The Great Organ of the Milan Duomo, an extraordinary masterpiece of art and mechanics, is at risk. With 15,800 pipes (the tallest of more than 9 m in the smallest of just a few centimetres) and 180 registers, this technological giant is the biggest organ in Italy and the second in Europe.
Type: Arts
In 2015, Fondazione Bracco produced Cinderella, a new ballet that borrows its famous title from the dance repertoire of Scuola di Ballo di Accademia Teatro alla Scala (the Academy’s ballet school). The production was based on music by Sergei Prokofiev, with choreography by the Director of the School of Ballet, Frédéric Olivieri. The show opened the season of Piccolo Teatro, and was part of the 2015 “Expo in Città” programme of events. The show then went on the road and was staged in many theatres in Italy and abroad.
Fondazione Bracco is delighted to have been the institutional partner for the tenth edition of the Piano City Festival, a celebration of musical culture held in Milan in June 2021, and in Palermo in September of the same year.
The “Piccolo” violin made by Lorenzo Storioni in 1793 is the subject of a complex and structured intervention with the acquisition, study, analysis, restoration and display to the public of a refined pearl of Cremona violin making, thanks to a partnership between Bracco Foundation, the municipality of Cremona and the Violin Museum as one of the activities co-ordinated by the Violin Making Cultural District.
Bracco Foundation is continuing also in 2018 with its cycle of exhibitions at CDI – Centro Diagnostico Italiano. This year the photographic exhibition, to be held from July 2nd to October 31st, entitled “Wasteland.The Garbage Patch State”, an artistic project created by architect and designer Maria Cristina Finucci, to make the general public aware of one of the most serious environmental emergencies of our time, plastic pollution in the seas.
During XVII Settimana della Cultura d’Impresa di Con?ndustria, Fondazione Bracco promoted at Città della Scienza (Naples), a conference with experts to illustrate the strong relationship between art and science.
The “Inside Caravaggio” exhibition is a unique exhibit that brings together 20 works by the master painter for the first time (from 28th September to 28th January 2018 at Palazzo Reale, Milan). For its 90th anniversary, the Bracco Group has contributed to the organisation of this cultural event by conducting diagnostic analyses on the works, which reveal the artist’s creative process.
The monumental statues by Leone Lodi in front of the entrance to the SPIN establishment in Torviscosa were commissioned by the SNIA from this Lombardy sculptor in 1938 and now thanks to an intervention by Bracco Foundation have a new life.
In 2017 Bracco Foundation continues the cycle of meetings in collaboration with La Scala Theatre Academy dedicated to classical music. The three encounters were conducted by Maestro Fabio Sartorelli, lecturer in the history of music at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Como and lecturer in guide to listening at the La Scala Theatre Academy in Milan.
Torviscosa is an example of positive osmosis between industry, the local area and the environment, where 14 years ago the Bracco Group recovered a part of the historic industrial site of SNIA Viscosa dating back to the 1930s in order to house SPIN, one of its most technologically sophisticated production facilities.