Musical Performance by Laura Mollica
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Musical Performance by Laura Mollica
Property included in the Register of Intangible Heritage of Sicily (REIS)
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Technical sheet prepared by: Region of Sicily - Department of cultural heritage and Sicilian identity - CRicd: Regional center for inventory, cataloging and documentation and Sicilian regional film library
Intangible Heritage Register
No. Prog.
151
Bene
Musical Performance by Laura Mollica
Book
REI - Book of Expressions
Approval date
10-06-2011
Categories
Musical expression
Town \ Province
Palermo
Destination
Common
Palermo
Local denomination
Chronological News
Laura Mollica's professional activity, after her first beginnings as "enfant prodige", Begins at the age of fourteen, thanks to the meeting with the great names of the Sicilian artistic and cultural scene: the poet Ignazio Buttitta, the singer Rosa Balistreri, the storyteller Ciccio Busacca, who supports, in numerousrecital.
Today Laura Mollica is considered by national and international critics to be the spiritual heir of the great Rosa Balistreri and since 1980 she has been carrying out an intense concert activity, promoting Sicilian popular music all over the world. Directed by directors such as Orazio Costa, Roberto Guicciardini, Antonio Calenda, Carlo Quartucci and Paolo and Vittorio Taviani ("Kaos" Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival), collaborates with the Teatro Stabile of Palermo, the Teatro Stabile of Catania, the National Institute of Ancient Drama ...
The tours abroad began in 1984, when, on the occasion of the Los Angeles Olympics, she was invited to represent Sicily, with a series of concerts, held at “Casa Italia” in Beverly Hills. He returns again to the United States, performing in New York, Detroit, Philadelphia and in Australia, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, and in many other European cities (Paris, Munich, Brussels). He collaborates with the German choreographer Pina Bausch, for the staging of "Palermo-Palermo", and with the dancer-choreographer Daniel Esralov, founder of "Momix", for the realization of the 381 ° Festino di S. Rosalia, music by Mario Saroglia .
The awards received include the international award The Silver Castle on the occasion of the celebrations for the International Youth Year, promoted by the UN General Assembly, the Certificate of Cultural Merit of the Sicilian Association in the World, the Rosa Balistreri Award; the Culture Prize City of Monreale Sicilian-Norman Academy.
He has collaborated with prestigious Sicilian musical institutions (Ente Autonomo Teatro Massimo of Palermo, Amici della Musica, Ente Autonomo Sicilian Symphony Orchestra) and participated with Giorgio Albertazzi, in the virtual inauguration of the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari, after the fire that almost completely destroyed him. destroyed.
Widely appreciated in academic musical circles, she was invited to lead a course on ethnic singing at the V. Bellini Conservatory in Palermo and a lectio magistralis on popular song at the University of Palermo. He co-directed the ethnic music reviews “Suoni d'Inverno” and “L'Isola Possibile”.
She was interpreter of the ethno-chamber suite of Giuseppe Greco 'and returned to cantari, homage to Alberto Favara, as part of the Ancient Music Review of the “Antonio il Verso” Association. Together they made the cd "The Vuci Mia”Suite for instruments and voice inspired by fragments of Sicilian popular music. In 2009, representing Italy, he was among the winners of the ethnomusical festival "Melodie d'Oriente" which takes place in Samarkand (Uzbekistan), under the high patronage of UNESCO. He is President and Artistic Director of the Cultural Association Officina dell'Arte.
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Description
Laura Mollica's professional activity, after her first beginnings as "enfant prodige“, Begins at the age of fourteen, thanks to the meeting with the great names of the Sicilian artistic and cultural scene: the poet Ignazio Buttitta, the singer Rosa Balistreri, the storyteller Ciccio Busacca, who he supports in numerous recitals.
Today Laura Mollica is considered by national and international critics to be the spiritual heir of the great Rosa Balistreri and since 1980 she has been carrying out an intense concert activity, promoting Sicilian popular music all over the world.
With a strong stage presence, Laura Mollica's voice manages to evoke the atmosphere of “traditional singing” without any difficulty and, at the same time, to re-propose in a modern key the sonic inflections typical of tradition.
Both accompanied by the orchestra and with the guitar alone, Laura Mollica manages to express all the "Sicilianity" of singing, freely interpreting the historical repertoire that Alberto Favara had collected between the end of the 800th century and the beginning of the 900th century in Sicily, at search for melodies and songs that expressed the most authentic conception of the world and of the life of the people of Sicily, and that the famous Rosa Balistreri, Sicilian storyteller, had spread since the 70s in the Italian and European music scene.
Laura Mollica's singing stands as a moment of technical and expressive research that never shuns the most arduous melisms, as an ornamental flowering of melody, but also knows how to rarefy to become pure sound. In the passionate dialogue with her guitar Laura Mollica becomes a sweet, biting and sensual interpreter of the great music of the Mediterranean, through its rhythms, cadences, modals.
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REFERENCES
Sitography
Filmography
Modestini, Mario and Laura Mollica. 1995. Stabat Mater: mysteries, songs and legends of the passion. Piece of ethnotexts, orchestra Sicilian chamber organicum, director Mario Modestini. Palermo: Cultural Association Workshop of Art, 1 VHS videotape, 45 min.
Discography
Mollica, Laura and Mario Modestini. 1993. Ballads, preludes and Songs of Sicily. Palermo: Cultural Association Workshop of Art.
Footnotes
List of Shows:
You want it mine
Suite for voice and instruments on fragments of the Sicilian folk tradition (homage to Alberto Favara)
Musical project by Giuseppe Greco. With Laura Mollica. Production "Workshop of the Art".
Cialoma
Ethnotexts of sky, sea, earth and salt
A journey through the myths, the legends of the sea, the songs of ancient oral tradition, performed by Laura Mollica with a free voice and by a small chamber ensemble directed by Giuseppe Greco.
Written and performed by Laura Mollica. Music by Giuseppe Greco. Production "Workshop of the Art".
Songs and stories of the Vicariate
Piece of ethnotexts
The story of the Vicar is told in fragments of the songs of the prisoners,
Written and performed by Laura Mollica. Music by Giuseppe Greco. Production "Workshop of the Art".
U pueta and amuri
Tribute to the love poetics of Ignazio Buttitta
Ten love poems by Ignazio Buttitta.
Musical project by Laura Mollica .. Texts by Ignazio Buttitta. Orchestrations by Giuseppe Greco. Production "Workshop of the Art".
Ciatumè
Recital of Sicilian folk songs
A tribute to the great Sicilian musical tradition and to the performers who made it famous, first of all Rosa Balistreri, of which Laura Mollica performs the best known pieces.
Singing Laura Mollica. Guitar Giuseppe Greco. Percussion Daniele Schimmenti. Production "Workshop of the Art".
Stories
Written and performed by Laura Mollica, “Racconti” is a show that proceeds by fragments of the great traditional Sicilian repertoire. Production "Workshop of the Art".
Fimini
It is a show-concert that re-proposes the great repertoire of the Sicilian tradition that sees the undisputed protagonist woman.
Written and performed by Laura Mollica. Music by Giuseppe Greco. Production "Workshop of the Art".
Laura Mollica promotes Sicilian folk music through the Sicilian-Norman Academy and the Institute of Higher Culture of the Mediterranean).
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Chiara Dell'Utri
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