Saturday 15 June, at 7.00 pm, at the former Santa Sofia Monastery, Meeting in honor of the opera artist from Gravino Domenico Romeo Morisani 124 years after his birth.
Opening:
theme from a live recording of 26 March 1953 at the “Carlo Felice” Theater in Genoa: Romeo Morisani interprets a piece from Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo.
Institutional greetings:
prof. dr. Filippo Tarantino, president of the Pomarici-Santomasi foundation
Hon. dr. Fedele Lagreca, mayor of Gravina in Puglia
Introduces and moderates: adv. Nicola Cornacchia, vice president of the Pomarici-Santomasi Foundation
Topics covered:
– unveiling of Morisani’s portrait created by the painter Osman, donated by his nephew Dr. Antonio Lazzarino de Lorenzo Morisani to the Pomarici-Santomasi foundation, in the person of its president prof. dr. Filippo Tarantino, for the placement in the Hall of Illustrious Gravino people;
– presentation of the volume by Antonio Lazzarino de Lorenzo Morisani “Domenico Romeo Morisani – opera singer – among the illustrious children of Gravina in Puglia. The years of Gravina”;
– reading of some passages and related comments.
Greetings and thanks by the Lazzarino de Lorenzo Morisani family.
At the end, short fragments of singing interpreted by Morisani, taken from the opera “Gianni Schicchi”, by Giacomo Puccini, from an engraving made at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, on 26 April 1958. Director: Tullio Serafin.
