A journey through Italian women songwriters, from the Fifties to today.
Music means "the art of the Muses": nine sisters, daughters of memory. And women are the keepers of memory. Yet if you open the dictionary of Italian singer-songwriters, the first names are all male — Fossati, Guccini, De André, Conte, Dalla. And the women? Where are they?
From that question begins a musical tale spanning more than half a century: Maria Monti, Italy's first female singer-songwriter, who coined the very word "cantautore" and had a record censored; Giovanna Marini, pioneer of social song, who learned from Pasolini that "songs are not found in books"; Gianna Nannini forcing open the doors of the Premio Tenco in 1980; Giuni Russo and Alice, discovered by Battiato; the tormented voice of Rosa Balistrieri, the voice of Sicily; then Paola Turci, Teresa De Sio, Lucilla Galeazzi, all the way to Carmen Consoli and Elisa.
A story that becomes a concert: the narrating voice weaves the lives of these women into their songs, performed live by a trio of voices and instruments. Women who made music a cure, a path, a way to carve out their place in a world still to be built.
To leave a trace of oneself: this, in the end, is the desire of anyone who writes music.
"Vita da Cantautrice" grew out of research into the history of women songwriters in Italy, a story long overshadowed by the great male names. Miriam Gotti's dramaturgy turns that research into a theatrical narrative, sustained live by three musicians who trade vocals and instruments: Miriam Gotti (narrating voice, vocals and percussion), Francesco Maffeis (piano and vocals) and Mauro Ghilardini (acoustic guitar and vocals). An essential, adaptable staging, suited to theatres, town squares, festivals and cultural events.
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