Giacomo Balla: sketches for Stravinsky on display at La Scala in Milan

From March 2 to 6, the Museo Teatrale alla Scala in Milan is hosting an exhibition of sketches made by the great Futurist painter Giacomo Balla (Turin, 1871 - Rome, 1958) for the ballet Feu d’Artifice composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1908. The work was staged on April 12, 1917 in Rome, at the Teatro Costanzi (today’s Teatro dell’Opera): it was one of the first appearances in Italy of the Ballets Russes, the well-known ballet company founded by Sergei Djagilev, to whom the exhibition is intended as a tribute. Balla, as Margherita Sarfatti had this to say, designed “an unprecedented scenic projection,” in which “not painted scenery nor people would appear on the stage, but nothing but forms only: constructions in wood and cloth, pointed, inverted cone, geometric monstrosities.”

The Milan show is held in the context of the MuseoCity event promoted by the City of Milan and the MuseoCity Association: the intent of the exhibition, in accordance with the goals of enhancement that MuseoCity sets itself, is to display works that are usually not exhibited or little known to the general public.

On Saturday, March 4 and Sunday, March 5, there will also be a reduced entrance fee of 5 euros for all visitors. On other days, the full price of 7 euros, the reduced price of 5 and the special school ticket of 3 will be charged.

Source: Teatro alla Scala

Image: Giacomo Balla, Stage Sketch for “Feu d’Artifice” (1915; oil on canvas, 35 x 50 cm; Milan, Museo Teatrale alla Scala)

Giacomo Balla: sketches for Stravinsky on display at La Scala in Milan

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