A Riva who questions himself in the mirror, asks himself questions about the meaning of life. Who does not have a red and blue shirt, but has white hair. And who, sitting in a green armchair, talks to himself and to God.

This and more in Giorgio Pitzianti's opera, "Luigi", premiered yesterday, amid applause, at the auditorium of the GP da Palestrina Conservatory in Cagliari, just four days after Rombo di Tuono's 77th birthday.

For the "premiere" of the show, a choice that was certainly not random: 11/11, eleven like his shirt withdrawn forever from the pitch by the rossoblu club.

Luca Ward's voice tells the bomber's thoughts.

"I lived Riva and I struggled a lot in this interpretation", explains the actor-voice actor after the show. "Because some aspects of his life were identical to those of my life".

The great protagonist, Gigi Riva, was not in the room, confirming his shyness and the impossibility for him to be a spectator at a work that - as in the words of Pitzianti - was born from the desire to discover what is there behind Luigi's gaze.

On the stage, the story, accompanied by original music sung and played by the artists of the Cagliari Conservatory, of a journey that begins with a happy childhood in the house and in the woods of Leggiuno, with all the family members close by. But which then becomes drama with the death of the father, sister and mother.

After the years of college, Sardinia will be a liberation for Riva, the new family in which Gigi still feels alive. And the achievement of the Scudetto becomes a symbol of that revenge that he and Sardinia deserve and want to take.

"I bet everything on the impossible victory - Riva's final dialogue - I want to see my family again. If I win, everything makes sense. I am Luigi".

(Unioneonline / vl)

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