"I'm sure that Raffaella would be curious, flattered and excited," Sergio Japino, a director and choreographer who worked with Carrà for many years and was involved in the creation of the show, said.
The opera, entitled Raffa in the Sky, was composed by Lamberto Curtoni with the libretto by Renata Ciaravino and Alberto Mattioli.
It is less a biography in music, but more specifically the story of an artistic career which has accompanied, and sometimes stimulated, the evolution of Italian society over the last 50 years.
The production is part of the initiatives staged for Brescia and Bergamo's stint as Italy's culture capital.
Carrà, who passed away in July 2021 at the age of 78, starred with Frank Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express in 1965 and found cult TV success in Spain, Argentina and other countries, becoming a gay icon.
She is also credited with boosting the sexual revolution in Catholic Italy with cheeky songs celebrating touching (Tuca tuca, 1971) and getting women to take the initiative in lovemaking (A fare l'amore comincia tu, 1976), and was slammed by the Vatican for showing her belly button on live TV in 1970.
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