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The Maggio opens in attendance, a great cultural signal

2021-04-26T10:11:24.532Z


Debut in attendance for the 83rd Florentine music festival in May. (HANDLE)


(ANSA) - FLORENCE, APRIL 23 - Debut in attendance for the 83rd Florentine music festival in May.

Tuscany in the yellow zone gives the Theater and its famous festival the opportunity to welcome the public in the hall for the inaugural symphonic appointment, directed by Daniele Gatti, scheduled for Monday 26 April at 8 pm. Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea, the first opera on the bill.


    "Ladies and gentlemen, the moment has come: we have finally overcome this delirium, we open May on Monday", announced the superintendent, Alexander Pereira, in a video posted on Facebook in which he invites spectators to go to the theater in large numbers. "I am very happy that the very day I had to reopen the Teatro del Maggio with the Gatti concert coincides with the reopening of the theaters - said Pereira to ANSA -. The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival is one of the most important in Florence. Europe and the fact that its opening coincides with the restart is also a great sign for European culture ". To welcome the audience in the hall, the anti Covid rules of the past months on distance and quotas remain valid. "In the hall there will be 500 people and distances of one meter - adds Pereira -. We have a 1,900-seat hall so we could accommodate many more people even if we keep this distance. But we are happy to host 500, then later I will raise my voice in order to have more audience ".


    In 2020 the festival's billboard jumped due to the restrictions for the health emergency, for this reason the edition starting on Monday has the numbering that should have had last year. The poster, which portrays two dancers suspended in the air, was created by an internationally recognized Italian artist, Rä di Martino. "Our subscribers will be in the room - says Pereira - but the ticket office is open until Monday, including Sunday, and we hope that someone will come at the last minute". For the superintendent, the reopening is "a nice sign of a return to normality which was very important for me. In recent months I have continued with our program, we did it in streaming, but we wanted to do it to maintain the quality of the choir. andOrchestra and now we can finally express ourselves again in front of the public. "Also on Monday 26 April La Fenice di Venezia will also return to welcome the audience with an opera concert initially announced only in live streaming for tomorrow. The Opera di Roma reopens with Verdi on April 28 a concert with the direction of Michele Mariotti.


    Even Santa Cecilia reopens its doors to the public with live music. April 26. The first appointment, at 7:30 pm, will be a tribute to the Italian Red Cross: Maestro Antonio Pappano will lead the orchestra of the National Academy in a concert of pieces by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Caikovskij in the Auditorium Parco della Musica. (HANDLE).


Source: ansa

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