Danilo Rea inaugura la stagione concertistica di Foligno

Danilo Rea inaugurates the concert season at the Auditorium San Domenico in Foligno on Sunday, February 15, at 9:00 PM, with "Opera in Jazz," a special project that puts the emphasis on the singability and evocative power of opera arias. The event, organized by the Friends of Music of Foligno in collaboration with the Young Jazz Festival, is dedicated to the illustrious resident of Foligno, Mario Guidi, a manager and pioneer of jazz, who passed away in 2019.

In this concert, the lyric tradition becomes living matter: themes, phrases, and vocal memories resurface on the piano as recognizable traces, transforming into resonance, space, and breath. The voice (even when absent) continues to resonate in the instrumental gesture, guiding the listening experience between recognition and metamorphosis. The piano serves as a meeting place between lyricism and improvisation. The opera arias are traversed, brushed against, reinterpreted: not illustrative citations, but expressive nuclei that expand in the time of sound. One moves away and returns.

Improvisation, the soul of jazz, is a defining feature of Rea in every project, as he has been an active musician in the Italian and world jazz scene since his debut in 1975. As a pianist, an undisputed master of improvisation, he has collaborated with the most important Italian singer-songwriters: from Mina to Gino Paoli. He has performed with Claudio Baglioni, Pino Daniele, Domenico Modugno, Rino Gaetano, Fiorella Mannoia, Riccardo Cocciante, Renato Zero, and Gianni Morandi. Throughout his career, he has played with great names in jazz such as Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Art Farmer, Daniel Humair, John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Aldo Romano, Phil Woods, Curtis Fuller, and Kenny Wheeler.

“It is a great joy to inaugurate this season,” declares Danilo Rea, “imagined by my friend and artistic director Marco Scolastra. An evening that will allow us to bring together passion and emotion with a classical repertoire. With profound respect for the beauty of the original pieces, a heritage of Italian culture, we will enjoy revisiting them in an improvisational language. And so, these seemingly distant worlds—improvisation and melodrama, between intimate form and free interpretation—will engage in a dialogue.”
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