THEunforgettable Raffaella Carrà. The TV icon now becomes the star of an opera inspired by her. Is called Raffa in Sky and will be staged in September at the Donizetti theater in Bergamo on the occasion of the Bergamo-Brescia capital of culture year.
Raffaella Carrà protagonist of an opera
According to reports from the news agency Handle, the project, which cost over 650 thousand euros, would already be well advanced. Even the cast has already been chosen. To play the star will be Clare Dello Iacovo, actress graduated from the Scuola del Teatro Stabile in Turin. You are not a new name in the world of entertainment: in 2016, in fact, you participated in the Sanremo Festival competing with the new proposals. Beside her, there will be the conductor and composer Carlo Boccadoro. The direction of the opera is entrusted to Francesco Micheli, also creator of the project and artistic director of the Donizetti Opera Festival. On the other hand, Lamberto Curtoni had the task of taking care of the music, adapting the most famous songs of the national Raffa.
It will not be a musical but an opera
«It will not be a musical, but a real opera in which the story of the television Carrà will be linked to that of a normal Italian family of those years». This is how Giorgio Gori, mayor of Bergamo, presented the new project. Which will unite the star of the show, protagonist of many singing successes such as fiesta And I dance danceand television, such as Hello, Raffaella?, to a woman who contributed to changing and evolving the customs of the society of her years. It is, therefore, a great project with a thousand facets that brings back to the scene a character who has made the history of TV but not only.
She would be flattered and thrilled
He also intervened on the work Sergio Japino, director and life partner of Carrà. “I’m sure Raffaella would be intrigued, flattered and excited in knowing that what he has done in his life has found a hearing and a home even in a world apparently distant from his own like that of opera» he said, according to reports from theHandle. Reiterating that we are dealing with «a woman and an artist who has always courageously sought 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 that she now becomes the inspiring muse, even, of a work.
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