Endless applause and a standing ovation for the Guardia di Finanza's Band, conducted by Maestro Colonel Leonardo Laserra Ingrosso, at the International Symphonic Music Festival in El Jem. In the Roman amphitheatre, also nicknamed the 'little Colosseum', a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1979, the more than 60 musicians of the Band enchanted the large audience present with a varied programme centred on the most famous arias of the Italian opera tradition, with tributes to the great Neapolitan song and masterpieces of Italian and international cinema.
Enriching the concert was the performance of tenor Piero Mazzocchetti in several pieces. A history full of tradition, successes and awards, that of the Banda Musicale della Guardia di Finanza, in Tunisia for the first time on the occasion of the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the Corps' foundation. Witnessing the importance of the event was the presence in the audience, among others, of the Commander General of the GdF, Andrea De Gennaro, who had just returned from some high-level institutional meetings with his Tunisian counterparts.
At the opening, the Italian Ambassador to Tunisia, Alessandro Prunas, thanked the audience, emphasising that the success of the initiative was 'the most beautiful testimony of the strength and depth of relations between Italy and Tunisia in the cultural field'. "This amphitheatre, which bears witness to a common history, is also the protagonist of the future of Italian-Tunisian cooperation thanks to the twinning with the Coliseum in Rome, which was signed on the occasion of the visit to Tunis in April by the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano," said the ambassador.
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