La lampada di Aladino

by Eugenio Monti Colla

music Danilo Lorenzini

sets Achille Lualdi and Franco Citterio

costumes Eugenio Monti Colla

puppeteers Franco Citterio, Maria Grazia Citterio, Piero Corbella, Camillo Cosulich, Debora Coviello, Cecilia Di Marco, Tiziano Marcolegio, Giovanni Schiavolin, Paolo Sette, Alice Archinti

voice actors Loredana Alfieri, Marco Balbi, Roberto Carusi, Fabio Mazzari, Lisa Mazzotti, Gianni Quillico, Franco Sangermano

music recording Ensemble “Guido d'Arezzo”

mezzo-soprano Sonia Turchetta

piano Luca Garro

conductor Danilo Lorenzini

lighting Franco Citterio

technical direction Tiziano Marcolegio

directed by Eugenio Monti Colla

revived by Franco Citterio and Giovanni Schiavolin

production Associazione Grupporiani, Comune di Milano – Teatro Convenzionato, Regione Lombardia – Soggetto di rilevanza regionale

The tale of Aladdin is the most famous and debated story of the entire collection of One Thousand and One Nights, but it is also the most perfect and complete for the meanings and symbols it contains. Together with the tale of Ali Baba, it is the only text in which the leading character finds the realisation of himself and of his destiny as a man in the dark bowels of the earth — precisely where the scientific and literary imagination generated the various formulas and cabals of alchemy linked to the search for the philosopher's stone. It is the story of a journey, from carefree youth to adulthood, of an initiatory path towards life that the soul undertakes to achieve completeness. Between song and acting, mime and dance, accompanied by music composed especially by Maestro Danilo Lorenzini, the Compagnia Carlo Colla & Figli brings to life a show in which the ancient art of marionettes is realised in all its complexity and seduction.