Venezia Salva
From 21 June to 21 June Italy / Cremona
Venezia Salva (“Venise Sauvée” / Saved Venice) is an unfinished tragedy by Simone Weil, set in 1618, which reconstructs and dramatizes a historical fact. Some Spanish conspirators plan to destroy Venice to the shout of “We make history”. But the crazy dream is thwarted by the “betrayal” of one of the soldiers, an “attentive man, who suddenly sees her and saves her”. In Weil’s drama, when the city is finally safe, Monteverdi’s music resounds in San Marco.
Monteverdi, Grandi, Castello, Cavalli are among the most important masters of the Venetian school that has its center in San Marco and that at least from the Gabrieli onwards has defined a unique and much imitated practice and style in which voices and instruments dialogue and concert. Beauty is always in danger, then as now. Always difficult, always in need of attention.
