Messina: the eighth edition of the Messina Film Festival Cinema & Opera is underway
The festival, inaugurated on November 30 with the exhibition of Gerardo Sacco's jewelry for Zeffirelli, offers events until December 7, with screenings, live concerts and meetings with great names in cinema and opera.
Messina: the eighth edition of the Messina Film Festival Cinema & Opera is underway.
The eighth edition of the Messina Film Festival – Cinema & Opera, which is directed by Ninni Panzera, will be inaugurated on Saturday 30 November at 18.30 pm by the exhibition “Gerardo Sacco's jewels for Franco Zeffirelli”, which will be hosted until December 7th in the Cripta Hall of the Accascina Museum in Messina (free admission).
The Calabrian goldsmith he created for the films Othello, Young Toscanini and Hamlet the jewels that will be exhibited on this occasion along with some stage costumes made by Maurizio Millenotti, nominated for an Oscar in 1987. During the evening at the Museum, the documentary Franco Zeffirelli, conformista ribelle (2023) by Anselma Dell'Olio will also be screened. She will be present and will introduce her latest work to the spectators. The tribute to Franco Zeffirelli is made in collaboration with the Foundation that bears his name.
Friday 29 November at 20.30pm a pre-opening of the MFF is scheduled at the Palacultura, during which the films Cavalleria rusticana by Ugo Falena from 1916 will be screened, a silent film that demonstrates the intimate connection between cinema and opera since the birth of the seventh art and La Norma by Gerolamo Lo Savio from 1915. This special evening is organized in collaboration with the Vincenzo Bellini Musical Association at the Palazzo della Cultura, with live accompanying music by the Orchestra dell'Associazione Musicale Taorminese.
In the following days, from 1 to 7 December, the Sala Laudamo of the Vittorio Emanuele Theatre, will be the heart of the screenings, with the “International Short Film Competition”, and the “Contemporary Panorama” section dedicated to international works with four films in national premiere: the French Carmen by Benjamin Millepied, Karaoke by Stéphane Ben, Ténor by Claude Zidi jr and the German Orphea in Love by Axel Ranisch, which will be present at the Festival.
Particularly eagerly awaited are the events dedicated to silent opera, silent films based on operas, accompanied by live music by soloists or ensembles, such as that of the Corelli Conservatory of Messina. Scheduled for Tuesday, December 3 at 18.30:XNUMX p.m. is a video conversation with Giuseppe Tornatore who will talk with journalist Franco Cicero. Followed by the film “Stanno tutti bene” with Marcello Mastroianni, in which the Sicilian director’s passion for opera is “revealed”. 2024 is the centenary of the death of Giacomo Puccini who will be remembered with “Puccini e la fanciulla”, by director Paolo Benvenuti who, on Wednesday 4 December at 18.00 pm, will meet the Festival audience.
Verga's novella, "Cavalleria rusticana" transposed into music by Pietro Mascagni, accompanies the MFF with various film versions. A different narration can be found in the reading "Dangerous Relations" starring Stefania Sandrelli in the role of Santuzza, who will close the festival on the evening of Saturday 7 December at the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele.
Messina Film Festival – Cinema&Opera is made possible thanks to the contribution of the Teatro di Messina, the Regional Department of Tourism, Sport and Entertainment of the Sicilia Film Commission, the Municipality of Messina, Unioncamere Sicilia, the Presidency of the ARS and CNA Sicilia. Media partners: Rai News 24, Rainews.it, Rai Italia, TGR Sicilia, MYmovies, Sicilia Spettacoli, Radio Taormina.
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