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7(maggio(2015(
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Musica:!in!scena!a!Roma!'La!Traviata',!protagoniste!le!scuole!
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migliaia!di!studenti!delle!elementari!e!medie!di!Roma!e!del!Lazio!cantano!insieme!ai!professionisti!
Roma,!7!mag.!(AdnKronos)!
(Ses/AdnKronos)!
Da!domani!al!30!maggio,!al!Teatro!Argentina!a!Roma,!torna!il!progetto!didattico!musicale!Scuola!
Incanto,!con!una!versione!speciale!de!'La!Traviata'!di!Giuseppe!Verdi,!protagonisti!migliaia!di!
studenti!delle!scuole!elementari!e!medie!di!Roma!e!del!Lazio.!Gli!studenti!saranno!coinvolti!in!
prima!persona,!interpretando!insieme!ai!cantanti!professionisti!i!brani!studiati!nel!corso!dell’anno,!
eseguendo!alcuni!movimenti!in!scena,!salendo!sul!palcoscenico!con!i!costumi!da!loro!stessi!
realizzati.!
Ideato!e!promosso!dall’Associazione!Musicale!Europa!InCanto,!in!collaborazione!con!il!Teatro!di!
Roma!e!con!il!Patrocinio!della!Regione!Lazio,!Scuola!InCanto!è!un!progetto!didattico!di!
avvicinamento!alla!lirica!pensato!per!gli!allievi!e!gli!insegnanti!della!scuola!dell’obbligo!con!lo!
scopo!di!diffondere!la!conoscenza!e!l’amore!per!la!musica,!l’opera!e!il!teatro.!
Giunto!alla!sua!quarta!edizione,!con!un!numero!di!adesioni!sempre!maggiore,!lo!spettacolo!
conclusivo!di!Scuola!InCanto!quest’anno!si!arricchisce!di!un!nuovo!elemento:!ad!accompagnare!il!
cast,!che!ricopre!i!ruoli!principali!dell’opera,!ci!sarà!un!ensemble!musicale!costituito!dagli!allievi!
del!Conservatorio!di!Musica!di!Santa!Cecilia.!L’inserimento!di!questo!ensemble!ha!permesso!di!
rafforzare!ulteriormente!il!carattere!formativo!del!progetto.!
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I!cantanti!professionisti!coinvolti!nel!progetto!hanno!avuto!l’opportunità!di!migliorare!la!loro!
formazione!artistica,!seguendo!una!masterclass!in!preparazione!vocale!sotto!la!guida!del!Maestro!
Angelo!Gabrielli,!che!ha!anche!scelto!il!cast!con!una!qualificata!commissione!e!tramite!le!audizioni,!
indette!dall’Associazione!Musicale!Europa!InCanto.!
Il!progetto!Scuola!InCanto!nasce!nel!2012!dalla!sfida!di!far!apprendere!e!cantare!l’opera!lirica!ai!
bambini,!appassionandoli!grazie!alla!creazione!di!un!originale!metodo!didattico!fondato!su!
momenti!ludici!e!capace!di!introdurli!al!mondo!della!lirica!attraverso!lo!studio!del!canto!e!il!gioco.!
Prima!di!arrivare!allo!spettacoloTlaboratorio!teatrale!conclusivo!dove!tutti!gli!alunni!partecipano!
attivamente,!il!percorso!ha!previsto!lo!svolgimento!di!corsi!di!formazione!per!docenti,!la!
distribuzione!di!un!ricco!kit!didattico,!la!realizzazione!di!laboratori!musicali!e!seminari,!tenuti!nelle!
scuole!da!cantanti!lirici,!specializzati!nella!didattica!del!canto.!
“Un’esperienza!unica,!che!resterà!per!sempre!sedimentata!nelle!nuove!generazioni!–!affermano!i!
responsabili!del!progetto!–!In!un!Paese!dove!l’educazione!musicale!in!ambito!scolastico!è!ancora!
molto!limitata,!iniziative!di!questo!genere!contribuiscono!a!colmare!una!grande!lacuna!formativa!e!
culturale!e!si!rivelano!preziose,!come!testimonia!il!successo!del!progetto!che!ogni!anno!coinvolge!
un!numero!sempre!crescente!di!scuole!e!bambini!e!che!si!sta!espandendo!sul!territorio!nazionale!
con!richieste!di!partecipazione!in!continuo!aumento”.!
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Matador for the Day: perché non
offrire l'insegnamento della
musica lirica nelle scuole
elementari?
Pubblicato: 05/06/2015 17:16 CEST
Aggiornato: 05/06/2015 17:16 CEST
Anche se siamo nella terra dove è nata l'opera, la patria de La Scala di Milano,
l'Arena di Verona, il Teatro San Carlo di Napoli o la Fenice di Venezia, ahimè
l'insegnamento della musica resta in Italia un attività extra curricolare per i
bambini della scuola pubblica elementare. Il compianto Maestro Claudio Abbado ha
fondato delle orchestre giovanili in Italia e all'estero, riuscendo a importare in Italia
il programma musicale venezuelano che egli maggiormente ammirava (il Sistema
Nazionale delle Orchestre e Cori Giovanili, fondato da Jose' Antonio Abreu) che
continua a togliere dalla strada bimbi problematici e ad inserirli in contesti
orchestrali. Tuttavia, proprio nella Patria di Abbado, l'insegnamento della musica
continua ad essere prevalentemente assente dal curriculum della scuola italiana. Se
l'insegnamento della musica esiste in alcune scuole pubbliche italiane, è solo grazie
all'iniziativa individuale di alcuni presidi e maestre. O, in alternativa, è il risultato
dell'azione di alcuni genitori che propongono, votano a favore e contribuiscono al
finanziamento di alcuni programmi che portano la musica nelle aule.
We may be in the land where opera was born, the home to Milan's La Scala, L'Arena
di Verona, Naples' Teatro di San Carlo and Venice's Teatro La Fenice - but,
unfortunately, music remains an extracurricular activity for children in the Italian
public elementary school. The late Maestro Claudio Abbado founded youth orchestras
in Italy and beyond, and succeeded in importing to Italy a Venezuelan, musical
program he admired (the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras,
founded by José Antonio Abreu) that continues to get kids off the streets and into
music halls.
Yet, even in Abbado's homeland, music continues to be mostly absent from the Italian
curriculum.
Over a year ago, even Architect Renzo Piano addressed the Italian Senate in his role as
Senator-for-Life in a tribute to Abbado and his life-long wish that music be taught
regularly in Italian schools:
"All the schools in Europe teach music," said Piano three days after his friend Abbado
passed away. "Is it possible that we, in Italy, do not teach music? It doesn't require
much, it needs to be done...Children need to be taught immediately, while they are
still young, because when they grow up and become insensitive to beauty, it seems like
something foreign that no longer belongs to them, that no longer interests them.
Instead music is exactly that which ignites their wishes, that gives us energy."
If music exists in some Italian public schools, it is only thanks to the individual
inspiration of certain teachers and principals. Or, it's a result of parents who propose,
vote in favor of, and pay for programs that bring music to the classroom. Last week, I
saw the fruits of such a musical program which made me proud to have my children
attending an Italian school that had adopted it. If only Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's
"Good School" reform might consider this musical program as the norm - and not the
exception -- to the Italian elementary school curriculum.
Although complaining is the greatest pastime in Italy beyond soccer, I will now take
an American minute to do the opposite and cheer for something simple, yet superb,
which should be happening in all Italian schools. My son, who is growing up in Rome,
had his theatrical break at the Teatro Argentina last weekend singing as a Matador in
Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata. If you were anywhere near Rome's Largo Argentina last
Sunday, you probably saw him among crowds of other elementary school children
dressed up as gypsies, matadors, ladies in taffeta dresses, and gentlemen in morning
coats of another era.
My son is not in a choir and does not take voice lessons. Instead, his school, La Lante
della Rovere, like several others in Rome (including the Lycee' Francais
Chateaubriand), simply elected to enroll its students in the Scuola In Canto program,
which enables kids to participate both as audience members and performers in a live,
operatic performance. The magic of this program lies in its simplicity: it spoon-feeds
Italian musical culture to its youth in an extraordinary class-cum-performance of
Opera for Beginners. Alongside a handful of professional opera singers accompanied
by some musicians of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, my eight-year-old
boy, together with approximately 150 children, belted out the lyrics of the Verdi
masterpiece as if at a Justin Beieber concert.
Over the past six months, while driving my son to school, I have listened to his
prepubescent voice hit a high B-flat or a low D-sharp in singing "Si ridesta in ciel
l'aurora." He also began to recite the antiquated verses of sheet music with a fluency
that seemed inconceivable for an Italo-American boy who, just two years ago, was a
long way from speaking colloquial, let alone operatic, Italian.
At the beginning of the academic year, each student receives a 190-page book that
summarizes La Traviata in a simplified version for children, complete with
illustrations, instructions for preparing their costumes, and a musical CD of the songs
they will sing.
At school, in a handful of lessons throughout the year, a guest music teacher instructs
classes about the story of the opera they will perform, and introduces children to
singing. Each student pays fifteen Euros in order to participate in the program (plus
ten Euros per ticket for parents to see the show). Teachers themselves are also
instructed in three separate lessons to learn how to guide their musical pupils.
As homework, the children must listen to the music on their own, each song featured
four times on the CD in various versions (with or without orchestral accompaniment,
with piano accompaniment, or sung rhythmically). Through osmosis, the musical
work of art seeps into the entire family's brain (my six-year-old could have easily
performed as an understudy).
After just several weeks of pushing "repeat" on the car stereo, I started overhearing
my son humming "Amor, amor e' palpito" as he got himself dressed in the morning.
Then, one day in May, after tickets for the performance are fought over among
parents and grandparents as if it's the finals of the Coppa Italia, the mini-stars show
up in full regalia (assembled by their parents) and shuffle to their majestic seats in
one of Europe's oldest opera houses just steps from the Pantheon.
Both the red velvet seats framed by gold-bordered curtains and a majestic chandelier
on the theater's frescoed ceiling are enough of a wink at cultural beauty in Italy to
impress any child for a lifetime. The balcony boxes that once likely seated spectators
in black tie and ball gowns with binoculars now exhibit parents in pantsuits with
selfie-sticks.
The lights go down, the curtains go up, and the children, most of whom have never
stepped foot in this theater until the day of their performance, put on an hour-and-ahalf production of an opera and sing an aria as if it is their school anthem. There is no
dress rehearsal before the big day - the performance the audience sees is the first (and
only). The buzz of the pulsing theater simmers from the novelty of the experience for
everyone. Effortlessly orchestrated by their teachers, classes seated in the audience
are herded up onstage like baby flocks of sheep in costumes far more elegant than the
sweatpants and smocks they usually wear as school uniforms. On stage right, a
musical director waves his hands like an evangelist, indicating when elementary
school classes should sing full throttle either standing up or sitting down. Parents can
relax and enjoy the show knowing that their potentially squirmy children are seated
next to their teachers.
The professional opera singers are not only gifted in song but also in handling packs
of children whom they have never seen before the day of the performance and
suddenly find underfoot. Like a talk show host, the female narrator shows exceptional
talent at keeping the attention of her audience members by drilling them on what
they've been studying over the months in playful, theatrical fashion.
"What is the name of the flower of Violetta?" she asks the crowd in between arias.
"Camellia!" hundreds of mini-voices shriek, little hands waving the pink-constructionpaper flowers artfully prepared at school for the performance.
"How much time has passed in the life of Violetta if she has seen three full moons?"
she asks.
"Three months!" responds her audience.
As children are shuffled up and down stairs, on and off-stage, so that everyone has a
turn in the hot lights, not even a handicapped child is spared: one of the adult
performers carries him onstage so that he can sing, too. Some parents, who having
been attending the performances of this three-year-old program for various siblings
over the past few years, were relieved to learn that a new opera will take center stage
next year: Gioacchino Rossini's La Cenerentola.
By the end of the performance, all ages are giddy, and the musical conductor leads the
entire theater in a sing-along of "Libiam nei lieti calici." There's not a doubt in the
room: everyone knows the lyrics.
Driving home in the car the other night after a long day, my son asked if I could turn
up the volume of La Traviata as his lullaby to lure him to sleep. As he dosed off, my
six-year-old daughter's eyes grew droopy as she also mumbled along to the CD's
lyrics. I'd like to raise a glass to one of the finest cultural experiences available to
elementary school children in Italy today. As we wait for Abbado's wish and mine to
come true, when a typical day at the Italian school will also include music classes, may
the teachers guiding our children in song, please, take a bow.
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