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Cyprien Gaillard
A project by Cyprien Gaillard at Osservatorio, in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, on the gradual disappearance of public space under privatization and security policies.
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Preview: written before the show opened
Outside a 7-Eleven in California's San Fernando Valley, a parking-lot speaker plays an old Enrico Caruso recording at night, to stop people loitering. Cyprien Gaillard heard it, and that encounter became DETERRENT, the new 35 mm film at the centre of this show, shot in Los Angeles and several Northern European cities.
The show is called "Tutti zitti", after the "Everyone, quiet!" chorus in Madama Butterfly, which premiered at La Scala in 1904. Around the film are Rinaldo Carnielo's plaster Dying Mozart, lent by Florence, Caruso objects from Milan's science museum, and props and pieces of stored sets from La Scala's own workshops. The show starts before you reach it: the Osservatorio's lift has its own soundscape.
This is a preview: it opens on 3 December and runs to 4 October 2027 at the Osservatorio, the two floors at the top of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.
Look for
Stiletto Marks
Small frottages Gaillard rubbed straight off the wooden floors of La Scala's foyer and stalls, traced by audiences' footsteps and shown in paper sleeves like vinyl records.
Formation
A panoramic video of a flock of invasive rose-ringed parakeets gliding down Königsallee, Düsseldorf's luxury shopping street.
Dying Mozart
Rinaldo Carnielo's 1877-78 plaster of the composer on his deathbed, lent by Florence's civic museums.
La Scala's props and sets
Objects from the theatre's backstage props department and rough sections of sets built for specific operas, moved out of storage for the show.
Good for
- Nerding Out
- Out-Of-Town Guests
Free in the same building
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Image credits
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- Pina Bausch, Le Sacre du printempsCourtesy of Museo Teatrale alla Scala
- Photo Grant Deloitte 2026Courtesy of Triennale Milano
- Piero Portaluppi: l'arte del disegnoCourtesy of Villa Necchi Campiglio
- Fondazione PradaSailko / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0