At the Festival of Ideas the Mystical Concert for Battiato by Simone Cristicchi and Amara
“We will come back again”. The appointment is Saturday 22 October at 9 pm at the Malibran Theater from Venice
“There can be no true spiritual progress if we abolish the poet’s voice, the moment of enchantment and reflection”. Word of Franco Battiato.
Magic and sensuality, spirituality and enchantment. Simone Cristicchi and Amara deal with Franco Battiato’s mystical repertoire with grace and respect, making themselves bearers of the spiritual messages that made his work immortal.
Applauded by audiences and critics all over Italy, “Torneremo still” is a musical journey into emotions, a search for the essence in the confusion of modernity, a “mystical and sensual rapture” so necessary in this time in which we live.
Franco Battiato, pilgrim of the Absolute and revolutionary of music, he left a precious legacy in which the form / song is alchemically combined with a profound spiritual tension: from the universal prayer “The shadow of the Light” to the poignant “The cure”; from “And I come to look for you” up to the last recorded song “We’ll be back again”, which gives the concert its title.
The two artists will be accompanied by Valter Sivilotti (piano, arrangements, musical direction) and by the soloists of‘Naonis Academy of Pordenone (Lucia Clonfero, violin; Igor Dario, viola; Alan Dario, cello; UT Gandhi, percussion; Franca Drioli, soprano).
Alternating the performance of the pieces – in the brand new guise arranged by Maestro Sivilotti – will be guided by some readings taken by the masters who influenced Battiato’s thought: Rumi, Gurdjieff, Ramana Maharshi, Willigis Jager and the theologian Guidalberto Bormolini.
Tickets available on Vela SpA and Vivaticket sales channels and on www.festivalidee.it
Prices from 15 to 50 euros + dp
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Venice, Cristicchi arrives at the Festival of Ideas for the mystical tribute to Battiato