Don’t make appointments for the next 1st of July 2011: return in Sorrento "A Night for Caruso - Caruso Prize 2011". Theatre of the event one of the most characteristic and evocative Sorrento corners: Marina Grande, a small fishing village that on the occasion will turn into a theater on the sea.
Great protagonist will be the Italian music in all its shades, from traditional to contemporary music and above all the words in music in a fascinating journey into the world of Italian belcanto.
The presenters Luca Ward and Sonia Gray will be the helmsmen of the event. Among the artists Francesco Renga, Ron and Sal da Vinci.
At the event will be also present the tenor Gianluca Terranova who will have the task of interpreting the tenor in a fiction made Raiuno.
On the flagship RAI will broadcast the event on 8th of July in the early evening.
Caruso stayed in Sorrento in 1921, where he spent his last quiet days before passing away at the hotel Vesuvio in Naples few days later, on the 2nd of August 1921. The rumors say that popular Caruso fell in love with a girl from Sorrento to which he gave voice lessons, and in a hot summer evening he devoted to her a romance that enchanted even the fishermen who rushed en masse to hear the sad song beneath the terrace of Hotel Excelsior Victoria where Caruso stayed.
Caruso has inspired many artists and singers, including the singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla, who in the suite which hosted Caruso composed one of his best songs: "Caruso", to be more precise.
The town of Sorrento has therefore decided to dedicate an award to the great tenor to those artists who have contributed with their art to spread Italian culture and art in the world.
