For reasons related to his health, Giovanni Allevi cancels the concert scheduled for Friday 15 March in Taranto. The organizers announce that tickets purchased for the concert at the Teatro Orfeo can be used on April 30th. The master is busy with his Piano Solo Tour 2024 and it was on the stage of the Sanremo Festival that, after a very long absence due to his illness, we saw him return to perform. And to excite with his monologue in which he recounted his journey with the myeloma with which he has been fighting daily for about two years.
the piano solo tour 2024
On Friday 9 February the Maestro inaugurated the new tour at the Guglielmi Theater in Massa which will continue until May touching numerous Italian cities: from Rome to Milan passing through Ravenna and Varese. Today’s is just a stop, Allevi will have to stop again but the canceled Taranto date is only postponed.
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Sanremo, Giovanni Allevi: “I have lost everything but not hope”
GIOVANNI ALLEVI’S MONOLOGUE IN SANREMO
“Suddenly everything collapsed for me, I haven’t played the piano in front of an audience for almost two years – said Allevi in his monologue on the Ariston stage -. In my last concert, at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the pain in my back was so bad that at the final applause I couldn’t get up from the stool and I still didn’t know I was sick. Then came the very serious diagnosis. I looked at the ceiling feeling like I had a fever of 39 for a consecutive year. I lost a lot: job, hair, certainties. But not hope and the desire to imagine, it was as if the pain also offered me unexpected gifts.” Allevi told of when – “before all this happened” – during a concert, in a full theatre, he noticed “an empty seat”. He felt faint. “And yet – he continued – when I was starting out I gave concerts in front of 15-20 people and I was very happy”. And he reflected: “Today, after the illness, I don’t know what I would give to play in front of 15 people.” Then he listed some “gifts” that brought him pain, speaking of “gratitude towards the beauty of creation: the sunrises and sunsets that I admired from those hospital rooms cannot be counted”. Then he mentioned the certainty that, “when everything collapses and only the essential remains standing, the judgment we receive from the outside no longer counts”.