“Tribute to Maria Callas”, an evening musical stroll in central Athens, in five acts

Posted on September 15, 2013 by editoreusa

logogreekoperaPREMIERE 15 SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
 

callas“Tribute to Maria Callas”

An evening musical stroll in central Athens, in five acts

on Sunday September 15, 2013

Acropolis Museum,
Herod Atticus Theatre steps,
Aghion Asomaton Square,
Kotzia Square,
National Archaeological Museum

With the GNO Orchestra, pianists and soloists
Conducted by Myron Michailidis

 

On the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (16 September 1977), the Greek National Opera paid tribute to the great Greek soprano with a series of musical events in central Athens, on Sunday 15 September, starting at 18.00 in the evening and ending at 22.00.
The streets of Athens, the city where Maria Callas grew up, played host to the famous arias that have become associated with some of Maria Callas’ most outstanding performances. They were interpreted by the artists of the Greek National Opera, where Callas took the first steps of her stellar career.
Soloists Eleni Voudouraki, Dimitra Theodosiou, Antonia Kalogirou, Vassiliki Karayianni, Irini Karaianni, Elena Kelessidi, Cellia Costea, Myrsini Margariti, Maria Mitsopoulou and Julia Souglakou, the pianists and the Greek National Opera Orchestra, conducted by the company’s Artistic Director Myron Michailidis, interpreted extracts from the operas La Traviata La Bohéme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Macbeth, Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, Il Trovatore, Sicilian Vespers, etc.

The musical stroll in five acts is designed to allow the public to watch all five acts, walking from one to the other. The Greek National Opera invites the fans of the ultimate opera diva to take a stroll around the streets of the city centre, to the sounds of operas by Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Donizzeti and others, to spend a few inspiring moments at famous and lesser-known spots and to experience the city, as well as the opera, in a new light.

The program on Sunday, September 15, 2013 was as follows:

•    18.00 -Acropolis Museum courtyard – Dionysiou Areopagitou Street [soloists accompanied by piano, duration 20 minutes]
•    18.45 – Herod Atticus Theatre steps – Dionysiou Areopagitou Street [soloists accompanied by piano, duration 20 minutes]
•    19.35 – Association of Greek Archaeologists, 134-136 Ermou pedestrian street, Aghion Asomaton Square, Thisseio [soloists accompanied by piano, duration 20 minutes]
•    20.30 – Kotzia Square [soloists accompanied by piano, duration 20 minutes]
•    21.30 – National Archaeological Museum courtyard – Patission [Greek National Opera Orchestra – soloists, duration 40 minutes]

Admission to all events is free of charge.


In collaboration with the City of Athens, the Acropolis Museum, the National Archaeological Museum, the Association of Greek Architects and the urban revival group Every Saturday in Athens.
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VERDI’S 200th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: “Verdi between Romanticism and Risorgimento.”

Posted on September 15, 2013 by editoreusa

“Verdi between Romanticism and Risorgimento.” A Lecture by Alberto Rizzuti

 Italian Cultural Institute, Chicago, United States

Monday, September 16, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (CDT)

Immagine mostra. Giuseppe Verdi: un mito italiano

“Verdi between Romanticism and Risorgimento”

A lecture by Prof. Alberto Rizzuti

 Introduction by Philip Gossett

 

Alberto Rizzuti, born in Turin in 1963, is one of Verdi’s leading scholars.

After a Ph.D. in Chicago in 2001, he currently teaches History of Musical Civilization at the University of Turin.

In 2008, he edited the critical edition of Verdi’s opera “Giovanna d’Arco.”

In his lecture, Prof. Rizzuti will discuss Verdi’s life and works from his debut up to 1850. 

Light refreshments will be offered.Reservations kindly suggested.

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VERDI’S 200th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Happy Birthday to Verdi in China.

Posted on September 15, 2013 by editoreusa

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Andrea Griminelli plays Verdi in Beijing

Andrea Griminelli, flute
Shengqi He, flute
Dawei Qu, piano

Program:
I° part:
Luigi Hugues (1836-1913): Fantasia su “Un Ballo in Maschera” di Giuseppe Verdi per due flauti e pianoforte
Giulio Briccialdi (1818-1881): Fantasia su “Aida” di Giuseppe Verdi per flauto e pianoforte
E. Krakamp (1813-1883) – G. Briccialdi (1818-1881): Fantasia su “La Traviata” di Giuseppe Verdi per flauto e pianoforte
 
II° part:
Giulio Briccialdi (1818-1881): Fantasia su “Il Trovatore” di Giuseppe Verdi per flauto e pianoforte
Wilhelm Popp (1828-1903) / Franz e Karl Doppler (1821-1883): Fantasia su il “Rigoletto” di Giuseppe Verdi Op. 335 per flauto e pianoforte. Duo concertante su il “Rigoletto” per due flauti e pianoforte.
Gala concert for Giuseppe Verdi bicentenary in the opening of the video exhibition “L’invenzione del vero. L’Alfabeto del sentimento umano” at the National Museum of China, in Beijing, Hall 16.

Under the High Patronage of the Italian President
– Comitato nazionale per le celebrazioni del Bicentenario verdiano
– Ambasciata d’Italia e Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Pechino
– RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana
– Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII
– Treccani Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana
– Regione Emilia-Romagna
– Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani
– Teatro Regio di Parma
– Ricordi & C.
– GLOBART
– CC TV

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THE MAGIC FLUTE IN FLORENCE….

Posted on September 13, 2013 by editoreusa

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FLORENCEOPERA and THE MAGIC FLUTE.

The Magic Flute will be presented to the public by the youth gropu of the Florenceopera Project on October 4th and 5th at 9PM.

Place: Tempio Valdese Via La Marmora, corner Via Micheli, in Florence.  The group will be directed by the Maestro Claudio Bianchi, with the artistic direction of Patrizia Morandini.

CAST

TAMINO: JADID SAAD LUCA-MANTOVANI
PAPAGENO : PAOLO BREDA BULGHERINI ALESSIO GORI
PAMINA: BARBARA LEPRE
MARTINA BARRECA
SARASTRO : TOMMASO CORVAJA FEDERICO MASI
1 DAMA: DANIELA CIABATTI
2 DAMA: ALEXANDRA SCICLUNA
3 DAMA: ELISABETTA VUOCOLO
REGINA DELLA NOTTE: SONIA BELLUGI
1 GENIETTO: CLAUDIA CECCHINI
2 GENIETTO: FRANCESCA BECUCCI
MARTA MARQUES
3 GENIETTO: AMELIA VANZINI
MONOSTATO: CLAUDIO TEMPESTINI
PAPAGENA: MARTA MARQUES FRANCESCA BECUCCI
1 SACERDOTE: MATTEO MEGUENI
2 SACERDOTE : CARLO CORBANI
ORATORE : TIAGO DE SA
MARCO BERNABEI
1 ARMIGERO: MATTEO MEGUENI
2 ARMIGERO: TIAGO DE SA
MARCO BERNABEI
1 SCHIAVO : GIUSEPPE INTRIERI
2 SCHIAVO: ANASTASIA VULGARIS
3 SCHIAVO: VERONICA NATALI
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SCENOGRAPHIES: CARLO CORBANI – LUCIA CAPONE -ILARIA CARITO
COSTUMES: ELISABETTA VUOCOLO
ATTREZZERIE: ANASTASIA VULGARIS – ZHU XI XI
LIGHTS: LUIGI MAGNANI – DITTA MA PI

CORO LIRICO DELLA SCUOLA DI MUSICA DI CAMPI BISENZIO DIRECTED BY MAESTRO RICCARDO MONTINARO

PIANOFORTE: MARCO FRANCIOLI

CONDUCTOR: CLAUDIO BIANCHI

DIRECTOR: PATRIZIA MORANDINI

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Conductor Riccardo Frizza leads the rehearsal for Norma at the Metropolitan Opera.

Posted on September 13, 2013 by editoreusa

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NORMA

Approximate running time 3 hrs. 5 min.

Only the greatest of sopranos are up to the challenge of Bellini’s crowd-pleaser of bel canto fireworks, which is why Sondra Radvanovsky, followed by Angela Meade, is cast in the title role. Mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich is Adalgisa and tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko is Pollione.

Conductor Riccardo Frizza leads the rehearsal for Norma: Ten photographs.

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La Traviata in Comic-strip

Posted on September 10, 2013 by editoreusa

La Traviata in Comic-strip

“Lirica a strisce”, Comic strip opera from Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti – Modena. After all, the characters of this opera can easily compare to the usual “superheroes”…

Sample pages…

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Comic-strip opera in Modena

Posted on September 9, 2013 by editoreusa

verdifumetto4Lirica a strisce. Comic-strip opera

LIRICA A STRISCE is the transposition into comic-strips of the most acclaimed Operas produced and staged by the Teatro Comunale of Modena.  The editorial project came out of the desire to bring to opera a new and more extended public, using a language that is more modern compared to the original libretto of the Opera.
The choice of the comic-strip as the language for this operation fits in well with the local tradition of Modena tied to the ninth art (which has drawn into the shadow of Modena’s Ghirlandina tower great authors such as Bonvi, Silver, Paul Campani, Massimo Bonfatti and Claudio Nizzi) and a more general popularizing vocation of so-called “designed literature”.  In fact the intention of the strip is to tell the story exploiting the potentialities of connection between word and image, between the moment represented (by the actors) and the imagined space (perceived between one vignette and the other by the reader),  to modulate dramatic force and irony through lines, color and characterization.  All this without losing the openly popular and divulgative vein that has been part of it from the beginning.
verdifumetto3An entire series dedicated not only to children and young people, but also to comic-strip fans of all ages and to the lovers of opera in all its forms.
The comic can be found at the ticket office of the Teatro Comunale, as well as in the Feltrinelli and Nuova Tarantola bookstores in the center of Modena, in the specialized book store Pop Store in Parma, at the Castello di Carta in Vignola and at the Ambasciatori book store in Bologna near Piazza Maggiore.

 

Information:

Ufficio promozione
Tel. 059/2033003
Email: promozione@teatrocomunalemodena.it
(Price: € 7.00)
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VERDI’s 200th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Verdi’s musical scores anthological itinerant exhibition

Posted on September 8, 2013 by editoreusa

veride pittoriVerdi’s musical scores anthological exhibition

Organized by the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Antica e Moderna di Roma, 2013

On the occasion of the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, the association Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Antica e Moderna di Roma organized an exhibition concerning the artists who designed the most important original score covers of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas from 1839 to 1893.
This project started more than one year ago, searching and buying Verdi’s musical scores illustrated by masters and less known artists.
The association intends with this exhibition to celebrate the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth with a subject not directly linked to concerts or to his biography, showing an aspect of the circulation of his music through the illustration. The public management for the promotion of the Italian cultural heritage abroad is also involved, offering to the public a reading of the music through its relation with figurative arts. This project allowed the discovery of talented but still unknown artists.
verdimessaThe exhibition follows a chronological path showing all the score covers of the 28 operas by Verdi, together with the Requiem Mass dedicated to Manzoni and Dante’s Ave Maria, in several editions, not only Italian.
The techniques used to print the covers include xylography, lithography, etching and chromolithography. The publisher is almost always the printing works Ricordi, even though it is not rare to find foreign licensee publishers. The artists who illustrated Verdi’s score covers were nearly all members of Ricordi’s graphic design studio managed by Tito I Ricordi, skilled lithographer and printer.
Also his son Giulio designed some covers, among which the title page of the famous first edition of Aida. The most famous artists of this team were Francesco Ratti, Roberto Focosi, Alfredo Edel and Adolf Hohenstein.
Verdi_otelloThe exhibition, curated by Stefano Liberati and Dario F. Marletto, is sponsored and organized by the association Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Antica e Moderna and is under the patronage of the Italian President and the National Committee for the celebrations of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth bicentenary in collaboration with Unione Europea Esperti d’Arte, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regione Emilia-Romagna, the Braidense National Library and the city of Rivoli and will circulate during year 2013 through the world net of diplomatic and cultural delegations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Scheda pratica per “Verdi’s musical scores anthological exhibition ”

When:

Theatro Municipal – San Paolo
 from August 9th to September 9th, 2013
Galleria Mario Sironi – Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lima
from the 5th of September to the 8th of October 2013
Palacio de bellas artes – Città del Messico
October 2013
Casa del Conte Verde a Rivoli (TO)
from the 6th to the 29th of September 2013
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense a Milano
from October 3rd to November 6th, 2013
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VERDI’S 200th ANNIVERSARY: Nabucco in Philadelphia.

Posted on September 7, 2013 by editoreusa

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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC

Opera Philadelphia

Nabucco

by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed in Italian with English supertitles
Company Premiere and New Co-Production
Starting Friday, September 27th.

An ancient story. A revolutionary telling.
On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic struggle of the Jews suppressed by Babylon’s King. But to Italians fighting for their freedom from Austria, Verdi’s first great opera was an inspiring call to arms. In an unprecedented spectacle, Opera Philadelphia produces this beloved biblical tale with a slight twist: while the classical story unfolds on stage, 19th century opera goers join the modern day audience. The result? An exhilarating opera-within-an-opera as the Academy transforms into La Scala to thrill all involved, especially with ‘Va, pensiero (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves),’ adopted as Italy’s unofficial national anthem shortly after Nabucco’s premiere. In celebration of Verdi’s 200th birthday and 2013 being the Year of Italian Culture in the U.S., Opera Philadelphia delivers a galvanizing, must-see production.Nabucco160

All artists and programs subject to change.

Friday, September 27 8pm  
Sunday, September 29 2:30pm  
Wednesday, October 2 7:30pm  
Friday, October 4 8pm  
Sunday, October 6 2:30pm  
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Niccolo` van Westerhout’s Sinfonia in La minore- 1 Movimento

Posted on September 5, 2013 by editoreusa

As a fan of van Westerhout’s  works, I could not help myself to include this brief movimento in my blog… Click on the book and it will play it for you…
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