Danza, Abbagnato: “Ready to start again at the Circus Maximus with Il Lago, but it was hard”

“After the lockdown we needed this new energy, the relationship with our audience. The dance in recent months has been a bit forgotten. Let’s not hide it, it has been difficult times for everyone. It was a struggle to go on, hold on, continue to believe in our dance troupe. But we made it. ” This is what the director of the corps de ballet of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Eleonora Abbagnato, said to the Adnkronos, who last June 11 gave her farewell to Paris at the Palais Garnier, ready for the new debut of the Capitoline company (tomorrow at Circus Maximus) with the resumption of ‘Swan Lake’ in the reinterpretation of Benjamin Pech (maestro Andriy Yurkevych conducts the Orchestra of the Rome Opera). And the great étoile continued: “It was a different, difficult and problematic year. Having to rehearse in the hall and then dance with the mask without being able to breathe … We finally got rid of a big worry. We are always buffered, we respected all the rules, including distancing. The choice of Swan Lake? Strongly desired – anticipated Eleonora Abbagnato – 65 dancers on stage. It is a classic fairy tale, ballet represents fatigue and beauty, there will be 65 dancers on stage ” . “We suffered so much before we found ourselves, not only physically, but mentally, psychologically, but we managed to go on without ever stopping, with difficulty and thanks to the Opera House we managed to stay in shape. ‘time to find our audience – added Eleonora Abbagnato – All my dancers in these complicated months have shown great strength, to be passionate artists. the stage – he concluded – Unfortunately, in video and not in the presence it is quite another thing “. The show recorded a record box office at the 2018 premiere at the Costanzi Theater, and was then resumed in the 2019/20 season. Pech’s work is grafted into a magical staging made up of refined scenes and precious decor by the set designer Aldo Buti, with the lights of Vinicio Cheli, to which is added, for the large space of the Circus Maximus, the creation and digital animation of Ignasi Monreal. The Capitoline dancers – the étoiles Alessandra Amato and Rebecca Bianchi, the first dancers Susanna Salvi and Claudio Cocino and the soloist Michele Satriano – will alternate with prestigious international guests, the prima ballerina of the Het Nationale Ballet of Amsterdam Maia Makhateli and the principal dancer of the Bolshoi of Moscow Semyon Chudin. In the main roles of Odette / Odile and Prince Siegfried we will see Maia Makhateli and Semyon Chudin respectively on 22 and 25 June, Alessandra Amato and Claudio Cocino on 26 June and 1 July, Susanna Salvi and Semyon Chudin on June 30, Rebecca Bianchi and Michele Satriano on July 2. After the premiere on Tuesday 22 June, five reruns on the bill: Friday 25, Saturday 26, Wednesday 30 June, Thursday 1 and Friday 2 July.