It will be an Effetto Venezia under the banner of cinema, that of the 38th edition to be held Aug. 2-6 in Livorno, among the streets overlooking the canals of the charming district that gives its name to the kermesse. And if cinema will take center stage, the name of Nicola Piovani is among those who best interpret the relationship between music and the Seventh Art. Piovani will take the stage at the Fortezza Nuova with "La musica è pericolosa - Concertato," a show presented in collaboration between Effetto Venezia and Mascagni Festival marking the debut of a synergy between the two main events of Livorno's summer. The show is a musical tale told by the instruments acting on stage - piano, double bass, percussion, saxophone, clarinet, guitar, cello, accordion. Scanning the stations of this musical journey in freedom, Nicola Piovani tells the audience the meaning of the jagged paths that have led him to flank the work of De André, Fellini, Magni, Spanish, French and Dutch directors, for film, theater, television, singers, instrumentalists, alternating the performance of theatrically unreleased pieces with new versions of other better-known ones, rearranged for the occasion.
Punctuating the stations of this musical journey in freedom, Nicola Piovani tells the audience the meaning of the jagged paths that led him to flank the work of De André, Fellini, Magni, Spanish, French, and Dutch directors, for film, theater, television, singers, instrumentalists, alternating the performance of theatrically unreleased pieces with new versions of others better known, rearranged for the occasion. In the theatrical narrative, the word reaches where music cannot reach, but music takes the lead where the word cannot and can no longer communicate. On-stage videos supplement the story with images from films, performances and, above all, images that artists such as Milo Manara have dedicated to Piovani's musical work.
On stage with the maestro at the piano will be Marina Cesari (Sax, Clarinet), Sergio Colicchio (keyboards, accordion), Pasquale Filastò (cello, guitar, mandoloncello), Vittorino Naso (drums, percussion), Marco Loddo (double bass).