A cultural revolution that must undermine certain dynamics that were taken for granted for years but were clearly biased. Maestro Alberto Veronesi, who was excluded from the Puccini Festival “for being anti-communist,” attacks Italian television. And in a not-too-subtle way of interpreting the events in one direction. “When I turned on the TV, I came across two characters: Sigfrido Ranucci and Angelo D’Orsi. The first drew a parallel between Paternò’s La Russa family and the worst mafiosi, criminalized an entire Sicilian city, used the Godfather’s music as background music and recorded it in an election campaign 50 years ago. With the sole aim of defaming the President of the Senate, with statements that have no meaning or legal relevance. The second, D’Orsi, university professor at the University of Turin, did his utmost to defend and justify the reasons for the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, ignoring with guilty cynicism the anguish and terror that this terrorist attack caused in those hours brings with it the Jewish people. These characters – added Maestro Veronesi – turn reality on its head by making honest people appear as mafiosi who were never investigated anyway, and by making the worst and most notorious terrorists appear honest, they transgress once and for all the limit of perseverance and enlightenment all limits that freedom of expression can also have in Italy. I was fired and relieved of my duties as a festival conductor simply because I protested against the use of opera scenes for political propaganda purposes.”
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Veronesi also announced that he would organize a music tour entitled “Addio fioreto asil”. He will go to the RAI headquarters in Rome and the University of Turin to demand from their respective bodies “the immediate dismissal of people who use television for political propaganda at the cost of distorting the truth.” As in of the opera, it is time to say enough to the scenographers and directors who distort the truth of the opera and abuse their position of power in the theater, so it is also time to say enough to the characters who distort the truth for major ideological reasons national media abusing their position of power within universities and television publications.