Zocca (Modena), 17 January 2026 – Vasco Rossi was 16 or 17 years oldwhen he ‘came down’ from Zocca to go and study in Bologna, at the Tanari Institute, “the accounting school that my father had forced me to attend”, he remembers. Bologna, for him, was like New York, a huge and unknown city: between the 60s and 70s, the years of the cultural and customs revolution, even (and above all) under the Two Towers there was a climate of ferment and avant-garde.
Vasco: “So I joined the theater company”
Table of Contents
- Vasco: “So I joined the theater company”
- “A revelatory experience”
- Experimental theater course in ‘his’ Zocca
- The initiative, offered by Vasco to his town, is coordinated by the Municipality
- “There were those who asked to register from Puglia and Switzerland”
- Giving those who live in the Apennines the opportunity to cultivate passions
- Ferrari: “We will work on exposure exercises”
“When Alvarez, an actor, launched his theater courses, I introduced myself immediately, intrigued – adds Vasco –. He gave us a sort of audition and asked us… to scream: I screamed instinctively and with all the energy I had in my body. Of course he chose me and let me in in the theater company”.
“A revelatory experience”
And that experience was ‘revelatory’ for the very young Vasco: “It was an extraordinary period for me which allowed me to listen to myself, to understand myself and also to understand what I really wanted to become.”
Experimental theater course in ‘his’ Zocca
And it is precisely for this reason that Vasco wanted to ‘launch’, right in his Zocca, a experimental theater coursean opportunity to “come out of the cocoon”, to get involved and to let go, without any ambition or ambition but just like that, to ‘untie’ yourself a little. On Wednesday evening, in the theater named after Vasco, the meetings of this particular school of theatre, but above all of emotions, led by the well-known actor and director from Modena began. Andrea Ferrari.
The initiative, offered by Vasco to his town, is coordinated by the Municipality
The initiative, offered by Vasco to his town, is coordinated by the Municipality: thanks to the interest of Rudy Violi, the mayor Federico Ropa and the deputy mayor Susanna Rossi Torri made it blossom: “Vasco is an artist who has been able to speak to entire generations, transmitting passion, authenticity and the courage to believe in his own dreams – said Ropa – These are the same values that we wish to put at the centre of this educational journey”.
“There were those who asked to register from Puglia and Switzerland”
The course was initially intended for 15 participants, but so many signed up that it reached 20, all from the area Bitch and neighboring countries, and of all ages (from 14 years old and up). “There were even those who wanted to register from Puglia and Switzerland”, smile the organizers. Among the ‘students’ of the course, there are also some friends of Blasco, Manola and Otis, and his son Luca, known as Lukito.
Giving those who live in the Apennines the opportunity to cultivate passions
“Vasco Rossi expressed the desire to give an opportunity to those who live in the Apennines and perhaps would like to try their hand at theater but do not have the possibility of going down to Modena or Vignola to take lessons and cultivate their passions”, explains Andrea Ferrari who leads the course. His project was welcomed and approved immediately by Vasco and the Municipality. This course will be divided into about ten lessons, until March. A first approach.
Ferrari: “We will work on exposure exercises”
“Classical theater often focuses more on technique, diction, phonetics, while in experimental theatre we work more on the person, on expressiveness – adds Ferrari –. In the first meeting we started to get to know each other, then we will work on exposition exercises, we will try to invent stories and tell them”. Always to get involved, get out of a ‘virtual’ reality, get to know each other and connect: everything to try to break that famous ‘cocoon’ and that shyness that also blocked the young Vasco, “and it is the most difficult step”, wrote the rocker on his social media. “Our ‘laboratory’ does not have the aim of going up a stage. There will not be a final show, at least for this first cycle – says Andrea Ferrari again –. If this test goes well, there is the intention to resume in the autumn with a real course spread over a few months.”