In Romanticism, from 1890, the famous cabaret Le Chat Noir in Montmartre presented a renewed version of the shadow theater. Exceptional artists and composers worked for about ten years on a series of performances, balancing between opera, satire, history, and magic. Reconstructions of Le Sphinx (Amedée Vignola, 1896) and La Marche à l’Étoile (Henri Rivière, 1890) will be presented, based on original materials from the era preserved at the Museum of Precinema in Padua, with original music by Georges Fragerolle. Tribute will also be paid to Émile Reynaud, inventor of the praxinoscope and later the Pantomimes Lumineuses, which were performed at the Musée Grevin from 1892 to 1900. These were the first animated drawing projections in history, with original music by Gaston Paulin, which we will listen to along with reconstructions of two performances made by Julien Pappé and the Cinémathèque Française.

Alberto Spadarotto, baritone
Marco Bellano, presentation of projections
Gabriele Dal Santo, piano