Carmen Consoli
L'anfiteatro e la bambina impertinente

THE REVIEW

Carmen is no longer the cheeky, impertinent little girl in the throes of hormonal euphoria at the start of her career. We were used to seeing the cantantessa on stage, front woman of her rock band, energetically wielding her guitar for the fierce riffs that adorned her songs, and today we find it a bit hard to recognize her with a touch of makeup, a skirt, and a bit of heel, in the splendid photograph of the concert on last July 15 at the Greek amphitheater of Taormina, when in a unique magical evening she was accompanied by the 50 musicians of the symphony orchestra of the Vittorio Emanuele theater of Messina and her band.

Carmen Consoli now aspires to become a lady of Italian music and sings her hits with great mastery, true ultrasounds of the new millennium that come directly from the soul. She is the most certain assurance of Italian song, "The amphitheater and the impertinent girl" is the arrival and starting point for a career that promises to be bright and full of satisfaction, her rattlesnake tongue is now a guarantee and even her nastiest songs here seem new, acoustically perfect, elegant and refined. For us who have loved her since she signed autographs with little hearts... young women grow up.