Zazà – THE HEART THAT SINGS AND RENOUNCES
In the gilded, deceptive world of the café-concerts of the Belle Époque, amidst red velvets, soft lights and smiling facades, lives Zazà - a charming, passionate, fragile and deeply alive singer. Her stage is the mirror of a restless heart, where love bursts in like a summer storm.
Ruggero Leoncavallo, with his theatrical and sensitive touch, gives us a protagonist of flesh and poetry: Zazà is not an ideal woman, she is a real woman.
She loves with all the fire of her soul, she loves a man, Milio, with the naive abandon of one who believes in possible happiness. But love - as often happens in verismo - has the face of illusion. Milio is married. He has a daughter. And Zazà, though heartbroken, does not destroy: she renounces.
With gentleness and with dignity, she chooses sacrifice. Not out of weakness, but out of greatness of soul.