Terramaini Park, Quirra Civic Market, Palazzo Siotto, places of worship (in Pirri, Mulinu Becciu, Stampace), Gardens under the Walls, church of Santa Maria del Monte.
These are the spaces where the seventh edition of the “Omaggi” festival, organized by Studium Canticum with the artistic direction of Stefania Pineider, will take place in Cagliari from 22 to 29 September.
On Sunday 22nd September, at the Terramaini Park, from 5pm, the opening of the festival includes Open singing, a choir festival, in jukebox mode, where the public is invited not only to listen, but to play and sing, guided by many tutors. The event will culminate in a collective performance of the Canone del Caffè, a composition by Giovanni Battista Martini dedicated to the pleasure of a cup of coffee. Along the festival's path there will also be another evening of Martinian music and eighteenth-century dances in an imaginary Bridgerton style in which a dance teacher will be available to the public in the open-air ballroom of the Garden under the Walls.
We will then move on, in a joyful alternation of scenarios, to box 48 of the Civic Market in Via Quirra where it will be possible to admire ancient products such as mattress stubble and white toilets, advertised, with music, by sellers catapulted here directly from the 18th century.
The festival aims to bring out from the archives the music of Giovanni Battista Martini, one of the most erudite composers of the 18th century in Italy. Acclaimed by the public, he was still considered "the God of music of our time" during his lifetime (it is no coincidence that Mozart chose him as his teacher), but many of his works are still unpublished.
