160 years after the birth of the poet from Pescara, I Solisti Aquilani bring Io ti veglierò to the stage. I will protect you, a tribute to Gabriele D’Annunzio, directed by Beatrice Venezi and narrated by Giorgio Pasotti. The show will be scheduled for July 27 at 21:30 at the Palazzo dei Duchi di Santo Stefano in Taormina.
“Unconscious or deliberate”, writes Vito Salierno in the introduction of Letters to Barbara Leoni (1887-1892) – Rocco Carabba publisher, “the transposition of life into art is a fundamental characteristic of all Gabriele D’Annunzio’s literary production: the poet often appears aware of this binomial life-art which he claimed as a right, free from any human responsibility”. Impossible to summarize in a few minutes, in one evening, this union, which lasted decades: Life as a work of art, as the title of the latest book by the president of the Vittoriale degli Italiani, Giordano Bruno Guerri states. Here then is the possibility of establishing a link, of proposing a suggestion, a path between D’Annunzio’s poems, letters and texts in a program entitled Io ti veglierò. I will protect you. There is no doubt that women were his main source of inspiration, joy and torment (Guerri) and one could only dedicate a program to them and to the Poet.

With the music chosen by the conductor Beatrice Venezi, the program highlights the female figure in cultured music, in the years in which the poet lived, with poems, pages of prose, real letters written by D’Annunzio. The show is a production of the Solisti Aquilani with the artistic direction of Maurizio Cocciolito.

Giving voice to the Poet, his characters, his muses, his torments and his words is Giorgio Pasotti, actor but also artistic director of the Teatro Stabile d’Abruzzo, in the context of an unprecedented collaboration between L’Aquila and the his Solisti Aquilani, the Regional Council of Abruzzo, Taormina Arte and the Vittoriale degli Italiani of Gardone Riviera.

The musical solo parts will be performed by Susanna Bertuccioli, first harp of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestra, and Daniele Orlando, first violin of the Solisti Aquilani.