'Giovanissimi all'opera', the Scuola InCanto project debuts with 'Turandot' at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples

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More than one hundred actors divided into various casts, seventy musicians, and over eight hundred auditions to select singers, instrumentalists, acrobats, and dancers. These are the annual numbers for the Scuola InCanto project, which this year debuts at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples with Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. The theatrical performance represents the final phase of the format developed by Europa InCanto, which aims to inspire opera among younger generations through the direct involvement of schools, families, and theaters. Thousands of students and teachers from across Italy, after a thorough preparation program at the Scuola, actively participate in the staging of Puccini's masterpiece, taking to the stages of prestigious Italian theaters.
It is a real challenge that Europa InCanto carries forward year after year with winning results as demonstrated by the ever-increasing participation in the project and the extraordinary energy and enthusiasm that all participants put into the educational activities and the final show.
The show, in fact, is only the culmination of scrupulous work done at school with teachers and at home with families, thanks to specific teaching tools provided to participants. The innovative App Scuola InCanto, conceived and designed by Europa InCanto, which together with teaching aids (textbook, CD, DVD Karaoke) allows easy and fun learning of opera and more.
The other main tool is the educational book with the attached CD that tells the story of the opera, the life of Giacomo Puccini and provides all the instructions for building the characters of the Turandot tale. The text in fact explains how to independently create costume elements and props through the use of simple and recycled materials. A part of the volume is dedicated to the scores, the script and finally to a journey into musical writing. These are the tools that constitute a unique editorial and musical product capable of combining high technical and artistic quality with fun, transforming learning about opera into a pleasant and aggregating game also thanks to the help of new multimedia languages ​​used with highly educational purposes.
Scuola InCanto does not stop in classrooms and schools, but penetrates the social fabric of the city by entering homes and families: parents, grandparents, friends are not only the audience of the final show, but participate in the educational path of the children, singing and learning with them. At the end of the path, there is the staging of the final show, where together with professional artists, the real protagonists are the children: in this edition it will be Turandot by Giacomo Puccini to light up prestigious Italian theaters with lights, bel canto and notes, giving life to a celebration of music and theater that has involved thousands of students in each performance.
All the participants, taking an active part in the show, interpreted together with the singers and the Europa InCanto Orchestra the pieces studied during the year, performed scenic and choreographic movements, wearing the costumes and using the props they made themselves.
Scuola InCanto, through the synergy with the Piccolo Coro delle Mani Bianche 173° CD Tommaso Silvestri-Magarotto of Rome, has been involving deaf and hearing students of the primary school in its musical activities for years. All the students of Scuola InCanto, guided by specialized operators, learn to perform and sign some songs with LIS (Italian Sign Language) and then perform during the final show. Including this musical experience allows the project to be even more inclusive and unifying, allowing hearing and deaf people to access the same content, to be excited and to make others excited in sharing a unique experience.
Finally, thanks to its extraordinary ability to promote the immense Italian operatic heritage, Scuola InCanto has been recognized as a project of excellence by the Ministry of Public Education and has obtained the patronage of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Senate of the Republic.
After its debut at the prestigious Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the show Turandot by Giacomo Puccini will be performed on the stages of the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Messina (March 27), the Teatro Alfonso Rendano in Cosenza (March 31), the Teatro Comunale Mario del Monaco in Treviso (April 9), the Teatro Eliseo in Rome (May 3), the Teatro della Pergola in Florence (May 7), the Teatro GB Pergolesi in Jesi (May 20), the Teatro Argentina in Rome (May 24), the Teatro Comunale in Bologna (June 5), the Teatro Romano in Ostia Antica (June 8), the Teatro Flavio Vespasiano in Rieti (dates to be defined).