2023-12-06 17:45:44
Time.news – Italian lyrical bel canto is from today UNESCO intangible heritage of humanity. That is, it will be included in the list of those cultural traditions that UNESCO undertakes to safeguard as part of its efforts to promote diversity and cultural heritage throughout the world. The news could not have arrived at a better time, that is, on the eve of theinauguration of the season of the La Scala theater in Milanfor over two centuries the temple of opera that the whole world envies us.
While waiting for the inaugural opera – Verdi’s Don Carlo – tomorrow evening, the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, expressed his satisfaction by highlighting to the microphones of Rai Radio Uno the “great recognition” received and for which the country must be proud: “it’s a historic fact”, he said.
Sangiuliano supported and carried forward the candidacy of Italian opera singing an intangible heritage of humanity. A candidacy that was put forward in April 2022 by the then Minister of Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini and Undersecretary Lucia Borgonzoni, and which the competent session of the committee, meeting in Kasane, evidently recognized as one of the most authentic and originals from the Bel Paese.
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New inscription on the #IntangibleHeritage List: The practice of opera singing in #Italy .
Congratulations! #LivingHeritage pic.twitter.com/IkBohsGBLa
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December 6, 2023
“Opera singing in Italy is a physiologically controlled way of singing that enhances the power of the voice in acoustic spaces such as amphitheaters and churches – explained theUNESCO in a note – It is associated with specific facial expressions and body gestures and involves a combination of music, drama, acting and staging. “It is a means of free expression and intergenerational dialogue and its cultural value is recognized nationally and internationally,” concludes the organization.
But it’s not just the Italian opera singing among the ‘new entries’ in the list of the intangible heritage of humanity drawn up by UNESCO. In today’s meeting in Botswana it was decided to also include delicious dishes such as Peruvian ceviche o to Lebanese Man’ouche and music, like the Cuban and Mexican bolero. There are many cultural realities recognized as peculiar by 18th UNESCO commissionthe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and among these some are transnational, such as the art of glass handmade whose candidacy had been proposed by the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary and Spain, and other extremely local ones, such as Naga motif weaving of Laos or that of the thong in Ivory Coast or the construction of wooden boats in Martinique. Other features that entered the list for the first time are theElechekthe traditional cylindrical headdress worn by women in Kyrgyzstan or the Garba dance of the Indian state of Gujarat.
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New inscription on the #IntangibleHeritage List: Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock [Extension], #Albania , #Andorra , #Austria , #Croatia , #France , #Greece , #Italy , #Luxembourg , #Romania , #Spain .
Congratulations! … pic.twitter.com/L52DZTlabV
— UNESCO ️ #Education #Sciences #Culture (@UNESCO)
December 5, 2023
Interesting to note that too the seasonal practice of transhumance, with the migration of flocks from one pasture to another, has fully entered the UNESCO list of intangible heritage. A practice, underlines UNESCO, present in at least a dozen countries including theItaly, France, Albania, Croatia and Greece.
As announced, the committee session, which is still taking place in Kasane, Botswana, will close tomorrow, 7 December. Since Monday the members of the commission have been busy examining applications for the registration of 55 cultural practices presented in total from 72 Member States.
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