Civil ceremony, story in music, memory and warning for young people, but also profane oratory, choral cantata with actors and images. It is all this together «Falcone and Borsellino. The legacy of the righteous “, in which the music of Marco Tutino and the textual and scenic dramaturgy of Emanuela Giordano evoke the Palermo massacres of Capaci and via D’Amelio thirty years later, projecting the tragedy into a future of commitment collective, in the three parts The massacres, The reaction, The present. It premiered at the Regio in Turin, and will be seen again in June at the Piccolo in Milan and in July at the Massimo in Palermo, which co-produced it.
Il Piccolo provided the young actors who gave voice, also for the use of the many school groups present in the room, to period testimonies superimposed in the style of melologue to the music, intertwined with the period images of the Rai archives. Those cars devastated by TNT on the highway towards Palermo had already seen themselves at the Regio in the radical setting that Davide Livermore chose for Verdi’s “I Vespri siciliani”, a contemporary reading of the redemption of that land now against the mafia, including the theatrical replica of the vibrant appeal from the widow Schifani, who now the images have returned to us in the original. The Regio has put the orchestra and the choir, led by Alessandro Cadario and flanked by the soprano Maria Teresa Leva in two numbers, one of which is the recovery of the «Libera me», which Tutino had written in 1993 on a text by Vincenzo Cerami for the collective «Requiem for the victims of the mafia» performed in the Cathedral of Palermo.
Now, in addition to various other painful pages, he has also composed an intense text in Sicilian by Ignazio Buttitta, “Nun mi lassari sulu”, where not being left alone is understood in Giordano’s dramaturgy as an invitation to close the ranks of society and do not isolate, even with indifference or silence, those who fight any type of mafia. The concentration of the room, including the first vociferous children, is perhaps proof that the message of civic commitment, at least in words, has passed.