With Ottavia Fusco Squitieri
Piano and orininal music: Cinzia Gangarella
Performance of opera singer Alice Sunseri
In Conviviality, the voice of Ottavia Fusco Squitieri and the piano of Cinzia Gangarella tell, avoiding the traps of clichéd associations, a possible and intricate relationship between food and music.
Much has been written about the art of eating: literary recipes, culinary letters, gastronomic narratives, poetry, songs. Eating out of hunger, for indulgence, for ritual, for the pleasure of being together, but also for excessive desire, for greed, not just culinary. Tasting the forbidden fruit that either closes or opens the doors of paradise; melting with delight over a creamy soup, as long as you get your fingers and the tip of your nose dirty; celebrating a juicy, red, and fleshy summer tomato; devouring a fragrant mushroom omelette, as desired as it is poisonous, or getting lost in the spirals of memory, awakened by a sensuously rich biscuit. Food and music are art: the art of communicating emotion, the art of being together because, after all, you need to be two—or more—to be joyful.
La gazza ladra (Gioacchino Rossini)
Maialino arrostito nel latte, da L’arte di mangiar bene (Pellegrino Artusi)
Una Lettera di Gioacchino Rossini
La voglia, la pazzia (De Moraes – Toquino)
Ode al pomodoro (Pablo Neruda)
Souvenir Rota (Cinzia Gangarella)
PizzaFever (Decaro – Fusco – Gangarella)
Le golose (Guido Gozzano)
Valzer, dalla Jazz Suite n. 2 (Dimitri Shostakovich)
Le nozze di Cana (dal vangelo di Giovanni)
La canzone di Maddalena (Rice – Lloyd Webber)
Ballata della schiavitù sessuale (Brecht – Weill)
Funghi in città (da Marcovaldo di Italo Calvino)
La canzone dei crauti (Bruno Lauzi)
La memoria dell’altro (Cinzia Gangarella)
Da La Recherche (Marcel Proust)
Que reste-t-il (Charles Trenet)
Aforismi del professore, da La fisiologia del gusto (Brillat Savarin)
Space Oddity (David Bowie)
Da La vita Nova (Dante Alighieri)
Ti mangerei di baci (Cinzia Gangarella)
An actress and singer, she is one of the most acclaimed protagonists of the Italian theatrical scene. She has been directed by and worked with renowned directors and writers such as Giorgio Albertazzi, Pasquale Squitieri, Lina Wertmüller, Dacia Maraini, Edoardo Sanguineti, Umberto Eco, and other great figures of culture and entertainment. She has been the solo spoken voice for major Italian and international musical institutions (Toscanini Orchestra of Parma, Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra of Rome, Radio France Orchestra/Paris, Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo of Milan). She starred alongside Claudia Cardinale in Neil Simon's comedy The Odd Couple, for which she received the Flaiano Prize for Theatre. Recently, she began a prestigious collaboration with CERN in Geneva as the "official Italian voice" of the Science Gateway Museum designed by Renzo Piano, which opened on 7 October 2023. Her artistic and personal meeting with director Pasquale Squitieri, who became her husband in 2013, dates back to 2003.
Cinzia Gangarella is a pianist, composer, opera director, and poet. She works in theatre, opera, and visual arts, participating in significant national and international productions.
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