© Zani-Casadio
Ravenna Festival in Cervia – Milano Marittima
Il Trebbo in musica 2.1
Elio
Ci vuole orecchio
Elio sings and performs Enzo Jannacci
direction and dramaturgy Giorgio Gallione
musical arrangements by Paolo Silvestri
with
Seby Burgio piano
Martino Malacrida drumkit
Pietro Martinelli bass and double bass
Sophia Tomellieri saxophone
Giulio Tullio trombone
lighting designer Aldo Mantovani
set design Lorenza Gioberti
costume design Elisabetta Menziani
production Agidi – International Music and Arts
in collaboration with La Milanesiana
with the contribution of Regione Emilia-Romagna
with the contribution of
It had to happen, and it happened: a time-shifted meeting of two icons of the “Milanese spirit” and of the Italian “humorous” song. Yes: Elio has always been far too educated and witty to be quickly labelled as “zany, madcap humour”. And yes: Jannacci was so much more than a clownish outsider on the Italian pop music scene. That’s all the more reason to have great expectations for this tribute. The characters “in tennis shoes” created by Enzo’s tragicomic vein exposed the jarring contradictions, hardships and hypocrisy of society, combining nonsense and social critique. Which, on closer inspection, is what Elio has also been doing in his thirty years of clever wordplay and sound puns.
