2023-05-15 19:05:37
“It was my dream. And I’m realizing it. I will bring the history of the tango, my very personal biography to the big screen. Filming will start from Rome with some escapes to Buenos Aires”. This is what Miguel Angel Zotto, one of the leading representatives of Argentine tango, announced during a press conference held today at the ‘El Porteno Gourmet’ venue, who will be in the capital at the Teatro Olimpico from 18 to 21 May with the show ‘Tango. Historias de Astor’. It is a tribute to the Argentine musician and composer of Italian origin Astor Pantaléon Piazzolla, born in Mar Del Plata in 1921 and died in Buenos Aires in 1992.
For over 30 years Miguel Angel Zotto (his family was originally from Trani) has been a welcome guest of the Roman Philharmonic with shows that have always been sold out. “I met Astor Piazzolla in 1989 in Paris. I was staging one of my shows in Paris and he approached me through a mutual friend, José Pons, to congratulate me – recalled Zotto, who considers Piazzolla his tutelary deity – He was a man tough, rigid, a demanding artist. but I owe him a lot”. The great composer entrusted him with the choreography of the Broadway staging of María de Buenos Aires, a tango-opera with a libretto by Horacio Ferrer.
The latter, in a jealously guarded letter from the dancer, describes him as “the greatest revolutionary of the current era in the history of the tango”. Together with the life of Astor Piazzolla, Zotto will stage the story of a musical genre and a dance that is the very essence of Argentina. Leading the narration of the show will be an angel, identified as the angel of the tango, to whom Astor recounts his life from childhood to his encounter with the tango, from the orchestras in which he played to the direction of the Fiorentina Orchestra to the staging of ‘Maria of Buenos Aires’.
In an essential scene, punctuated by vintage images of Piazzolla’s life that will scroll on a video wall, Miguel Ángel Zotto and Daiana Guspero, tango and life partners, will dance together with four other pairs of dancers from the TangoX2 Company (over 30 years of activities at an international level) and of the Zotto Tango Academy, the Milanese school where tango teaches its art. On stage the singers Jessica Lorusso (also in the role of actress) and Carlos Habiague, and the musicians of the Tango Sonos orchestra. The traditional bandoneón will be joined by a piano, a double bass and a violin, who will perform the songs live, all signed by Astor Piazzolla.
Among the most famous ones, from ‘Triunfal’ to ‘Libertango’, from ‘Milonga del Angel’ to ‘Quejas de bandoneón’, up to the moving ‘Adiós Nonino’, written for the death of his father Vicente Piazzolla. It will be a ride through the best repertoire of the Argentine composer who was able to distill a modern and original sound from the tango born in the barrios of Buenos Aires, where tradition combines with the cultured avant-garde. On May 19, a happening is scheduled in Rome at the San Giovanni metro station (11 am) with Miguel Angel Zotto and Daiana Guspero.
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