Research Catalog

Title

Excelsior : documenti e saggi / a cura di Flavia Pappacena = documents and essays / edited by Flavia Pappacena.

Publication

Rome : Di Giacomo, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Calò, Maria Amata.
• Celi, Claudia.
• Centro sperimentale di cinematografia (Italy). Cineteca nazionale.
• Grillo, Elena.
• Musumeci, Mario, 1953-
• Pappacena, Flavia.
• Scuola nazionale di cinema (Italy)

Description

351 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm +

Series Statement

Chorégraphie 1125-6230

Uniform Title

Chorégraphie.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Ballet
• Ballet > Italy > 19th century
• Comerio, Luca, 1878-1940
• Comerio, Luca, 1878-1940
• Excelsior (Choreographic work : Manzotti)
• Italy
• Manzotti, Luigi, 1835-1905
• Sapelli, Luigi, 1867-1936
• Sapelli, Luigi, 1867-1936
• Teatro alla Scala
• Teatro alla Scala

Note

• Special issue of Chorégraphie, studi e ricerche sulla danza.
• At head of title: SNC, Scuola nazionale di cinema, Cineteca nazionale.
• Texts are in Italian (p. 7-151) and English (p. 201-345).
• Illustrations: p. 153-200.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

English contents: Foreword -- The world in the days of Excelsior / Elena Grillo -- Manzotti and the theatre of memory in the XIX century / Claudia Celi -- The libretto -- The transcription of the ballet Excelsior and the manuscripts of the Theatre Museum at La Scala / Flavia Pappacena -- An analysis of the ballet structure / Flavia Pappacena -- From Giovanni Cammarano's notebook: the choreographic score of the ballet / Flavia Pappacena -- The new Excelsior by Caramba [Luigi Sapelli] / Flavia Pappacena -- The film Excelsior by Luca Comerio / Maria Amata Calò -- A restoration in dance time / Mario Musumeci -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements.

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library