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Carmen and the Other extraordinary girls is a community opera based on Bizet's Carmen co-created with 50 young women from Southern Italy, migrant women under protection and disabled women from Northern Italy.
This is a new promising story of how great women can inspire other women to undertake a journey of empowerment.
We are going to celebrate young women who share a lot but differ in their social backgrounds: women from South Italy, where there is one of the lowest rates in Europe of female participation in social and economic life, disabled female musicians and migrant women, mostly under protection, from the North.
Alongside with professionals and disabled opera artists, they will co-create Carmen and the other extraordinary girls, a participatory art project in which they write and design together dramaturgy, music, costumes and sets. Essentially, the Opera could not exist without them.
These extraordinary girls chose Carmen as an icon of diversity and female freedom to spread their message. Carmen will give visibility to these marginalized women through expressive forms that will reinforce their identity and give them a high quality art experience through a sharing narration.
To reach the voice of self affirmation they need your support!
Thanks to your help, through the magnificence of the Opera and the community process these women will improve their self-confidence and awareness and they will finally find their own place in this world.
Find more about the project and process on the website www.communityopera.it
In the first months of this project, despite the overall difficulties, we handled to redesign the way we worked together, implementing the dramaturgy and the libretto.
Now, all the extraordinary girls are ready to take a chance and stage the Opera.
Help them to spread their voices! By supporting our project you will contribute to re-shape their daily life and tear down barriers and social constraints building a new narrative of themself, emancipated and independent.
Opera singers, directors, cultural managers, artists with disabilities and researchers work together in this project to find a common space of artistic research in the co-creation practice with fragile communities.
The Theatre Company L'Albero, with the artistic direction of Vania Cauzillo and Alessandra Maltempo, and the Orchestra AllegroModerato focus their projects on giving opera and music a significant social impact. The approach of the artistic co-creation and the method they designed for Carmen and the other extraordinary girls, put the Opera at the center, like a fire, and the communities around it. A safe-space where, starting from Carmen, all the 50 women involved in the co-writing workshops were able to share their stories and create a new one.
Designed and conducted by the Dramaturg Andrea Ciommiento, the first part of the artistic research investigated the moments in which these women chose for themselves, escaped from uncomfortable situations, from a "cage". We like to call these first steps “small acts of rebellion”.
All the artists involved really put themself in a dialogue with these women. The mezzo-soprano Chiara Osella, our Carmen, and the deaf artist Consuelo Agnesi were involved with the communities from the first moment.
The conductor, Pinuccia Gelosa works with these girls to teach them how to feel and play the music of Bizet co-playing in a string orchestra of professionals.
Cristina Palermo and Carlo Ferretti, from the communication and monitoring team of Pot in Pot, designed a social impact monitoring method to assess the project's capability to trigger changes in the beneficiaries involved. It's the first time for a project on the Fedora platform.
The next two phases (stage and costumes) are designed on the same co-creation method: Marianna Dinuzzi will design the costumes involving the girls to investigate the workers' uniforms. Cristina Amenta and Rita Orlando with the methodology of Open Design School will work to co-design an accessible and innovative stage.
The first phase of the project has been supported by Altamane Foundation.
Chiara Osella
Singer
Consuelo Agnesi
Deaf artist, Opera narrator
Giuseppina Maria Gelosa
Music Teacher
Marianna Dinuzzi
Costume Designer
Andrea Ciommiento
Librettist
Alessandra Maltempo
Singer / Actress
Gino Marangi
Actor
Cristina Amenta
Designer, disability manager
Rita Orlando
Set Designer
AllegroModerato
Italy
Pot in Pot
Italy
Open Design School
Italy
Fondazione Alta Mane Italia
Italy
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