(ANSA) - TURIN, MAY 24 - "Italy is a country privileged by its past, it is full of theaters. Theaters of the eighteenth century. Most of them, however, are closed. Every small town, every small country has a theater that has been closed for decades or transformed into a cinema.
This country was hideous in the past, it didn't believe in culture. The sense of harmony, of beauty was not taught. "Master Riccardo Muti said this in his speech at the inauguration of the academic year of the University of Turin." I hope that no one in the next governments will be able, as a first or second action, to cut the culture. It is true that the Romans said primum vive deinde philosophari, but it is also true that mens sana in corpore sano. I repeat it for fifty years. I hope before I let go of being able to see the rebirth of a country in which we must be proud of the past and be worthy of the future, "said Muti." decades,may have what they deserve ". (ANSA).