OfMatteo Sorio
The characters parading on the red carpet united with the music lovers: «A timeless emotion»
The first, big applause was for Riccardo Muti, in the Arena three years after the last time. «A recognition like that of UNESCO is not a point of arrival but of departure. -she said-We must educate our children to listen intensely and depth of our greats authors. And I turn to the men of government: the orchestra is synonymous with society, everyone often has different parts, but everyone must contribute to a single common good, without abuse.”
Fans
The opera, on Friday, from Verdi to Puccini, from Rossini to Bellini, was the heart of one “first” arena different from the others. Because Italian opera singing, which became a UNESCO world heritage site, was celebrated. Here then, worldwide, is the concert dedicated to melodrama. With the highest offices of the State, from the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella to the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. With a new framework for the Arena, orchestras and choir on the stage and the area of the mystical gulf dedicated to singers, from Anna Netrebko to Jonas Kaufman. And with an audience of enthusiasts, especially in the stands. Gala dresses were scattered around the audience, pieces of that “before” atmosphere that generates tuxedos (uniform almost obligatory for men), trains, sequins and sequins, all immersed in a coming and going observed, before the start, by the curious crowded on the barriers that delimited the walk on the red carpet of the Liston.
From all over Italy
From various parts of Italy, then, with some German and English representatives, the enthusiasts and music lovers who came to attend the three hours of show. Queuing to enter outside the Arena (where around 7pm the ambulance intervened due to the illness of a woman) Matteo Martignon, born in ’83, from Sacile in Friuli, said that «Aida’s arias move me like the first time and I think that the great writing is the secret why the opera still transmits emotions despite the passing of time». Here is Anna Corsi, a teacher from Verona transplanted to Bergamo: «At school we recently played Madama Butterfly for the centenary of Puccini’s death, but I believe that to make young people discover this heritage of humanity we must also make ticket prices more accessible». For Aldo and Eleonora Rossetti, Tuscans from Empoli“young people may not perceive the work very much but when someone accompanies them through the secrets of these works then they become passionate”.
The conductors
The hosts of the Arena event proposed that accompaniment on Friday, Alberto Angela (highly applauded by the female audience), Luca Zingaretti and Cristiana Capotondi. They are at the helm of a show which, in the amphitheater which hosts its 101st opera festival since Sunday evening, has also attracted well-known faces such as Gabriele Lavia, that Alfonso Signorini who will sign the new direction of “La Boheme” right at the Arena festival, and again Franco Branciaroli, Katia Ricciarelli, Fabio Testi. In addition to them, before the show, in Piazza Bra, we noticed Federica Pellegrini, former queen of Italian swimming accompanied by her husband Matteo Giunta, and Claudia Gerini, face of cinema like the two young actors Rocco Fasano and Ludovica Bizzaglia. Also doing the honors in some way was Jerry Calà. On the stage, however, the 164 orchestra teachers, 314 choir artists and 70 dancers, plus the opera stars and dance stars Roberto Bolle (ovation for him) and Nicoletta Manni. A show passed by them, created by Ministry of Culture with Arena Foundationwhich involved over a thousand people, behind the scenes, including workers and technicians.
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June 8, 2024
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