Antonello Salis and Furio di Castri

Even when he returns home a musician continues to travel. “The project entitled Wine at the opera” says Furio di Castri “was also the result of travel memories and above all those linked to the taste of the places where I performed. In the past I had experimented with combinations between music and taste and so it seemed natural to write adaptations of opera arias dedicated to wine. I chose Antonello Salis as my travelling companion in this adventure because of our friendship, our artistic complicity and above all for his ability in managing the theatre stage”. Concerts by the Salis-de Castri duo (both members of the PAF Trio together with trumpet player Paolo Fresu) have in fact a spectacular element. These concerts are happenings, a sound adventure, an encounter that sparkles. In their homage to the world of opera there is a great desire to enjoy themselves, but also great historical awareness of what the melodrama represented in European culture as well as the personal experience of their generation. From Mozart to Offenbach, from Donizetti to Puccini, entrusted to Salis’ accordion and piano or to Furio di Castri’s bass, the arias praising wine progressively assume other characteristics becoming blues, swing, original music and opportunities for celebrating the pleasure of performing together with a long and joyful toast of notes.

ANTONELLO SALIS
piano, accordion
FURIO DI CASTRI
double bass

WINE AT THE OPERA

OVERTOUR
WINW HOT MEDLEY
Beviam beviam (from Rossini's Il conte Ory)
Wine hot
THAT’S THE WAY
(from the ’Ouverture of Mozart's Così fan tutte)
SIGARI E BERDEUX MEDLEY
Legna, sigari, bordò (from Puccini's La Bohème)
Sigari e bordeaux
INTERLUDIO PER MASCAGNI
PARA-EBBREZZA
(Viva il vino spumeggiante from Mascagni's
Cavalleria rusticana)
WINE AT THE OPERA - MEDLEY 1
Wine at the opera
Il segreto per essere felici
( from Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia)
GUESS WHO
THE FIRST ELEMENT MEDLEY
The first element
Si colmi il calice (from verdi's Macbeth)
SACACORCHOS
Fin ch’han del vino (from Mozart's Don Giovanni)
WINE AT THE OPERA - MEDLEY 2
Wine at the opera
Il segreto per essere felici (from Donizetti's
Lucrezia Borgia)