Condolence in the world of theater
twelve o’clock, September 30, 2021 – 9:46 pm
He suddenly disappears just 56 years after the rehearsal of the “Cantata” of Manna
from Laura Valente
He loved his theater, Salvatore Giannini. And he never stopped feeling privileged. Because, as he liked to repeat when he was among friends, “I had time to work in a world where entering through the side door meant entering a large family. Those who have not known the theater family will never really understand what it means ». Salvatore was fifty-six, most of whom spent behind the scenes with the proud hammer in his right back trouser pocket.
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Making a stubborn and conscious apprenticeship that led him, finally and for only merit (because it happens, despite everything, when one is good), to fill the role of stage director of the Teatro di San Carlo. We write about this figure, not at the center of the photograph of laurels but fundamental for the life of theaters, because Salvatore Giannini left this land at 5 am on Thursday 30 September. With the kindness that has accompanied him all his life. He left the rehearsal of the scheduled concert that celebrated the Cantata by Gaetano Manna for solos, choir and orchestra “on the occasion of the Translation of the Blood of the Glorious San Gennaro”, dated 1788 and in the first modern performance, under the direction of José Luis Basso .
After the test
He went home and, during the night, left the scene of his earthly time. Without making a sound. For a lightning heart attack. Leaving in those who had known him, in those who worked with him half of his life as a few years, the memory of a respectable man, who always had respect for the other “and that, if the applause comes at the end of the evening, it is because everyone, absolutely everyone, has done their part. Why do you take the theater home, “he repeated. Because in the theater you learn to look at the ‘outside the walls’ with complicity and a sense of belonging, with that special grammar that distinguishes the actors. We learn that, not only behind the scenes, the craftsmanship excellence of our stage masters is the key to understanding an art form unmatched to any other. In which every movement, every gesture, every shot of light, every entrance and exit – from the front row artists to the stage change props – are the result of a clockwork mechanism that transforms the directions of the direction into precise actions. Salvatore has never ceased, not even as a director, to feel part of the audience of the material artists of the theater: tailors, machinists, electricians … As he never ceased to be kind.
Because he knew that it is a discrete value, not a losing one. Because it takes courage to be kind. It takes intelligence to be kind. Anyone who has had the privilege of working with Salvatore Giannini is aware of having met a rare person. Have a good trip, Salvatore. Your family, your theater, you will find them along the way.
The funeral will be held on Friday, October 1st, at 10 am, in the church of Santa Maria della Catena, in via Santa Lucia.
30 September 2021 | 21:46
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