The original Italian musical "Casanova: Lover of Venice" Tickets

Shanghai Culture Square, Shanghai, China

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Available Dates: 20 - 25 Dec, 2024 (6 events)

Important Info

Type: Musical

City: Shanghai, China

Duration: 2h 20min

Sung in: Italian

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

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Overview

The original Italian musical "Casanova - Lover of Venice" is adapted from Matteo Strukur's best-selling classic "Giacomo Casanova - The Ballad of Deadwood", which tells the legendary experience of adventurer Giacomo Casanova and praises the romantic city of Venice.

The play premiered in Venice in early 2022 and then toured major cities in Italy. With its unique charm, it has been officially recognized by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the City of Venice.

The show was created and produced by Ryder Canzian, the composer and bassist of the legendary Italian band POOH, and the costumes were designed by award-winning designer Stefano Nicolaio. The Italian-style music and dance, combined with exquisite historical costumes and scenes, present the splendor of Venice in the 18th century to the audience.

The famous musical actor Gian Marco Schiaretti plays the leading role in the play, playing the protagonist Giacomo Casanova. Gian is well known to the audience for his wonderful performances in the musicals "Notre Dame de Paris" and "Don Giovanni". "Casanova" is also his first return to the stage of Italian musicals after 13 years of starring in many international works, which is of great significance.

"Casanova: Lover of Venice" tells the story of Giacomo Casanova, who returns to his hometown Venice after ending his exile and tries to save Venice from the dangerous game of power.

The romantic adventurer Casanova returns to his hometown Venice after ending his exile. At a ball, he meets Francesca Ezzoli, the young daughter of a Venetian noble. The two fall in love at first sight. However, Casanova accidentally kills Francesca's fiancé in a duel, and he falls into self-blame and panic, and begins to flee.

At the same time, Inquisitor Garzoni conspired with Countess von Steinberg to arrest Casanova on charges of heresy. The Countess hoped to gain fame from this and promised to help Garzoni become the new Doge. In exchange, Garzoni would cede Venice to Austria.

Rebellious and determined, Francesca decided to flee with Casanova, but was blocked by Garzoni. After a hasty farewell to Francesca, Casanova was arrested and imprisoned. With the help of his friend Mocenigo, a member of the parliament, he managed to escape and learned about the evil plan of the Countess and Garzoni. Casanova finally succeeded in saving Venice from danger and reunited with Francesca.

Venue Info

Shanghai Culture Square - Shanghai
36 Yongjia Road

Shanghai Culture Square is a regular host to musicals, concerts and dramatic theatre ranging from Les Miserables to Paw Patrol Live. While it is smaller than the Shanghai Grand Theatre in People's Square, the 65,000 square meter building that cost 1.1billion RMB and has just over 2000 seats tells you they didn't pull any punches during construction.

Shanghai Cultural Plaza is located in the center of Shanghai, bounded by Maoming South Road in the east, Shaanxi South Road in the west, Fuxing Middle Road in the north, and Yongjia Road in the south.

Founded in 1952, the Cultural Square was rebuilt from the former Yiyuan Dog Run. It has always played an important role in the social and cultural life of Shanghai people and is one of the important mass political and cultural activity centers in Shanghai . Since its reconstruction and opening in 2011, Shanghai Cultural Plaza has insisted on integrating modern performances, art exhibitions, and cultural experiences, taking musical theater performances as the main line, and various fashion and classic arts as auxiliary lines, with the vision of "Cultural Paradise, Dreams Blooming", Efforts are made to incubate and build an art stage for the development of musicals, lead the cultural and leisure industry, and create a cultural and ecological landmark well-known to the public.

In the past 11 years, the cultural square has performed more than 2,700 performances, attracting more than 3 million audiences, and held nearly 2,300 public welfare activities, with a total of more than 400,000 participants. Successfully introduced classic plays such as "The Phantom of the Opera", "Elizabeth", "West Side Story", "Rock and Roll Mozart", "Notre Dame de Paris", and produced "My Bucket List", "Rachmaninoff", "Romeo and Juliet", "Fan Letters" " and many other Chinese versions of musicals, the first original musical incubation plan launched in the country, hatched and presented many original musicals such as "The Empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty", "Life and Death Sign", "Sorry I Forgot", and toured all over the country . While working hard to implement the development goal of "building a landmark public cultural and art center in Shanghai", as a professional platform for musicals, it continues to explore the role of an industry integrator and holds the "Performing Arts World-Shanghai International Musical Theater Festival" every year. Industry-university-research resources support excellent original works and enhance the audience base of the musical theater industry.

At present, the cultural square has a main theater with 1949 seats on three floors. The width of the stage is 20 meters and the height is 11.5 meters. The first professional theater in China that takes musical theater as its genre.