Il ritorno inatteso del maestro
The Unexpected Return of the Maestro
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La sala prove di La Scala vibrava di tensione quel pomeriggio d'autunno.The rehearsal room at La Scala was vibrating with tension that autumn afternoon. Il giovane direttore, Luca Moretti, stava correggendo con impazienza l'attacco degli archi quando le pesanti porte di legno si aprirono cigolando.The young conductor, Luca Moretti, was impatiently correcting the strings' entry when the heavy wooden doors opened with a creak. Sulla soglia apparve una figura magra, avvolta in un cappotto logoro: era lui, il maestro Vittorio Aldini, scomparso in un naufragio sette anni prima.On the threshold appeared a thin figure wrapped in a worn coat: it was him, maestro Vittorio Aldini, who had disappeared in a shipwreck seven years earlier.
Un silenzio di tomba calò sulla sala.A deathly silence fell over the room. Luca, pallido come un cencio, lasciò cadere la bacchetta.Luca, pale as a sheet, let the baton fall. «Maestro…», mormorò con voce rotta, mentre Aldini sorrideva debolmente, gli occhi carichi di storie che il mare non era riuscito a inghiottire.“Maestro…” he murmured with a broken voice, while Aldini smiled faintly, his eyes full of stories that the sea had not managed to swallow.
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