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… The concert of Claudio Baglioni at the Baths of Caracallatonight in ‘world premiere’ for the official opening of the summer season of Rome Opera House – which will be followed by another eleven evenings in his city this month, until 19 June, and then the mini tour in July in two other iconic places such as the Greek Theater of Syracuse andArena of Verona – contains in its musical proposal ideas ranging from the most hidden feelings to today’s most striking dramas. ‘Twelve Notes – all up!’ is the title that recalls the ‘Twelve Notes – Solo!’ of the voice and piano concert held at the beginning of the year at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome
The Roman singer-songwriter prefers to let the lyrics of his songs speak, from the one ‘borrowed’ from the Roman poet Trilussathat ‘Ninna Nanna della guerra’ where we recite and sing about “people who slaughter themselves for a fool who comanna” … But also in ‘You will have’ evokes “a radio to hear that the war is over”. And the audience almost automatically springs to their feet and their minds and hearts go to the real war that is being fought not too far from the confines of our home.
The ‘lineup’ includes thirty expressive songs from a career that is difficult to contain in a single concert, including historical successes and titles from the last album ‘In this story that’s mine’, although the event lasts for over three hours. It starts with ‘I am here’ and ends with ‘Life is now’ in a sort of ideal passing of the baton between the two songs.
On stage, with Claudio Baglioni, 123 among musicians of theItalian Cinema Orchestra conducted by Danilo Minotti, choristers of ‘Giuseppe Verdi Choir’ and dancers, classical and modern performers, with the
artistic direction of Giuliano Peparini. As classical and modern is the proposed music, not in the ‘purist’ sense of the term but because the songs by Claudio Baglioniwhich tell of our modernity, have now become ‘classics’ in their own right.
“A Romamy city, I played a little everywhere: from the square in Centocelle where I lived as a boy to St. Peter’s Square, on trams and stadiums, on a truck in Ostia and in the Auditorium, in the hospital and in prison … sooner or later it also had to happen to play in Caracalla: however, what a responsibility to open the billboard of the summer season of the Opera House! “, confesses Claudio Baglioni, before going up on the stage of the Baths of Caracalla, to begin what he describes as” a huge universal spectacle, in a unique space in the world, for a new adventure between sounds and lights, voices and dreams “.
Among other things, it is the first time ever that the summer season of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma at the Baths of Caracalla opens with a composer and interpreter of modern, pop or light music, whatever you prefer. But he is the same superintendent Francesco Giambrone – alongside Baglioni in the conference at the Hotel Parco dei Principi – to explain that the circumstance must not ‘sound’ strange, to stay on the subject … “Music is only one, it can be good or bad; but this barrier must be broken down . And Claudio Baglioni is an artist of the House “. And the artist, in return: “There is no division between cultured and ‘uncultivated’ music … The notes are 12 and with those 12 bricks, combining them in different ways, according to the skills and artistic intuitions, the compositions and all the music are brought to life “.
Returning to the location, “the places change the show” underlines Baglioni, with reference to the Baths of Caracalla from tonight in Rome and, in perspective, to the Greek Theater of Syracuse and the Arena of Verona. “Not everything can be done everywhere”. For ‘Dodici note – Tutti su!’, The Roman singer-songwriter proposes “a concert of music, gestures, projections, physicality, atmospheres”, more sung and played than ‘told’, also on the occasion of the interpretation of songs which can bring to mind the sad timeliness of the guerra.
Because, explains Baglioni, “the words that tell the facts and failures of the world are the simplest ones, everything else would be only rhetoric, or else wanting to find noble justifications for the successes on the part of the artists, as if these were somehow unforgivable. In a hypothetical and ideal ‘army’ of good will, the artist represents the trombettierewhat makes itself felt: but then, the war is fought and the infantrymen win …! “.
(from Enzo Bonaiuto)
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