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Tomorrow live on Rai1 starting at 9 pm the Netherlands-Austria match in the Johann Cruijff Arena, in Amsterdam. Commentary by Giacomo Capuano and Bruno Giordano. Writer, journalist, television author, volunteer activist: Alessandra Appiano was all this before seeing her race stopped at the age of 59, in June 2018, while she was hospitalized in a Milanese hospital for severe depression. Her figure and her story come to life in “Amica di salva”, the docufilm presented by Rai Documentari and Rai per il Sociale, broadcast tomorrow at 11pm on Rai2 and available on Rai Play. Directed by her husband Nanni Delbecchi, written by Nanni Delbecchi with Vito Oliva, produced by Kimera Produzioni by Chiara Salvo, the docufilm is entrusted to the narrator of Lella Costa, who leads us by the hand to Alessandra’s house: she herself receives the friends at his home, to discuss with them, to recall the stages of his life, the goals and the disappointments. But Alessandra also confesses her battle against depression and bipolar syndrome, which began when she was still a girl full of dreams that, despite the difficulties, would come true. Depression that led her to an extreme gesture whose circumstances are still to be clarified and which left a wave of pain in those who were close to her. “Getting old is like climbing a hill, only from a certain point on can you see the landscape below us and see – or seem to see – the meaning of our life. And also nonsense “says Alessandra, whose words alternate with the testimonies of friends, people more or less known with whom she shared her journey, from Renzo Arbore to Monica Leofreddi, from Diego Dalla Palma to Don Antonio Mazzi, who remembers as inside Alessandra there was a world, a richness that has not been understood. They come back tomorrow in prime time, at 21.20, on Rai3 “The Girls”, with three unpublished episodes. New stories told by women of different generations who retrace the most significant stages of their existence. In the background, the history of our country, the great social and customs changes, fashions and music, the soundtrack of young people, from the 40s to today. In the first episode she tells about her experience as a girl of the 40s Teresa Vergalli, partisan relay in Emilia during the Second World War, subsequently constantly engaged in women’s organizations and in the political struggle of the PCI until the choice to devote herself to teaching since 1975 in then. The intertwined tale of two girls from the Sixties will follow: the eclectic Stefania Casini, who in her seventy-two years lived many lives, starting as an actress in arthouse films (Pietro Germi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway, Dario Argento) and icon sexy alternative of the cinema of the 70s, to then move on to journalist reportage, directing and producing documentaries, and the gynecologist Maria Pia Marroni, who in 1973, a student in a Naples upset by the violent outbreak of the cholera epidemic, has been personally involved in the administration of vaccines. After them we will listen to the stories of two girls from the eighties. The first is Milena Bertolini, footballer, coach and coach of the Italian women’s national team since 2017. Always engaged in the battle to break down prejudices on women’s football, at the 2019 World Cup she succeeded in a double undertaking: taking the team to the quarter-finals and winning the media, institutional and political recognition that Italian women’s football had been waiting for for years. The second is Elisabetta Lachina, whose youth was broken on the evening of June 27, 1980: her parents, Giuseppe Lachina and Giulia Reina, lost their lives in the Ustica massacre together with the other 79 passengers of the DC-9 Itavia. Since then Elisabetta has never stopped keeping their memory alive and asking for justice. In closing there will be the girl of the New Millennium: Diletta Bellotti, a Roman activist who in the summer of 2019 created the #pomodorirossosangue campaign against the exploitation of southern farm laborers.Dedicated to ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ by Claude Debussy the episode of ‘Prima of the Premiere ‘on Rai5 The episode of “Prima della Prima” aired on Thursday 17 June at 11.30 pm in first viewing on Rai5 is dedicated to Claude Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande”, staged by the Teatro Regio di Parma. A work of silence, of no-time and of no-place, of which Debussy wrote: “I work on things that will be understood only by the children of the twentieth century”. Direction, sets and costumes are by Barbe & Doucet, directed by Marco Angius. The TV direction is by Roberto Giannarelli. After 16 years of fighting, the Empire is almost destroyed. Religious hatred between Catholics and Protestants has turned into a power struggle between nations, with armies made up of mercenaries from all over Europe, which bloody Germany and France. “Iron and blood. The 30-year war that devastated Europe “, introduced by Professor Alessandro Barbero and broadcast tomorrow at 10.10pm on Rai Storia, follows the stories of crucial personalities such as Cardinal Richelieu and his confidant, Father Giuseppe, but also the vicissitudes of ordinary men and women, such as the mercenary soldier Hagendorf or the orphan Anna Margareta von Haugwitz. Second appointment with “Rai Orchestra Pops”, the concert cycle of the Rai National Symphony Orchestra that explores the boundaries between classical language, writing symphonic, rock, music for cinema, crossover and swing. The concert, open to a maximum of 200 people, is scheduled for tomorrow at 8.00 pm at the Rai Auditorium “Arturo Toscanini” in Turin, and is also broadcast live on Radio3 and live streaming on the Rai Cultura portal. Protagonist on the podium is the American John Axelrod, current Principal Guest Conductor of the Kyoto Symphony and former Principal and Artistic Director of the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla. Born in Bernstein, he is appreciated all over the world for his energy and versatility. The evening opens with an overture from the opera “Treemonisha” by the American ragtime composer Scott Joplin, who wrote it in 1910 but which remained almost unknown until its complete performance in 1972. The posthumous success of the opera – Joplin had disappeared in 1917 – earned the composer the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1976. To follow “A Joyous Trilogy” by the young American composer Quinn Mason, born in 1996, who wrote it in 2019 commissioned by the Seattle Orchestra and revised it in 2021. The piece, for large orchestra, is presented in the first European performance and won the first prize in the 2020/2021 edition of the New York Metropolitan Youth Orchestra’s Competition for emerging composers. In the second part of the evening, Duke Ellington’s “Black, Brown and Beige suite” is scheduled, composed in 1943 and inspired by the long path of emancipation faced by African Americans in the United States. In 1958 a jazz record was made from the suite, recorded by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, with the participation of Mahalia Jackson. In closing, the dazzling “Three dance variations” from Leonard Bernstein’s ballet “Fancy Free”, famous for the musical that was based on it, “On the Town”, and for the ironic and voyeuristic use that Alfred Hitchcock made of his music in the on the masterpiece “Rear window”. “Day and night” arrives on Raiplay Due to a terrorist attack, the population is forced not to leave the house: what happens to couples if forced into their homes, without the possibility of escape? It is the moment of confrontation and truth, without escape. “Il Giorno e la Notte” is the first film shot when the whole world was in lockdown in total isolation and all the sets were closed and will be available exclusively on RaiPlay from tomorrow. Italian and international distribution Fandango. Directed by Daniele Vicari and produced together with the actors Dario Aita, Elena Gigliotti, Barbara Esposito, Francesco Acquaroli, Isabella Ragonese, Matteo Martari, Milena Mancini, Vinicio Marchioni, Giordano De Plano – and the producers Andrea Porporati and Francesca Zanza, it was the first example of smart filming, where the director, from his home, coordinated the work of the actors, at home, at a distance in compliance with the restrictions. Together they decided to use imagination and technology to give space to creativity, to try to make films despite everything. The film is produced by Kon-Tiki Film, written by Daniele Vicari and Andrea Cedrola (author of “La Collina” with Andrea Delogu), photography Gherardo Gossi, scenography Beatrice Scarpato, costumes Francesca Vecchi and Roberta Vecchi, live sound Alessandro Palmerini , script supervisor Maria Vittoria Abbrugiati, sound editing and mix Marco Saitta, sound effects editing Francesco Albertelli, editing Andrea Campajola, original music by Teho Teardo The rise of the charioteer Scorpus who, chosen by the emperor Domitian himself, joins of one of the four stables, called Factions, which controlled the chariot races. The second and last episode of aCdC “The chariot races in the circus”, introduced by Professor Alessandro Barbero, will be broadcast tomorrow at 21.10 on Rai Storia. The young Scorpus collects victories after victories, but his destiny, like that of other great charioteers, is inextricably linked to that same racing circus that made him one of the idols of his time. Scorpus will share a similar fate to that of Domitian, the emperor who supported him and who will be killed shortly after his disappearance, from the Blue Mountains, across 570 miles within the vast Australian continent, to the mining town of Broken Hill. In “Next Stop Australia”, broadcast tomorrow at 8.15 pm on Rai5, the journalist and former British politician Michael Portillo explores New South Wales, following the itineraries of a famous railway guide, the Bradshaw’s Guide of 1913. In Sydney, he reconstructs the origins of the city as a penal colony in the Hyde Park barracks, where many of the first inmates were housed, and visit the iconic Opera House. In Katoomba, ride the steepest railway in the world. With an overnight journey, travel on one of the longest trains in the world, the luxurious Indian Pacific Railway. In the arid hinterland of Broken Hill, Portillo discovers the precious metal that put this isolated outpost on the international map – silver.