It arrived yesterday statue of Pavarotti. All wrapped in a plastic casing. There were many curious people in Piazzale Lazzarini to observe the operations of placing the bronze on the base. A restaurateur passes by who had the tenor as a client. He looks and says smiling: “They made him a little thin… how much he ate!”.
An artist passes by, albeit a jeweller, and adds: “A bit of a provincial operation…”. In light of these considerations, just over 200 meters away, that is, in the ‘Le Foglie d’Oro’ shop, where a collection of signatures For move the statue to Baia Flaminia the owner raises her arms and laughs: “It was a popular uprising… only three signatures.”
In short controversies of whipped cream those raised in recent days: “We also made the statue of Callas in Verona – says Andrea Mezzetti, first assistant to the sculptor Albano Poli – and if I have to make a comparison with Tebaldi I would say that the former was much better known, mediatically, of the second. The same thing applies in the comparison between Del Monaco and Pavarotti. I say this to add that Pavarotti’s popularity is still enormous”. The Pavarotti statue operation, a bronze commissioned by the Municipality, started about a year ago and one of the photos that circulated most in all the newspapers and magazines in the world was used as an image: Pavarotti at the end of a concert, black tuxedo, arms open and holding a white handkerchief.”
The statue that will be discovered today at 7pm in Piazzale Lazzarini she is 1.92 meters tall and weighs 182 kilos. “During processing and after casting they came to our workshop in Verona several times Pavarotti’s daughters, Giuliana and Cristinato check everything a bit including the look”, continues Mezzetti. Among the particularities: some have been made three replicas, also in bronze, 30 centimeters highwhich will be delivered as a memorial prize: one to the family, one to the Pavarotti Foundation and another to the Municipality.
The deputy mayor Daniele Vimini also followed the work yesterday morning: “I followed with his daughters and also with Nicoletta Mantovani – he says – all the various phases of this homage that the city pays to Pavarotti and I must say that the result is that of a beautiful operation. And those who raised doubts will change their opinion. We had also initially thought about placing the statue in Baia Flaminia, but the problem it was the winter period with the sand and also for the fact that not many people go around. It’s not like in Piazzale Lazzarini. Then the image that was chosen was that of the inauguration of the Rossini theatre, therefore the concert as well as the one for the inauguration of the new palas. For what concerns Tebaldi and Del Monaco, both of whom were remembered by the administration, among other things, we will try to pay homage to them when we have finished the process of renovating the buildings and this also applies to Riz Ortolani about whom, among other things, a film is being made. When these operations are carried out – concludes Vimini – it is easy for there to be different opinions. It is in the state of things, but I would like to remind you that Pavarottri is a planetary character and he truly felt like a citizen of Pesaro“. Present today at 7pm, in addition to his daughters Giuliana and Cristina, also his wife Nicoletta Mantovani and the director and set designer Pieri Luigi Pizzi.
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