FULL La Fantarca (Vlad) TV-Opera RAI Rome 1966
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: La Fantarca
- Composer: Vlad Roman
- Libretto: Giuseppe Berto, Pier Benedetto Bertoli
- Venue & Opera Company: TV-Studio, Roma, Italy
- Recorded: 1966
- Type: Movie
- Singers: Iolanda Meneguzzer, Laura Zannini, Alvinio Misciano, Lino Puglisi, Ugo Trama, Teodoro Rovetta, Otello Profazio
- Conductor: Nino Sanzogno
- Orchestra:
- Chorus Master: Ruggero Meghini
- Choreographer: Ugo Dell'Ara
- Stage Director: Vittorio Cottafavi
- Stage Designer: Tullio Zitkovski
- Costume Designer: Veniero Colasanti
Information about the Recording
- Published by: RAI
- Date Published: 1966
- Format: DVD
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: RAIPlay FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
La Fantarca is presented as a “one-act television work” and opens with the image of the planet Earth in rotation , while a voiceover announces that we are around the year 2250 . The Earth , he points out, has maintained its known motion and proportions, except for a distortion of its axis, which now crosses the globe horizontally. On closer inspection, however, it can be seen that the new axis represents, in fact, the dividing line that separates, without possible reconciliation, two enormous political blocks: the block of the “Triangle” and the block of the “Square”, which correspond respectively to the northern and southern hemispheres. Both, under the control of superior machines, strive relentlessly to increase their power in order to prevail over the other.