The European Movement celebrates Europe Day with music, in partnership with the Mediterranean Lyric Art Center and the Consulate of Italy. They offered, yesterday late afternoon at the Garibaldi Hall, a concert titled “Great Voices of Tomorrow”.
During the evening, excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi’s operas were performed, including “La Traviata, Il Trovatore, La forza del destino, Rigoletto, Aรฏda…” *
Who better than Verdi could symbolize European creation?
Beethoven, of course, with his Ode to Joy which invited the friendship of peoples.
Yes, but Verdi, who engaged in the struggle for the unification of Italy, became the very symbol of it (with, among others, his chorus of the Hebrew slaves from Nabucco).
When we consider the historical and internal struggles of the peninsula, we understand how much this work is a peacemaker.
What could be more beautiful than commemorating the Schuman Declaration on May 9, 1950, in music (a speech given before the birth of the European Economic Community, considered the founding text of the European Union).
Perhaps the founding fathers of Europe aimed at economic goals, but when we exchange, when we talk, we get to know each other, we esteem each other, these are the first steps.
And culture, music, if not the preambles, they are never far behind, and it’s through them that we unify, that we create bonds, perhaps like the gluten in bread, but especially like neurons exchanging and building bridges between all brain areas.
Verdi was this catalyst of exchanges for the Italian people, but also for the entire world. His music is heard everywhere and by everyone.
He was the foremost musical creator of his time, and he remains one of the foremost creators of emotions of all time.
These harmonies have managed to unite the Latin world, Europe, and conquer the entire planet.
Odile Menozzi, President of the European Movement of Alpes-Maritimes
