Genoa. Thursday 20 June at 5.30 pm at the National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola, in Piazza Pellicceria 1, Adele Boghetich, Aurelio Canonici and Marco Mazzoleni will present the book “Ode to the Rhine. Romantic journey on the Rhine between poetry, music, drama” in a meeting presented by Giuseppe Isoleri. The inspiration for the volume comes from a journey on the Rhine and its surroundings which the Rimini aristocrat Aurelio de’ Giorgi Bertola summarized in 1795 in forty-six letters which allowed, with their suggestions, to range from Hildegard of Bingen to Rihm and Henze, from Goethe and Novalis to Büchner and with a constant, almost obvious leitmotif: the great Wagnerian epic.
A metaphor of European culture, the Rhine thus becomes a symbol of the continent’s utopias, from the hopes to the disillusions of the twentieth century. Combining music with dramatic expression, philosophical thought and the poetic dimension, the authors undertake their own “journey” of investigation and discovery around the magical world of the great German river, retracing the evocative scenarios which, between high mountains and charming vineyards, ancient castles and dark basalts have inspired immortal works by poets and musicians. A vast journey whose beating heart is in the kaleidoscopic Wagnerian Ring, on a historical aesthetic path which, starting from the enchantment of the first romantic lyrics, among powerful visions of severe beauty, leads to the existential dissolution that twentieth-century theater largely voice complaint.
A journey around the noble and ancient “Father” Reno, whose voice in the tension of the romantic Streben has always revealed new visions of the world, of time, of life, of conscience, of memory, enhancing its most legendary, fairy-tale, dramatic aspects: from the myth of the “Edda” to the carmina of Hildegard of Bingen, from the lyrics of Hölderlin, Eichendorff and Brentano to the visionary poetics of Goethe, Heine, Nietzsche and Büchner, from the symphonism of Beethoven and Schumann to some of the most beautiful pages of Liszt, Wagner, Mahler, R. Strauss, up to Berg, Shostakovich, Rihm and Henze.
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