Concerto Mascagnano / Pinotta will open the Mascagni Festival 2022. The opera - premiered in Livorno - will be performed on the 90th anniversary of its first performance. The young director Giulia Bonghi will direct. The new Mascagni Festival production will feature a vocal cast selected by the Mascagni Academy. On the podium Francesco Di Mauro will conduct the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno.  

In the year of the centenary of Giovanni Verga's death, actor Alessandro Preziosi will play Pietro Mascagni, while Marco Bocci will give voice to the Sicilian writer in 'Mascagni VS Verga', a theatrical performance that outlines the personalities of the Sicilian writer and the composer from La Scala, recounting the quarrel between the two in a brilliant and in-depth manner in Cavalleria Rusticana. The reading will be accompanied by pianist Massimo Salotti. The dramaturgy is by Alessandro Rossi.  

The performance will interactively involve the audience in the theatre in solving an investigation, transforming the traditional opera into an "opera-game", a format never attempted before. The melologue, which lives by definition on music and words, is inspired by a famous melodrama from the end of the 19th century and suspended in the intriguing dimension of a thriller, ready to involve and thrill the audience. And it is the audience that is entrusted with the fate of the story being told: through an interactive digital system, the spectators in the auditorium will express their choices in real time, [...].

The eclectic artist, who during her long career has conquered generations of fans, comes to the stage of the Mascagni Festival 2022. With her trademark combination of melodic sweetness and enthralling energy, her unique stage presence and always very direct approach, the artist has conquered stages all over Europe in recent years, as certified by the countless sold-out performances of her recent Hitstory European Tour (2017), and is considered the female face of rock par excellence.

For the first time, Mascagni's most famous masterpiece in the world will be performed in the splendid setting of the Terrazza Mascagni, a place of magic and charm overlooking the sea. The new production of Cavalleria rusticana will be directed and lit by Danilo Capezzani. Vocal protagonists Sonia Ganassi (Santuzza), Azer Zada (Turiddu), Giovanni Guagliardo (Alfio). On the podium Roberto Gianola will conduct the Orchestra Regionale della Toscana.