Luciano Capponi is the president of the Monterosi Tuscia football team; he is a director, musician, composer and much more. We interviewed him for italiani.it.
Your days are full of commitments and meetings, you are a director and author of cinema, theater and television. You are a musician and composer and, for some years now, you too have been president of a football team. How did you decide to become the president of Monterosi Tuscia?
Coincidentally… a pozzolana field near my house saddened me and I turned it into a grass field and the football team that played in the third category climbed up the categories. In short, here we are in Serie C, seven championships won.
You wrote the "Letter to young players". The letter concludes by writing “Remember that you will represent an entire city and you will be an example”. How important is it in the world of football, but not limited to, to set a good example?
Example is more important than rules. An instructor, an elementary teacher or a professor who serenely transmit the ethics of existence, nourish their students with the right air, who in turn will carry these values with them. NO FAIR NO PLAY is the "utopian" attempt to change football, out of business, out of violence and out of all that web that has turned a game into a war.
What role has music played and does it have in your life?
Fundamental, I was born with music and in music. At the age of sixteen I founded the “BLESSED” ensemble playing in the best squares in Italy and participating in television broadcasts since '67. Since then I have made soundtracks for film, theater and television and have written hundreds of songs. My dream is to conduct a symphony orchestra.
You have an important theatrical training, you have worked in the theater as an actor, mime, director, author, poet. What are your thoughts on the restart of theaters after these dark years?
The theater is almost dead, crushed by conditions and rules that have nothing to do with the theater, the covid is only a part. There is no culture, preparation and especially apprenticeship, theater is confused with television or cinema. Diction is assumed to be fundamental, as are imposing sets. It is a huge chapter.
When will we see your next film?
My next film is in the air… it's called "The end of time". It will be the third in a trilogy that concludes my fairytale investigation into the kingdom of the dead.
Football, cinema, music. Is there a thread that connects these passions of yours? Are there any other passions?
Yes, there is a thread… communicate, raise curtains, dispel darkness, feed doubts about Pavlovian certainties… if I knew how to paint I would use this too. I also have other passions, flying (I am a pilot), going out to sea (I built a boat), I delight in the vegetable garden, wine, oil and I have a large following of dogs and cats.
What are your plans for the future?
I have dreamed all my life and I have two dreams not yet realized… well, since all the others have had life, I don't see why they shouldn't come true… but I can't say which ones… out of luck? Maybe.
Photographs kindly granted by Luciano Capponi.
Very interesting!