Miracolo a Milano (2006-2007)
Music theatre freely based on Totò il buono by Cesare Zavattini and Miracle in Milan by Vittorio De Sica
World premiere
Reggio Emilia, Festival REC, 6 November 2007
Icarus Ensemble and Coro Merulo
Erasmo Gaudiomonte, conductor
Daniele Abbado, director
Characters
Signor Mobic, br
Totò, actor
Baracchesi, actors (minimum 20)
Nicola (the madman), actor/perc.
Instrumentation
fl/picc, 3 cl (III also bcl), 3 tr, 3 trbn, tba, 3 perc, acc., 2 kbd, 3 vc, 3 cb, live el.
2 serenade singers
12 voices in the pit (3.3.3.3)
20/30 actors
band (3 fl, 9 cl, 4 sax, 3 tr, 2 hn, 3 trbn, 2 euph, 2 tba, 3 perc)
Commissioned by
For the 150th anniversary of the Teatro Municipale Valli in Reggio Emilia
Duration
90 min
Ricordi catalogue number
139955 – score