Jota Castro
Uplands Gallery
Level 1/12 Waratah Place Melbourne, August 2005
The opening scene of Luchino Visconti’s 1954 film Senso famously opens in the Venice opera house with a scene from Verdi’s Il Trovatore. Death occurs on stage. The audience of occupying Austrians and fervent Italian patriots clash, but there are collaborators among them. The distance between opera and life is diminished.
Castro concentrates his video camera on a beautiful singer performing in a traditional salon setting. Elegance and passion in the performance; malice and irony in the text.
The Presidenzia Italiana, Berlusconi, is in fact heir to the collaboration of Mussolini and Hitler and the trasformismo that has marked Italian politics for at least two centuries.
Margaret Plant
Austrian soldiers at the Italian opera in Visconti's Senso,
see Lowe's comment
Level 1/12 Waratah Place Melbourne, August 2005
The opening scene of Luchino Visconti’s 1954 film Senso famously opens in the Venice opera house with a scene from Verdi’s Il Trovatore. Death occurs on stage. The audience of occupying Austrians and fervent Italian patriots clash, but there are collaborators among them. The distance between opera and life is diminished.
Castro concentrates his video camera on a beautiful singer performing in a traditional salon setting. Elegance and passion in the performance; malice and irony in the text.
The Presidenzia Italiana, Berlusconi, is in fact heir to the collaboration of Mussolini and Hitler and the trasformismo that has marked Italian politics for at least two centuries.
Margaret Plant
Austrian soldiers at the Italian opera in Visconti's Senso,
see Lowe's comment
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