Preview on 11 November in Cagliari (at 9 pm, auditorium of the “GP da Palestrina” conservatory) for “Luigi”, a show dedicated to Gigi Riva and which arrives four days after his 77th birthday.

As the author, Giorgio Pitzianti explains, the project stems from a creative and personal need: to understand what lies behind the gaze of the unforgettable Rombo di Tuono.

"We are proposing a new approach - underlines Pitzianti - there is a lot of material around Riva, but ours will be a new proposal".

The date chosen for the preview of the work, 11 November, then 11/11, is certainly not by chance, to bring to mind that number which, on Riva's shoulders, has made entire generations dream from the seventies to today.

The bomber's family has issued the release. "He guessed what we want to do, but he will see it during the show - the author explains - The presence of the player? We'll see, we live for the day."

THE SHOW - Some new details have been revealed: it will be an opera in six acts that mixes music, with original compositions, theater with the recitation of Luca Ward and lights. Space also for the private life of the great champion, with the grief and the boarding school of adolescence, the successes of the sixties and seventies, his rise as a "myth", but also the often solitary walks in his Cagliari. With him, however, always ready to chat and pose for photos even with strangers.

During the presentation press conference another anecdote emerged: with Riva at the highest level of fame who, as soon as he is discharged from the hospital, returns to the ward a few days later to give a child hospitalized with him a Cagliari uniform.

"The intent of the work - specifies Pitzianti - is to create an intimate dialogue between the viewer and Luigi, following the intuition that led me to experience it personally enough to remain involved. The real challenge I want to ignite is precisely that of undertake this journey as if only Luigi and the single spectator were in the room, albeit with hundreds of people present ".

"Luigi" will also be set up at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in 2022, to accommodate an even larger audience than that of the conservatory.