At the end of March his contract expires and Nicola Colabianchi is preparing to leave the superintendence of the Lirico in Cagliari. The most likely destination is the Fenice in Venice: «I would be honored, but at the moment these are just rumors».
Sixty-three years old, from Abruzzo, originally from Rosciolo dei Marsi, conductor, composer, pianist, librettist, he returns to the period spent in Sardinia with a double role: superintendent and artistic director. Two distinct roles, two separate budgets. "I leave a theater in perfect conditions from an economic and financial point of view", says Colabianchi, "Budget balances have been achieved in all areas even if we have not entered the Bray law. And we are the Italian theater with the lowest number of days of payment, we have purchased 300,000 euros of instruments and hired 50 people following competitions".
A superintendency, his, marked by Covid: «The Lirico is the theater», he recalls, «that has had the fewest days of redundancy. And it was the first in Europe to reopen the curtain».
Now Colabianchi is ready to leave Cagliari after 5 years at the helm of the theater. But he still has a dream that he doesn't want to leave in the drawer: "For some time," he reveals, "I've been working on a project that is close to my heart, an opera inspired by Gigi Riva, who passed away during my tenure. The draft of the libretto is on my PC, I just have to refine it."
(Online Union)
