The ‘AmaCalabria’ festival returns to Lamezia Terme

After a year of interruption, ‘AmaCalabria’ returns to Lamezia Terme, a music and theater festival, scheduled from today to October 16th. After the episode of Ivo Pogorelich’s concert event in June, for the first time in Calabria, AmaCalabria wants to give a sign of continuity to all the public, offering a rich calendar until December ’21, opened by this first, rich festival taste of 45 events, and above all designed to support and disseminate the territory in its entirety, including the food and wine sector thanks to the collaboration with Gambero Rosso for the creation of the second digital guide of southern Italy ‘Calabria 2020 – The best addresses of the Region’. Lamezia Terme will see the webguide of the whole Calabria being built live, event after event. Furthermore, thanks to the collaboration with Zen Impatto Zero of the SviluppoUmbria company with the support of the European Community, AmaCalabria will guarantee its public and its guests a sustainable festival to protect its territory and the health of its citizens, in perfect harmony with that idea of culture as essential support of the living society, which animates the event and in the front row its Artistic Director President Francescantonio Pollice. The festival venues will truly involve the entire Lametine territory without aesthetic distinctions, for a horizontal sharing of the founding values ​​of musical and artistic civilization, first of all listening, to overcome together the long months, almost two years, of cultural silence. and consequently, social. Several artists who will alternate, such as Gerhard Oppitz, Misha Maisky and Shlomo Mintz, Violante Placido and Gabriele Lavia; and international productions are also expected such as Noches de Buenos Aires by Tango Rouge Company and co-productions by AmaCalabria itself such as the homage to Fellini with the Camerata Strumentale di Prato and Cidim. Without forgetting the rare program for two pianos with Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s IX Symphony in the interpretation of two true pillars of Italian pianism, such as Bruno Canino and Antonio Ballista, partners in art for half a century, the ensemble of Nello Salza, first solo trumpet of the best European orchestral ensembles, for years devoted to the transcriptions of film music, here engaged in a tribute to Ennio Morricone, and the recital of the bel canto soprano Carmela Remigio, name of international weight and voice chosen by great conductors of the caliber of Claudio Abbado, Daniel Harding, Lorin Maazel, Antonio Pappano, Gustavo Dudamel.These appointments will be accompanied by many other widespread events of performed art and it is worth remembering the productive effort for the Fellini project Ama in collaboration with Camerata Musicale di Prato and Cidim, which strengthens the rare links between Calabrian creativity and the rest of the country. The entire festival, also supported by Italo Treno whose customers will benefit from a 10% discount on show tickets, therefore wants to be as a whole an invitation to the rediscovery of the less vulgar Mediterranean culture and to a narration of Calabria beyond any cliché. . “This is a very complex project – explains the artistic director president Francescantonio Pollice – on the eve of this long awaited and deeply suffered restart: which represents a unicum for our Region where, for the first time, such a program is organized ambitious and articulated over ten days. A project that, going beyond music, theater, dance, tends to promote a new image of Calabria through the enhancement of the material and intangible assets of which it is rich. Our goal is to contribute to the social, cultural and economic recovery of the area also through the placement in the Mastroianni Park of Lamezia Terme of five sculptures created by the artist Maurizio Carnevali on the themes of the festival as a tangible sign of a new urban decor “.