September is suitable for Taormina, you can breathe the last sips in the summer on Friday evening dedicated to Maestro Andrea Camilleri who would have turned one hundred years old, celebrated at the Antico Theater yesterday, a stone book that speaks of eternity, the same stones as that perennial monument of the Greek theater of Syracuse where a Camilleri already afflicted by blindness, but with an even brighter vision of life, looked at eternity. “I hear the eternity approaching – he said as a non -believer, it was June 2018, after his monologue” Conversation on Tiresia ” – and I would like to try not to understand it but to understand it, therefore I came to Syracuse among these stones that tell about eternity. As a man I believe that man cannot run out in the blood, in the water, in the meat ».
And it was the powerful voice of the singer -songwriter Olivia Sellerio with “Zara Zabara” (expression invented by Camilleri), who made the thoughts sing with the songs to Montalbano, accompanied by the guitars of Lino Costa and Dario Salerno, by the cello of Paolo Pellegrino, by the double bass of the guest Alberto Fidone, from the accordion of Roberto Gervasi and by the violin of Roberto Izzo. But before he stopped in this magnificent crossroads of notes, the master’s intense memory was entrusted to a director of the director Francesco Zippel, a Rai documentary co-production with his editorial manager Fabio Mancini, and Quiat. World preview for this beautiful docufilm, a sort of great dictionary that contains all Camilleri, through the Master’s voice, with his incredible charge of humanity, of some of his many students, actors and directors, writers and grandchildren Alessandra and Arianna Mortelliti, to get lost and find himself in the word-universe of Camilleri.
A fragrant word, such as the music of Olivia Sellerio that opens the windows to all the arias in the world, through the voices of Francesco Bruni, Giancarlo de Cataldo, Maurizio De Giovanni (who spoke of Camilleri as a substantial narrator with his language which is a sort of esperant of the soul), Giuseppe Dipasquale (he indicated the way to be directors, to build a dream). Finocchiaro, Fiorello (who opened and closed the docufilm with his hilarious Camillerian anecdotes), Fabrizio Gifuni, Melania Mazzucco, Michele Riondino, Sergio Rubini, Gaetano Savatteri (he made Sicily not only a great metaphor, but a great dream), Dajana Roncione, Luca Zingaretti (the most moved).
A gift to all of us at Camilleri, the living heritage of our culture, this show that concludes the “extraordinary summer season of Taormina Arte” as Sergio Bonomo, extraordinary commissioner of the Taormina Arte Sicilia Foundation, recalled, on stage together with Gianna Fratta, director of Taormina Arte, and who is part of the Centenary Camilleri program promoted by the Fondo Andrea Camilleri, directed by Andreina Camilleri (present at the evening) with the Camilleri 100 National Committee of which Felice Laudadio is president. «Camilleri- recalled Laudadio- is the most translated writer in the world after Dante Alighieri and his celebrations are taking place throughout Italy and in 18 European countries, with 18 capital chosen by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In short, a “marvel”, concluded Olivia Sellerio, because “Once upon a time and there is always” Andrea Camilleri.