The large itinerant program of Cedac, which is the creator of the only multidisciplinary circuit of live entertainment in Sardinia recognized by the state and chaired by Antonio Cabiddu, offers fans a precious gem of the creations dedicated to the best Sardinian songwriting.
The programming set up by the artistic director Valeria Ciabattoni proposes, as part of the circulation of major theater, music and dance events, in the most important theaters of the island, "Poesie di Carta - Marisa Sannia, the voice of the wind and the sea", a journey through words, notes and visions with the refined and engaging concert-show that Grazia Di Michele, one of the best interpreters of Italian songwriting, dedicates to the Sardinian artist, beloved and unforgettable performer, author and actress, already a protagonist at The Night of the Poets Festival in the enchanted scenery of Nora.
It will be an anthology of songs in Italian, Sardinian and Spanish, for an unmissable triptych starting tonight (Sunday 30 January) at 9 pm in the Tamuli Pavilion of the former Barracks Walls of Macomer, to continue tomorrow at 9 pm at the "Antonio Garau" Theater in Oristano and finally on Tuesday 1 February at 9 pm at the Municipal Theater of San Gavino Monreale.
In the spotlight, together with Grazia Di Michele voice and guitar, the close-knit ensemble that includes Marco Piras piano, historical friend of Marisa Sannia and arranger of some of her beautiful works, Fabiano Lelli guitar, Gioele Lumbau viola, Ermanno Dodaro double bass and Bruno Piccinnu percussion.
A way to rediscover the charm of famous songs including "Come tonera mai" by Sergio Endrigo alongside the poems in music of "Rosa de Papel", the latest album by Marisa Sannia, released posthumously in 2008, inspired by Federico's early works García Lorca, and "Melagranàda" from 1997, the second album in Sardinian language by the Iglesias artist - after "Sa oghe de su entu e de su mare" (1993) on the verses of Antioco Casula, better known as "Montanaru" - made in collaboration with the poet and writer Francesco Masala.
A distant dialogue on the thread of melodies and emotions between the two artists who share a love for music and poetry: Grazia Di Michele, a Roman of Abruzzese origins, active an intense career from the beginning with the trio Ape di Glass at the concerts at the legendary Folkstudio in the capital, at the first albums "Reason with the heart", "The girls of Gauguin" and "Love is a danger", participation in the Festivalbar and various editions of the Sanremo Festival, the multi-year collaboration as juror and teacher among the most authoritative of "Friends" by Maria De Filippi, shows such as "Call it life" with Maria Rosaria Omaggio, "I never know who I am" and the comedy "Tell my daughter I'm going on vacation" by Denise Chalèm, up to "Souls of Glass" written with Rossana Casale and the unpublished "Mother Earth" with video images by Ari Takahashi, "meets" Marisa Sannia through the precious legacy of her songs.
"Poesie di Carta" is therefore a very personal tribute by Grazia Di Michele to the Sardinian artist, to the "rediscovery" of an original and varied repertoire, the result of immense talent and extraordinary sensitivity, of an ability to reconcile the demands of modernity with firm roots in the culture of the island.
A multimedia event in which the different souls of the two protagonists merge: Marisa Sannia, evoked through images and audiovisual fragments, but above all through the music and the words of her songs and the texts of the poets from which she drew inspiration and Grazia Di Michele who, together with her quintet and accompanied by an extraordinary ability to charm the public with a personality that digs into the songs and draws their lifeblood for unforgettable concerts, reinterprets those songs, in an almost "philological" key, and restores their charm intact and the delicate harmonies.
It will also be an opportunity for the youngest to get to know a wonderful personality of the Italian song that brought the 4 Moors to the Olympus of the Belpaese artistic panorama.
Icon of Sardinian music of the twentieth century, former basketball champion, singer-songwriter and actress, Marisa Sannia (1947–2008), originally from Iglesias, won her first successes in the 1960s, from Canzonissima to the Sanremo Festival, interpreting pieces by Sergio Endrigo and Luis Bacalov, from his debut with "All or nothing" and "A postcard" (but also "Dai" by Canfora and Lina Wertmüller, presented in Paris), "We two know it" (words by Sergio Bardotti, music by Endrigo) , "You will be proud of me" (third place in the Youth section and critics' prize at the Festivalbar), up to the successful "White House" composed by Don Backy and sung in duo with Ornella Vanoni, which earned her second place in the Sanremo festival ( with over 500 thousand copies sold).
That fateful '68 also saw the release of "This is not the farewell", already recorded together with "I am in love (but not so much)", "I feel you" by Armando Trovajoli for the soundtrack of "Straziami, but of kisses satiated ”by Dino Risi and“ Colpo di vento ”, the final theme song of the television program“ Ciao mamma ”,“ Una donna sola, Una lacrima ”, as well as the release of her first 33 rpm“ Marisa Sannia ”.
The artist's career continued between appearances at the Venice International Film Festival, A Song for Europe in Lugano, the Varadero Festival in Cuba and Expo '70 in Osaka, the Split Festival, and the Festival of Sanremo: diva of pop music but also interpreter of author's songs, from the album "Marisa Sannia sings Sergio Endrigo and his songs" (1970) to songs by Luis Bacalov, RobertoVecchioni, Francesco De Gregori, Bruno Lauzi, Amedeo Minghi and Vinícius de Moraes. Model and model, from photo novels, to theater - with two "folk-works", "Cain and Abel" and "Stories from the periphery", to the television drama "George Sand", alongside Giorgio Albertazzi, Anna Proclemer and Paola Borboni and in cast of the film by Pupi Avati "Help me to dream".
The return to the theater, in the Nineties, with "Memoirs of Hadrian - Portrait of a voice", directed by Maurizio Scaparro, alongside Giorgio Albertazzi, in the role that was of Maria Carta.
An amazing career, studded with successes, never over the top and loved by everyone for his confidentiality until his untimely death in 2008.
The voice of Marisa Sannia continues to fascinate and resonate in her records and through her songs interpreted in Spain by Ester Formosa and in “Poesie di Carta” with this extraordinarily touching work by an excellent Grazia Di Michele.
Maria Lai also dedicated a special event to her at the Ulassai Art Station in 2009: the tribute of a rock to a flower that withered too soon.
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