Music at sunset conquers the salt marshes of Marsala – Italian Cuisine


The appointment with "‘ in Scurata … cunti and canti at sunset "is also renewed for 2020, in collaboration with the Cantine Pellegrino that celebrate 140 years since its foundation

The sun goes down, the curtain rises. And the magic finally begins. Everything is ready in that Marsala for the 2020 edition of the summer festival 'In Scurata … stitches and songs at sunset, the event in memory of the actor and director Enrico Russo which for the third year will bring music and art directly to the sea, with the famous salt pans of the Sicilian city as a backdrop for the concerts and theatrical performances scheduled. Eleven events that will mark the calendar of this strange summer 2020, starting from the concert that on July 30 will see the musician of Trapani Sinforosa Petralia on the piano: an opportunity that will also allow you to celebrate 140 years of Cantine Pellegrino, the historic main partner winery of the event.

Theater and music in the time of the coronavirus

The production and organization of the Scurata is edited by MAC, the City of Marsala Cultural Artistic Movement which after 3 years of intense work was officially established on May 28th, despite the numerous difficulties linked to the pandemic. The purpose of this new institution is and will be to combine efforts to promote local culture, with particular attention to the live show, hit at its foundations in 2020 by the health emergency. So the program of events of the Scurata it becomes a precious chance of revenge and rebirth. In addition to the inaugural concert for piano, therefore, we also find on the calendar The evening of miracleson August 4th, tribute to Lucio Dalla wanted by the Carpe Diem Association, with the musical direction of Fabio Gandolfo. But also the world premiere of Sciara, first update, the theatrical text taken from the historical novel by Franco Blandi, which reports the reconstruction of the family affairs of Francesca Serio, mother of the trade unionist Salvatore Carnevale barbarously killed by the mafia on May 16, 1955. The complete list of events, together with the link to buy tickets online, is available on MAC official Facebook page.

Photos Tullio Puglia.

An anniversary dedicated to Sicilian wine

The saline that will be transformed into a stage for the shows of the festival will take the name of Teatro a mare Albarìa Pellegrinor, in homage to the last – and elegant – rosé born in the Cantine Pellegrino house. The 2020 edition of the Scurataon the other hand, it will also celebrate the history and success of this great Sicilian winery, founded in Marsala in 1880 by Paolo Pellegrino, a notary by trade, a winemaker by passion. Six generations and 140 years later, Cantine Pellegrino can boast an annual production of over 5 million bottles, exported all over the world to bring the flag of Sicily high, very high on international tables. A goal that – as the company itself underlines – is combined with an increasing attention to the territory, both on the research and sustainability front as well as on the enotourist and cultural one.

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