Richard Wagner. Diario veneziano della sinfonia ritrovata.

Carlo Naya’s photographic art, preserved in glass negatives, reveals an unexpected look at Richard Wagner’s Venice. In the recording room, the actor gives voice to the account of the rediscovered symphony written by Wagner, a few weeks after his death in Venice on February 13, 1883. The composer describes the performance made by an orchestra composed of teachers and by the students of the Liceo Musicale Benedetto Marcello. The black silhouette of the piano slides along the Grand Canal until it reaches Palazzo Malipiero at the time frequented by the Wagner. The musical notes are articulated on the pages of Cosima Wagner’s diary, animated by the actress intertwined with the memory of Giuseppe Norlenghi, who collected the testimonies of the protagonists of the historic concert. The piano interpreter introduces and performs some pieces of the symphony with a Beethovenian character, revealing how much the Youth Symphony is the foundation stone of that structure that has its keystones in the Tristan, in the Götterdämmerung and in the Parsifal.