The Archaeological Park of Morgantina embraces the public with music, theater and prestigious cultural proposals. Returns, for the fifth edition, the Beet Fest, the festival produced and created by the third millennium artistic projects by Andrea Peria Giaconia, born from an idea by Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and with the artistic direction signed, for the second year, to Alberto Samonà, Sicilian writer and journalist.
From 1 to 8 August at the Archaeological Park of Morgantina (Aidone, Enna), the fulcrum of history, culture and art, appointment with a rich program for the kermesse who takes his name from Head of Hadesone of the most important archaeological finds returned to Sicily after the overflow by Morgantina, renamed affectionately Beet due to the extraordinary blue beard curls.
It starts on Friday August 1st with Max Gazzè, who will perform together with Calabria Orchestrawith Musice locithe live musical and cultural project that has combined its notes with popular orchestras and local traditions. The artist will give the public his songs in an unprecedented guise, which will absorb typical colors and sounds of the different areas where the show will be hosted with different contaminations and suggestions every time. A cultural project linked to the territory, understood not only as a geographical area but above all as a land of history, music and art.
Saturday 2 August Raphael Gualazzi in a piano-vocal dimension, a story in music of the successes and its greatest inspirations. The artist gives compositions their most authentic dimension, retracing a repertoire that ranges from songs written for soundtracks a divetissements On arias of work, from tributes to the Afro-American tradition, to rusadic incursions on memorable themes of Italian and international music.
Continue on Sunday 3 August with the author music: Love Morricone – Archi & Voci It is an unpublished project of the Sicilian opera choir, an unusual and special musical appointment in a particular chamber training, an unmissable and overwhelming journey into the art of one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. The program focuses on the suggestive interpretations of the soundtracks of some films symbol of the history of cinema such as New Cinema Paradiso, Malèna, the legend of the pianist on the ocean, for a handful of dollars, mission, once there was the West, down the head, once there was in America; The second part of the concert is, however, focused on the “pop” side of the Roman composer.
Wednesday 6 August protagonist the theater, with the ARPA company that leads to the stage Jellyfisha show directed by Filippa Ilardo and Dario La Ferla with Jessica Aiello, Elisa di Dio, Federica Gurrieri, Andrea Saitta. In this dramaturgy Medusa is not only a mythological figure, but becomes a symbol, the voice of all women punished to exist outside the margins. Here the classic myth is overturned and returned to its most raw and profound truth: the monster is not Medusa, but who has transformed it into such, a forgotten, sacrificed figure, used as an emblem of terror when in reality it is only one of the infinite victims of a system that absolves the powerful and punishes the fragiles.
Thursday 7 jazz sounds of three large composers for a musical journey between overwhelming rhythms, in a chamber concert immersed in the timeless beauty of Morgantina. Astor Piazzolla, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Turina will give the public a program that ranges from their compositions to those of Presti, Granados and Tarrega.
On Friday 8 August he closes in Mazzarino, a municipality in the province of Caltanissetta involved in the archaeological context of Morgantina through the archaeological park of Morgantina and the Roman villa of the farmhouse, with the Matia Bazar, a band that on stage one of his historic members and current leaders Fabio Perverse, flanked by Gino Zandonà (guitars), Silvio Melloni (bass), piercarlo “Lalli” percussion) and Silvia Dragonieri. On the stage of Mazzarino they will bring all the most famous songs, from Roman holidays to For an hour of love.
“The Bellu Fest – says the regional councilor of cultural heritage and Sicilian identity, Francesco Scarpinato – is now an expected appointment, which from year to year manages to renew itself with an increasingly original and engaging cultural proposal. This fifth edition confirms the ability of the Festival to combine the quality of the shows with scenarios of extraordinary suggestion, such as the Archaeological Park of Morgantina and the historic center of Mazzarino. On stage, national and international artists, offering the public an immersive experience between music, theater and beauty.
“I am really proud to share in Sicily the fifth edition of the Bellu Fest – underlines the regional councilor for tourism, sports and entertainment, Elvira Amata – a festival that over time has been able to combine different and complementary segments of the tourist offer, such as, art, culture, music, landscape and history, transforming every single moment into unique experiences. A further opportunity, not only to strengthen significant actions on the territory, but also for the territory, Valuing our extraordinary heritage more and more to the organizers and all the institutional partners of the Festival goes my best thanks for the constant commitment combined with the invitation aimed at the many citizens and visitors to experience the many emotions that the rich calendar of events scheduled will offer “.
“Our bellblù Fest, who has come to the fifth year of programming – adds Andrea Peria Giaconia, of third millennium artistic projects – is a goal that testifies to the strength of a cultural project born from the desire to create spaces of comparison, beauty and awareness. The enhancement of the park of Morgantina, custodian of a millennial story, for us it is a fundamental mission because we believe that culture must live in the places where they are born and lived and discovered by the public.
“Bluebeard Fest It is a journey through time and spirit of the places. Bring music, theater and the word to the heart of Morgantina – underlines Alberto Samonà, artistic director of the Bellu Fest – It means evoking the ancient soul of Sicily and restoring its most authentic voice to beauty. Each show is a ritual, every evening a celebration of memory and imagination. This festival was born to vibrate the invisible that inhabits these places full of history and life: because culture is not only entertainment, but reconnection with our deepest identity “.
“Host the Bluebeard Fest For the fifth consecutive year – concludes Carmelo Nicotra, director of the Archaeological Park of Morgantina and the Roman Villa del Casale – it is a source of great pride and responsibility for us. The Archaeological Park of Morgantina is not only a treasure chest of millennial history, but also a living space, capable of dialogue with the present through art, music and theater. The growing influx of visitors and the national interest that the festival arouses demonstrate how much culture, if integrated in the territory, can generate beauty, participation and development “.