Home » Valle d’Itria Festival, 2,085 minutes of music and 11 sold out on 20 evenings

Valle d’Itria Festival, 2,085 minutes of music and 11 sold out on 20 evenings

by admin

The key points

  • The budget
  • The works
  • Sponsors

«The balance is very positive. We have reached 2,085 minutes of intense music offered in 20 consecutive evenings, 11 of which are sold out, and the shows have always had an incredible turnout and an incredible public attention even for demanding works such as “La Griselda” which lasts 3 hours and half. People stayed until the end ». This is the balance of the 47th edition of the Itria Valley Festival in Martina Franca (Taranto), the artistic director Alberto Triola. On the evening of August 5, in the grand atrium of Palazzo Ducale, there was the finale of the event with a tribute to Enrico Caruso and Astor Piazzola (one hundred years after the death of the first and the birth of the second) with the orchestra ( Ico, musical concert institution) of Magna Grecia. Three main titles staged this year: The Creation by Franz Joseph Haydn, La Griselda by Alessandro Scarlatti and L’Angelica by Nicola Porpora. Together with these works, a series of other concerts between the San Domenico cloister in Martina Franca, the farms of the Itria Valley (Il canto degli ulivi) and the Aragonese Castle of Taranto. There were also two initiatives aimed at the very young: free passes for the under 30s to access the general rehearsals at the Palazzo Ducale of the three main productions and “Children … at the opera”, of the Paolo Grassi Foundation, to allow the little ones to follow the backstage of the Festival by getting to know the protagonists up close. Sponsors of the Festival were among others Edison, Torre Maizza-Rocco Forte Hotel, Rolex and the Primitivo di Manduria protection consortium. The orchestras of Petruzzelli di Bari and La Lira di Orfeo and the Ghisleri choir of Pavia are involved.
Triola: why the Fiat Lu title “
“We had an international audience – says Triola – and above all not an audience of” specialists “but an audience of ordinary, normal people, who experienced this Festival as a wave of light as we hoped when choosing the title, for the 47th edition, Fiat lux. It is precisely that light when the egg, in the work The Creation, opens and invades the stage. The bill – comments Triola – has outlined a historical and cultural path that starts from the Neapolitan Baroque of Alessandro Scarlatti and Nicola Porpora to arrive at the Viennese Classicism of Haydn and then up to Schubert. But the proposed musical works have also opened to a reading in which connections and references to the current condition in which man and society are struggling can be found, starting from the most evident evidence. Fiat lux is in fact that new beginning, given by the urgent need for an authentic re-creation of the world ».
Towards the fiftieth anniversary edition
«This edition – comments Triola who together with the musical director Fabio Luisi and the president of the Paolo Grassi Foundation, Franco Punzi, leads the organizational machine of the Festival with 270 people involved – I believe it is among those that will remain engraved in history. We are obviously thinking – continues Triola – about next year’s edition with the caution that we still don’t know if next year we will be able to return to normal capacity. Last year, in a different context from the current one, the Festival also took place. Was it a challenge? But this Festival since it was born – now it is about half a century of life, it is very close – has shown to keep faith with its mission, tenacious, aware of its role in Southern Italy but being a beacon for Italy and for Europe. There were journalists from all over Europe at our shows and great reviews came out. The Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca is also recognized throughout the rest of the music world as a true unicum and this fills you with pride. We have our own distinctive, distinctive trait. We could not do otherwise also because we would betray the will of the founding fathers, adds Triola. And among the founding fathers there is the historic figure of Paolo Grassi, from the family of Martina Franca, who in the 1980s was superintendent of the Teatro La Scala and president of Rai, as well as founder in 1947, together with the director Giorgio Strehler, of the Piccolo Teatro from Milan. «There are already Festivals that offer another type of music, they have historical audiences suitable for that – observes Triola referring to other music events -. The Valle d’Itria Festival – he concludes – is instead a habitat, a fantastic cultural ecosystem, to be defended and protected, continuing on the path not to transform it and not to close it into an elite, but to make it a popular festival of quality. This is the big bet ».

See also  Duisburg orders 25 hydrogen buses: Newspaper for municipal economy

Loading…

You may also like

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Accept Read More

Privacy & Cookies Policy