Italy's Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, visited Villa Sant'Agata, the residence of composer Giuseppe Verdi, highlighting the government's plan for restoration. The villa, closed in October 2022 due to maintenance costs, was expropriated by the state for €8 million, with an additional €370,000 allocated for urgent repairs. Giuli claimed the villa's condition was not critical and expects restoration to occur swiftly. Contrarily, opera critic Angelo Foletto criticized this assessment, labeling it optimistic and calling for a detailed restoration plan due to the villa's severe decay.
The restoration work will be fairly quick, I imagine. The villa is wonderful and not in particularly critical condition. I believe it will be possible to intervene in a relatively short timeframe.
Writing on Facebook, La Repubblica's opera critic Angelo Foletto described them as difficult to believe, recalling a visit shortly before the 2022 closure in which he saw a vile state of general abandonment.
Foletto accused the minister of misrepresenting the situation and demanded a concrete restoration plan, stating we need more than the €370,000 promised to save what can be saved.
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