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PFM sings De André, Anniversary
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 January 2027 | ||||||
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Forty-five years after the tour “Fabrizio De André e PFM in concerto,” the world’s most famous prog band returns to stages across Italy with “PFM canta De André Anniversary,” a tour to celebrate the successful collaboration with the Genoese singer-songwriter and to recreate a series of concerts dedicated to that event. To renew the embrace between rock and poetry, songs from La buona Novella will also be added to the original setlist, completely reimagined by the band.
PFM canta De André – Anniversary will feature a spectacular lineup on stage, with three exceptional guests: Flavio Premoli (founder of PFM) with the unmistakable magic of his keyboards, Michele Ascolese, Faber’s historic guitarist, and Luca Zabbini, leader of Barock Project.
Fabrizio said: “Our tour was the first example of collaboration between two completely different ways of conceiving and performing songs. An unrepeatable experience because PFM was not just a gathering of excellent musicians brought together for the occasion, but a group with an important history that has changed the course of Italian music. One day they took all of this and put it at my service…”
PFM – Premiata Forneria Marconi has a unique and unmistakable style that combines the expressive power of rock, progressive, and classical music into one captivating entity. Founded in 1970 (recording debut in 1972), the band quickly gained a prominent place on the international scene, which it maintains to this day. In 2016, the prestigious English magazine “Classic Rock” UK ranked PFM – Premiata Forneria Marconi 50th among the 100 greatest artists in the world, while “Rolling Stone” UK placed the album “Photos of Ghosts” 19th among the most important records of progressive music. In 2018, it received the prestigious recognition of “International Band of the Year” at the Prog Music Awards UK in London, while in 2019, the English magazine “PROG UK” named Franz Di Cioccio among the 100 icons of “music that changed our world” (the only musician from the Latin world).
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Teatro dal Verme
The Teatro Dal Verme is a theatre in Milan, Italy located on the Via San Giovanni sul Muro, on the site of the former private theatre the Politeama Ciniselli. It was designed by Giuseppe Pestagalli to a commission from Count Francesco Dal Verme, and was used primarily for plays and opera performances throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, the theatre is no longer used for opera, and is a venue for concerts, plays and dance performances, as well as exhibitions and conferences.
The original 3,000-seat theatre, surmounted by a large cupola, was constructed in the traditional horseshoe shape, with two tiers of boxes and a large gallery (or loggione) which alone contained more than 1000 seats. It opened on September 14, 1872 with a production of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots and soon established itself as one of Italy's most important opera houses. During its "golden years", the theatre saw the world premieres of Puccini's Le Villi (May 31, 1884); Leoncavallo's Pagliacci (May 21, 1892) and I Medici (November 9, 1893); and Cowen's Signa (November 12, 1893). It also saw the Italian premiere of Lehár's The Merry Widow (April 27, 1907).
By the 1930s, the theatre was mainly being used as a cinema. It was then severely damaged by American aerial bombardment during World War II, after which its magnificent central cupola, which had survived the bombing, was stripped of all its metal parts by the occupying German army. It was partially rebuilt in 1946, and for a period in the 1950s it was used for the performance of musicals. It then reverted to a cinema and a political conference hall.
In 1991, the theatre's interior underwent a major restructuring and renovation project which was completed in 1998. It now has a large modern auditorium, the Sala Grande, with 1420 seats, a smaller performing space known as the Sala Piccola, with 200 seats, and a space for exhibitions and conferences, the Sala Terrazzo. Since September 2001, it has been administered
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