Last, but not least, the annual official celebrations on the 10 th October to commemorate Verdi’s birth and on the 27 th January to remember his death. Another exciting undertaking has been the prize “Do you know Verdi ?” aimed at the last 2 years of primary schools in Parma and the Province of Parma. The group drew up a statute which stated that the aim was to “honour and remember Maestro Giuseppe Verdi as one of the most significant musical virtuosi of all time, and to spread knowledge and appreciation of his work, in particular amongst young people, through any initiative considered useful to this end” (art.2)ĭuring this period some of the most significant enterprises undertaken by the Club emerged, above all, the creation of the insignia “Cavaliere di Verdi – Knight of Verdi” assigned to those people whose activities have carried the name and fame of the great Maestro all over the world. In 1974 with the creation of the new autonomous seat in a former cellar in Via Farini in the centre of Parma, the association decided to change its name and the group became the “GROUP OF VERDI ENTHUSIASTS – CLUB OF THE 27”. Let us remember a memorable article by a famous Italian journalist, Enzo Tortora, who at the time was collaborating with a local Emilian newspaper “Il Resto del Carlino”, which began with the intriguing opening sentence: “May I ? My name is Traviata…….” From the Grotta Mafalda to the Club of the 27
The press, too, as well as national television, started to show an interest in the Club. The first meeting of the Club took place in the cellars of the sandwich bar and it was then that each member of the 27 was assigned the name of a work by Giuseppe Verdi.įrom the offset this Verdi Den attracted visits from the most important names associated with the world of lyric opera: Tebaldi, Corelli, Del Monaco, Tucker, Milnes, Domingo and many others. It was back in 1958 that in a local sandwich bar in the centre of Parma called “Grotta Mafalda”, a number of people gathered on their way to or from the Teatro Regio Opera House men of passion and fire who, between a tasty sandwich and a glass of good local wine, chatted animatedly about singers, voices, lyric opera and the works of Giuseppe Verdi.Īs a result, the owners of the bar, Emilio Medici and Carlo Ziveri, took matters into their own hands and the Association of Verdi Enthusiasts “Grotta Mafalda” came into being.
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