Re: [mascagni-interest] Silvano di Mascagni a Collesalvetti, 26 aug.2003

[Erik Bruchez]

Of course my "1890" below must be read as "1980". The news page has been 
updated with the text:

  http://www.mascagni.org/news/

-Erik

Erik Bruchez wrote:
Thank you Fulvio for this announcement! I risk an English translation
below:
  Exactly one year after a well received Pinotta, the School of Music
  "Clara Schumann" of Collesalvetti is preparing a new production of
  an opera by Mascagni by staging Silvano. The intent of the previous
  production has not changed: in this case again Mascagni is
  considered the genius loci and a little known score is proposed. The
  initiative tries to avoid polemic, even if the temptation is strong
  to launch a crusade in favor of an author who is today receiving
  more attention outside Italy than within its borders. It is not the
  intent of the "Schumann" to rewrite chapters of the history of
  music, but instead to designate good but forgotten pages of
  music. And Silvano appears to be rich of such pages. An opera almost
  without subject, born just after a major and much more anticipated
  work, it ended being unsuccessful, but it is an opera-landscape like
  few others. Listening to Silvano, images come to mind one after the
  other, evoking poetic passages and picturesque views. The sea
  accompanies the melody. On stage, in the difficult part of the
  protagonist, Maurizio Comencini, now used to the Mascagni revivals
  after the happy experience of Le Maschere (CEL 2001), the excellent
  Carlo Morini, and the interesting Paola Di Gregorio and Miria
  Adriani, supported by the baton of Mario Menicagli. Silvano has not
  been put on stage since 1890. For more information, call +39
  3289190602.
The poster is impressive!

-Erik
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