“Long live peace, there is nothing else. Tomorrow’s show, long live peace”. This is the message that Marco Vizzardelli, the loggerhead who shouted “Long live anti-fascist Italy” at the Scala premiere last year, wants to shout from the metaphorical armchair of the Milanese theater on the eve of the performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino”. A gesture that “was also taken very well by Scala itself” he adds. Vizzardelli will be present at the premiere tomorrow, this time not in the Loggione, together with the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa. “Very good, you can see the work” replies the gallery attendant. “I confirm – he tells Adnkronos – that I was and still am anti-fascist today” and that he will not want to repeat himself by sending the same message twice, because “if I did I would be a clown”.
Marco Vizzardelli is an opera enthusiast and expert and “La Forza del Destino” is one of Giuseppe Verdi’s strangest operas, he is keen to underline. It is neither an immediate nor an enthralling work, but “much more complex, the only comparison I can make with another Verdi opera is with the Sicilian Vespers”. The comparison is with War and Peace or with a hypothetical musical representation of Gone with the Wind: “It’s like opening a great historical novel and getting lost in its pages”.
“I was lucky enough to see the opera during the general rehearsals and Leo Muscato (director) and Riccardo Chailly (conductor) did a job that I would define current and poetic. Muscato captured, in a non-Manichean way, the theme of peace and portrayed it in a stupendous way.” Of Chailly “I believe it is his greatest Verdi direction. Calibrated, studied, but with a huge heart behind it.” And at the end “it gives me goosebumps, I was moved”.