Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 April 2024 – Giuseppe Verdi’s Birthplace and Casa Barezzi Museum
For the third year, the National Association of Houses of Memory invites house museums throughout Italy to open their doors on 6 and 7 April.
Two days dedicated to the places that preserve the memory and legacy of the “Great”.
Small houses or historic villas, homes or real museums, permanent residences or summer “refuges”, where you can breathe a different atmosphere, where History mixes with the present, to keep alive the memory of those who, although not being more alive, he still has a lot to say. All ideally united for two days under the same banner: enhancing the memory of the past to pass it on to the new generations.
Bookings for visits will be open from 2pm on Monday 25 March to 9pm on Thursday 5 April.
To book, consult the contact list of the houses published on this page.
For the occasion, Verdi’s Birthplace and Casa Barezzi Museum offer reduced entry at €4.00, only for those who book.
Monday 8 April at 8.30pm – Sala delle Carrozze, Villa Pallavicino Stables
Vincenzo Pincolini dialogues with the authors
Free entry upon reservation
INFO AND RESERVATIONS
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Saturday 23 March 2024 at 9.00 pm – Giuseppe Verdi Theatre
With Maria Giulia Campioli and original songs by Francesco Grillenzoni and Stefano Garuti (Tupamaros).
Born from an idea by Claudia Bulgarelli.
Tickets: €15.00 (stalls – boxes – gallery)
Chapiteau of Teatro Necessario, Piazza Verdi – Friday 19, Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April 2024
♥ Circus Chronicles of Circo El Grito, Friday 19/04 at 9.00 pm and Saturday 20/04 at 9.00 pm
♥ Sonata for Tubi by Nando and Maila, Saturday 20/04 at 5.00 pm
♥ Paccottiglia Deluxe by Circo Pacco, Sunday 21/04, 4.00 pm and 6.00 pm
After the great success of last year, the caravan of the Tutti Matti in Emilia festival, which brings the magic of international contemporary circus to theatres, open-air stages and under chapiteaus throughout the Province of Parma, continues its itinerary throughout the territory and returns to Busseto in a special spring event: on the weekend of 19, 20 and 21 April the chapiteau, the circus tent of Teatro Necessario, will be set up again in Piazza Verdi, a magical place in the heart of the town, under which 3 will take to the dance floor shows not to be missed, for 5 events dedicated to a heterogeneous audience from 5 years old and for everyone. The event, born in 2016 and which from 2022 will also pass through Busseto, successfully hosting national and international companies, is organized by Teatro Necessario Circo, a contemporary circus production center in the area, with the precious support of the Municipality of Busseto, the Emilia Region -Romagna, Ministry of Culture; technical partner is the IAT-R “Busseto and the lands of Verdi” – Tourist information and reception and reservation office.
The program of shows starts on Friday 19/04 at 9.00 pm with “Cronache Circensi” by Circo El Grito. The show also repeats on Saturday 20/04 evening always at 9.00 pm.
In this brand new show of the Pesaro-based company, which the Busseto public had already applauded in 2023 with the warhorse “Johann Sebastian Circus”, Giacomo Costantini, considered one of the pioneers of contemporary circus in Italy, brings to the stage what defines a spectacular conference, made up of tightrope walking, magic, music and poetry. A story through images and performative actions, which sees Costantini himself on stage alongside Guenda Bournens, aerial acrobat, and Humberto Kalambres, juggler, to narrate the advent of this new scenic language through circus virtuosity, magic, live music. Cronache Circensi is first and foremost a tribute to the circus, to its centuries-old roots, to its aesthetic universe, to its imagination, which many artists of different disciplines have drawn on over the centuries: Fellini, Picasso, Mayakovsky, Chagall, Chaplin, Botero, Stravinsky, Dickens , Klee and many others… But what remains of it today? The show therefore starts from the first very ancient vicissitudes of the circus, restoring its multicultural character to the public: from the advent of Philip Astley – the horseman who invented the first circus ring in the world – up to today’s circus, made only of human animals. And then again the importance of the journey, the relationship of the circus with death, the force of terrestrial attraction and the force of celestial attraction. Concepts expressed through simple words and accompanied by complex circus performances of aerial acrobatics, balancing and juggling.
“For me the circus is a ritual, a very ancient ritual, a ritual that is done all together. I was overwhelmed by circus life over twenty years ago, and even today, every time, it is like an unexpected, intimate, wonderful and terrible heart attack. It’s like the missing heartbeat, that emptiness that makes you feel alive, it’s the antithesis of existence, it’s a contraction of life. I believe that the circus does good and evil at the same time, but that it is worth it, because on the ring in the end good envelops evil and tames it, transfiguring suffering, sacrifice and death into beauty”, explains Giacomo Costantini. The lights are by Domenico de Vita, thanks to Andrea Farnetani for helping to bring the show to life, produced by SIC / Stabile di Innovazione Circense with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Marche Region.
We continue on Saturday 20/04 at 5.00 pm with the show “Sonata per Tubi” by the Nando and Maila company; the evening then sees the second performance of “Cronache Circensi” on stage at 9.00 pm. The company from Ozzano nell’Emilia, Nando and Maila, born Ferdinando D’Andria and Maila Sparapani, accompanied on stage by the young Marilù D’Andria, presents one of its most successful creations: Sonata per Tubi is a contemporary circus show who researches the musical possibilities of circus objects and tools, transforming them into musical instruments through ingenuity and the use of technology. So, let the concert begin! Flying pieces of pipe make up a double bass and a cello; the music progresses between Rossini, Bach, Beethoven, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones and Luis Armstrong; and then she arrives, a modern young princess, who upsets every harmony… The circus fuels the madness of the trio in counterpoint with clubs that become saxes and with sound devils. What follows is a crescendo of three-voice polyphonic songs, dances and musical and circus tests of courage, which will lead to a final ritual for the transition from adolescence to adult life. The pizzicato of the musical clown reveals the soul of the three actors who, with a universal language accessible to all, meet and clash in the magical game of life. The techniques on stage are Chinese pole, acrobatic dance, verticalism, manipulation of objects, juggling with diabolo and clubs; the musical instruments used are the bass tube, the tube, the mini tube, the violin, the clavax (club/sax), the diabolophone (sound diabolo), the sound pole, and the bass drum stage. The lights are by Federico Cibin, the sets by Ferdinando D’Andria and Riccardo Massidda and Gaby Corbo contributed to the circus games and acrobatics. The company has the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Region.
Closing the weekend on Sunday 21/04 at 4.00 pm and 6.00 pm “Paccottiglia Deluxe” by Circo Pacco, a Turin duo that has been part of the Teatro Necessario Circo “stable” since 2022. Alessandro Galletti and Francesco Garuti, aka Frank Duro & Gustavo Leumann, give the audience endless laughs in this irreverent and irreverent visual comedy with “various art-based quackery!”. The two, rejected by the nouveau cirque and banned from the classic circus, try to put on their show, trying by all means to gain center stage and the public’s applause, with numbers bordering on the ridiculous. Clowns, physical theatre, comic magic, juggling, eccentric acrobatics, rain of popcorn: every attempt to amaze the spectators ends in failure and in a continuous clown game. The Circo Pacco company was born in 2012 from the artistic meeting of Alessandro Galletti and Francesco Garuti during their training years within Philip Radice’s Atelier Teatro Fisico in Turin. Visual comedy, non-verbal and physical theater characterize the expressive language of this comic couple who work and play with the archetypal figures of the clown and the relationship between “white” and “augustus”. Their creativity gives life to “100% Paccottiglia”, the company’s first production and show which since 2013 has been replicated within street theater festivals, circus rings and theater festivals. With this show they won the Magnoberta Award (2013), the Milano Clown Festival (2014), the Clown&Clown Festival (2015) and won second place at the Italian Street Artists Award in 2016. In 2018 they produced the full version of the show “Paccottiglia Deluxe: superior quality quackery” under the directorial and artistic consultancy of Daniele Lele Villari. The show will be presented for the first time in the Le Musichall theater in Turin, directed by Arturo Brachetti. Following an international tour in Australia, in 2019 the company began a new creation entitled The Winner which is still under creation.
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Saturday 24 February 2024 at 6.00 pm – Salone di Casa Barezzi
At the piano M° Simone Maria Marziali
Teachers: Daniela Lojarro
Tuesday 13 February – Tensile structure Piazza G. Verdi from 8.00 pm
Entertainment – Music, Dancing, Cocktails
Awards for the best masks
For those who have never experienced it, for those who want to experience it again!
Saturday 27 January 2024 – Busseto
Verdi 27/01 in its second edition is a project of the Committee V10/10-V27/01, made up of the Busseto Associations Doremusic, Amici di Verdi, Nicolas Comati and Margherita Barezzi, with the participation of the IAT of Busseto, the writer Giancarlo Zanasi, the ANPI of Busseto and numerous volunteers: this is a wide range of events, scheduled in Busseto, in 5 significant places in the town, for the entire day of January 27th, the day on which Maestro G. died in 1901. Greens. The collaborations with the Teatro Regio di Parma, with the Festival Verdi and with Verdi Off, launched on the occasion of Verdi 10/10 2023, also continue.
Verdi 27/01 is made possible thanks to the contribution of the Cariparma Foundation which, through the “Cultura 2023” tender, has chosen to support the local cultural and creative offering system, with particular attention to projects designed to stimulate the tourist and cultural potential of the territories where artistic expressions and forms of live entertainment also develop. It is sponsored and supported by the Municipality of Busseto.
The death of Giuseppe Verdi, despite the master’s advanced age, profoundly and sincerely affected the entire Italian (and also European) population of the time. The spontaneous demonstrations of affection and gratitude towards him were countless and unexpected, especially if we consider that Verdi was not a head of state or a crowned head, but a shy “artist”, with an apparently rough character. What are the reasons for this universal condolence that was expressed by all segments of the population? Why did Verdi appear, and still appear, such an inclusive figure? Verdi 27/01 will propose, on the anniversary of his death, some ideas that will help us reflect on his Humanism, on the greatness of his moral stature and on the musical legacy that, beyond the operatic titles performed all over the world, he has left to all of us.
January 27th, such a significant date for us Bussetani, coincides with the International Remembrance Day, as a day to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.
The opening will be dedicated to Remembrance Day at 9.30am. It will continue with the announcement of Giuseppe Verdi’s death read by the First Citizen of Busseto directly from the original poster of 1901, with conferences, theatrical moments, and concerts aimed at all segments of the population and tourists visiting Busseto. The day will culminate in the Theater named after the Maestro with the musical show “La Voce di Verdi”. Verdi arias performed by young artists accompanied by Maestro Gianfrancesco Amoroso, jazz pieces inspired by Verdi with the Roncolese musician Alessandro Bertozzi on sax and the pianist Mario Zara, two narrators and some costumes from Verdi operas performed over the last 100 years at the Teatro Regio in Parma will compose the scene of the show.
9.30am in the Salone di Casa Barezzi
Presentation of the book “And then a pilot arrived who seemed drunk” – Busseto 1943-45, the war, edited by Prof. Adriano Concari.
Screening of the Video of the performance of the Anthem of the Nations by G. Verdi directed by Arturo Toscanini.
10.30am in front of the Verdi Theatre
The mayor of Busseto will announce the death of Maestro Verdi by reading the poster that was posted in the town on 27 January 1901.
10.30am Protected House
Alessandro Schiavetta – Clarinet, Enio Setti – Sax, Andrea Coruzzi – Accordion
Concert with Verdi programme
Concert reserved for RSA guests, their relatives and staff.
In collaboration with Verdi Off and Festival Verdi
11:00 am at the Verdi Theater
The students of the “Attilio Bertolucci” Music High School in an original performance. A special invitation to the theater to attend a concert by young musicians.
From 3.00 pm in Piazza Verdi
Anyone who finds themselves in Piazza Verdi for a visit to the monument, the Theater or Casa Barezzi will be surrounded by the Maestro’s most famous melodies, which will be broadcast from the headquarters of the Doremusic association. The students of teacher Sara Piceni’s piano class will perform them.
3.00 pm in the Salone di Casa Barezzi
It is a new story written by Sonia Mezzadri, the second episode of the series dedicated to a special meeting between Nicolas Comati and Giuseppe Verdi “in Paradise”. The story reflects the first vocation of the Nicolas Comati Association, as a promoter of education and good road conduct. The author herself will be the protagonist together with the male voice of Gian Carlo Zanasi. This show will be aimed mainly at lower and upper secondary school children.
4.00 pm in the Salone di Casa Barezzi
Prof. Giuseppe Bonazzi, professor of Economics and rural appraisal at the University of Parma, will talk to us about Verdi as entrepreneur, farmer and benefactor, accompanied by the notes of the Doremusic Ensemble.
9.00 pm at the Verdi Theater
In this musical show the protagonist will be the voice of Giuseppe Verdi, in the arias of his famous operas performed by young singers (Renata Campanella, Loris Dalla Costa, Enrica Macaro, Kesnia Overko and Davide Piaggio) accompanied on the piano by Maestro Gianfrancesco Amoroso; the rereading of some of his songs interpreted in a jazz key by the saxophonist Alessandro Bertozzi and the pianist Mario Zara, which will take us back to the contemporaneity of the Maestro’s artistic legacy. We will be accompanied into the Verdian world by the voices of the narrators Sabina Borelli and Giancarlo Zanasi and by the rustling of the historic stage costumes at the Teatro Regio in Parma (of Verdi operas staged between 1919 and 2006) worn by 10 girls.
The events of the festival will be free and with free admission while seats last, but for the show LA VOCE DI VERDI at 9.00 pm in the Theater booking is required via the Eventbrite platform at THIS LINK
The shows proposed by Verdi 27/01 will be part of the usual programming that celebrates the death of the Maestro every year, namely the celebration of the Holy Mass for his repose (6.00 pm in the Collegiate Church) and the collective singing of “Va, pensiero ” in front of Giuseppe Verdi’s monument.
9.00 pm Library of the Cariparma Foundation GIUSEPPE VERDI’S FIRST TIME IN MILAN, 1834: The libretto of Haydn’s Creation, in which his name appears in print. Conference by Prof. Corrado Mingardi
9.00 am G. Verdi’s Birthplace, Roncole Verdi COMMEMORATION OF THE MASTER’S DEATH. Opening greeting by the Mayor, Stefano Nevicati, and blessing given by the parish priest Don Luigi Guglielmoni. This will be followed by the laying of 27 red roses by the Club dei 27, which will sing the Va’ Pensiero in honor of the Swan of Busseto, and the laurel wreaths from the Municipal Administration and the Cultural and Artistic Association Amici di Verdi/Museo di Barezzi House
9.30am Casa Barezzi – Remembrance Day: “AND THEN A PILOT ARRIVED WHO APPEARED DRUNK” Busseto 1943-1945, the war. By Prof Adriano Concari, ANPI Busseto
10.30am Piazza Verdi THE ANNOUNCEMENT!
10.30 am Casa Protetta A TRIO FOR VERDI – Concert reserved for guests of the shelter, the people who take care of it and their relatives
11.00am Teatro G. Verdi CONCERT by the “Attilio Bertolucci” Music High School of Parma
3.00 pm Casa Barezzi NICOLAS AND VERDI: MUSIC IN PARADISE – Author and performer: Sonia Mezzadri, Nicolas Comati Association. With the collaboration of Giancarlo Zanasi.
From 3.00 pm Piazza G. Verdi WALKING LISTENING TO VERDI Music broadcast from the Doremiusic headquarters. By the students of Maestro Sara Piceni’s piano class
4.00 pm Casa Barezzi REFLECTIONS ON THE GREEN MAN. GIUSEPPE VERDI ENTREPRENEUR AND BENEFACTOR. By Prof Giuseppe Bonazzi, University of Parma
6.00 pm Collegiate Church of San Bartolomeo HOLY MEMORIAL MASS “Santa Cecilia” Choir of Corridonia (MC)
9.00 pm Teatro G. Verdi THE VOICE OF VERDI Theatrical show in collaboration with the Teatro Regio. On stage costumes from Verdi’s operas from 1913 to 2006
4.30 pm Council Room, Villanova sull’Arda. ON YN’S FILE BREATH…OF MUSIC AND WORDS
Furthermore
DAY OF CRYING AND FIER PAIN. Verdi’s death in the newspapers and postcards of the time
Documentary exhibition 27 January – 31 March at the Cariparma Foundation Library. Guided tours every Saturday at 4.00 pm and on the two Sundays of Meravigliosa Biblioteca on 11 February and 10 March
Giuseppe Verdi Theater of Busseto – Saturday 10 February 2024 at 5.00 pm
The story of the two love stories – both deep, complex and all-encompassing – which filled the heart and existence of Maestro Verdi. The one for the Goddess Music, to whom he devoted himself since his youth, and the one, human but no less intense, for the women in his life.
A guided tour full of anecdotes at the Theater named after the Maestro, a fascinating nineteenth-century jewel and an essential stop on the Verdi journey.
At the end of the route, with the background of Verdi’s works, a romantic aperitif in the setting of the Ridotto.
The event costs €14.00 per person, including a guided tour and aperitif.
For reservations: info@bussetolive.com and 0524/92487
Giuseppe Verdi Theater in Busseto – Sunday 4 February 2024 at 5.00 pm
Wear your most elegant dress, visit the Italian Theater with us and become the protagonist of exclusive photos taken by our official photographer in the most evocative locations of the sound chest dedicated to the Maestro.
We’ll give you a nineteenth-century mask as a gift!
The event costs €10.00 per person, including a guided tour, themed mask and souvenir photo.