Bande e repertori lirici nell’Ottocento in transito verso il Novecento. I luoghi.
„Bande” and opera repertoires in the 19th century, moving towards the 20th century. Places

Summary/Abstract: In the 19th century Italy, the musical genre that enjoyed the most tunning success with the public was the melodrama. The Opera composers, musicians and librettists, express their creativity to the fullest, forming and following the evolution of the taste of the public which - from the early 1800s to the first two decades of the following century - becomes increasingly prepared, competent and therefore demanding. If theaters are the temples of Opera in large urban centres, in those smaller ones, the so called "Sale all'italiana" are designed and built, which are certainly smaller theatres, but absolutely functional and respectful of all the construction standards of the most impressive Opera houses. The elders of the smaller towns tax themselves to have a theater in the town and to keep it active, as an important social as well as cultural meeting point. However, the opera repertoire is capillary widespread throughout the national territory by the "bande" - also known as "Concerti bandistici" - which are born in every city and in every country, which with skilful reductions and arrangements for wind ensembles, by highly trained masters -conductors, offer the opportunity to all social strata to meet, get to know and deepen what is already a musical tradition throughout the rest of the world, recognized as an exquisitely Italian cultural phenomenon. And also the "banda" seeks its physical location in the "Casse armoniche", so that, like the Opera in the theatres, it can offer itself to an equally vast audience.

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