Focus on young people and Luigi Illica, librettist and journalist, in collaboration with the IULM University
"One of the objectives of the IX Illica Festival 2022 - declares Gilda Bojardi, Councilor for culture of Castell'Arquato and director of INTERNI - will be to enhance the figure of Luigi Illica not only as a librettist but also and above all as a journalist. Focus is to involve and give space to young people".
To tell the journalistic work of Luigi Illica, under the aegis of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Castell'Arquato, the IULM University of Milan, Rector Professor Gianni Canova, has planned a research that will involve the students of the first year of the Master in Journalism, directed by Daniele Manca, deputy director of Corriere della Sera. Led by Giangiacomo Schiavi, columnist for the Milanese daily, the students will immerse themselves in the Corriere archive and in the library databases to study Illica's journalistic production. The result will lead to a dedicated publication, which will be presented in 2023 in conjunction with the 33rd biennial edition of the Luigi Illica Prize, and the X Illica Festival.
The research will be announced in detail on the evening of 23 July.
The opportunity offered to young composers Under 40 to discover and set to music unpublished pages of the Arquatese master's production moves in this same direction with the International Composition Competition Il 3001, an unpublished libretto written by Luigi Illica around 1908.
The competition jury will be announced during the Opera Evening on 23 July. The winning composition proclaimed in November 2022, will see the first performance at the 10th edition of the Illica 2023 Festival.