferlita, costumes by Elisa Cobello and light design by Camilla Piccioni, and with Orchestra 1813 of the Teatro Sociale di Como conducted by Eric Eade Foster. The opera was commissioned by AsLiCo in co-production with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Civic Opera tomorrow – XXV special edition. Today’s replica is out of subscription and open to the entire public. Acquaprofonda is a contemporary opera for children, suitable for audiences of all ages, which uniquely portrays one of the most relevant issues of our time: water pollution. The plot conveys highly topical reflections in an immediate way.
A beach, a humble cottage, an imposing factory: the everyday life of the protagonist of our story, Serena, her father, the caretaker, and Master Buu, the owner of the factory, is disrupted by the arrival of a gigantic sea creature. Thanks to the help of the old sailor, Serena will be able to convince her father to act correctly, and will help the whale to get rid of the much plastic in its belly, remitting the polluting waste of his business to master Bu. The cast of the new Venetian production includes Federica Livi in the role of Serena, Benedetta Mazzetto in the double role of the whale and her mother; Vincenzo Spinelli in that of the guardian; Francesco Auriemma in that of the old sailor; Marco Tomasoni in that of master Bu; Luisa Bertoli, Claudio Giovani, Antonella Petillo and Giorgio Zobel will play the little fish and the followers of master Bu.
