Chapliniana a Milano: the film concert in which Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand meet the music of Rossella Spinosa for the Musical Square Festival

Chapliniana a Milano: the film concert in which Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand meet the music of Rossella Spinosa for the Musical Square Festival.

The language of cinema that merges with that of music in a surprising narrative. After the widespread success of the Monza and Sondrio dates, Saturday 27 May at the Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber Milano for the Musical Square Festival (conceived and directed by the musician Giuliano De Angelis, international cellist and soloist) the film concert entitled Chapliniana is staged with films from the Chaplin Fund restored by the Cineteca di Bologna, aimed at bringing adult and younger audiences closer to the world of cinema with the rediscovery of historical films with a strong social value.

In Chapliniana the funniest short films by and with Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand are revived with original music by Rossella Spinosa, among the most successful composers for silent cinema at an international level, with commissions from important orchestras and the writing of music for over a hundred historical films which have received great appreciation from the public and industry critics. Rossella Spinosa's music is performed live byOrchestra of Bellagio and Lake Como, with Rossella Spinosa on the piano e Alessandro Calcagnile as director.

“Setting comedy films but, even more so, films featuring and by Charlie Chaplin – declares Rossella Spinosa – implies an important commitment from a compositional point of view, since one cannot fail to take into account the public's expectations, including the “musical” ones. The work I tackled attempted to bring together my personal research with a sound imprinting of philological appeal, also choosing to work accurately on the instrumental timbre. This is why an ensemble like the one chosen, with strings, percussion and piano. The same score of The Vagabond – premiered for piano and symphony orchestra for the 100th anniversary of Charlot on commission from the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Messina – will be re-proposed here in a new version specifically for the aforementioned ensemble, in order to guarantee tonal homogeneity throughout the entire production. The presence both within an important cinematographic event such as the Lecco Film Fest and in prestigious theaters such as those that will host us, represents an important opportunity for a truly relevant dissemination operation - but also musical experimentation. I am really happy to be able to be the compositional soul of this event”.

The main space in the show is reserved for the film The Vagabond (The Vagabondo), a 1916 short film starring, directed and produced by Charlie Chaplin, where Charlot definitively appears, who will be the protagonist of the famous The Kid and The Circus. Alongside Chaplin, on the screen and behind the scenes we will then find Mabel Normand, screenwriter and director of film comedies, author of highly successful entertaining short films.

In an unstoppable succession of memories and surprises that combine dream and truth, the show, thanks to Rossella Spinosa's music which with technique and sensitivity draws you into the funny and moving world of Charlot, allows you to rediscover cinematographic chapters that marked the imagination of the beginning Twentieth century. A journey between sounds and visions guided by heterogeneous sound atmospheres and the unforgettable inventiveness of the two extraordinary protagonists, Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, "The female Charlot", undisputed queen of comedy during the pioneering years of silent cinema.

Film
The Vagabond, starring, directed and produced by Charlie Chaplin, was screened for the first time on 10 July 1916. The film, although full of comic gags, manages to maintain a romantic and dramatic streak at the same time, connoting special way that comedy and psychological depth that is indisputably recognized in Chaplin. The figure of the tramp is defined with clear and unmistakable contours in this short film which historically remains a turning point in Chaplin's direction.

Rossella Spinosa
He graduated in piano, harpsichord, composition and graduated in Law and Musicology. She plays in halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Italian Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, Liszt Academy in Budapest etc, and performs many new works dedicated to herself, in Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, South America, Korea and Japan . You have collaborated for years with Oscar winner Luis Bacalov; she writes works for orchestra, for opera and theatre, commissioned and performed by Kyev Camerata, I Pomeriggi Musicali, Orchestra da Camera di Lugano, etc. She composes the music for over one hundred silent cinema films which have received great response from the public and critics. She works with Ottavia Piccolo, Moni Ovadia, Paolo Rossi, the Duo Pali & Dispari and Teresa Mannino in live performances. Her monographic CD published by Stradivarius entitled “Rossella Spinosa: Orchestral and chamber works, vol. 1”, was included by Il Manifesto among the best ten new music productions of the decade 2011-2020, the only Italian name in a list of international standing.

Alessandro Calcagnile
Refined interpreter of the modern and contemporary repertoire, after having trained in the Conservatories of Milano, Brescia and Nuremberg, in his early twenties he made his debut as a conductor at the Sala Santa Cecilia of the Parco della Musica in Rome leading the Orchestra Nuova Sinfonica Italiana. From there a brilliant career that will lead him to perform in the most important halls and theaters in the world, until reaching the great hall of Carnegie Hall in New York in 2017. He has collaborated with the I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra, the Cantelli Orchestra of Milano, the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, the Tuscany Regional Orchestra, the I Professori Orchestra of the San Carlo in Naples.

President and among the founders of the Contemporary Music Center of Milano, Musical Director of the New MADE Ensemble, Editorial Director of Edizioni Sconfinarte, is one of the protagonists of contemporary music at a national level and has collaborated with the main living composers. He also directs for opera and musical theater, with a repertoire that ranges from baroque to contemporary. In 2015 he was a guest of the Mascagni Committee at Dal Verme in Milano for Cavalleria Rusticana with soprano Giovanna Casolla. In the 2016/2017 season at the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele he presents his original orchestration of Il Maestro di cappella by Domenico Cimarosa. With the New MADE Ensemble from 2015 to 2017 he oversaw, for the SIAE Classici di Oggi project, the staging and direction of musical theater works by Giorgio Battistelli, Michele Dall'Ongaro, Luca Mosca, Salvatore Sciarrino, Fiorenzo Carpi, Gino Niggers. He has recorded for Stradivarius, RAI, Italian Swiss Radio Television, Albanian National Radio Television, Radio Capodistria. Also active as a pianist, in a duo with Rossella Spinosa, in 2011 he published a CD dedicated to Liszt's bicentenary for the magazine Amadeus. Since 2012 he has been Principal Conductor of the Bellagio Festival Orchestra and in the summer of 2014 he was also appointed Music Director of the Cantelli Orchestra of Milano.

Orchestra of Bellagio and Lake Como
The formation was born in 2012 within the Bellagio and Lake Como Festival. The Orchestra combines the traditional repertoire, from the Baroque to the present day, with original opera and theatrical productions, dedicated to the great artists who have stayed on the Lario (including Liszt, Stendhal, Rossini, Verdi), performing regularly in the most evocative residences and historic residences in the area, but also at festivals and theaters in Italy and abroad. The orchestra collaborates regularly with exceptional conductors and soloists, such as Raffaele Trevisani, Mario Marzi, Roberto Noferini, Fatlinda Thaci. The Orchestra has also presented numerous world premieres of works by contemporary authors to the public. On 30 June 2018, the Bellagio and Lake Como Orchestra was invited by the Consulate General of Italy in Stuttgart, for an event dedicated to Rossini for the sesquicentennial celebrations. The musical direction of the Orchestra is entrusted to Maestro Alessandro Calcagnile.

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