And so, we did it, The Space Violin – Visual Concert debuted in Rome and we’re already working to take this new show on tour from autumn 2022. Take 5 minutes and watch the in-depth after movie here https://youtu.be/JTcWIMxggcs
“We did it” because it wasn’t easy to get to stage what I’d planned with my team over the past months: the challenge was to synthesize my creative vision in a complete way, so that the viewer’s concert experience would be the completion of the perception they have of my music and I, a live moment that would exceed expectations.
I didn’t want to leave out any of the research I’ve done in recent years, much less ignore the intense moments we all experienced during the pandemic, and I succeeded. I wanted to bring the tales of The Space Violin Project to life on stage, and those took shape as well.
There’s a very clear line that separates club performances and a theatre concert: in a club, you have to know how to intercept the energy and make it spin around fast, and for the violin, it has always been a great challenge that also converges into a theatrical performance, because in a theater, once a spectator sits down in his/her chair, they grant a “credit” of attention and concentration, which those on stage should take care not to waste, for 2 hours. As far as I’m concerned, this show perfectly closes a circle: the first time I tasted the magic of that “attention credit” was 18 years ago during the tour of the musical Fame, and today I relive that emotional memory in a context that is completely mine and ours, with contents that we have somewhat developed together, in the path with my community of friends and fans that still has a lot to say; a truly amazing result for me.
I’m amazed at how the audience is mirrored in the “canvases” that each song paints within the concert, and how I too manage to reflect myself in the involvement of each individual participant, and how all of this passes through the violin and my lightning bow.
If you’re reading this and have been to the concert then you know what I’m talking about: when I play on a mountain top and re-propose that song again on stage immersed alongside you in the video, in the colors and in the luminous sensations that are designed with precision, I know we’re going live that emotion together; when I see people looking out the windows of the suburbs of our cities during the lockdown and I sing Under Pressure, I know I’m not alone in wanting to remember what we’ve been through so as to cherish the moment we’re sharing. When the “naked” sounds of the violin and guitar take the stage, I know that that moment will never be repeated the same way and what I hear and you feel are the same unrepeatable vibrations of the strings in that one moment. Then I spend half the concert playing among the audience and I feel all of this in an even closer way…
I hope this magic will repeat itself soon, the summer ahead will see me perform in every possible context, but right now feel free to leave a comment here or write on any page of my social networks: IN WHICH CITY AND IN WHICH THEATER you would like my next tour to stop in? I’ll be waiting for you!
And so, we did it, The Space Violin – Visual Concert debuted in Rome and we’re already working to take this new show on tour from autumn 2022. Take 5 minutes and watch the in-depth after movie here https://youtu.be/JTcWIMxggcs
“We did it” because it wasn’t easy to get to stage what I’d planned with my team over the past months: the challenge was to synthesize my creative vision in a complete way, so that the viewer’s concert experience would be the completion of the perception they have of my music and I, a live moment that would exceed expectations.
I didn’t want to leave out any of the research I’ve done in recent years, much less ignore the intense moments we all experienced during the pandemic, and I succeeded. I wanted to bring the tales of The Space Violin Project to life on stage, and those took shape as well.
There’s a very clear line that separates club performances and a theatre concert: in a club, you have to know how to intercept the energy and make it spin around fast, and for the violin, it has always been a great challenge that also converges into a theatrical performance, because in a theater, once a spectator sits down in his/her chair, they grant a “credit” of attention and concentration, which those on stage should take care not to waste, for 2 hours. As far as I’m concerned, this show perfectly closes a circle: the first time I tasted the magic of that “attention credit” was 18 years ago during the tour of the musical Fame, and today I relive that emotional memory in a context that is completely mine and ours, with contents that we have somewhat developed together, in the path with my community of friends and fans that still has a lot to say; a truly amazing result for me.
I’m amazed at how the audience is mirrored in the “canvases” that each song paints within the concert, and how I too manage to reflect myself in the involvement of each individual participant, and how all of this passes through the violin and my lightning bow.
If you’re reading this and have been to the concert then you know what I’m talking about: when I play on a mountain top and re-propose that song again on stage immersed alongside you in the video, in the colors and in the luminous sensations that are designed with precision, I know we’re going live that emotion together; when I see people looking out the windows of the suburbs of our cities during the lockdown and I sing Under Pressure, I know I’m not alone in wanting to remember what we’ve been through so as to cherish the moment we’re sharing. When the “naked” sounds of the violin and guitar take the stage, I know that that moment will never be repeated the same way and what I hear and you feel are the same unrepeatable vibrations of the strings in that one moment. Then I spend half the concert playing among the audience and I feel all of this in an even closer way…
I hope this magic will repeat itself soon, the summer ahead will see me perform in every possible context, but right now feel free to leave a comment here or write on any page of my social networks: IN WHICH CITY AND IN WHICH THEATER you would like my next tour to stop in? I’ll be waiting for you!
