SUNSET BY THE AUTHOR: Opera Choruses

In the artistic economy of the Mascagni Festival, the Tramonti d’Autore occupy a peculiar and valuable space: built around intimate listening, suspended in the twilight hour when light declines on the Gazebo of the Mascagni Terrace and the landscape becomes an integral part of the score. The sunset time brings with it a statement of intent: music offers itself as a total experience, in which sound, light, and place merge into a unique perception.
The cycle stems from a precise programmatic will carried out in close collaboration with the “P. Mascagni” Conservatory of Livorno, an institution that ensures educational continuity and local roots to the project: opening the festival to the multiple variations with which the twentieth century has been able to renew musical language, through the performance of the Conservatory’s students. From jazz to classical composition, from avant-garde currents to contemporary syntheses, each event offers a transversal look at a century of sound invention — a century that Mascagni, with his creative restlessness and narrative instinct, had contributed to inaugurate.
The thread that connects these concerts to the Livornese composer is never didactic. It is a deeper affinity than a direct reference: the desire, common to all the voices in the program, to make music an act of storytelling and emotion. In this sense, the Mascagni legacy proves to be surprisingly alive and open to dialogue.
Another significant artistic presence of this cycle in this edition is the final appointment dedicated to the Opera Choirs with the protagonist being the Corale Guido Monaco directed by Maestro Diego Terreni and featuring the performance of a piece for piano and voice by Natalia Valli with soprano Rebecca Salluzzi in the opening.