“In the blue – to have so much happiness in your arms” is a production by Permar, Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale with the support of Regione Emilia Romagna, Comune di Medicina.

There was a moment when our country – and a large part of the world – seemed happy.

It is the years around 1958, the years just before and just after the onset of the economic boom. People were – or seemed – happy, filled with a future in their eyes.
And if there is a man who embodies all of this in his body, if there is one who with his voice, with the vital push that inhabited every step of his, fully represents those years, that man is Domenico Modugno.
With a single song, he makes the entire West happy to exist. Yet he knew he was working on the ephemeral, the insubstantial, but despite everything, he persisted in believing: “I want to sing happiness. Even if it doesn’t exist, I want to delude myself that it exists, I have to believe that it exists.” And he does it with stubbornness, with inner turmoil, but all the way.

In the blue is the intimate tale of a man from a land forgotten by God – that Puglia which would remain on the periphery of the kingdom for decades, at least until I also left it to seek an artistic life elsewhere – who sets off on an adventure to “become an actor” and finds himself, after a few years, teaching the whole world to “fly”: he opens his mouth and drags away with an uncontrollable scream every dark remnant of the post-war period.

I will try to approach his story with all possible care, so as not to betray a man from my land, so as not to betray my land itself.
A tale of a reckless and stubborn existence in which the musicians/composers with me on stage are the other voice of Domenico Modugno, that voice which words cannot and do not represent.

For info: https://www.piccionaia.org/evento/nel-blu-ferrari/

Tickets: € 16 full price; € 14 for over 65 and under 30; € 8 for students