The extraordinary human and artistic adventure of Niccolò Paganini is at the centre of the event.

It will be recounted by the scholar and performer Diego Ponzo, who will guide the audience through the discovery of one of the most controversial geniuses in the history of music, through an ever timely reflection on the concepts of challenge and love of beauty.

Paganini's famous Capricci, an extraordinary example of violin virtuosity, will be performed in an original transcription for acoustic guitar by Luca Allievi, a versatile musician capable of ranging between classical, funk and jazz, together with Mariano Gallizio on bass and guitar. A reinterpretation that would probably have amused Paganini himself, who in the annotations in the margins of his Capricci asked the violin to ‘imitate’ the sound and expressiveness of other instruments.

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