The artistic director Piparo: “Sistina reopens with ‘Mamma mia!’ and a platinum season “

“Finally the fateful day has arrived: it seems to me another Year Zero! It is as if this re-inauguration marked the beginning of a new period, with a particularly intense flavor”. Massimo Romeo Piparo, artistic director of the Sistina, does not hide the emotion, which reopens to the public completely renovated. “A special evening, you can breathe a truly exciting atmosphere – comments the director at AdnKronos – which falls, among other things, exactly four years after the debut in Rome of the musical ‘Mamma mia!’ …”, a show that inaugurates the new season “and they seem like two completely different eras, since in these four years everything has really changed,” he observes. A season defined by Piparo with the slogan ‘Platinum Collection’ because, he explains, “I have chosen the six most successful titles of the last ten years under my direction: ‘Mamma mia!’, ‘Blly Elliot’, ‘Solo’ with Arturo Brachetti, ‘Rugantino’, ‘Jesus Star Superstar’, ‘Il marquis del Grillo’ and maybe next year we will also propose again ‘Evita’ … “. But which Sistine will find old and new spectators? “They will see a more modern, more international Sistina, but at the same time also a Sistina from the fifties and sixties, with its marble and brass, with an audience with armchairs that recall the original ones, for a sort of projected ‘amarcord’ but in the future, all made with private capital, without any bonus, for a gift we wanted to give to the city of Rome and the capital of Italy “. Assures the artistic director:” From this evening, workers and the public of the Sistine will all be vaccinated and so on, is the only real hope against Covid. I had said in unsuspected times, when there were those who talked about reopening theaters within a month, that it would take a couple of years: and, unfortunately, I was right. But now the time has come, the moment has come and now we only hope that everything will not stop again, because it would now be unbearable, it would be to go back into a nightmare that would prove to be fatal “. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)