WHERE YOUR HEART TAKES YOU
2021 – 2023 | Italy, France
The four seasons of the year are like
the seasons of love.
SPRING
The first glances that cross paths modestly...
SUMMER
...The fire of passion...
AUTUMN
...The progressive sleep...
WINTER
...The frost of the relationship
This creation by Giuliano Peparini, with the music by Antonio Vivaldi and Domenico Scarlatti, features international étoile Eleonora Abbagnato.
Time passes inexorably, transforming everything it touches. And first and foremost: love and its actors. This is the starting point for the one-act ballet directed and choreographed by Giuliano Peparini.
Over the course of the seasons, four couples – four stories – tell each other: from the first glimpses of each other’s love (spring), to the fires of passion (summer), to their gradual extinction (autumn), to the freezing of the relationship (winter).
On stage, a giant tree has planted its roots deep in the successive emotions that the dancers go through… In the face of time and its spells, which sometimes sweep away everything in its path, or, on the other hand, carry the marvellous hope of the rebirth of love; nature repeats its miracles and holds up a mirror in front of us as if to say: “Look at yourself!
Like the seasons, there are also four other elements that create the magic of this show: Poetry, Music, Scenography and Costumes.
“E poi fate l’amore (And then make love)” by Alda Merini, an extract from “The Prophet” by Kahil Gibran, “Love’s growth” by John Donne, “Summer” by Cesare Pavese, “Autumn” by Vincenzo Cardarelli and “The dead leaves” by Jacques Prévert are the poems that accompany the ballet.
Among the various collaborations is Dior, who designed the clothes worn by Eleonora Abbagnato, and Alessandro Preziosi, who with his voice recites the interlude between one season and the next.
Giuliano Peparini’s Interview about his last show in Paris in Palais des Congres for The Four Seasons
Extraordinary success for Eleonora Abbagnato and our corps de ballet in Paris. Sold-out show for "The Four Seasons" by #GiulianoPeparini. Thanks to Fabio Cappelli and Alessandro Stefanoni for the beautiful report on Rai News 24.
Backstage
An exciting mix of some of the choreographies of the opera, performed during the rehearsals by the protagonists.
A reportage from TG3 about “The four seasons”
On the occasion of the arrival of the show in Bologna, TG3 offers a reportage that tells the plot and the creators of the work.
This show was created after the beginning of the pandemic, and the choreographer managed to get the dancers to dance respecting the rules of social distancing.
A creation that shows how the limits imposed by contingency can become an opportunity for a new, unimaginable creativity.
As Peparini says “contact between the dancers was not allowed and the partner dances are conditioned by the use of protective devices, but it is true that bodies can express a lot, even on their own.
A contemporary ballet was born in the literal sense of the term: that is, it fell into our new contemporaneity, into a condition that we are still getting used to considering normal. Moreover, one of the recurring themes of The Four Seasons – Where the heart takes you is, precisely, the space: the metaphysical space between the couple and the physical space of the stage that has always fascinated the choreographer.
Giuliano Peparini’s Interview about his last show in Paris in Palais des Congres for The Four Seasons
Giuliano Peparini incanta la Francia: “Sold Out” per “Les quatre saisons” di Vivaldi.
Il Teatro dell’Opera di Roma vola a Parigi con Eleonora Abbagnato e Giuliano Peparini
Peparini porta il Balletto dell’Opera di Roma a Parigi. Tre date già sold out per Le Quattro Stagioni di Vivaldi.
Peparini incanta la Francia: sold out per “Les quatre saisons” di Vivaldi.
Giuliano Peparini incanta la Francia. A grande richiesta del Palais de Congrès di Parigi va in scena “Les quatre Saisons”…
