A Molfetta flag was present in the Verona Arena orchestra for ‘One, none and one hundred thousand’concert by Fiorella Mannoia created to raise public awareness on the issue of gender violence, broadcast on Rai 1 on 8 May. What brought the Apulian auction high was (among others) Adriana Zanna, an eighteen-year-old student at the Leonardo da Vinci classical high school in Molfetta and cellist at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory in Bari. “It’s almost obvious to say that it’s an experience I didn’t think I’d have at just 18 years old and it was wonderful.” Adriana divides her time between school studies and music lessons, close to graduating in instrument. Adriana tells us that her passion for the cello was born since she was a child, encouraged by her violinist mother. “I have been studying the cello for 10 years and I didn’t think I could get to such a big stage, in a temple of music like the Verona arena at the beginning of my musical career – says the girl – clearly in the Conservatory we hold rehearsals and concerts in ensembles like the orchestra, but it was completely different to be able to be part of a world like that of entertainment and pop music on television, a world that I had always seen from afar, without being able to touch it with my own hands”. After sending a request to be made available for the occasion, the call arrived from the ‘Saverio Mercadante’ orchestra of Altamura. And the dream becomes reality.
Adriana expresses to Telebari all the amazement, wonder, enthusiasm of her age, and above all of a girl aware of the important message that, through those notes, they wanted to convey. “I thank the Arena orchestra for the experience – he declares – Furthermore, the intent of the performance of ‘Una, niente e centomila’ was beautiful: we too at school every year, every day and not just on November 25th, we talk of an important problematic topic such as violence against women and the professors do a great job, teaching us the psychological education that should eradicate the problem at the root. In my own small way I found a lot of what we do at school in the experience on stage”, concludes Adriana Zanna. And Adriana was not the only young Apulian talent to celebrate the event in Verona: Nicole Posa, a young musician from Acquaviva, was also on stage.
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