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Cocteau at La Scala
by Vittoria Crespi Morbio.
Essay by Vittoria Crespi Morbio, La stanza del cuore / The Room of the Heart.
Contributions: Valérie Loth, Claudine Boulouque, Pierre Caizergues.
Appendices: biographical notice; catalogue of the works.
Collection «Gli artisti dello spettacolo alla Scala».
Amici della Scala – Umberto Allemandi & C., Turin 2007.
Italian edition, pp.105.
Inspirer and catalyst of 20th-century French culture, Jean Cocteau (Maisons-Laffitte 1889–Milly-la-Forêt 1963) bestowed on La Scala his talent as a scenographer.
His spare luminous sign, the sobriety of his line, the elegance and clearness of his spaces enfold the music of the ballet La dame à la licorne (15th- and 16th-century music arranged by Chailley, 1965) and fashion the elegant, stifling room where the heroine of Poulenc’s La voix humaine (1959) pursues on the telephone an impossible love and encounters death.