2024 Programme
Event #25
Piero Maranghi
Grateful and ungrateful: a semi-serious journey through music history
Composer and librettist, artist and patron, student and teacher: the interplay between these figures shapes the world of music through ever-changing dynamics. How do values like gratitude and ingratitude manifest in the life of a great composer? Through anecdotes, episodes, and significant events, Piero Maranghi offers portraits of famously grateful and ungrateful individuals, audaciously redeemed characters, and noble souls in a semi-serious narrative spanning two centuries of music history. From the Verdi-Wagner pairing to the contentious relationship between Stravinsky and Diaghilev, including Rossini’s clashes and reconciliations with Barbaja, Benjamin Britten's habit of dumping friends and colleagues, and the absolute friendship between Rachmaninoff and the legendary bass Chaliapin.
Piero Maranghi is the editor and director of Sky Classica (channel 124) and +Classica, a streaming platform dedicated to classical music and culture. Since 2020, he has co-hosted Almanacco di bellezza, a daily cultural current-affairs program with Leonardo Piccinini, which also inspired the book of the same name (Rizzoli, 2021). As a producer, he has created documentaries and docufilms including Teatro alla Scala. Il tempio delle meraviglie and Dentro Caravaggio. In collaboration with RAI, France Télévision and Germany’s HR, he produced Max & Maestro, a 52-episode animated series featuring Daniel Barenboim. He conceived and developed the La Vigna di Leonardo Museum and is director of the Piero Portaluppi Foundation. Together with Paolo Gavazzeni, he has staged opera productions such as Aida, La Traviata, La Bohème, Don Giovanni and La Cenerentola.
Event #43extraFestival
Minotauro Institute, with Loredana Cirillo and Filippo Rosa
Thank you! What we have never told our children and students
