On Remembrance Day, the Orchestra Olimpia – composed exclusively of women and committed to promoting gender equality and human rights – pays tribute to the female musicians of Auschwitz. A concert celebrating the courage, resilience and humanity of the women who found salvation in music in the Nazi concentration camps. The show testifies to the power of music to preserve dignity and hope, even in the darkest moments of history.

Based on the children's novel Eravamo il suono (We Were the Sound) by Matteo Corradini, the concert, produced by Orchestra Olimpia, an organisation founded in 2018 by Roberta Pandolfi and Francesca Perrotta, traces the history of the women's orchestra of Auschwitz. Through the music of the Orchestra Olimpia and the acting of Clio Gaudenzi, the experience of eight orchestra members, who until then were distant and unknown to each other, is brought to life on stage. They find themselves face to face in a painful reality, Auschwitz in 1944, where space and time seem suspended and music is a chance not to die. The programme includes famous pieces from the repertoire and original music by composer Danilo Comitini, who also arranged the orchestration. With dramaturgy by Zeno Piovesan and direction by Valeria Fornoni, it is an emotionally powerful event in which music emerges as a universal language of resistance and peace that continues to resonate through time, testifying to art's ability to survive barbarism.