Florence italy concerts: Start the winter season at january 21 to April 5, 2014
To usher in the great season 2014 of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , will be Tuesday, January 21 , 6 plays, Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi , who was absent from the Municipal Theatre for over thirty years , since 1977. The setting is that of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and Ente Concerts Marialisa De Carolis of Sassari , directed by Leo Muscato ( Best Director Premio Abbiati 2012) , Tiziano Santi scenes and costumes by Silvia Aymonino . The first and second cast , conducted by Renato Palumbo on the podium, alternating promises of contemporary opera scene and can boast the return of Leo Nucci, who guest starred in the title role for two performances on 26 and 30 January .
Among young Florentine expected to debut in the role of mention Anna Pirozzi Abigaillle , fresh from success at the last edition of the Salzburg Festival .
Follows Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, from Thursday, February 6 , 6 plays, until Thursday 13 February, in a Florence italy concerts production of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna , directed by Fabio Ceresa , one of the ‘ new names ‘ of the royal Italian : after having worked closely with leading filmmakers , has shown in various Italian theaters ( among many AsLiCo the circuit , the Festival di Jesi , the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari , the Festival of Martina Franca) , was to combine imagination , talent and lucidity synthesis and refined . The scenes are Jade Tiana Claudia Abiendi , costumes by Massimo Carlotto .
Juraj Valčuha after the consensus reached in the symphonic repertoire by the public and the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , with whom he established a great relationship, he made his debut at the Teatro Comunale in an Italian opera . Guest star in the performances of 6, 9 and 12 February, will , in the title role , Fiorenza Cedolinis , artist of international renown, a Butterfly unmatched for pathos and vocal technique , next to her, in the role of FB Pinkerton ( 6.9 , 11 and 12 February) Stefano Secco . Following at Teatro Goldoni , forum for the contemporary repertoire , for 5 performances , from Sunday 9th to Sunday 16 March, The Metamorphosis of Silvia Colasanti , a work commissioned by the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for the 75th Festival, with staging, sets , costumes video and design of the Florentine Pier’Alli , with Marco Angius on the podium. The work recorded in the sold-out performances scheduled at the world premiere took place in 2012 in Florence .
Programming opera alternate symphonic 8 appointments , between Florence italy concerts: they see the return of performers and soloists appreciated by critics and the public in Florence. Kazushi Ono, on 16 and 18 February, will direct the Choir and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , together with the Ukrainian bass Vitalij Kowaljow in Symphony no. 13 in B flat minor , Op. 113 Babij Jar for bass, male chorus and orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich , coupled with the Symphony in D major, K 133 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. After a week (Friday 21 and Saturday, February 22 ) Daniel Oren will direct Alexei Volodin at the piano, in a concert that will range from Beethoven to Gershwin and Ravel . The expected return of Roberto Abbado is scheduled for Friday, February 28 and Saturday, March 1 , accompanied by Renaud Capuçon , to perform the Concerto no. 1 In A Minor Op . 77 for violin and orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich , followed by Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé , rarely performed in the version for choir and orchestra. The weekend to follow (Friday 7th and Saturday 8th March) will direct Giuseppe Andrea Battistoni Albanian Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat minor , Op. 66 for piano and orchestra by Giuseppe Martucci and end the program with Haydn’s Symphony no . 4 in F minor, Op. 36 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky .
Friday, March 14 and Saturday 15 March, another young director , already acclaimed in Florence in autumn 2012 , Ryan McAdams , will be back on the podium of the Municipal Theatre, the top of Florence italy concerts, with two special guests , Paolo Marzocchi at the piano and Igor Sklyarov , a famous Russian soloist , nell’arpa specializing in glasses, for a concert that will begin with Metaboles particularly intriguing for orchestra by Henri Dutilleux (known French composer , died in May 2013 at the age of 97 years) will continue with the absence Fantasia for Piano, orchestra and harp glasses (inspired by the mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor ) , and ends with a classic masterpiece , the Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op . 67 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Friday, March 28 and Saturday 29 March, both as a conductor and pianist , Xu Zhong, wand of China, currently the artistic director of the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania , offers Prélude à l’ après -midi d’un faune ( Prelude to the Afternoon of a faun ) by Claude Debussy , the Concerto in E flat major K.271 for piano and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Symphony in D minor by César Franck . Tuesday, April 1 Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , directed by Lorenzo Fratini , along with the Children’s Choir of the Music School of Fiesole , directed by Joan Yakkey perform Carmina Burana by Carl Orff in the version for soloists, chorus , piano and percussion. Zubin Mehta will return in those Florence italy concerts to the podium of the Municipal Theatre Saturday, April 5 , to direct Matsuev Concerto no. R 456 2 in A Major for piano and orchestra by Franz Liszt and follow the Symphony no. 8 in C minor by Anton Bruckner