Raffa in the Sky, the new opera inspired by Raffaella Carrà in Bergamo

Raffa in the Sky, the new opera inspired by Raffaella Carrà and dedicated to post-war Italian society, debuted at the Donizetti Theater in Bergamo on Friday 29 September. The next dates will be Sunday 1st October at 3.30pm, Friday 6th October at 8.30pm and Sunday 8th October at 3.30pm

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The music is by Lamberto Curtoni, the libretto by Renata Ciaravino and Alberto Mattioli, from an idea by Francesco Micheli who also directed the show

Tiziano Ferro, the moving memory for Raffaella Carrà

The work is commissioned and produced by the Donizetti Theater Foundation for Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023

Raffaella Carrà, arrives at the Raffa cinema directed by Daniele Luchetti

For the first time, a city that is the capital of culture includes a new opera in its program, in the land that invented this genre

Coin with Raffaella Carrà, Sky TG24 in the State Mint. VIDEO

Raffa in the Sky is a true opera, which is inspired by the iconic figure of Raffaella Carrà, a great protagonist of Italian television but also an international personality

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The story of an artistic career that accompanied and sometimes stimulated the transformations of Italian society over the last half century

Raffaella Carrà, the trailer of the film dedicated to her

Through iconic moments of television programming featuring Carrà, the work aims to reflect on the role of the artist in society, on the value and use of art, on the role of television and other media

Raffaella Carrà, filming of the TV series about the entertainment icon has begun

All without forgetting the songs that Raffaella Carrà performed, in a story that travels the path of the surreal and the fantastic to speak to all of us

The very young Chiara Dello Iacovo was called to play Raffaella Carrà, an actress graduated from the Scuola del Teatro Stabile in Turin and a singer with participations in Musicultura 2014 and the Sanremo Festival (Nuove Proposte 2016)

Alongside her is a cast of famous opera singers such as Carmela Remigio, Gaia Petrone, Dave Monaco, Haris Adrianos and Roberto Lorenzi

Conducting the orchestra composed of the Sentieri Selvaggi Ensemble and the Donizetti Opera Orchestra, maestro Carlo Boccadoro

Also on stage are the I Piccoli Musici Choir directed by Mario Mora and the dancers from Fattoria Vittadini

The creative team, alongside director Francesco Micheli, is made up of Edoardo Sanchi (scenes), Alessio Rosati (costumes), Mattia Agatiello (choreographer) and Alessandro Andreoli (light designer)

“I am firmly convinced that theater must respond to the burning needs of society – Francesco Micheli tells Luca Baccolini in the program – We live in an era that every day reveals to us the drama of Iranian women, of feminicides, of rapes, of the violence of gender. All this because humanity is still slow to recognize the role of equality between men and women as it should”

According to the director of the opera, Raffaella Carrà “more than half a century ago, with her body and her voice, she spoke about women’s freedom, without being pointed out as a passionate or an anarchist