Memorare, music and dance for a meditation of hope in Bologna. PHOTO

From the need to remind ourselves to be human and to have a destiny greater than our life comes Memorare, a meditation in the name of art, music and dance that will take place in the Basilica of San Petronio, Monday 7 November at 9 pm. admission is free and by reservation. The initiative with a high spiritual and cultural content is jointly promoted by the Municipality and the Church of Bologna

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Memorare is a project that combines architecture, choreography and music inside the Basilica of San Petronio. To the sound of the ancient organs of the Basilica and with the voice of the Choir of the Musical Chapel of San Petronio directed by Maestro Michele Vannelli, the dance of five guest dancers is welcomed: Nicoletta Manni, Timofej Andrijashenko, Mick Zeni, principal dancers of the Teatro alla Scala; Vittoria Valerio, Soloist of the Teatro alla Scala; Letizia Masini, dancer of the Teatro alla Scala Ballet (in the photo)

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Accompanying them live the Soloists of the Orchestra of the Municipal Theater of Bologna: on the harp Cinzia Campagnoli, on the viola Florinda Ravagnani, on the violins Elena Maury and Alessandra Talamo, on the cello Eva Zahn. “Memorare is an appeal of hope that we want to launch to our city and to the world, through culture and beauty” says Mayor Matteo Lepore

The evening’s program, born from an idea of ​​Vittoria Cappelli and Valentina Bonelli with the collaboration of Roberto Giovanardi, is curated by Valentina Bonelli and Don Stefano Culiersi, director of the Diocesan Liturgical Office of Bologna.
Not a simple artistic event, but an opportunity of a meditative nature, to reflect on what we are experiencing

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In these years of pandemic and war, the search for the common good, the drive to take care of the most vulnerable, the commitment to safeguard fraternity, the duty to leave a future to the next generations, risk being obscured. The occasion to understand that we can treasure the experience to build a better world can come from the universal language of art.
Invite the program to meditation: two pas de deux and two soloschosen for the exceptional scene (in the photo Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko)

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The opportunity to take care of others joins the opportunity for spirituality offered with Memorare. The cold plan of the Municipality of Bologna for the homeless in the coldest season, sees the collaboration of some parishes, which open reception spaces in the winter months. Through a free offer that some volunteers of the Diocesan Caritas collect at the entrance of San Petronio, it will be possible to contribute to the increased heating costs due to the energy crisis of recent months.

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At the opening the solo The Death of the Swan (composed by Michail Fokin for Anna Pavlova), during the pandemic it became a symbol of suffering and resistance. Reposted from one social network to another, streamed everywhere, the solo was the engine of a fundraiser which dancers from all over the world joined. To interpret it Letizia Masini, very young dancer of the Corps de Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala. Cinzia Campagnoli on harp and Eva Zahn on cello perform live the piece Il Cigno, taken from the Carnival of the animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.

The program boasts two titles by the French choreographer Roland Petit, both reassembled by Luigi Bonino. The first is Méditation de Thaïs, again a tribute to Anna Pavlova, in which Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko make their debut, Principal dancers of the Teatro alla Scala, stage and life couple (pictured in Romeo and Juliet). Cinzia Campagnoli on harp and Alessandra Talamo on violin interpret live the symphonic Intermezzo from the opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet

Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko, the love story between the two first dancers. PHOTO

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The result is a Meditation in the form of a dance which in the enchantment of the choreographic composition continues to tell us about the fullness of existence, now happy, now painful, as well as the human aspiration to reflect on its ultimate meaning.

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For the duo La Rose malade William Blake’s decadent verses ignited Roland Petit’s imagination. Created in 1973 as a gift to her friend Maija Plisetskaja, the pièce d’occasion relives in the interpretation of Vittoria Valerio and Mick Zeni, Soloist and Principal dancer of La Scala, with original costumes by Yves Saint-Laurent.

The recorded voice of Petit to declaim the verses of Blake, Cinzia Campagnoli on the harp, Elena Maury and Alessandra Talamo on the violins, Florinda Ravagnani on the viola, Eva Zahn on the cello interpret the “Adagietto” of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.

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Closing Ave Maria, a new creation in which the choreographer Stefania Ballone found inspiration in Ellen’s Third Song, composed in 1825 by Franz Schubert on Walter Scott’s epic poem “The Lady of the Lake”. Letizia Masini, in a dress created by the stylist Stephan Janson, interprets the dance, accompanied live by Cinzia Campagnoli on the harp and by Elena Maury on the violin.

The choral program it is entrusted to the musical Chapel of San Petronio, voice of the Basilica, directed by Maestro Michele Vannelli, who interprets compositions by Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Francis Poulenc. The organists Michele Vannelli and Francesco Tasini, on pages by Aurelio Bonelli and Girolamo Frescobaldi, play the two centuries-old organs of the Basilica, unique in the world for their antiquity and state of conservation. (In the photo Vittoria Valerio and Mick Zeni in “La Rose malade”