Culture. “Estate Sforzesca” kicks off on June 7th, the music, theater and dance festival that will accompany the Milanese season with 25 events until August 82th
Culture. “Estate Sforzesca” kicks off on June 7th, the music, theater and dance festival that will accompany the Milanese season with 25 events until August 82th
Milan, June 30 2019 – Sixty-two evenings dedicated to music (from classical to jazz, from rock to pop, from gospel to punk), seventeen to theatre, six to dance, for a total of eighty-two events, eight of which are specifically designed for children and teenagers. These are some numbers of the seventh edition of "Estate Sforzesca", the music, theater and dance festival which is growing this year in quality and quantity, with a programming span that covers the entire Milanese summer season - from 7 June to 25 August - and 82 dates on the bill: practically one show per evening for the whole summer.
The "Estate Sforzesca" program, promoted and coordinated by the Municipality of Milan|Culture, was constructed by selecting the best proposals from the various cultural operators who responded to the invitation of the Municipality of Milan. Among the selection criteria were quality, originality and innovation, which allowed us to propose highly inclusive programming, aimed both at citizens and at the increasingly numerous tourists present in the city during the summer season.
“Over the years, Estate Sforzesca has become the longest and most dense Italian summer festival of live entertainment – states the Councilor for Culture Filippo Del Corno – with an extremely engaging offering, thanks to a program that ranges between different genres and languages, and inclusive of all cultural operators who participate with original and attractive proposals for an increasingly rich and lively Milanese summer".
Since 2013 - the year of the first edition - the event has seen an almost tripling of scheduled events (from 30 to 82), and therefore of the public, continuing to maintain a controlled price for all paid shows (60 in this edition) and all the others have free admission (22). There are always 500 seats available, while the show area has a capacity of around 2 thousand people standing.
Among the novelties of this edition are the refreshment bar, which will be set up in the same Cortile delle Armi and will remain open during the shows, and an eco-friendly exhibition as well as totally plastic-free equipment thanks to the collaboration with the Municipality of Milan | Productive Activities, Edison, Legambiente and Novamant.
“A virtuous collaboration between public administration, associations for the protection of the environment and private operators – comments the councilor for Labor Policies, Productive Activities and Commerce Cristina Tajani – which will allow not only to experience a Sforza summer between aperitifs, events and appointments in complete relaxation and free from single-use plastics, but also, thanks to the information materials and Legambiente volunteers present on site, to promote virtuous behavior capable of changing the habits of consumers and citizens, raising their awareness of respect and greater protection of the environment, starting with small daily gestures”.
On the covered stage set up in the Cortile delle Armi at the Sforzesco Castle - this year the heart of Leonardo's celebrations also thanks to the extraordinary reopening of the Sala delle Asse - the protagonist will be music with 24 classical shows, 11 jazz, 8 rock/punk/indie /pop/rap, 2 of pop music and 5 DJ set appointments; but also World Music, singer-songwriter music, gospel, musicals.
Among the appointments: Nada with Motta and The Zen Circus, Massimo Volume with Giardini di Mirò, Erlend Oye, Max Weimberg, Mecna, Too Many Zooz for the rock, indie and rap scene, Incognito, Andrea Motis, Chucho Valdés, Quinteto Astor Piazzolla for jazz and the Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino for traditional world music.
Gio Evan, Giovanni Truppi, Ginevra di Marco and Cristina Donà and the singer-songwriters of Nanni Ricordi will represent Italian songwriting, while the electro-pop evenings will be animated by Le Cannibale, Karmadrome, L'Ultima Festa and Take it Easy Summer Edition. Also guests of the Sforzesca Summer program are the “Musicamorfosi” and “Notturni al Castello” exhibitions.
Several large orchestras were involved: Civica Orchestra di Fiati di Milano (together with Antonella Ruggero on the occasion of the inaugural concert), Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, Orchestra a Fiati della Valtellina, Area M Orchestra with Fabrizio Bosso, Orchestra Cantelli.
The “Giuseppe Verdi” Symphony Orchestra of Milan will be the protagonist of the Milanese Ferragosto in an evening of free-entry music entitled “Fireworks”.
The stage set up in the Castle Courtyard will allow spectators to experience 17 theatrical performances in an open air historical, fascinating and prestigious context. On the bill we find, among others, Michele and Brenno Placido in “Lionardo”, a show created for the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci; ATIR Teatro Ringhiera with “Smeasured Prayer - Homage to De André”, and also the Martinitt Theater with the “Tastes of Comedies of the 2019 Season”, the Corrado d'Elia Company with “Dante, Inferno”, CETEC with “Viva la vida” , Alma Rosè with “Carta Canta”, Dramatrà with “Do you remember the house of the sun?” and the Buster Cultural Association with “Coma Quando Fiori Piove”.
Dance is also the protagonist with shows of all kinds: from classical with “Romeo and Juliet” and “Verdi in Danza” organized by the Milan Ballet Association, to contemporary with “Connections2” organized by the Milano Contemporary Ballet, to popular dance with the “Irish Night” organized by the Irish Dance Academy.
Children, teenagers and young people are the protagonists of various evenings of the “Estate Sforzesca” program: “Piccoli Cantori di Milano” organized by the Associazione Coro Piccoli Cantori di Milano, “Galà delle Academie di Danza” organized by Muse Solidali and “ Pierino and the wolf” with Luca Uslenghi.
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Updated: 30/05/2019