Mario Luzzatto Fegiz, Italy's most famous music critic, has finally decided to spill the beans. Forty years of facts and misdeeds in Italian pop music. The music journalist par excellence tells anecdotes with histrionic irony, secrets and behind-the-scenes of the Sanremo Festival, the discovery of Mogol and Battisti, contested singer-songwriters, show music (illustrated by Ukrainian virtuoso accordionist Demissenkov) and hatred towards talent shows (which have "robbed of the job of critic, spread over thousands of popular judges, text messages, emails and televotes'. Fegiz hates talent shows because they have put an end to the dictatorship of criticism.
A crazy journey through famous songs (performed by the one man band Roberto Santoro, directed by Maurizio Colombi) and funny imitations that Fegiz does of the characters he has met during his authoritative career (from Mike Bongiorno to Eros Ramazzotti and Francesco Guccini).
There is also a tribute to the greatest lyricist of all time, Dante Alighieri, whose Inferno cantos Fegiz recites from memory.
In an hour and a half show, he tells the history of music in a very special way: with details, glimpses of things, people and facts, but also with quick, sharp and concise judgements. With the flair of a great divulger, he will share with the public, in a light-hearted manner, what has been achieved in his brilliant career at the Corriere della Sera and the Rai he was able to see and understand from his privileged observatory. Because, as he likes to say: "My job is to tell you whether it is worth spending 50 or more euros for a concert or 20 or more euros for a CD... For mysterious reasons, I have been forcing audiences and artists to confront my incompetence for 40 years. And I have seen things that you people cannot even imagine.
I HATE TALENT SHOWS - A production Barley Arts - national premiere
From 24 to 29 April 2012 - TEATRO VERDI Via Pastrengo, 16 - Milan
Tickets: Full 20 euro - Reduced and Conventions 14 euro, Wednesday 10 euro
tickets are on sale at the theatre box office and on www.vivaticket.it
Reservations, information and ticketing: www.teatrodelburatto.it/teatroverdi tel 02 27002476
