The facade will be dressed up: plays of light, monochromes, the music of a sax. Then the Italian flag, in homage to the city
BELLUNO. If you pass by Piazza Vittorio Emanuele on Monday evening, look at the Municipal Theater: because it will be different from how you are used to seeing it. If you don’t plan to go there … change your plans.
The facade of the theater will first become colored (but we do not reveal how) and then, after a short play of lights, it will be embraced by the tricolor. A sign of hope and a fresh start, a message of national unity and shared values, with the Republic Day (2 June) almost upon us.
The Corriere delle Alpi has proposed this idea to the Municipality of Belluno, which will be created by Paolo Grossi of Musicstaff Italia, as a tribute to the city.
The preparations will begin in the afternoon: large lights will be aimed at the historic facade of the building, one of the city’s symbols, built in 1833-35 in a neoclassical style, based on a project by the Feltre architect Giuseppe Segusini.
Paolo Grossi, from Tuscany, is a musician and an established event organizer but for years he has also specialized in the creation of special lighting. He makes colors and images dance: at the Royal Palace of Caserta he made the façade “crumble” in a long breathtaking show. With the (unwelcome) entry on the scene of the pandemic, he decided to tour Italy paying homage to the places of a virtual flag, a hug to remember the victims of Covid-19 and to look to the future with seriousness and hope.
Together with the Corriere delle Alpi, and thanks to the fundamental welcome of the Municipality that makes its “jewel” available, in Belluno he will paint the Theater with light. Grossi also made the Tower of Pisa tricolor, in a memorable night of silence and curfew; it has done the same with monuments, walls, historic buildings, police barracks, newspaper offices.
«The world of entertainment suffers – he says – my intent is to make it clear that we, who work in this sector, exist. And we have an extraordinary passion. Dressing Italian monuments with the tricolor, paying homage to cities, has a cost. But it also makes sense. Many watch an event but few remember those who work behind the scenes ».
Appointment from 21 onwards. In addition to the colors, the notes of a masterfully played sax will resound in front of the theater: the hymn of Mameli and the Silence, not to forget.