Naples. “Do you wish to examine the documents? Naturally, the Teatro San Carlo, as Undersecretary Mazzi clarified, is completely integrated into the UNESCO recognition. (De Luca, editorial note) had not gone into much detail”.
These are the words of the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, in response to the statements of the President of the Campania Region, Vincenzo De Luca, who, during his social broadcast yesterday, had stated: “We would like to know if in the dossier sent to UNESCO and approved by UNESCO a reference to the Teatro San Carlo in Naples was included because, as far as we know, the only national reality reported to UNESCO is La Scala in Milan.
We would like someone to clarify this doubt for us because, if they had sent to UNESCO, as a reference for the lyric culture of this country, only the Teatro alla Scala, which is obviously an excellence, but had not made any reference to the great tradition of lyric opera in Naples of the Teatro San Carlo, as well as other great lyric theatres in the South, this would be yet another disgrace”.
“We carry out concrete actions,” added Sangiuliano, then listing the projects launched by his ministry for Campania, then returning to criticize De Luca. “Then there are those, instead, Wanda Osiris, the vaudeville, who want applause after the staircase, but it's Christmas, we are generous and therefore with a Christmas spirit the show is fine and therefore those who do the imitation of Crozza, who in turn imitates him, it's a circular motion that is articulated, it's fine like this”.
Article published on 9 December 2023 - 14:54
Interesting exchange of opinions between the Minister of Culture and the President of the Campania Region.