Controversy at the opening night of Pesaro 2024, the cultural capital. The event was held on January 20th - the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella was also present - but it is in the last few hours that some phrases of Paolo Bonolis, the host of the evening, have gone viral. The other protagonist is Francesca Perrotta, orchestra conductor, who was particularly upset by those phrases, not at all appreciated. In an interview with the National Daily, she explained: «The little girl I was was happy to meet her Bim Bum Bam idol. But the woman I am today felt sadness in the rhetoric of the Italian comedy that he carried forward throughout the time of his presentation. Sadness for him and for the little girl I was».
Bonolis calls the orchestra conductor «madam». She: degrading
Several times Bonolis repeatedly called Perrotta «madam» or «miss», instead of «conductor». And she herself pointed it out on stage. But it didn't end there, because viral also became jokes about a «sexy percussionist», to which the conductor replied: «When you are on stage you also have to make a bit of a scene, Bonolis's rate is this. But I was interested in another message: the fact of being there because I had a role. I was not the 'Mrs. Perrotta'. I was there because I was the conductor. Even the «sexy percussionist was out of place. I told the musician that I was sorry, she smiled at me and it ended there. We are used to seeing the thin line that goes into the personal, in this case of a low level because sexual: men have always exercised power and women have suffered it. But no woman would have presented a musician called to perform in front of 8,000 people in this way. It doesn't make us feel special. It sounds like a bullying».
Perrotta adds that «being called on stage several times 'Mrs. Perrotta' was bad and unpleasant. Not offensive, but degrading. That's why I specified 'conductor', which may still sound a bit strange, like Maestra Perrotta. But we are building a new mentality. For example, now there is an international competition called 'La Maestra', aimed only at female orchestra conductors».
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