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It began with the Diary of Thirty Years: 1913-1943 by Camilla Ravera (1889-1988), editor of L’Ordine Nuovo – the weekly newspaper founded in 1919 and edited by Antonio Gramsci – who was one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party. Her diary is a precise and rigorous account of those difficult years, but at the same time intense and passionate: it is the story of many men and women who fought, suffered and risked everything for their ideals. The diary was read and studied in depth by Fausto Amodei, one of the most representative members of the Turin-based group Cantacronache, who in 1976 decided to set it to music with an opera for six instruments and four voices entitled Il Partito. In 2016, Amodei decided to entrust Il Partito to Giovanna Marini – musician, composer, singer-songwriter and researcher of folk song (but above all his great friend) – who, together with the Coro Inni e canti di lotta choir and its director Sandra Cotronei, decided to stage Amodei’s work on the centenary of the founding of the Italian Communist Party.
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