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Ponti at La Scala
by Vittoria Crespi Morbio.
Essay by Vittoria Crespi Morbio, Il disincanto teatrale di Gio Ponti / Gio Ponti’s Theatre Disenchantment.
Appendices: biographical notice; catalogue of the works; chronology of stage designs
Collection «Performing Artists at La Scala».
Amici della Scala – Umberto Allemandi & C., Turin 2002.
Italian edition, pp.71.
A personality practising several disciplines (painting, graphics, design, publishing and applied arts and above all architecture) with an original approach, Gio Ponti (Milan 1891–1979) associated all these experiences when he tackled the theatre.
His stage drawings are ruled by a rational design, refined colour, an essential graphic line. These qualities are illustrated in the performances he created for La Scala, the ballet Festa romantica by Piccioli (1944) and Orfeo by Gluck (1947) as well as his unfinished projects, Mondo tondo by Porrino (1945) and Mitridate Eupatore by Alessandro Scarlatti (1954).