I was born on twenty-one in spring

"I was born on twenty-one in spring" is a meeting of sounds and words to pay homage to one of the greatest Italian poets of the twentieth century.

Through some of his most famous poems we will be able to retrace the artist's troubled existence and human journey relived also by the original music that Marco Beretta composed, influenced by the wonderful verses of Merini.

The word will give way to music and vice versa, in a continuous succession of strong emotions, just as Alda Merini's life has been.

Verses and sounds of pain, resignation, despair, existential conflict and hope but united by the common denominator of love expressed in all its possible forms, even the most extreme.

In the form of Melologo for reciting voice and piano, Alda Merini's poems will be stitched together by the musical thought that Marco Beretta created in order to introduce, evoke and underline the great expressive power of the text.