FULL IL CASO PERTINI (Giovanni D’Aquila) Savona 2024 Michele Patti, Manuela Custer, Matteo Mezzaro

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: IL CASO PERTINI  
• Composer: D’Aquila Giovanni  
• Libretto: Emanuela Ersilia Abbadessa    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Comunale G. Chiabrera, Savona, Italy  
• Recorded: November 9, 2024
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Michele Patti, Manuela Custer, Matteo Mezzaro, Raffaele Barca
• Conductor: Davide Massiglia  
• Orchestra: ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI SAVONA  
• Chorus: CORO DEL TEATRO DELL’OPERA GIOCOSA  
• Chorus Master: GianLuca Ascheri  
• Stage Director: Elisabetta Courir   
• Stage Designer: Francesca Marsella  
• Costume Designer: Olimpia Tonini  
• Lighting Designer: Alessandro Santarelli  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Teatro Opera Giocosa  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The Pertini case, born from an idea by Giovanni Di Stefano and commissioned to Giovanni D’Aquila (one of the most interesting composers of the new Italian generation) with a libretto by Emanuela E. Abbadessa, retraces the events of the 1927 trials involving Filippo Turati, Sandro Pertini, Carlo Rosselli, Ferruccio Parri, Lorenzo Dabove, Francesco Spirito, Italo Oxilia, Giacomo Oxilia and Giuseppe Boyancè. Narrated in a 1965 play (which later became a television film) written by Vico Faggi and staged at the Teatro Stabile in Genoa, the story represents an important act of “civil disobedience”, the last possible act for the judging panel, before the Special Tribunal for crimes against fascism tied the hands of ordinary justice. The role of the Judge is entrusted to the reciting voice of Raffaele Barca, an Italian actor who trained at the Scuola del Teatro dell”Orologio in Rome and the Acting School of the Teatro Nazionale in Genoa. The protagonist of the opera, to reconnect the threads of the events of ’27, is mezzo-soprano Manuela Custer in the role of Barbara Barclay Carter, the only foreign journalist who, with a subterfuge, managed to follow the trial proceedings together with Matteo Mezzaro, tenor and Michele Patti, baritone. The direction will be by Elisabetta Courir and the sets and costumes by Francesca Marsella.

Music and the Word. by Giovanni D’Aquila

The Pertini case was a challenge I could not avoid: first of all for the themes and the main characters, which I am deeply passionate about, representing figures essential to the birth of our Constitution and our Republic; then there is the dramaturgical structure, so unusual and unusual, indirect, conducted halfway between recollection and memory with a pinch of nostalgia, and the perspective of the story, so particular and contextually so current.
On the other hand, the direct narrative would have been quite complicated to represent on an opera stage: the story would have been transformed into a sort of legal thriller more televised than anything else, but without the tension that sordid and bloody crimes could provide.
So that narrative is the perfect dimension to represent this story, in which some of the protagonists remember and narrate the facts of the trial in which they witnessed, were protagonists or were involved, directly or indirectly.
The music supports this dramatic setting, valorising the word above all other aspects, and supporting and supporting the nuances of the narration, moving from the level of memory to that of recollection without interruption.
The indirect, narrative dramaturgy setting allows for a clearer objectification of the facts, which the true protagonist of the work, the Judge, needs to face his task and resolve the profound dilemma that arises before him: Law or Justice?

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