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Activities for high schools

With Romeo and Juliet: become a director for a day!

Activities for high schools. Especially recommended for classes I, II and III

Through the story of Romeo and Juliet, the children will be taught to understand the differences and similarities between theatrical and cinematographic language.

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The activity for high schools develops in two different moments.

First phase:

  • visit to the Museum with a dialogic approach, during which the children will be invited to reflect on the complexity of the different elements that contribute to the creation of a work for the cinema.
  • Illustration of the Shakespearean productions for Zeffirelli’s theatre and  cinematographic transpositions, with the explanation of what a storyboard is.
  • Guided viewing of the video illustrating the many fields of Zeffirelli’s activity in theatre and cinema.
  • Listening to the ideas expressed by the children.

 

Phase two, workshop:

  • invitation to the children’s personal eleboration of the emotions and information acquired during the previous phase.
  • choice and study of a sequence of the film Romeo and Juliet, after which the children will be encouraged to choose an excerpt and illustrate it, according to their imagination, through the graphic rendering, thus creating a “vignette” of their ideal storyboard. Some of the works will then be exhibited in the Museum’s premises.

 

The visit without the workshop, which lasts about 45 minutes, costs 5 euros per student.
 The visit + the workshop, lasting about 2 hours, costs 7 euros per student. Teachers are entitled to free admission.

For information and reservations: e-mail address: education@fondazionefrancozeffirelli.com, tel. +39 055 281038

 

The educational activity for high schools has the following objectives:

  • understand how behind the staging of a theatrical or cinematic performance lies work that combines creativity and study.
  • understand the importance of a working methodology based on rigorous historical and artistic documentation.
  • learn the main elements that contribute to the creation of a show: dramaturgy (subject, text and, for film, screenplay), interpretation (directing, acting and/or singing), visual rendering (sets and costumes and, for film, storyboard and photography).
  • Solicit curiosity and observational skills by sharing ideas as a group.
  • stimulate creativity.
  • discover how theater connects disciplines as diverse as art, literature and music.
  • solicit a close connection between the learning moment in the exhibition and the learning moment in the classroom.

The thousand faces of Don Giovanni

Especially recommended for classes III, IV and V

Numerous editions of Don Giovanni, set to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, realized by Franco Zeffirelli during his long career (seven editions), in their surprising diversity, illustrate with remarkable evidence the variety of interpretations offered by Mozart’s masterpiece.

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This variety is due to the complexity of the character, who has now become part of the collective imagination, as he has reached us through the many works that, over the centuries, have seen him as a protagonist, starting from the Burlador de Sevilla by the Spanish Tirso de Molina, to Mozart and to the present day through Molière.

The activity is developed in three phases that can be articulated in two/three meetings for a total duration of about 4 hours.

First phase: introductory meeting on the legend of Don Giovanni Tenorio in an equipped classroom located on the ground floor.

Second phase: an interactive visit with a dialogue through the rooms of the Museum, with particular attention given to the room dedicated to the various installations of Mozart’s work by Franco Zeffirelli.

Third phase: inside the equipped room, where through the support of audiovisual material (sketches, preparatory drawings, sketches, scene photos, short film clips of the work) the children will be shown the different moments in which the complex work underlying the realization of a stage set up is structured, starting from the analysis of the dramaturgical text to its realization on stage.
 Students will be encouraged to express their opinions and, at the end, will be invited to develop their own “vision” of Mozart’s work, through the creation of scenographic sketches or the writing of their own ” director’s notes”, based on their skills and preferences. Some of the works will then be exhibited within the Museum’s premises.

The visit without the workshop, lasting about 1 hour, costs 7 euros per student: The activity divided into two/three meetings costs 10 euros per student. Teachers are entitled to free admission.

For information and reservations: e-mail address: education@fondazionefrancozeffirelli.com tel. +39 055 281038
The educational activity for high schools has the following objectives:

  • understand how behind the staging of a theatrical or cinematic performance lies work that combines creativity and study.
  • understand the importance of a working methodology based on rigorous historical and artistic documentation.
  • learn the main elements that contribute to the creation of a show: dramaturgy (subject, text and, for film, screenplay), interpretation (directing, acting and/or singing), visual rendering (sets and costumes and, for film, storyboard and photography).
  • Solicit curiosity and observational skills by sharing ideas as a group.
  • stimulate creativity.
  • discover how theater connects disciplines as diverse as art, literature and music.
  • solicit a close connection between the learning moment in the exhibition and the learning moment in the classroom.

Zeffirelli’s Inferno

Recommended for all secondary school classes

Through the beautiful illustrations made by Zeffirelli for a film version of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno (never accomplished), students will be brought to understand how the cinematographic language can visually translate even the most complex texts.

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The activity foro high schools develops in two different moments.

 

First phase:

  •  a visit to the Museum with a dialogic approach, with particular attention given to the room that houses the Inferno installation. The children will be invited to reflect on the complexity of the different elements that contribute to the making of a film. In the room dedicated to Dante’s Inferno, an actor will read some triplets.
  • illustration of the studies made by Zeffirelli during the preparation of his films, with the explanation of what a storyboard is.
  • guided viewing of the video illustrating the many fields of Zeffirelli’s activity in theatre and cinema. – listening to the ideas expressed by the students.

 

The second phase will take place in a classroom located on the ground floor of the Museum, where the students will carry out the following activities:

  • personal elaboration of the emotions and information acquired during the previous phase.
  • illustration of an excerpt from a Dantean chant according to their own imagination through graphic rendering, thus creating a personal vision of the characters (costumes) and the environment (set), or drawing a sample of their ideal storyboard, or creating a small screenplay of the chosen chant.

 

The visit without the workshop, lasting about 1 hour, costs 7 euros per student: The activity divided into two/three meetings costs 10 euros per student. Teachers are entitled to free admission.

For information and reservations: e-mail address: education@fondazionefrancozeffirelli.com, tel. +39 055 281038

The teaching activities for high school have the following objectives:

  • To discover the different languages of various performance genres: drama, opera and film.
  • To understand how behind the staging of a play or the making of a film lies work that combines creativity and study.
  • learn the main elements involved in filmmaking: subject and screenplay; interpretation (directing, acting); visual rendering (sets and costumes, storyboard and photography).
  • understand the importance of a working methodology based on rigorous historical and artistic documentation.
  • Solicit curiosity and observational skills by sharing their ideas in groups.

Zeffirelli narrates. Discovering the languages of performance: theater, opera and cinema

Recommended for all secondary and junior high school classes

Children will be led to discover and reflect on the different languages of performing arts from drama to opera and film.

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The educational activity for secondary schools is developed in two different stages.

First phase:

  • interactive tour of the Museum, during which the children will be invited to reflect on the complexity of the different elements that contribute to the creation of a work for theater or cinema;
  • illustration of Zeffirelli’s different stagings for prose theater, opera house and his cinematic achievements, with an explanation of what a storyboard is ;
    guided viewing to the video illustrating the many fields of Zeffirelli’s activity in theater and film;
  • listening to the ideas expressed by the children.

Second phase, workshop type in case of face-to-face teaching:

The second phase will take place in a classroom equipped for teaching, where the children will carry out the following activities:

  • personal processing of the emotions and information acquired during the previous phase;
  • choice and study of a sequence from the video;
  • illustration of an episode from a chosen film according to their own imagination, either through graphic rendering, thus realizing a personal vision of the characters (costumes) and environment (set design), or a “vignette” of their own ideal storyboard, or through writing, creating a small script of the chosen sequence.

Second phase, laboratory type in case of distance education for issues related to the health emergency from Covid-19:

In case the health situation did not make it possible to carry out the first and third laboratory phases in presence, it was planned to carry out the educational course in distance education mode as well.

Second phase, workshop type in case of integrated teaching for issues related to health emergency from Covid-19:

In case the integrated teaching activity becomes necessary, preference will be given to the same platform used by the school.

Guided tour has a cost of Euro 8.00 per student. guided tour + workshop has a cost of Euro 10.00 per student. Free admission for teachers and children with disabilities.

For information and reservations:
e-mail address: education@fondazionefrancozeffirelli.com
tel. +30 055 281038

The visit and workshop have the following objectives:

  • discover the different languages of the various spectacular genres: drama, opera and film;
  • to understand how behind the staging of a play or the making of a film lies a work that combines creativity and study to reach from the analysis of the dramaturgical text and music to the staging, always taking into account the technical needs of the realization;
  • learn the main elements that contribute to the creation of a show, whatever genre it belongs to: dramaturgy (subject, text and, for film, screenplay), interpretation (directing, acting and/or singing), visual rendering (sets and costumes and, for film, storyboard and photography);
  • understand the importance of a working methodology based on rigorous historical and artistic documentation;
  • solicit curiosity and observational skills by sharing their ideas in groups;
  • stimulate creativity;
  • discover how theater and film relate disciplines as diverse as art, literature and music.

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