Monday 17, Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 June The Milanesiana, the largest traveling festival that promotes dialogue between the arts, a festival which this year celebrates its 25th edition, conceived and directed by Elisabetta Sgarbi, arrives at the Almo Collegio Borromeo in Pavia (Piazza del Collegio Borromeo, 9) with three events. The theme “Shy and not” will unite the evenings of June 17th and 18th.
Appointments
On Monday 17 June, after the institutional greetings of the rector of the Borromeo college Alberto Lolli, there will be a reading by Antonella Lattanzi on the topic of shyness. Milo Manara (author, among other masterpieces, of the comic version of “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco) will discuss with Luca Valtorta on the topic “Shy and not. Comics and cinema”. The evening will then continue with the “Notes on the margin” concert by Oscar winner Nicola Piovani (piano) together with Marina Cesari (sax), Marco Loddo (double bass) and Vittorino Naso (percussion). Produced by the Musica per Roma Foundation, “Notes in the margin” is a musical story narrated by Nicola Piovani with the help of three instruments that act on stage. Presented for the first time during the Cannes Film Festival with the title “Lecon concert”, the show tells the public about the composer’s journey and poetic research during his work with directors such as Fellini, the Taviani brothers, Benigni, Bigas Luna, suggesting imaginary stations of a musical journey in freedom. In this theatrical story, music reaches where words cannot and cannot reach, because, as Piovani underlined, «I don’t remember a single moment in my life in which there wasn’t music».
The next day, June 18, the evening begins with Francesca Masiero’s philosophical prologue on shyness, a characteristic appreciated as “a retreat out of respect for mystery”, and the literary prologue by Eimear McBride. Following is the dialogue between the Italian pathologist, immunologist and scientific communicator Alberto Mantovani and the director of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa Claudio Longhi on the topic “Shy and not. Physics”, coordinates Pierluigi Panza. Giorgio Parisi (Nobel Prize for Physics 2021) intervenes via video. Raphael Gualazzi will return to the stage of La Milanesiana with a special concert that will feature a series of songs that will touch on atmospheres of shyness, starting from the songs of the beginning to the most recent ones.
The third and final event scheduled at the Borromeo college will be held on June 19th with “God is dead and I don’t feel so good either”, the show by and with Tullio Solenghi & Nidi Ensemble. The show sees Tullio Solenghi on stage reading some texts by Woody Allen (author recently published by La nave di Teseo), combined with the music that characterized the most significant films, performed by Maestro Alessandro Nidi and his Ensemble of him. All events will begin at 9pm and will be introduced by Elisabetta Sgarbi.
The appointments made in collaboration with Borromeo and, only for 18 June, also with A2A.
