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Fiume at La Scala

by Vittoria Crespi Morbio.
Essay by Vittoria Crespi Morbio, «L’avrei voluta inventare tutta». L’arte di Fiume sul palcoscenico / «I wish I had entirely invented it”Fiume’s Art on the Stage».
Appendices: biographical notice; catalogue of the works.
Collection «Performing Artists at La Scala».
Amici della Scala – Umberto Allemandi & C., Turin 2008.
Italian edition, pp.107.

The world of Salvatore Fiume (Comiso 1915–Milan 1997) explores myth, the presence of the knight and warm female sensuality landing on the artist’s imaginary isles, also prepared to host the theatre archetypes of Medea, Prometeo and Norma. With his concrete and material yet precious sensibility, his dense but bright colours, Fiume contributed a large number of scenographies to La Scala, including the eye-catching petrified landscape of Cherubini’s Medea with Maria Callas (1953).