The state will intervene for Villa Verdi, “but I believe that more needs to be done to create a Verdi route”. After the announcement a few days ago in the plenary hall and after the on-site visit, also Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, on Rai1, Serena Bortone’s guest at Oggi è un altro giorno, reaffirmed the intention to save the house of the great composer who lived over fifty years and where he lived many composed his most famous works. And while he suspects the possibility of turning it into a foundation that, together with the state, will involve the local authorities, he envisions the future of the house museum being included in a tour that connects it to other Verdi sites. «I said that the state can exercise the right of first refusal, but in my opinion the project needs to be more ambitious and bigger. – Sangennaro explains – We must create a Verdi route consisting of the villa with the park that will become a place for shows, opera performances and then the small Verdi theater which is a jewel and the house where he was born». Hence the announcement of the initiative: «I call on all Italian theaters to dedicate a day to the music of Giuseppe Verdi and we will try to donate the proceeds of these shows, I will also pay for my ticket, to a fund that does this To do this, Verdi’s villa is to be bought and the legal instrument created, presumably a foundation with the MiC, the region, the mayors. In short, a foundation that can create this Verdi route». The minister then explains that he was moved when he recently visited Verdi’s house. “In this house I rediscovered the memory of the Italians, of our history, of our identity, of being a community,” he says, recalling one of the first editions of Promessi Sposi, a gift from the writer, to Zimmer earnings And then notes from Manzoni, written by hand, a letter from Cavour asking him to run for the Chamber of Deputies, other letters, important correspondence, the piano». A place – affirms Sangiuliano – that we Italians must protect, because together with Leonardo, Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Leopardi, he adds, Verdi is Italy in the world.”
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