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Buzzati at La Scala
by Vittoria Crespi Morbio.
Essay by Vittoria Crespi Morbio, Musica per fantasmi / Music for Ghosts.
Appendices: biographical notice; catalogue of the works; chronology of stage designs.
Collection «Performing Artists at La Scala».
Amici della Scala – Umberto Allemandi & C., Turin 2006.
Italian edition, pp.83.
Not content with being a writer, a journalist, a dramatist and a painter, in 1954 Dino Buzzati (San Pellegrino, Belluno 1906–Milan 1972) began investing his talent in theatre scenography. For La Scala he produced two ballets and an opera, seconding with his figurative imagination the composer Luciano Chailly. Buzzati’s scenographies spring from the author’s humorous and anxious imagination: they are peopled, rather than by theatre masks, by the phantasms, the erotic silhouettes, the puppets of the absurd that inhabit his novels. And his graphic sign is mordant, highly original, incised with the pen of paradox.