(ANSA) - MARRADI, 06 JUN - The importance of theaters in small towns "is a battle that I have been waging for many years. In Italy, in addition to big cities and big theaters, every small town has a theater from the 1800s, 700 or 1600.
Many of these are closed. If we really want to restart with culture, it is time to reopen them, and above all to entrust them to young people. We need to give young people the opportunity to express themselves. This is said by someone who is no longer young but when I was I had the opportunity to express myself. Today this is no longer the case. "Maestro Riccardo Muti said on the sidelines of the concert, from him directed, for the inauguration of the theater of the animosi in Marradi (Florence), a small town in the Tuscan Apennines. Also present in the room was the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini, on the occasion of the maiden voyage of Dante's train, a historic convoy that connects Florence and Ravenna for the 700th anniversary of the death of the Supreme poet. For Muti, "the reopening of the Marradi theater, which dates back to the end of the 1700s, is a very important sign, a 'Christmas' , a rebirth ".(HANDLE).