Women and Madonnas of the Sacred Mounts of Piedmont and Lombardy

The Special Natural Reserve of the Sacred Mount of Oropa inaugurates the photographic exhibition entitled “Women and Madonnas of the Sacred Mounts of Piedmont and Lombardy” in the ‘Sala della Dottrina’ of the Sanctuary of Oropa, on Thursday the 20th of May at 7 p.m. The exhibition, realized in collaboration with the Documentation Centre of European Sacred Mounts, Calvaries and Devotional complexes and inaugurated by the Ente di Gestione delle Riserve Naturali Speciali del Sacro Monte di Orta, del Monte Mesma e del Colle della Torre di Buccione on the 5th of March in Novara, will be inaugurated at Oropa with a recital for two voices, guitar and percussion, entitled ‘Women and Madonnas’, created by the Gruppo del Cerchio from Turin and interpreted by Susanna Paisio and Igor Piumetti. The performed texts make reference to such as Santa Teresa d’Avila, Pseudo Evodio, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jacopone da Todi, as well as Gustave Flaubert and Antonio Machado. The songs are inspired by the international popular music, the Italian pop and songwriter music and the classical tradition (examples include a Berber lullaby, ‘La sposa’ by di Giuni Russo from the Song of Songs, “Madre” by G.L. Ferretti, “Ave Generosa” by Ildegarda di Bingen…).