(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 24 - "Hello everyone, my name is Claudio and I have not been doing a concert for three years". Like a meeting of anonymous alcoholics (in this case of well-known musicians), Claudio Baglioni talks about himself - in a pause from rehearsals - just before the debut tonight at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (soldout) of "Dodici note solo", the tour which will take him for sixty days in the opera and traditional theaters of Italy and which marks the return of live music. "I have a tension that carries me away, even if it is not the first experience in this theater, one year ago in full lockdown I took us into this story that is mine, nor the first experience alone, after Assolo in 1986, InCanto in 2001 and DieciDita in 2011. It will be a tour of Italy without bikes, but with tools ".
Anxiety and abstinence, not only because three years have passed without music, but also because "when you are 20 you can take breaks, now I have a few more and not singing was a strong absence. This will probably be the last concert of this like, even if there is a certain urgency to do: four years ago I tasted the idea of giving the final blow of the gong, because I would like to be the one to play it and not the referee ", says the Roman singer, who celebrated in May the 70 years. "It will be curious to see people gagged, but still real."
On the stage Baglioni is alone, "and if on the one hand there is great responsibility, on the other also a lot of freedom. The problem was getting the musician and the singer to agree", he jokes, accompanied by the piano which is divided into three.
"To represent, in two and a half hours, yesterday, today and tomorrow. The past with the rigorous piano, the present with the electric piano and the sounds that float like air and water, and the future with the clavinova." To move in a sort of anticlockwise circle, also to defeat the passing of time.
Trecaravelle that I hope will lead me to the discovery of my America ". (ANSA).