2024 Programme
Event #25
Sunday 1 September, 03.15 pm
Teatro degli Impavidi2 - euro 4.50
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Piero Maranghi
Grateful and ungrateful: a semi-serious journey through music history
Composer and librettist, artist and patron, student and teacher: the interplay between these figures shapes the world of music through ever-changing dynamics. How do values like gratitude and ingratitude manifest in the life of a great composer? Through anecdotes, episodes, and significant events, Piero Maranghi offers portraits of famously grateful and ungrateful individuals, audaciously redeemed characters, and noble souls in a semi-serious narrative spanning two centuries of music history. From the Verdi-Wagner pairing to the contentious relationship between Stravinsky and Diaghilev, including Rossini’s clashes and reconciliations with Barbaja, Benjamin Britten's habit of dumping friends and colleagues, and the absolute friendship between Rachmaninoff and the legendary bass Chaliapin.
Piero Maranghi is editor, managing director and director of Classica HD (Sky, channel 136). Since 2020, he has been on air every day together with Leonardo Piccinini with the cultural news programme “Almanacco di bellezza”, from which the book of the same title (Rizzoli, 2021) was taken. He also produced docufilms, including “Teatro alla Scala”, “Leonardo da Vinci”, “L'Amatore”, “Dentro Caravaggio”. With RAI, France Télévision and the German HR, he produced “Max & Maestro”. He conceived and realised the Museo della Vigna di Leonardo and has directed the Fondazione Piero Portaluppi for twenty years. From his artistic association with Paolo Gavazzeni, he has directed several operas including “Aida”, “La Traviata”, “La bohème”, “Pagliacci”, “Don Giovanni”, “Il tabarro”.
Event #43extraFestival
Minotauro Institute, with Loredana Cirillo and Filippo Rosa
Thank you! What we have never told our children and students
