The beginning of the Opera Season of the I Teatri Foundation coincides with the Celebrations of the Verdian Bicentenary, and will lead to the Valli Municipal Theater on Friday 8 November (20.00) and Sunday 10 November (15.30) I Vespri Siciliani (Regional Orchestra of 'Emilia Romagna and Claudio Merulo Choir of Reggio Emilia, directed by Stefano Ranzani), with which the director Davide Livermore won the Musical America Award 2012.
Co-produced by the Theaters of Reggio Emilia, Modena and Piacenza, starting with the staging of the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Opera Bilbao and the Teatro di Lisbon, which was staged for the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Italian unification, the opera wants to be a reflection that plays with the past to talk about the present, starting from the Capaci massacre.
In the Vespri Verdi he tells us about thirteenth-century Sicily, but thinks about nineteenth-century Italy, indeed more. To Italy tout court, yesterday, today and perhaps tomorrow too. His is not a celebration but a reflection and, as such, Davide Livermore takes up the challenge of Giuseppe Verdi and brings it to our time, because it is in our time that he speaks.
Composed for the Paris Opera where they debuted in 1855, Giuseppe Verdi's Vespers emphasize the great historical fresco, the violent confrontation between the two social groups, that between Sicilians and French. In Livermore's reading, the invader who deprives national unity and identity is not the foreigner, but the system of bad media, bad information, "weapons of mass distraction".
Davide Livermore, director, and Santi Cettineo, scenographer, will talk about their Vespers on Wednesday 30 October, at 6.00 pm, at the Ridotto of the Valli Theater , during a meeting with free admission, in which he will explain and narrate a staging that makes the its distinctive feature is topical.
