Pinocchio va a teatro; il Balletto di Pinocchio di Giana Anguissola

The contribution recognizes the path of conception, writing and staging of Avventure di Pinocchio based on Giana Anguissola’s libretto, with music by Gino Marinuzzi senior and junior. While the opera was put on stage in May 1956, Giana Anguissola started to think about the script in 1938, as an interesting and unpublished correspondence with the publisher Bemporad shows. The letters allow to rebuild Anguissola’s intents and the complexity of staging the project for its matters of theatrical dramaturgy, music composition and staging. The analysis of the text allows to observe the variants introduced, and therefore the performing line adopted by Giana Anguissola for its theatrical adaptation. In the rewriting of Collodi’s masterpiece, publishing, music, theatre and literature meet with the shared goal to educate Italian children of the 1950s.