March 14th, 2011 admin
INTERVIEW WITH RICCARDO MUTI: THE MASTER WHO HAS TRIUMPH OF THE WORK OF ROME AND TELLS HOW 'DID THE IDEA OF PUTTING sang "Va pensiero" to the public ... "A cry for IL BACK THE ROOTS OF OUR CULTURE
Riccardo Muti in the front row against the cuts to culture. 
against "the reduction to nothing" in our culture.
The evening of Saturday, for the premiere of Nabucco at the Opera of Rome, has turned into an extraordinary event to the tune of "Va pensiero".
Maestro Muti, a very special evening ...
"really out of the norm, not prepared, I want to say much. I think that the conductors should not speak from the podium, but yesterday, after the intervention of the mayor of Rome, it was necessary, important, that the musician took the floor. For a musician like me, who then has the good fortune to travel the world and see reality from the other Italian nations, and then suffer for the situation. It was only right to speak. But I thought I had finished there, after saying: 'On March 9, 1842, made his debut as opera Nabucco patriotic aimed unity and identity of Italy. Today, March 12, 2011 I would not want that Nabucco was the dirge of the culture and music '. Because a nation that loses its culture loses its identity. "
What happened then?
"It 's clear that the' Va pensiero ', beyond the absurdity of saying that the national anthem, is a song that expresses so intense the minds of Italians, a nostalgia, a sense of prayer, a deep Mediterranean Verdi gives the people of the Jewish slaves, but the Italians have chosen as their flag of the Risorgimento. And when I ran the first time I heard, when the choir sang "Oh, my country is beautiful and lost," which at that time was covered by the dramatic situation not only for institutions but also the lives of persons required to study in conservatories, academies, universities. I heard that cry came from the depths of a true cry from those who are living this tragedy, men and women who produce culture in our country. And they do it in ever-greater indifference from those who must preserve the culture, not only out of respect for the country but also for the world's respect to Italy. The world does not look to us for the technology, but we do important things when you think Italy is expected to poets, painters, musicians, our museums and theaters, to what Italy is. It's full of Italians - researchers, scholars, doctors - who are in the great universities, like American ones, and they speak well of him. Young people who are out of Italy to estimate, because we find it difficult. We can not see this boat sank on Saturday, I felt that the 'Go thought 'was the cry. "
and decided to surprise everyone
"I had to decide: do as an encore is requested, a repeat consolidated into the habit, or offer to repeat this a new character, attached to the situation? I thought, the choir sang, 'Oh, my country is beautiful and lost', and certainly if we lose the culture we go in this direction, we cry that this is against this operation to reduce to nothing of our culture. Then I asked, given that the speech had to be comprehensive, all to sing. I did not expect the whole theater would join, everyone knew the text. Then, in a surreal situation, I saw from the podium people get up in small groups, so the whole theater at the end was standing up to the last steps. It was sort of torn and heartbreaking chorus, a cry for a return to the light of the culture that is the backbone of Italy, our roots are. "
And the audience was moved.
"Yeah, I saw several people in the front row with tears in his eyes. E 'demonstration of a people who feel strongly united, beyond the claims. And the extraordinary relevance of the Greens, also valid for the future, with its universal character. Green speaks to man and man will always remain connected to our reality, always absolutely current.
against "the reduction to nothing" in our culture.
The evening of Saturday, for the premiere of Nabucco at the Opera of Rome, has turned into an extraordinary event to the tune of "Va pensiero".
Maestro Muti, a very special evening ...
"really out of the norm, not prepared, I want to say much. I think that the conductors should not speak from the podium, but yesterday, after the intervention of the mayor of Rome, it was necessary, important, that the musician took the floor. For a musician like me, who then has the good fortune to travel the world and see reality from the other Italian nations, and then suffer for the situation. It was only right to speak. But I thought I had finished there, after saying: 'On March 9, 1842, made his debut as opera Nabucco patriotic aimed unity and identity of Italy. Today, March 12, 2011 I would not want that Nabucco was the dirge of the culture and music '. Because a nation that loses its culture loses its identity. "
What happened then?
"It 's clear that the' Va pensiero ', beyond the absurdity of saying that the national anthem, is a song that expresses so intense the minds of Italians, a nostalgia, a sense of prayer, a deep Mediterranean Verdi gives the people of the Jewish slaves, but the Italians have chosen as their flag of the Risorgimento. And when I ran the first time I heard, when the choir sang "Oh, my country is beautiful and lost," which at that time was covered by the dramatic situation not only for institutions but also the lives of persons required to study in conservatories, academies, universities. I heard that cry came from the depths of a true cry from those who are living this tragedy, men and women who produce culture in our country. And they do it in ever-greater indifference from those who must preserve the culture, not only out of respect for the country but also for the world's respect to Italy. The world does not look to us for the technology, but we do important things when you think Italy is expected to poets, painters, musicians, our museums and theaters, to what Italy is. It's full of Italians - researchers, scholars, doctors - who are in the great universities, like American ones, and they speak well of him. Young people who are out of Italy to estimate, because we find it difficult. We can not see this boat sank on Saturday, I felt that the 'Go thought 'was the cry. "
and decided to surprise everyone
"I had to decide: do as an encore is requested, a repeat consolidated into the habit, or offer to repeat this a new character, attached to the situation? I thought, the choir sang, 'Oh, my country is beautiful and lost', and certainly if we lose the culture we go in this direction, we cry that this is against this operation to reduce to nothing of our culture. Then I asked, given that the speech had to be comprehensive, all to sing. I did not expect the whole theater would join, everyone knew the text. Then, in a surreal situation, I saw from the podium people get up in small groups, so the whole theater at the end was standing up to the last steps. It was sort of torn and heartbreaking chorus, a cry for a return to the light of the culture that is the backbone of Italy, our roots are. "
And the audience was moved.
"Yeah, I saw several people in the front row with tears in his eyes. E 'demonstration of a people who feel strongly united, beyond the claims. And the extraordinary relevance of the Greens, also valid for the future, with its universal character. Green speaks to man and man will always remain connected to our reality, always absolutely current.
Ernesto Assante (from "The Republic )
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