GUERRILLA VERDI #INCURSIONI URBANE
The city becomes an open-air stage where different human typologies, from the most conventional and accepted to the most unconventional, come to life in different urban contexts, through the arias of some of the most emblematic Verdi protagonists of the famous Trilogia Popolare. A contemporary Rigoletto constrained to beg at the train station, a Violetta of our days, waiting at the airport for a flight that will take her to a better life, or a modern Azucèna, an eternal exile forced to migrate from city to city, looking for her place in a world that often ignores her. “New” characters, often marginalized, different, misunderstood, or idealized, stereotyped, always according to well-defined social conventions.
An artistic initiative to act directly on a urban and social level in order to destroy the ‘number one enemy’ of contemporary society: prejudice. The show aims at promoting a reflection upon the importance of diversity and its beauty, narrating it as a fundamental value of contemporaneity to welcome, nurture and preserve.
In a historical moment of forced social distancing, Guerrilla Verdi is a urban performance that crushes fears and mistrust towards whoever is different from ourselves. The extraordinary Verdi music breaks such invisible but deep and rooted barriers, opening a dialogue between men and women, citizens, and whoever lives within the social relationships in the city on a daily basis.
Date
Stazione Ferroviaria
Saturday 19 September 2020, 11 am and 6 pm
Piazza Duomo
Saturday 19 September 2020, 11.30 am and 6.30 pm
Portici del Grano
Saturday 19 September 2020, 12 am and 7 pm
Performers
Concept Daniele Menghini, Pietro Utili
Costumes Paola Mammolini
Organization Sara Giorla
Rigoletto Guido Dazzini
Azucena Luana Grieco
Violetta Ester Ventura
Accordion Paolo Camporesi
Violin Martina Motta
In collaboration with Associazione Culturale L’Eretico Booking
Verdi Off in Safety
This special edition of Verdi Off has been conceived and realized in accordance with the safety and health normative for both audience and artists. At the entrance of every venue all participants will find sanitizing gel distributors, and they will be checked with a thermoscanner to monitor their body temperature. The audience is required to bring a mask, to avoid crowding and to respect the one-metre social distancing. The mask needs to be worn by covering both mouth and nose during access, exit and the whole duration of the performance. Before leaving the seats, we invite you to wait for the signal of our staff and their directions in order to avoid unwanted crowding. Reservations are necessary only when requested by following the instructions related to the single events. In order to reserve a seat, it is necessary to provide a telephone number or email address, which will remain stored for 14 days. Reservations are to be made under a single name (it is not allowed to reserve more seats under a unique name) and any nominal change has to be communicated to the ticket office in order to be valid. As the staff will be checking the correspondence between tickets headers and holders at the entrance of every show, please provide a valid identification document in a timely fashion.
