On 18 June 2023 Raffaella Carrà would have turned 80. Just this year, the Donizetti Theater Foundation of Bergamo commissioned a work dedicated to her: “Raffa in the Sky”, which Rai Cultura shows on Friday 29 September at 9.15pm on Rai 5. The project is created in collaboration with the Radio Museum and the Television of the Rai Production Center in Turin. The composer is Lamberto Curtoni, who worked on a libretto by Renata Ciaravino and Alberto Mattioli, from an idea by Francesco Micheli, who directed the show on stage at the Donizetti Theater in Bergamo, a city which this year – together with Brescia – is the Italian Capital of Culture.
“Raffa in the Sky” is an opera, a true opera, which is inspired by the iconic figure of Raffaella Carrà, a great protagonist of Italian television, but also an international figure. It is not a biography in music, but the story of an artistic career that accompanied, and sometimes stimulated, the transformations of Italian society over the last half century. Through Carrà’s extraordinary experience, the work also aims to reflect on the role of the artist in society, on the value and use of art, on the role of television and other media, without forgetting the songs that Raffaella performed , in a story that travels the path of the surreal and the paradox to speak to all of us.
The very young Chiara Dello Iacovo, an actress graduated from the Scuola del Teatro Stabile in Turin and a singer with participations in Musicultura 2015 and the Sanremo Festival (Nuove Proposte 2016), is called to play Raffaella Carrà in this new Bergamo production. Alongside her, a cast of great opera singers, such as Carmela Remigio, Gaia Petrone, Dave Monaco, Haris Andrianos and Roberto Lorenzi, directed by Carlo Boccadoro – an assiduous interpreter of contemporary works – on the podium of an orchestra composed of the Sentieri Ensemble Selvaggi and the Donizetti Opera Orchestra. Also on stage are the I Piccoli Musici Choir directed by Mario Mora and the dancers from Fattoria Vittadini. The creative team, alongside director Francesco Micheli, is made up of Edoardo Sanchi (scenes), Alessio Rosati (costumes), Mattia Agatiello (choreographer) and Alessandro Andreoli (light designer).
«I am sure that Raffaella would be intrigued, flattered and excited – says the choreographer and television director Sergio Japino, for years alongside Carrà and involved by the authors in the creation of this work – in knowing that what she has done in her life has found listening and home even in a world apparently far from his own such as that of opera. A world that she loved, as demonstrated by the Gran Concerto of which she was the author on Rai 3, where the Rai National Symphony Orchestra presented pieces of classical and operatic music to a huge audience of children. Ultimately, her story is the story of a woman and an artist who has always courageously tried to explore and bring together different worlds: dance, cinema, TV, singing. And different cultural contexts: from South America to Russia, from the studios of the Letterman Show and Hollywood to the glittering television studios of Cinecittà. And different people, above all: women, men, children who found inspiration, fun, familiarity, redemption in her. For her it wasn’t important where to do something, but how: with how much love, self-denial, passion. And with how much desire to meet other people: their world, their stories. At home, like all over the world.” The television direction is signed by Fabrizio Guttuso Alaimo.
2023-09-29 13:37:46
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