Lorenzo Muscoso
Lorenzo Muscoso graduated in 2011 on the major of Cinema, Critic and Multimedia Production in DAMS of the University of Roma 3, with a bachelor thesis on Paolo Sorrentino and the Rossellini Audiovisual Institute.
[3] In 2010, in collaboration with the actor Enrico Lo Verso and the musician Gabriele Denaro, he created the work Sensibilità Sonore, dedicated to topics such as marginalization, poverty and childhood.
[4] It was previewed at the Camera dei deputati della regione Lazio (Chamber of Deputies of the Region of Lazio)[5] and introduced the conference "Lui per Lei - un ponte fra Napoli e New York"[6] at the city Partenopea and at the municipality of Fiumincino by the iniziative of the Assesorato alle politiche sociali (Department of social policies)[7] as well as the event "Io non ci sto più" (I am non there anymore) dedicated to the memory Eligia Ardita, a victim of a femicide act.
From 2014 he is devoted actively for the promotion of the Patrimonio Verghiano, redeveloping the historical Cunziria, the original film location of the famous Cavalleria Rusticana, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and inspiration scenery of the homonymous novel of the writer Giovanni Verga.
In 2014 in collaboration with the American Naval air station of Sigonella, he came up with the socio-cultural iniziative project "Marines meet Verga",[11] an operation for the rural development of the Cunziria, constructing a fence inside the area.
[16] In 2016 he assumes the artistic direction of the Festival Verghiano,[17] on the occasion of the Verghiane, the historical manifestations that began in 1967 by the director Alfredo Mazzone, producing ten days of theatrical operas that placed a Vizzini and Catania.
In April 2018 he realizes the 5th Edition of the Romanzo Verghiano at the historic residence La Verghiana proposing a show that combines the musical poems of the storyteller, Sicilian folk sounds, theatrical performances and the audiovisual projection of the famous rustic duel.
He concludes the year by curating the III° Verga Film Festival, where he awards the Musician Gianni Bella, author of the opera Capinera performed at the Bellini Theater in Catania.
In April 2019, in Matera, he announces the V ° edition of the Festival Verghiano among the stones with the intervention of the actress Mariagrazia Cucinotta, official Testimonial of the Event that meets the students of the high school and universities.
On May 23, on the occasion of the national day on legality he writes and directs the "Capitani Coraggiosi” event dedicated to the memory of Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and with a tribute to Peppino Impastato.
On 14 June he continued his productivity bringing to Matera the Tramonto ai Sassi, an event that combines poetry, theater and southern folk sounds, staging, for the first time, a fragment Verghiano "Jeli il Pastore".
In June he produces the documentary "Cunziria" which tells the recovery phases of the Borgo and the film "Legends Rusticane" which receives 9 awards, also winning in Ukraine, the United States and Japan.
In August he successfully directs Don Gesualdo in Modica and Ragusa, and for the first time, in Catania at the ancient Monastery Eremo Sant'Anna, scenery of Zeffirelli, becomes the stage for Verga's operas.
On 23 May he promotes the 5th edition of "Capitani Coraggiosi" in Milan, a project against the Mafia which sees the meeting with Salvatore Borsellino, brother of the murdered Magistrate and the participation of numerous personalities, including LeoLuca Orlando, Pif, Roberta Gatani, Pasquale Scimeca, Tony Gentile, Piera Aiello, Veronica D'Agostino, Paolo Borrometi, Antonio Vassallo, Tony Sperandeo, Robeto Gueli, participation also of the pentito of Cosa Nostra, Gaspare Mutolo.
Various distinguished guests will participate, including Vincenzo Chindamo, Gaspare Mutolo— a former Cosa Nostra member and ex-right-hand man of Totò Riina turned state witness.
War reporters Giovanni Porzio and Massimo Alberizzi will also be present, along with investigative journalists Alessandro De Giuseppe (Le Iene) and Rajae Bezzaz (Striscia la notizia).
In the autumn, Don Gesualdo was staged in Castelbuono, within the evocative San Francesco Cloister, and in Licata, where it inaugurated the reopening of the theater, achieving a remarkable sold-out performance.
