Nice, vivaracha, Margherita Vicarioactress and singer -songwriter, walked here last month, presenting at the 11th. Italian cinema week its opera cousin “Glory!”free evocation of so many composers from other times “That as dry flowers have been hidden among the pages of history”. He expresses it and leaves him settled in his film, which opens tomorrow. We dialogue with her:
Margherita Vicario: I am a diploma actress in performing arts. Work in Cinema and TV since 2008, I appeared even in the comedy of Woody Allen “A Rome with love”, and one day I put on the orders of the teacher Lamberto Bava for the chapter “omen” of a dramatic series. I had a makeup that took two hours to put on me, all full of blood because I had to make a beaten woman, and I was happy, he told me “This is being an actress!” But I also spent another two hours looking at the ceiling waiting for the moment I had to act, so looking at the roof, I started composing songs.
MV: Nothing to do! I referred to the orangutans! If you want, the song that I love most of all the ones I did so far, is “Abaué.” The fact is that I became a singer -songwriter and that became my source of support, because it is a more regular trade, I organize my recordings and recitals, instead as an actress I must expect to be called. It is also difficult to live from music because it is a very little diversified industry. Paradoxically, cinema attracts me because it seems to me the most free and complete art form. Of course, you must have an idea that allows you to exercise that freedom.
Q.: An idea, and financial support. In “Gloria!”, Careful bill, you talk about the performers and composers of the nineteenth century but in a free way, in craving parts. Through quite grown orfanitas facing a music teacher.
MV: The only thing that is known is that in the Venetian orphanages they were taught music. And if they knew how to interpret, why could some of them not compose? And what could they compose? From the beginning I wanted mine to have some fantasy, a magical touch, I like that cinema where the author’s hand can be seen, as in the films of Nadine Labake and Michel Gondry.
Q.: Already, but from there to start with Music by Vivaldi, “intervene” something as well known and respected as “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” and end with music by Vicar and Edwin Roberts …
MV: Ja, Vivaldi is Vivaldi, it is great, I do not intend to put me up to it, but, as nobody knows what these women will have written, because there was almost nothing left, I took the freedom to imagine them doing something different from what was heard in their time.
Q.: There is something of Maddalena Lombardini.
MV: Its “Quartet No. 2 for strings”, in the scene where Lucia’s character tells other girls to follow her because she wants to try something. Lombardini Sirmen, as he signed, was almost an exception, she managed to transcend, and did it as a violinist, singer and songwriter, but that in large part thanks to the fact that her teacher made her hook with a good candidate, Ludovico served, an artist who knew how to understand and support her.
Q.: Ah, that’s why Lombardini signed, and not just Lombardini.
MV: And so he could publish his scores. What hits me is that then, more than now, women achieved something not for themselves but because they were wives or daughters of someone to support them.
Q.: In the film they cite a woman above those conditioning, Madame de Stäel.
MV: Almost by chance, because “Gloria!” It is co -production with Switzerland, and the producer told me “I put something Swiss, I put something Swiss”, and I remembered it, which in addition to Switzerland was a protofeminist.
Q.: Did you suffer in your career the fact of being the granddaughter of actress Rossana Podestá, who was a diva, and the successful commercial film director Marco Vicario, and also daughter of the film director and TV Francesco Vicario and niece of the Vicar Stefano actor?
MV: More than suffering, I have been fortunate, because I grew up among artists. In my case I risk suffering the suspicion of those who say “he achieved this because she is a wealthy.”
Q.: Maybe they said it before, but not after the success of their film, which was well appreciated by the public and even achieved their good awards, including Nastro D’Ardento for the best soundtrack. I return to your family, is it true that you wanted to be like your grandmother?
MV: Yes, of course, but not only because he was beautiful, but more than anything for his freedom, his courage, and because after leaving the cinema he toured half the world with his second husband, the mountaineer Walter Bonatti.
Q.: Ah, will it then be that Rossana Podestá also came to Argentina? Because among other peaks Bonatti climbed the brunette totally covered with ice, there on the border of Santa Cruz with Chile.
MV: Of course, when I was born they were in Patagonia. And my parents sent them a fax destined for the parish of the town where they camp: “She is a girl. Weighs 2 kilos 600. We call her Margherita.” As a child they told me that and I looked at the map, to see where my grandmother had been.
Source: Ambito
I am an author and journalist who has worked in the entertainment industry for over a decade. I currently work as a news editor at a major news website, and my focus is on covering the latest trends in entertainment. I also write occasional pieces for other outlets, and have authored two books about the entertainment industry.
