Il fischio

THE OPERA
The libretto of FERROVIA SOPRELEVATA was created by the writer Dino Buzzati for the Italian Radio and transformed in an opera with Luciano Chailly for the Teatro Donizetti of Bergamo in 1955.
It was the first  time for the famous journalist and writer to create a text  for music and the first real opera for the young composer, working for television and radio.
The peculiarity of the opera was the mixture of a spoken part with the musical part and the two sensibilities  were brightly translated in the work.
After that Buzzati and Chailly will write together other tree operas and a song for the actress Laura Betti.

FERROVIA SOPRELEVATA is the story of a devil, Max, sent in mission on earth to corrupt a pure girl Laura. He succeeds the mission, but falls in love with the young singer and for that reason tries to change is nature to stay on earth with her.
In the original version Max is transformed in dog by an exorcism operated by a  bishop. That version could not be played and the priest was changed in a psichiatrist, that operated an elettroshock to change the devil nature.
The end is a poetical conjunction of the two souls.

In june 2009 FERROVIA SOPRELEVATA
was played at the TEATRO STUDIO of Milano for the first time in the original version.
The cast of the opera was very rich:
Max: Actor by Sergio Leone, Max singer Davide Rocca,
Laura: Actress Giorgia Senesi, singer Mya Fracassini, dancer Deniz Azhar Azariis ,
The Speaker: actor Frankie Hi Energy
Devil Basilisco: actor Pierluigi Corallo
The bishop  and Father of Laura: actor Giorgio Ginex
Devils and Souls: actors Luca Nocera, Emanuele Banchio, Ancilla Oggioni, Mirko Ciotta, Nicol Quaglia
Milano Classica Orchestra conducted by Gianluca Capuano
Rhaudenses Cantores Musical Chapel conducted by Giovanni Scomparin
I Piccoli cantori delle colline di Brianza conducted by Floranna Spreafico
Director: Lisa Nava
Scenes:  Roberta Pagani
Costumes: Margherita Maltese

The two nights of the play were sold out and a lot of young people could not enter.