I work to buy dad a truck. The father of Milva Biolcati he bought fish at the mouth of the Po and then resold it, transporting it by truck, to various Italian cities. But once he had an accident and the vehicle crashed. Now I hope to make money. To give my father a better truck than the lost one.
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Italy at the end of the fifties, fatigue and conquests, paved by the fatigue of the fathers and the talent of the children. And Milva touched by gift of a wonderful voice. He puts it to the test by studying opera music and then struggling in singing competitions, such as “Giudicateli voi” by Rai, which wins. Milva belongs to a generation of women of the Italian show business that has left its mark. In cinema and music. And in theater and literature. Some of them, like Alda Merini, Milva will meet them in her career. Italian women, able to break the glass ceiling of male domination when it was even more difficult. Women who have done so by acting on their talent, their intelligence, their sensitivity and culture. Milva was capable of being very popular – “The sea in the drawer” or “Canzone” in Sanremo – very busy, as in her performances of Brechtian songs, very courageous as she did in singing, in times when it was not a series soundtrack like “La casa di carta”, a song like “Bella ciao” to “Senza rete” or “Canzonissima”.
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She was austere, she had a spectacular voice, it seemed that her authority made her distant, less approachable than her other colleagues. She had a charisma, on stage, which came from the strength of a way of singing in which the strength of the content weighed more than that of the emotions. A convinced anti-fascist, a leftist woman, capable of giving voice to “Goodbye Lugano bella” and to the music of Morricone, Piazzolla, Theodorakis or that of Edith Piaf, Milva had her own magnetism, a personal figure that placed her, even musically, at the turn of different eras.
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But if anyone wanted to look for a voice capable of interpreting the various post-war music, they could not ignore Milva’s powerful, elegant vocal. In his work we read the short century and his suffering labor. Cultured but not aristocratic, popular but not trivially commercial, Milva once sang a piece by Merini which was entitled “I was born on 21st spring”. Today, April 24, the spring day of 2021, Milva instead left. That song said: I was born on the 21st of spring. But I didn’t know that being born insane, opening the clods, could cause a storm.
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April 24, 2021 (change April 24, 2021 | 16:37)
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