The Chairman of Banca del Fucino, Mauro Masi has signed a three-year collaboration agreement with Superintendent Carlo Fuortes, with which Banca del Fucino undertakes to pay an important financial contribution in support of the Rome Opera Theater Foundation.
The decision comes at a time when the live entertainment sector in Italy is paralyzed by great uncertainty, pending the possible restart of artistic activities.
The generous contribution will also go to support the "Fabbrica" Young Artist Program of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, a project born in 2016 - and now in its third edition - to enhance and train new generations of artists by handing down and promoting the specificity of the Italian opera tradition .
Founded in 1923 by Giovanni and Carlo Torlonia, Banca del Fucino is the oldest and most important private bank in Rome, a traditional and trusted point of reference for the management and enhancement of large estates.
For the President Mauro Masi: “This agreement with such a prestigious theatre, a pole of cultural excellence not only for our country, is fully in keeping with the spirit that characterized the integration of Igea Banca and Banca del Fucino, aimed at creating a new banking group of reference for the relaunch of City of Rome. In fact, this objective is to be pursued not only through financial support initiatives for businesses and households - for which 400 million euros have already been allocated as part of the initiatives envisaged by the so-called Liquidity Decree - but also through measures to enhance the best artistic production of our city”.
In line with the "I love Roma Opera Aperta" fundraising campaign, which the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma has just launched on its institutional website and social media channels, precisely with the aim of reacting to the difficulties of the moment and rallying those , companies and private citizens, wish to make their closeness to the Theater felt, Banca del Fucino goes to the rescue of the Rome Opera House.
For Superintendent Carlo Fuortes "the decision taken by Banca del Fucino to support, on a significant and continuous basis, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma - like all Italian theaters, closed since 5 March due to the Covid-19 pandemic - has an evident symbolic value and as a potential trailblazer with respect to the national and, in particular, territorial entrepreneurial system. In this phase of great uncertainty for the entire live entertainment sector, Banca del Fucino is making a gesture of great generosity and trust in our Foundation. For a private bank, deciding to finance a closed theatre, for which there is currently no definite reopening date, is truly a virtuous behaviour, which we hope can be taken as a model and imitated by the best entrepreneurial forces, from Rome and beyond". .
The donation from Banca del Fucino will benefit from the "Art Bonus" tax relief, the measure introduced in 2014 by the then and still Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities, Dario Franceschini, to encourage cultural patronage in Italy.
