Success for Giorgio Pitzianti’s show at the Conservatory auditorium. You play the voice actor who was moved by telling the story of the champion
CAGLIARI. The myth of Gigi Riva is always alive. 45 years after his last match, it is as if he had stopped yesterday and the demonstration took place once again on Thursday in the auditorium of the Cagliari Conservatory, when the “premiere” of the show “Luigi” dedicated to him was staged. Sold out for the opera written by Giorgio Pitzianti with an exceptional narrator, that of Luca Ward, actor-voice actor who played Riva. A work in which the super champion of Cagliari and the national team appears under a different guise. @ wire-0.5,0,0,0,0,0,0>
Pitzianti has reconstructed the life of man, his childhood, professional growth, but also the pains for the death of his father, mother and a sister at an early age, and then also the successes, the love for Sardinia, became his home, until old age and the doubts that grip an elderly person in the last part of his life. @ wire-0.5,0,0,0,0,0,0>
A complex work that of Pitzianti. Six acts with music interspersed, composed with Christian Cassinelli, Riccardo Leone and Tommaso Spada, and performed by young musicians from the conservatory. Then the appearances of the extras: a small Riva with a leather ball in his hand, the deathbed of father Ugo and mother Edis, then a young man with the Legnano estate, the sisters, and again Gigi with the number 11 shirt of the years gold of Cagliari. But also, in the end, a Riva sitting in an armchair, reflecting and smoking his still inevitable cigarette. @ wire-0.5,0,0,0,0,0,0>
All linked with a fine plot from the words of Luca Ward, who interprets “Luigi” with a deep voice, which reaches to the heart. And he tells of the happy boy because “everyone wanted me in the team, even children older than me, because they won with me”. And then the move to Legnano with a dream “to play with the Inter shirt”. A childhood, however, decimated by those important griefs, which marked him throughout his life. Then there is the arrival in Sardinia, a destination initially refused. @ wire-0.5,0,0,0,0,0,0>
“I don’t want to stay here, this is the land where those who are punished are sent”. But instead a close bond is created with the island, up to the incredible triumph of the Scudetto. “That afternoon at Juve’s home – he says – they called us shepherds and shepherds, and for us that was no longer a game of football, but a desire for justice”. Old age arrives after the triumphs and Luca Ward’s tone becomes strong and severe, in the desire to be able to change that childhood and in the question marks relating to the afterlife. «I’m betting everything on another impossible victory: I want to see my family again. If I win, it all makes sense. I’m Luigi ». @ wire-0.5,0,0,0,0,0,0>
There is a prolonged applause from the Auditorium, which almost astonishes the author Pitzianti who arrives timidly on the stage encouraged by Luca Ward. Who does not hide that he had some difficulties in facing this artistic test. “Riva’s life is reminiscent of mine in some aspects – he confessed – and for this reason in certain passages the emotion was so great”. @ wire-0.5,0,0,0,0,0,0>
Ward closed by addressing the public to thank and celebrate “a theater that is once again full after so much suffering due to the pandemic also for the entertainmentworld“. A message of rebirth. Yet there are those who still do not understand it. In recent days, Riva himself, absent on Thursday as is now the habit of the last few years in which he retired to private life, has taken a very decisive position on the matter. He took the third dose of the anticovid vaccine and beat the “no vax”: “Theirs is madness.” Word of “Luigi”, the number one of the champions.@ wire-0.5,0,0,0,0,0,0>
