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Il piccolo spazzacamino

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Il piccolo spazzacamino: il piccolo spazzacamino Britten

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Let's Make an Opera - The Little Sweep

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Today the chimney sweeps are no longer seen, but once those characteristic and curious figures were quite familiar in the city landscape. They walked around holding the ladders, the mops, the rolls of rope, and they were so black with soot that the children were a little afraid of them. History takes us to a distant day of the last century, inside a stately country house, dominated by a large fireplace. At that time many poor children were used to clean chimneys because, agile as they were, they could easily slip into the narrow passageway. Anyone can imagine how unpleasant and even dangerous all of this was. To help Sam, a child who has fallen victim to the cruelty of adults (two brutal masters who take advantage of his poverty and small build), the help of the young audience will still be decisive. Children and young people will have to sing from the audience together with the protagonists the choirs written by Benjamin Britten: a work created specifically for children from the pen of the famous English composer, for a happy, free and protected childhood.

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Il piccolo spazzacamino by Britten, From (2022/2022), Teatro Regio, Turin, Italy

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