Thanks to the collaboration between two local museum institutions, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, home of the Pinault Collection in Venice, and the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples with the Amici di Capodimonte ets Association, “Ballet des Porcelaines” – also known as “The Prince of the Teapot” – arrives in Italy for two exclusive performances, in its national premiere. The version has been reinterpreted for a contemporary audience by Meredith Martin, professor of art history at New York University, with choreographer and Final Bow for Yellowface activist Phil Chan.
Starting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, passing through England, “Ballet des Porcelaines” will be performed for the Italian public in four dates with a double appointment each.
On Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 June, at 16.00:17.00 pm and then at 2022:12 pm, the Museum and Royal Wood of Capodimonte hosts the first ever performance within the rich programme of the 2022 edition of the Campania Teatro Festival (until XNUMX July XNUMX) which, for the third consecutive year, chooses the Royal Wood of Capodimonte for the presentation of outdoor shows.
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On Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 June, at 17.00:19.00 pm and then at XNUMX:XNUMX pm, the ballet arrives in Venice in the eighteenth-century atrium of Palazzo Grassi for the second Italian stop of the opera's international tour.
The “Ballet des Porcelaines” is a legendary work in its own way, in fact no trace remains of the choreography, costumes and scenography that characterised its performance, except for a copy of the libretto (two of which still exist, preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France) found at the beginning of the 2000s inside a manuscript, at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris.
The first performance of the original libretto, composed by the Count de Cayuls, a French antiquarian and proto-archaeologist, dates back to 1739 and is known to have taken place at the Chateau de Morville near Paris, by a group of aristocratic amateur artists who performed a pantomime ballet known as the “Ballet des Porcelaines” or “The Prince of the Teapot”.
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