LUCCA. Puccini returns as the protagonist in the final evening of the Festival of synthesis. In fact, on Saturday 22 June at 9.15 pm in the church of San Pietro Somaldi the show “Prime donne” will be staged, with Laura Morante. A musical reading that summarizes the kaleidoscopic female universe represented in the composer’s works: Tosca, haughty, aware of her own charm and jealous of the lover who owes attention and dedication to her alone; Turandot, princess who denies herself the joys of love, prisoner of herself, obsessive and mysterious; Mimì and her total trust in her love; Madama Butterfly, a fragile butterfly led to death by her lover’s betrayal. Stories that will be told by Laura Morante, an exceptional narrator, together with the violin of Simone Calcinai, the piano of Massimo Salotti and the voice of the soprano Antonella Biondo. The show, created by Elena Marazzita (AidaStudio Produzioni) and written by Morante and Marazzita, is part of the official program of Puccini centenary events and enjoys the support of the National Committee for the celebrations.
Also scheduled for today’s morning is a course for journalists, created in collaboration with the Order of Journalists of Tuscany, entitled “Synthesis, truthfulness, continence: the basis of the written, audio and audiovisual journalistic text”. As speakers, Giorgio Simonelli, Nanni Delbecchi, Francesco Specchia, Paola Catani Gagliani and Sirio Del Grande. At 5.15pm we will celebrate the striking brevity of Lucca’s ways of speaking with Simonetta Simonetti and Elio Antichi. At 6pm it will be the turn of the comedian Cristiano Militello, author of the column by Canale5 “Striscia lo banner”, with those scratchy synthesis masterpieces that are the banners in the stadium curves. At 7pm, it will be the turn of Francesco Specchia, Libero’s signature and face of La7, and his podcasts.
The festival ends tomorrow at 11am with the biblical scholar and bishop emeritus of Pescia Roberto Filippini and the meeting “The divine art of synthesis. Mark, the essential Gospel”. The Gospel of Mark, the shortest of the four, was considered for centuries the compendium of the Gospel of Matthew and its author was defined as sumptator or breviator. Since the mid-1800s, scholars have instead recognized Mark as the first to have written an essential narrative of the main events of Jesus of Nazareth, with the intention of leading the reader to faith. From summary, Marco was promoted to source and despite the rather poor and popular language, the extraordinary quality of his composition emerged.
© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
