The artists who have made the festival what it is today with their music, theater, and song have wanted to share special messages with us.
Thus, every note and every word forge a bond and create a bridge between human feelings and the emotions of nature, making it enduring and memorable.
When I was first a guest at ‘I Suoni delle Dolomiti’, performing as a duo with Antonello Salis and then with the Tunisian Dhafer Youssef, I sensed the immense grandeur of the mountains. But this time, the experience of the sunrises (shared with Marco Paolini and Stefano Benni) touched me so deeply that I felt part of ‘nothingness’. Yes, nothing! Because you wake up at five in the morning, open the door of the mountain hut, and find yourself facing hundreds of people who have rigorously and stoically hiked up to that place, not just to hear you play, but to be part of that place with you.
So in the end, it’s not about us. For once, we’re not the protagonists or the divas of the stage, and above all, there are no spotlights on us. We’re just an instrument at the mercy of that sensuality which is the mountain and which, on the towers of Vajolét, grants or denies you that echo you’re waiting for but cannot control or program with a digital delay or reverb.
It’s that bracing morning air that wakes you up and invigorates you, but at the same time, as Marco Paolini said, it’s so pure that as you bring the mouthpiece of your trumpet or flugelhorn to your lips, you feel like you’re kissing a gutter…
Paolo Fresu
The dawn breaks over Mount Baldo, a ray of sunshine waking a communal Woodstock in a mountain refuge. It reveals the tired eyes of those who have kept vigil, trekked, cooked, stargazed, or battled their sleeping bags.
Marco Paolini
I had read about it everywhere: in a garage, on a boat, at the top of a tower. I was missing the sunrise in the Dolomites. Paolo Fresu and I decided to do something connected to the legends of Sinbad. Sea adventures, in short. It seemed like a great idea, because the Dolomites were born from the sea and, seen from above, mountains are really just that: an abyss.
Stefano Benni
I wanted to link the ‘sunset’ of Cyrano’s life with the ‘dawn’ of an original and authentic reading of his love story, symbolizing a new light that illuminates people and their lives, just as the sun invigorates the extraordinary rocks of the Dolomites every day.
Alessandro Baricco