Quello of the story of music on television has always been a controversial topic. It is an understatement to limit it to the airing of a concert or event. It is also relegating it to generalist shows or to the talents that churn out talents (few real, many presumed) at each edition. Stefano Bollani and Valentina Cenni, however, they seem to have found the perfect formula with Via dei Matti n. 0program for which they have already received the Flaiano Awardwhich is back on the air tonight from Monday to Friday at 8.15 pm on Rai 3 with the second edition.
Via dei Matti N ° 0, 25 minutes of irony and musical culture
Companions in life and work, the pianist and composer Stefano Bollani and the actress Valentina Cenni ideally reopen their imaginary home every day to anyone who wants to deepen their musical knowledge or simply spend some pleasant time in front of the TV. Their disclosure, in fact, is neither pedantic nor pedantic, but playful and ironic. So much so that he made Aldo Grasso, a television critic of Corriere della Seraon the occasion of the first edition of the appointment, that Via dei Matti N 0 is “a small program at the service of great music“. In fact, the 25 minutes of the program including anecdotes, reflections, stories and, of course, music and guests went by like a flash. This increases the expectation for the second edition, again produced by Rai Cultura in collaboration with Ballandistarting this evening.
Un iconic title
To those who have never listened to Sergio Endrigo’s song The House, the title of the program by Stefano Bollani and Valentina Cenni may seem out of context. Instead it is not. Via dei Matti N ° 0in fact, it is the address of the fictional house of the children’s song written by Sergio Bardotti and Vinicius de Moraes. A house with nothing, but “beautiful, really beautiful in Via dei Matti number zero”, iconic introduction into the musical world without fences by the two conductors which have collected in an album with the same title, the most beautiful songs among those heard in the program.
Stefano Bollani and Valentina Cenni lead “Via dei Matti n. 0 “. (Rai)
Stefano Bollani and Valentina Cenni, all-round artists
To call Stefano Bollani just a musician would be doing him wrong. Milanese born in ’72, in fact, Bollani is much more. In the life of him, in addition to having engraved 47 albums (including 3 soundtracks), written 3 symphonic compositions and published countless collections, performed in theater and written 5 books. He is also a showman, radio host and, above all, he is a humorist and a music popularizer like few others. Like other famous people, he was also honored by Disney with the character of Paperefano Bolletta, a musician who was a friend of Donald Duck. Romagna of Riccione, Valentina Cenni was born in 1982, she is an actress who passes with ease from the classics to the musical: she was Clementina in three seasons of “Add a seat at the table”. Together, in 2016, they wrote and brought to the theater Queen Dada.
Stefano Bollani portrayed by his wife Valentina Cenni. (Valentina Cenni)
“Via dei Matti n. 0 ″, first week guests
Many guests enter the television house of Stefano Bollani and Valentina Cenni, not exclusively musical ones. In addition to singers and musicians including Francesco De Gregori, Ornella Canoni, Beatrice Rana and Fabrizio Bosso, actors such as Luigi Lo Cascio and Rocco Papaleo passed through last season. In the first week of the second edition they will visit the two hosts: Tuesday 6 Ron, Wednesday 7 September the trumpeter Paolo Fresu, Thursday 8 Fiorella Mannoia and Friday 9 the Banda Osiris. To open, tonight, the new appointment in Via del Matti n. 0, however, will be Frida Bollani Magonidaughter of Stefano Bollani and singer Petra Magoni (with Ferruccio Spinetti member of the duo Musica Nuda).
Who is Frida Bollani Magoni
Frida Bollani Magoni and Stefano Bollani. (Photo Press Office)
Born in 2004, visually impaired since birth, Frida Bollani Magoni followed in her parents’ footsteps by developing the so-called “perfect ear”, also due to her particular condition. He started playing the piano at the age of 7, held his first solo concert in 2020 in Pisa, debuted on television on 30 April 2021 in an episode of “Via dei Matti n. 0 “. That episode gathered 1,722,000 viewers in front of the small screen and was the second in terms of ratings behind the one on April 8 in which the guest was Francesco De Gregori. She then performed at the Quirinale on the occasion of the celebrations of June 2 of the same year. Last year she released her debut album of hers, First Tour.
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