It's the story of a friendship that will take shape today Thursday at the Triennale di Milano. It began in the early 1990s, when Stefano Belisari, aka Elio, frontman of Elio e le Storie Tese, first crossed paths with the Tenores di Neoneli. Not a forced fusion of distant worlds, but a respectful fusion of the rugged timbres of Tonino Cau, Peppeloisu Piras, Ivo Marras, Roberto Dessì, and Angelo Piras, and Elio's eclectic and irreverent approach. From that encounter, NeonElio was born, a show in which the ancestral rhythms of Sardinian tenore singing coexist with vocal inventions and ironic reinterpretations, the sacred with the profane, island tradition with irreverent lyrics.

The concert will be performed twice, at 7:30 pm and 9:00 pm, and is part of the Voce Triennale program, "the festival that has chosen to bring this project to the public to demonstrate how tradition, when truly alive, doesn't need to be embalmed to survive," as Tonino Cau emphasizes.

For the Tenores, however, their celebratory journey for their fiftieth anniversary will not end in Milan. On Saturday, February 21st, the Church of Carmine in Oristano will open its doors to "Omines, ammentos," a musical journey into the collective memory of a community. The evening will feature the special participation of Duo Mascia, composed of Orlando and Eliseo, who will enrich the program with their voices. The harmonics of the tenore singing will be enhanced by the evocative spaces of the Church of Carmine, a true pearl of Sardinian rococo, where the polyphonic interplay of male voices will find expression and depth, offering the possibility of an emotional engagement that only certain places can offer.

"Omines, ammentos," literally "men, memories," will be more than a concert; it will be a journey into the collective memory of a community, a thread linking past and present through the evocative power of music. An unmissable event for those who want to immerse themselves in the most authentic soul of Sardinia.