The life and artistic career of Raffaella Carrá, who passed away in 2021, will be the plot of an opera that will be premiered at the Donizetti Theater in Bergamo next September.

The work, announced this week by the cultural institution, will be entitled Raffa in heaven and “it won’t be a musical biography”, he said in a statement, but “the story of an artistic journey that has accompanied and stimulated the evolution of Italian society over the last half century”.

Your choreographer’s opinion

“I’m sure Raffaella would be intrigued, flattered and thrilled to know that what she has done in her life has also found an audience and a home in a world seemingly so distant from hers as that of opera,” said Sergio Japino. , who was Carrá’s main choreographer for years.

According to Japino, the lead singer of you must come to the south she was passionate about the world of lyrics,” as she demonstrated in The Great Concert of which she was the author on Rai 3, where the Rai National Symphony Orchestra presented pieces of classical music and opera to a vast audience of children”.

For the choreographer, celebrating her legacy now is a way to honor an artist who has always united worlds such as dance, cinema, television and singing “in different cultural contexts: from South America to Russia, from Hollywood to the glitzy studios of Cinecittà”. .

The details of the script

Behind the script and compositions by Raffa in heaven there is the composer Lamberto Curtoni, who created the show with a libretto by Renata Ciaravino and Alberto Mattioli.

Although they have just provided plot details, the authors said that the work will try to reflect “the role of the artist in society, the value and use of art, the role of television and other media”.

“All without forgetting the music of Carrá, in a story that will choose the path of the surreal and the paradoxical to speak to all of us,” they added.

In its announcement, the Donizetti Theater has also recovered some words from the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvarwho stated that Carrá “It was not a woman, but a way of life“.

“He sang in seven languages ​​and interviewed the great personalities of politics and entertainment of the second half of the twentieth century,” said the theater.

His death on July 5, 2021 caused a shock in Italy, Spain and South America. The City of Rome organized a three-day funeral chapel that welcomed thousands of visitors.

source: EFE

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