Cirque du Soleil presents Corteo show at London's Albert Hall

A clown watching his own funeral. Cirque du Soleil brought to London the show “Corteo”, staged by the famous director Daniele Finzi Pasca. A clown is a person who controls the audience, rocks it like a small child in his arms. It can make you cry or laugh or... overcome nightmares. Olga Enina details. Every minute is spent preparing for the performance. Rehearsal artists can be seen even in the lobby. Built on the principle of an amphitheater, the Royal Albert Hall in the UK is considered one of the most prestigious concert halls. Children's games, fragile first love, career ups - in the hour "Corteo", which means "procession" in Italian, the whole life of a clown named Mauro, where each number is her new stage. “Castling boards, for example, serve as a reminder of the large swings on the playground. Everything we do is completely unique, we have a special attention to detail, said Cirque du Soleil artist Sean Gregory. Acrobatics on rolling boards, juggling, balancing ... The show features 16 numbers woven into a single story “between heaven and earth.” It's tragic and comic, reality and fantasy. A clown dreams of his own funeral. Or is it not a dream? We conceived this show together with one of the founders of Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberte. I asked him to do something Italian. You know, in a romantic, even poetic way, to talk about friendship. So it’s essentially a story about friends from an old circus who gather to commemorate the clown who passed away. This form allows us to transport the audience to the past, to show what the heroes have been doing for many years, said Daniele Finzi Pasca. A special atmosphere is created by music written specifically for Corteo, emphasizing the feeling that the main thing here is not sadness, but nostalgia, which permeates the entire production. The creators of the play call it a holiday of life, which is based on a deep human history.

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