Emerging Italian artists confront Giuseppe Verdi during October and November 2024 as his young audience (11-14 years old) discovers the power of music and learns to listen to it.
The project gives new light, atmosphere, sounds, and suggestions to Verdi’s pieces, reinterpreted according to the multiple languages of contemporaneity. The protagonists of the Barezzi Lab are, on the one hand, more than 60 artists or bands who, distinguished in recent times for their originality, talent, and quality, have been invited to perform reinterpretations of pieces from Verdi’s repertoire, according to their respective musical languages, plus 2 pieces from their own repertoire. In a mirror-image manner, some conservatory students, supported by a contemporary music arranger, will try their hand at reinterpreting well-known pop pieces in classical and symphonic form.
On the other hand, another protagonist is the audience, made up of young boys and girls from secondary schools in the province of Parma, and of course the festival’s young guests. Over 3,000 youngsters will fill four prestigious 19th-century theatres in the province of Parma:
Teatro San Vitale di Fontanellato, Teatro Pallavicino di Zibello, Teatro Verdi di Busseto, Teatro Magnani di Fidenza, and the grand finale that will take place in the ‘Casa della Musica’ in Parma.