Teatro Alighieri | 24 February 2024 | at 11:00 AM
Presentation of the program 2024
XXXIV edition
Gala verdiano
Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto | From 27 January 2024
conductor
Riccardo Muti
with
Elisa Balbo
Isabel De Paoli
Rosa Feola
Juliana Grigoryan
Vittoria Magnarello
Luca Micheletti
Riccardo Rados
Giovanni Sebastiano Sala
Riccardo Zanellato
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza
choirmaster Corrado Casati
maestro di sala Davide Cavalli
in collaboration with Regione Emilia-Romagna and Comune di Busseto
thanks to Crédit Agricole Italia
The Programme
The Text
Biographies
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The Programme
I part
from La forza del destino
Sinfonia
from Simon Boccanegra
“A te l’estremo addio… Il lacerato spirito”
Riccardo Zanellato (e coro)
from La forza del destino
“Pace, pace mio Dio”
Juliana Grigoryan
from Il trovatore
“Ah, si, ben mio”
Giovanni Sebastiano Sala
“Timor di me?… D’amor sull’ali rosee”
Rosa Feola
from Macbeth
“Perfidi! All’anglo contro me v’unite!… Pietà, rispetto, onore”
Luca Micheletti
from La forza del destino
“Il santo nome di Dio… La Vergine degli angeli”
Riccardo Zanellato, Juliana Grigoryan, coro
II part
from Macbeth
“O figli, o figli miei!… Ah, la paterna mano”
Giovanni Sebastiano Sala
from Il trovatore
“Stride la vampa”
Isabel De Paoli
from Otello
“Ave Maria”
Elisa Balbo
from Don Carlo
“Ella giammai m’amò”
Riccardo Zanellato
from I Vespri siciliani
“Arrigo! Ah parli a un core”
Rosa Feola
from Otello
“Vanne; la tua meta già vedo… Credo in un Dio crudel”
Luca Micheletti
from Macbeth
Finale atto primo “Di destarlo per tempo il re m’impose”
Giovanni Sebastiano Sala, Riccardo Zanellato, Luca Micheletti, Elisa Balbo, Riccardo Rados, Vittoria Magnarello, coro
Fast Animals
and Slow Kids
Lugo, Pavaglione | From 15 December 2023 of 30 January 2024
Fast Animals and Slow Kids
Aimone Romizi vocals, guitar, percussions
Alessio Mingoli drumkit, backing vocals
Jacopo Gigliotti bass
Alessandro Guercini guitars
Daniele Ghiandoni keyboards, guitars, and chorus
Carmelo Emanuele Patti conductor
Orchestra La Corelli
co-production Ravenna Festival and Mittelfest
in collaboration with Woodworm
Impetuous, electric and intensely romantic, FASK combine the energy and distortion of rock with the most poetic sentimentality. They tell of everyday life, of horizons that reach far beyond the walls of their “childhood bedroom” to embrace the beauty of their hometown, Perugia. Relying uniquely on the support of their fans, FASK have conquered the general public, from concerts in small provincial clubs to sold-out tours in large arenas. Now, for the first time, their ballads – collected in a long series of albums, the latest of which, È già domani, was followed by a single featuring Ligabue, Il tempo è una bugia – are presented in sumptuous arrangements by the Corelli Orchestra, conducted by an experienced maestro such as Carmelo Patti.
Riccardo Muti
Tamás Varga
Palazzo Mauro De André | From January 2024
Riccardo Muti conductor
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Tamás Varga cello
Nino Rota
Suite from The Godfather
Cello Concerto No. 2 (1973)
Manuel De Falla
El sombrero de tres picos Suite No. 2
Maurice Ravel
Boléro
“The examiners gave you an A+, not for the way you played today, but for the way you will play tomorrow”: Nino Rota, then director of the Bari Conservatory, was far-sighted in his assessment of the young pianist Riccardo Muti. That first meeting established a bond between them that has never been broken, becoming a close friendship based on mutual esteem and admiration. It is for this reason that Muti will once again perform his works, chosen from a vast catalogue of ‘absolute’ music that includes titles such as the Concertoentrusted to the talent of Tamas Varga, principal cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic. The programme also features Rota’s film scores, like the celebrated soundtrack to Coppola’s The Godfather. These scores were conceived as ‘narratives’, just as the Andalusian echoes of De Falla’s Suite and the hypnotic, mysterious melody of Ravel’s masterpiece were conceived for a choreographic narration.
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Soirée di musica e danza per Rachmaninov
curated by Daniele Cipriani
Palazzo Mauro De André | from 7 July to 6 August 2023
On the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninov’s birth (1873-1943)
Soirée di musica e danza per Rachmaninov
curated by Daniele Cipriani
Beatrice Rana and Massimo Spada piano
Ludovica Rana violoncello
music Sergei Rachmaninov
Ettore Volontieri narrator
music consultant Gastón Fournier-Facio
“Sonata”
set to the Andante from the Sonata in G minor for cello and piano, Op. 19
“Trio”
set to the Andantino, from the Suite no. 2 for two pianos, Op. 17
choreography Uwe Scholz
performers Rachele Buriassi (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens), Esnel Ramos (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, formerly Ballet Nacional de Cuba), Oleksii Potiomkin (formerly Ballet of the National Opera of Ukraine)
“Alla fine del mondo”
choreography Simone Repele and Sasha Riva, premiere of the work set to the Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
costume design Anna Biagiotti
props Michele della Cioppa
lighting design Alessandro Caso
performers Yumi Aizawa, Luca Curreli, Riccardo Ciarpella, Francesco Curatolo, Chiara Dal Borgo, Giulia Pizzuto, Chiara Ranca, Simone Repele, Sasha Riva, Parvaneh Scharafali
After the 50thanniversary of Igor Stravinsky, this tribute to Sergei Rachmaninov on the 150thanniversary of his birth renews the magical thread that links music and dance. At the piano will be Beatrice Rana—who first began to ‘due’ with dance steps here in Ravenna—and Massimo Spada. They will alternate between the Preludes and the Études-Tableaux, or in dialogue with the dancers on stage. Like Stravinsky, the Russian-born Rachmaninov later settled in America, but unlike him, he did not devote so much attention to ballet. However, it is because of the gentle nature of his compositions, the fluidity of the notes, and the butterfly lightness of his melodies that choreographers often ‘steal’ from his works. The programme features Uwe Scholz’s Sonata, choreographed to the Andante from Rachmaninov’s Sonata in G Minor op. 19, as well asthe world premiere of a choreography by Sacha Riva and Simone Repele on the Symphonic Dances, op. 45.
Martha Argerich,
Mischa Maisky
Palazzo Mauro De André | 08 June 2023 | at 9:00 PM
Martha Argerich piano
Mischa Maisky cello
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello sonata in G minor No. 2, Op. 5
Claude Debussy
Cello sonata in D minor
Frédéric Chopin
Cello sonata in G minor, Op. 65
Still vibrant after more than 45 years, the formidable duo of Mischa Maisky and Martha Argerich is notable for its technical and expressive interplay, the direct musical consequences of fond personal friendship and instinctive compatibility. “Playing with him is the most natural thing in the world”, confesses the Argentinian pianist, who now tackles three sonatas for cello and piano spanning as many centuries: from Beethoven’s late XVIII-century Sonata no. 2 – a pioneering example of a genre that had no predecessors in Haydn or Mozart – to one of the rare chamber works by Chopin, who wrote mainly for the piano, and finally to Debussy’s Sonata, another unique work with its nocturnal, almost lunar atmosphere, anticipating the XX century with harmonic colouring prevailing over design.
Laurie Anderson:
Let X = X
with Sexmob
Palazzo Mauro De André | from 12 June to 31 December 2023
Laurie Anderson: Let X = X
with Sexmob
Laurie Anderson voice
Steven Bernstein trumpet
Briggan Kraus sax
Tony Scherr bass
Kenny Wollesen drum
Doug Weiselman clarinet
Italian exclusive
Not only is Laurie Anderson one of the least easily pigeonholed musicians of all time, but, as an artist, she pushes the boundaries of all the expressive media she tackles, revealing their unfathomable potential and implementing new solutions and combinations. From sound poetry to video-scenic experimentation, from Fluxus performances to hit parades (O Superman was the least predictable hit of the 1980s), for this new adventure Laurie Anderson will play material old and new strarting from her debut albumBig Science (1982), a successful minimalist synthesis of Steve Reich and Robert Ashley. Its clever combination of avant-garde theatre and pop music soon became a milestone in a dazzling musical experience, concocted with a group of great veterans of New York’s downtown scene.
Un rave classico
Russi, Palazzo San Giacomo | 15 July 2023 | at 8:00 PM
Un rave classico
Orchestra Notturna Clandestina
Enrico Melozzi conductor
special guests
Niccolò Fabi, Giovanni Sollima and others
Talking about raves and classical music sounds like a contradiction in terms, but when it comes to the eclectic conductor and multi-instrumentalist Enrico Melozzi, anything is possible. At the head of a mega-group made up of his own Orchestra Notturna Clandestina (a symphonic group featuring exceptional international soloists from a variety of musical backgrounds), some classical ensembles selected through a public call, and special guest Niccolò Fabi, whom he recently accompanied in a concert at the Arena di Verona, Melozzi, known to Ravenna Festival audiences as the leader of the 100 Cellos, will be hosting a long “classical rave”, an all-night marathon from dusk to dawn, with the aim of popularising Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, who are perhaps not too far removed from the tastes of the young.
Sandro Lombardi
reads Testori
Chiostro del Museo Nazionale | 12 July 2023 | at 7:30 PM
On the centenary of the birth of Giovanni Testori (1923-1993)
Sandro Lombardi reads Testori
Mater Strangosciàs, 7.30 pm
Gli angeli dello sterminio, 9.30 pm
with the participation of Francesca Ciocchetti
A “strange sweetness”, as Walter Siti puts it, animates the torrent of confused, dialectal, mangled, sibilant but necessary words that the late Testori seems to have wished to bequeath not only to posterity but also to Sandro Lombardi himself, who probably owes the most convincing achievements of his long career to the dense and versatile pen of the Milanese genius. An actor of unusual intensity, Lombardi does not smooth over literary roughness and is used to plunging into emotional depths where others fear to tread. Twenty years later, he returns to Testori, the witness to the end, the poet of the Milanese apocalypse, the devotee of a stranguished Madonna, and dedicates an “unbridled ode to life” to those who have known torment.
Sandro Lombardi da DoppioZero
The Programme
Circles
Classica Orchestra Afrobeat
Teatro Alighieri | From 8 July to 7 August 2023
Circles
Classica Orchestra Afrobeat
with the sculptures of the Mutoid Waste Company
As the title suggests, the concept of “circularity” is the inspiration for a new production by Classica Orchestra Afrobeat, the histrionic chamber ensemble conducted by Marco Zanotti, joined for this debut by the Mutoid Waste Company, a collective born in England in the 1980s but long since settled in Mutonia, near Santarcangelo di Romagna. Thus, with a group that combines the Baroque with the contemporary, and proposing scenarios with a strong visual and sonic impact, they will attempt a representation of our near future, when humanity will finally look upwards to a more dignified and sustainable life. To provoke an in-depth reflection on coexistence in an environment where time and life are not straight lines, but endless, spiralling Circles.
