Corrado Cagli at La Scala
by Vittoria Crespi Morbio.
Essay by Vittoria Crespi Morbio, Ahasveros in the Theatre.
Appendices: Biography; Catalogue of the Works; Chronology of Productions (edited by Giuseppe Briguglio).
Collection «Performing Artists at La Scala».
Amici della Scala – Grafiche Step Editrice, Parma 2016.
Italian – English edition, pp. 184.
Corrado Cagli (1910-1976) travelled through the history of 20th-century Italian culture leaving innumerable traces of a boundless artistic quest.
He signed monumental frescos during the twenty years of the Fascist regime, sought the mysterious 'fourth dimention' in painting, was figurative and abstract, tried out languages and invented new formulas, interweaving the dimension of his creativity with a volcanic personality and a complex and anguished human story.
At la Scala Cagli's stagings were produced on five occasions: his sketches and costume plates are there to prove his utterly personal mark, so mutable and original as to be unmistakable, like a chameleon always about to change.