The charm and mysteries of the French capital in the Middle Ages in “Notre Dame de Paris” by the Milan Ballet, with choreography and libretto by Stéphen Delattre, inspired by the famous novel by Victor Hugo , on the bill this evening, Sunday 17 March, at 7pm at Teatro Massimo of Cagliari after the very successful debut at the Comunale of Sassari as part of the Grande Danza season organized by Cedac Sardegna, chaired by Antonio Cabiddu and directed by Valeria Ciabattoni.
A compelling show, on the story of Esmeralda, the beautiful gypsy loved by Quasimodo, the bell ringer of the cathedral with a deformed appearance but a kind heart , and with whom Monsignor Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of Notre Dame, is also in love, who first tries to to have her kidnapped, then to induce her to give herself to him through blackmail, while she is imprisoned on a false charge of murder for the death of Phoebus, the rival whom he himself stabbed.
In the end, categorically rejected, he drags her to the gallows.
Protagonists, in the main roles, Alberto Viggiano / Gianmanuel D'Elia (Frollo), Gioia Pierini / Alessia Sasso (Esmeralda), Mattia Imperatore / Romain Vandersmissen (Quasimodo), Gianmanuel D'Elia / Alessandro Orlando (Phoebus) and Giusy Villarà / Annarita Maestri (Fleur-de-Lys), alongside Paloma Bonnin, Amanda Hall, Ramon Valls, Leo Rech, Hiroki Inokuchi, Sinthya Pezzoli, Sofia Gironi, Gaia Buono, Akira Tamakoshi, Arianna Soleti, Paolo Radogna and Carlo De Girolamo, with video projections edited by René Zensen, costumes by Federico Veratti and musical consultancy by Davidson Jaconello for a version of the story centered on the ambiguous figure of Frollo, divided between spiritual exaltation and the torments of the flesh.
“Notre-Dame de Paris” is a modern fable poised between rigorous historical reconstruction and literary invention, born from the pen of Victor Hugo and brought to the stage by Stéphen Delattre , a brilliant and original artist, trained at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Danse / Roland Petit from Marseille, with a dynamic and innovative style that blends the elegance of classical dance and the energy and expressive strength of contemporary dance, capable of codifying and expressing sensations and emotions.
