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The extraordinary story of the “violins of the sea” at Opera

In the violin-making workshop of the Opera-Milan prison.

Master luthier Enrico Allorto and an inmate (with tattoos) at work.

© Anne Le Nir

By: Anne Le Nir Follow

Migrant boats that become violins.

It is in Italy, the wood of migrant boats, stranded on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, is transformed into violins.

These musical instruments are born from the hands of prisoners, incarcerated in the Opera prison, near Milan.

Renamed the "violins of the sea", they will be loaned to international orchestras to cultivate the values ​​of life and the collective memory.

Values ​​discovered or rediscovered by apprentice violin makers sentenced to very heavy sentences. 

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