MANIFESTO
ETICO
A first in Italy and Europe, this social engagement project – carried out in collaboration with the Municipality of Parma and “Parma, io ci sto!” – brings artists together to support young people and vulnerable, marginalised communities, bringing them into the heart of the city’s cultural life.
The Teatro Regio di Parma, together with the Municipality of Parma, the “Parma, io ci sto!” association and the Fondazione Cariparma, presents the Manifesto Etico (Ethical Manifesto), a social commitment initiative proposed to the artists of the Festival Verdi, Verdi Off and the Opera Season. This initiative sees the Teatro Regio take the lead in Italy and Europe in recognising and setting out, in a comprehensive and detailed proposal, the need to go beyond its own mission, particularly in these times, to embrace young people and the most vulnerable, fragile and marginalised communities, to involve them and make them feel at the centre, at the heart of the city’s cultural life.
Manifesto etico is the natural culmination of years of dialogue and ongoing engagement with local organisations and artists, carefully nurtured and promoted by Verdi Off through more than 1,200 performances, exhibitions and various initiatives that have thrilled and entertained, provoked and moved audiences over the last seven years, ever since its inception in 2016, when Verdi Off was launched by the Municipality of Parma and “Parma, io ci sto!”. It is the year-round programme of RegioInsieme initiatives that run alongside the entire season of the Teatro Regio.
By signing the Ethical Manifesto, artists (singers, directors, set designers, conductors, choreographers, etc.) commit to giving their time to events that foster connection and dialogue, bringing music, theatre and art closer to everyone’s heart. In care homes, prisons, hospitals and nursing homes; with children, the blind and visually impaired, women who have suffered violence, migrants, those who are suffering or have suddenly found themselves marginalised; in youth and educational settings, cultural associations and university groups – all according to a schedule of events spread across the period during which they are present in our region.
Giampaolo Bisanti, Eleonora Buratto, Valentina Carrasco, Roberto de Candia, Adriana Di Paola, Luciano Ganci, Enrico Melozzi, Francesco Lanzillotta, Davide Livermore, Federica Lombardi, Daniele Menghini, Margherita Palli, Alessandro Palumbo, Michele Pertusi, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Emanuele Quaranta, Sesto Quatrini, Ilaria Alida Quilico, Manuel Renga, Giovanni Sala, Luca Salsi, Marco Spotti are among the artists who have already signed the Manifesto and have become its ambassadors.
