The Fortezza dei Colmi Theater will be named after her while her archive has recently been declared a national cultural asset.
It was sad this afternoon, in the solemn council hall, the farewell to Lia Origoni , an established soprano of the past, who died yesterday morning at the age of 103 just turned . To commemorate it, in the presence of some nephews and friends, were the deputy mayor Federica Porcu, who briefly outlined her artistic life, the very moved biographer and close friend Giancarlo Tusceri, the director Tore Manca who a few years ago made a docufilm on its past but projected to the future, and Monica Changer Grossi, of the Archival Superintendency of Sardinia.
So her archive, she said, “made up of photographs, of music that she herself had digitized, made up of clothes, of very interesting correspondence; all this heritage that constitutes the memory of Lia, which is a living memory, of her life and of what remains of her life as an artist, has been declared a national cultural asset ”.
And for this reason we are already thinking of a placement in a small museum . Discovered in Caprera, at the home of Clelia, the last daughter of Garibaldi, when she was still little more than a child, by the famous tenor of Tempio, Bernardo De Muro, Lia Origoni, she was an appreciated singer nationally and internationally, before and after the Second World War as well as one of the first faces and voices of the nascent Italian television: sought after and applauded in all the greatest theaters in Italy and Europe, Origoni also worked with great actors such as Totò and Anna Magnani as well as with Strehler.
He retired from the stage and public life at the age of fifty , at the height of his career. Since then she returned to Sardinia, to her native island of Maddalena, where she spent the other half of her life, amidst memories and passionate technical reworking of her enormous artistic production (she was an expert in computers and the web).
