Invitation to Travel – Concert for Franco Battiato, directed by Pepsy Romanoff and produced by International Music & Arts and Except, the film event of the concert dedicated to the Maestro to be held on September 21, 2021 at the Arena di Verona, only in cinemas from today June 20 to June 22, is distributed by Adler Entertainment. We show you the trailer and the clip with Gianni Morandi.
Director and art director Giuseppedomingo Romano, also known as Pepsy Romanoff, co-founded the Milanese production house Except, with Maurizio Vassallo, which has more than 300 video productions divided into live shows, TV format, music video and art film. Major productions include the lives of countless international and non-international artists including Vasco Rossi, Dave Gahan and Soulsavers (Depeche Mode) – NERD & Pharrell Williams, Tinie Tempah, I Blame Coco, Busta Rhymes, Little Dragon, Ghost Poet, Joan as Policewoman, Franco Battiato, Ezio Bosso, Vinicio Capossela, Pino Daniele, Club Dogo, Marracash, Guè Pequeno, Casino Royale, Subsonica, Levante, Cosmo, Ex Otago, Brunori Sas, Deproducers, Salmo and Sfera Ebbasta. He is also a member of AIR3, the Association of Italian directors working in the cinema world, making films, documentaries, advertisements, video clips, short films, partner of Biografilm 2022.
From the sold-out Arena di Verona, the concert arrives on the big screen where the greatest artists of Italian music paid tribute to Franco Battiato, the singer-songwriter from Catania who died on May 18 last year. Fifty artists took turns on the prestigious stage of Verona to perform more than 40 pieces by the Maestro and to pay an unforgettable tribute to one of the greatest Italian musicians of all time for many voices: an artist who is both innovative and traditional, cultivated and popular. , making whole generations dance and reflect, always bearing a unique eclecticism, able to wisely mix cultured and electronic music, avant-garde and literature, pop research and extraordinary poetry.
Starting with one of his most beloved and popular albums, “La voce del padrone”, released forty years ago, “Invito al viaggio” sees on stage an orchestra formed by the Filarmonica dell’Opera Italiana Bruno Bartoletti, with Carlo Guaitoli as conductor and piano, along with the musicians who accompanied Battiato on his latest tour: Angelo Privitera on keyboards and programming, Osvaldo Di Dio and Antonello D’Urso on guitar, Andrea Torresani on bass and Giordano Colombo on drums. The event was organized by the Artistic Directors Francesco Cattini, Stefano Senardi, Pino “Pinaxa” Pischetola, Carlo Guaitoli and with the executive production of the video images by Maurizio Vassallo.
Alice, Arisa, Enzo Avitabile, Mario Incudine, Baustelle, Sonia Bergamasco, Cristina Baggio, Bluvertigo, Angelo Branduardi, Vasco Brondi, Giovanni Caccamo, Roberto Cacciapaglia, luri Camisasca, Nabil Bey, Carlo Boccadoro, Vinicio Capossela, Giovannangelo The performance on stage Genna , Alberto De Grandis, Raffaele Tiseo, Vincenzo Vasi, Carmen Consoli, Simone Cristicchi, New Italian Quartet, Colapesce DiMartino, Diodato, Paolo Buonvino, Emma, Extraliscio, Roberto Molinelli, Eugenio Finardi, Max Gazzè, Carlo Guaitoli, Jovanotti, Saturnino, Luca Madonia, Mahmood, Fiorella Mannoia, Gianni Maroccolo, Andrea Chimenti, Antonio Aiazzi, Beppe Brotto, Gianni Morandi, Morgan, Fabio Cinti, Gianna Nannini, Mary Montesano, Vera Quarleri, Cristina Scabbia, Davide Gus Ferrario, Subsonica, Turci and Danilo Rossi.
Being involved in ‘Invitation to travel’ at the Verona Arena was a huge recognition for me. I was fortunate and privileged to work with Franco Battiato, even if only for a short period of time. We met later, but I was not really there, while ‘Invito al viaggio’ was organized and sought by people who loved it very much, and so I was very proud when I was chosen, because of course Franco Battiato spoke about me during my absence.
said the musician Saturnino.
I will remember with love and emotion my participation in the concert tribute to Franco Battiato in the Verona arena. Emotion that arose among the performers, the audience and the orchestra: a great collective prayer of souls for Franco Battiato.
said the songwriter Giovanni Caccamo.
Short content:
In a sold-out Arena in Verona, an exciting concert where the greatest Italian music artists pay tribute to Franco Battiato and perform his most successful songs. An artistic legacy with few comparisons in Italy, respecting the original scores and above all the spirit that has always inspired the research of the musician from Catania. An uninterrupted stream of timeless songs, now ingrained in the DNA of all of us, able to cross the decades with the gift of continuous relaunch, in an evening event that turns into a great embrace supported by the expressive power of a vast and astonishing , between joy and melancholy, irony and severity, flights and descents.
Source: Lega Nerd
