Oh Italia mia - Ambrogio Sparagna con Peppe Servillo e Angela Baraldi

Saturday, 7th May - 9.30 pm - Piazza Prampolini

Oh my Italy. Folk songs from the Italian Risorgimento

A project by Ambrogio Sparagna on behalf of the Orchestra popolare italiana (Italian folk orchestra) of the Parco della Musica Auditorium in Rome and with the Coro Popolare (Folk choir) directed by Anna Rita Colaianni, with Peppe Servillo and Angela Baraldi.
Video screening with images from the "A. Davoli" Cabinet of Prints and the Photo Library of the Panizzi Library. Film editor Manuela Chiapponi
An original production by ATER on behalf of Mundus and Fotografia Europea 2011
National Première - Preview Mundus

The show reproduces the repertoire of the most significant nineteenth-century folk songs, interpreted by a large body of artists, including musicians and folk singers. It revisits the events and vicissitudes of a country in the making and undergoing transformation through the many dialects, voices and musical expressions that so intimately characterised the entire period of Italy’s nation-building history.
With guest performers Peppe Servillo and Angela Baraldi, this is the first ever preview of an original production, with video screenings of images retrieved from the history archive of the Photo Library of the Panizzi Library.