The day of the debut has arrived Lyrick theater of Assisi for the musical Angel wings, presented for the first time last January 15th in Gualdo Tadino. The pop opera was so successful among the public that it became necessary fifteen replies compared to the four initially planned. So far, over 4,000 spectators have seen the musical centered on the story of Beato Angelo da Casale.
Directed by Andrew Florentines, Valentina Notaries And Lorenzo Evangelists, Angel wings retraces all the phases of the incredible life of the Blessed: the period as a child in the small hamlet of Casale, the dramatic moment of the death of his mother, the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the phase as a hermit, the miracle of the cherries (cerase) winter and finally his death, accompanied by bells that ring without the intervention of a human hand and by the flowering of the hawthorn, miraculous in January and which is still repeated today.
The lyrics are original, by Andrea Fiorentini and Lorenzo Evangelisti, as is the music, composed with the collaboration of Giampaolo Cavalieri And Lucia Mancini. Nourished the dance troupe coordinated by Lorena Cerreti. The sets are by Monica Cappellettilights and audio of Wall Service.
The show that will be staged tonight Friday 26 April at the Lyrick, in addition to having new scenography, will be expanded with new scenes and music compared to what the spectators who crowded the theaters of Gualdo Tadino and Gubbio were able to see.
It is still possible to purchase tickets using the Ticket Italia circuit, but also directly tonight at Lyrick Theater box office. In Gualdo Tadino, pre-sale also open at the Mondadori bookshop (Porta Nova shopping centre). The musical is included in the events organized by Beato Angelo Centenary Committee on the occasion of the seventh centenary of the death of the patron saint of Gualdo Tadino.
HISTORY – Angelo was born in Casale, a small hamlet in the middle of the Gualdo countryside. His parents are humble farmers. He was left fatherless at a very early age and his mother was forced to work hard to support the small family unit. The young boy, already sweet-hearted and altruistic, worries about his peers who are poorer than him and gives up his bread to feed them.
A story that has come down to us tells that one day, after a heated argument with his mother, because the boy took bread from the house to give it to the poor, Angelo curses her and leaves the house to go to work in the fields. Returning in the evening, he hears the church bells ringing, runs into the house and finds his mother lying dead on the bed.
The episode changes the life of young Angelo who, overwhelmed by remorse and feeling responsible for what had happened to his mother, decides to leave as a pilgrim towards Santiago de Compostela, in Spain.
Returning from the long journey he decides to become a monk in the nearby Abbey of San Benedetto in Gualdo Tadino, but he will soon feel the need to live in close contact with God and obtains permission to lead a hermitic life at the hermitage of Capodacqua where he will remain until to death. On January 15, 1324, while the bells of the Abbey of San Benedetto rang by themselves, Angelo was found dead. It is said that as his body passed along the road that led to the convent of San Benedetto, the hawthorn hedges and flax fields miraculously flourished, as they still do today, after seven hundred years, every 15th January.
