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Campi Bisenzio flood: evening in the name of Carlo Monni
in support of the Michelangiolo Paoli Philharmonic
11 years after his death, an event of poetry, music, food and wine. Proceeds to charity
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Carlo Monni, are you in hell?
Tribute to the poet/actor of Champs sur le Bisance
On May 17th at the Rifredi Theater a show with lyrics
of Dante, Bukowski, Campana, Casaglieri, Henri, Verlaine, Shakespeare
“Carlo Monni, are you in Hell?” Eleven years after his death, comes the tribute show to the greatest actor / poet of Campi Bisenzio (which he renamed Champs sur le Bisance), the unforgettable Carlo Monni.
Appointment on Friday 17 May at 9.30pm at the Rifredi Theater (single seat 12 euros, tickets on the BoxOffice circuit and on Ticketone).
A show, the promoters explained, “to give back to the public at least a small part of the many emotions that Carlo Monni gave us”. Through the texts of Dante, Bukowski, Campana, Casaglieri, Frost, Henri, Monni, Verlaine and Shakespeare, the show will be a short but intense journey between the infinite and the imperfect, Monni’s two existential conditions.
A journey through poetry, music, food, wine, suggestions, anecdotes and laughter with Valentina Banci, Massimo Grigò, Alessio Sardelli, Ettore del Bene (il Grezzo), Leonardo Briganti, Iacopo Gori. A journey accompanied by the music of the Sunrise Jazz Orchestra conducted by Stefano Rapicavoli with the prodigious voice of Sybil Smooth.
An ideal and real journey between past and present sitting all together at the table, in the Briganti restaurant in Piazza Giorgini, in front of a glass of wine waiting for the salami with pods and spaghetti with spicy tomato. And above all waiting for Carlo to arrive (Carlo Monni where are you?), with the unforgettable smile of him, who has dined in that place for at least thirty years mixing “poetry and fagot” like no other.
Not a memory but a wish for a “Monnesque” life for all those (and they are many and of all types) who were lucky enough to know and meet him and also for those who would have liked to have had that luck.
The proceeds from the show, freely taken from Franco Casaglieri’s libretto “Carlo Monni, Infinito e Imperfetto” (Editions Gorì), will go to the “Free music school” project of the Michelangiolo Paoli Musical Society of Campi Bisenzio, the “band” of Campi (founded in 1816) which suffered heavy damage in the flood last November. This is the same band where Carlo Monni learned to play the trombone in the 1960s and in which he played until his departure for Rome.
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