Recalling, half a century after Martin Luther King’s assassination, the title of his famous speech – made on the 28th of August, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and which has become a symbol of the fight against racism, and a hymn to freedom and equality all around the world – means to continue exploring key-events and icons of the 20th century, in the attempt of soothing the dismay and the anxieties undermining our age. Thus one enters the “veins of America”, keeping in mind to the huge contribution of the States to the culture of the 20th century: the biting roar of the 100 electric guitars, but also Cole Porter’s sophisticated musical Kiss Me, Kate. Without ever losing sight of “our” and ever-surprising Verdi heritage: Macbeth for the 50th anniversary of Riccardo Muti’s first time on the podium of the Maggio Fiorentino, but also the new Autumn Trilogy: Nabucco, Rigoletto, Otello.

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