The Music Programme

Saturday 31 July 2010
9.00pm, Teatro Signorelli 
Opera Gala featuring Marcello Giordani (tenor), Ekaterina Scherbachenko (soprano) and Gisèle Ben-Dor (conductor) with the Orchestra della Toscana

Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky: Tatiana’s letter scene from Eugene Onegin  
Cilea: Lamento di Federico (“E’ la solita storia del pastore'') from L’Arlesiana
Bizet: “La fleur que tu m’avais jetée” (Don José) from Carmen
Bizet: L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1:  Adagietto and Carillon
Bizet: “Parle-moi de ma mère’” (Micaëla, Don José) from Carmen

***  Interval ***

Mozart: Ouverture from Don Giovanni
Puccini: “Si, mi chiamano Mimi” (Mimi) from La Bohème
Puccini: “Ch’ella mi creda libero e lontano” (Dick Johnson) from Fanciulla del West
Puccini: “Donna non vidi mai” (Des Grieux) from Manon Lescaut
Puccini: Crisantemi                                                       
Puccini: “E lucevan le stelle” (Cavaradossi) from Tosca                
Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavaleria Rusticana              
Puccini: “O soave fanciulla” (Rodolfo and Mimi) from La Bohème       

 

Sunday 1 August 2010
9.00pm, Teatro Signorelli 
Concert featuring Charles Dance (narrator), Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano), Chad Hoopes (violin) and Julian Kovatchev (conductor) with the Sinfonici del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Mozart: Symphony No. 37 in G major K. 444
Mozart: Piano Concerto in D major No. 26, K.537, "Coronation"

*** Interval *** 

Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni, op. 8, nos. 1-4 (The Four Seasons) 

 

Monday 2 August 2010
12.00pm, Teatro Signorelli, Free Event
Recital featuring Oliver Poole (piano)

Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988

9.00pm, Teatro Signorelli 
An Evening with Gabriele Lavia (actor/director) supported by Cecilia Chailly (harp)

Dostoevsky:"Il Sogno di un uomo ridicolo" ("The Dream of a ridiculous Man")
In Italian only

Music and harp improvisations by Cecilia Chailly

 

Tuesday 3 August 2010
9.00pm, Piazza Signorelli (open air) 
Concert featuring Renée Fleming (soprano), Alberto Veronesi (conductor) with the Orchestra del Festival Puccini and the participation of the young composer and conductor Anthony Arcaini

Arcaini: Dream of TuscanyPuccini: Introduction from La Fanciulla del WestPuccini: Intermezzo from Manon LescautBizet: Overture from CarmenMassenet: "J’ai versé le poison dans cette coupe d’or" from CléopâtreGounod: "Ah! je ris de me voir si belle en ce miroir" from FaustLeoncavallo: Intermezzo from MameliGiordano: "No! Se un pensier … Nel suo amore rianimata" from SiberiaLeoncavallo: "Musette svaria sulla bocca viva" from La Boheme Leoncavallo: "Mimì Pinson, la biondinetta" from La Boheme

***Interval***

Wagner: Overture from Tannhaeuser
Strauss: Ständchen, Op. 17 Nº 2 
Strauss: Freundliche Vision, Op. 48 Nº 1   
Strauss: Zueignung, Op. 10 Nº 1 
Verdi: Sinfonia from Nabucco
Grusin: River Songs
Loewe: "I Could Have Dance All Night" from My Fair Lady

 

 

Wednesday 4 August 2010
11.00 am, Teatro Signorelli, Free Event
Chamber Concert featuring Michael Guttman (violin), Edoardo Catemario (guitar) and Vanessa Benelli Mosell (piano)

Brahms: Scherzo in C minor (“FAE" Sonata)
Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in A major Op. 100
Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango (version for violin and guitar)
   Bordel 1900
   Café 1930
   Night Club 1960
Paganini: Cantabile in D major Op.17, MS 109
Ibert: Entr'acte

9.00pm, Teatro Signorelli 
Concert featuring Joshua Bell (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Dénes Várjon (piano) and Riccardo Frizza (conductor) with the Orchestra della Toscana

Beethoven: Romance No. 2 in F major Op. 50 for violin and orchestra
Beethoven: Concerto in C major op. 56 for violin, cello and piano

***Interval***

Dvorak: Rondo in G minor Op. 94 for cello and orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major Op. 92
 

Thursday 5 August 2010
5.00pm, Piazza Signorelli (open air), Free Event
"Musica in piazza" with the Overtones Sax Quartet

2.30pm and 8pm, Teatro Signorelli 
"Twin Spirits" Performance portraying the love of Robert and Clara Schumann in words and music, featuring Sting and Trudie Styler as well as Charles Dance (narrator), Laura Claycomb (soprano), John Chest (baritone), Joshua Bell (violin), Nina Kotova (cello), Natasha Paremski (piano) and Barrett Wissman (piano). Proceeds go to the Rainforest Fund, Del Sole Foundation and Royal Opera House Education Fund

Devised and directed for the stage by John Caird
Producer and originator: June Chichester
Only in English

Wine producer, Avignonesi will host an exclusive Gala Dinner following the Twin Spirits performance.

Rising guitar sensation Milos Karadaglic will perform during the evening.

Friday 6 August 2010
9.00pm, Piazza Signorelli (open air) 
Ballet Gala "Stars of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky, presented by Max and Irina"
Dancers: Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky; Silvia Azzoni and Oleksandr Ryabko; Marianna Ryzhkina and Dmitry Gudanov; Yevgenia Obraztsova and Andrei Yermakov

Auerbach: Lullaby from The Little Mermaid, Choreography: J. Neumeier
Stravinsky: Apollo's Variation and Pas de Deux by Apollo and Terpsichore from Apollo,
Choreography: G. Balanchine*
Glazunov: Adagio from Raymonda, Choreography: Y. Grigorovich
Bernstein: Wrong Note Rag, Choreography: J. Neumeier
Adam - Drigo: Adagio and Coda from Le Corsaire, Choreography: M. Petipa
Bizet - Shchedrin: Pas de Deux from Carmen, Choreography: A. Beliy

*** Interval ***

Minkus: Adagio from Don Quixote, Choreography: A. Gorsky
Rachmaninov: Paganini Suite, Choreography: L.M. Lavrovsky
Mahler: What the love tells me from Symphony No. 3, Choreography: J. Neumeier
Tchaikovsky: Valse sentimentale, Choreography: V. Vasiliev
Tchaikovsky: Grand Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker,

*The performance of Apollo, a Balanchine® Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust.

All programmes subject to change

 

 

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