August 28th – September 8th
Pergolesi and Metastasio
From Naples to Vienna, the baroque that conquered Europe come back seducing again.
[Presentation note]
Wednesday, August 28th, 9 PM
Jesi Pergolesi Theatre
LETTERE SU METASTASIO
(Letters about Metastasio)
Texts by Stendhal – Music by Pergolesi, Händel, Paisiello
Giancarlo Giannini, recitative voice
Monica Gonzalez, soprano
Anna Rita Gemmabella, mezzo-soprano
Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone, conductor
Vocal Interpretation by Regina Resnik
in collaboration with Eurobottega - La Bottega Europea della Musica
[Widening]
Thursday, August 29th, 9 PM
Saturday, August 31st, 9 PM
Jesi San Floriano Theatre Studio
L' OLIMPIADE
Melodrama in three acts by Pietro Metastasio
Music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Critical sources by Francesco Degrada and Claudio Toscani
Critical review’s first contemporary representation
Ottavio Dantone, conductor
Italo Nunziata, director
Luigi Scoglio, scenes
Ruggero Vitrani, costumes
Clistene Mirko Guadagnini
Aristea Gemma Bertagnolli
Argene Gabriella Costa
Licida Laura Polverelli
Megacle Masha Carrera
Aminta Mark Milhofer
Alcandro Sonia Prina
Accademia Bizantina
In coproduction with Teatro Alighieri of Ravenna, Teatro Comunale of Modena, Teatro Comunale of Piacenza, Teatro Romolo Valli of Reggio Emilia.
[Widening]
Friday, August 30th, 9 PM
Montecarotto Comunale Theatre
ACCADEMIA VOCALE
Music by Händel
Ottavio Dantone, conductor
Andreas Scholl, countertenor
Accademia Bizantina
In coproduction with Feste Musicali of San Rocco in Venice
Andreas Scholl is nowadays the most prestigious voice for baroque repertoire: countertenor, he fantastically interprets the repertoire that belong to castrates of XVIII Century, those “virtuous men” of theatre hard fought by the European courts. He recorded for Decca and Deutsche Grammophon under the baton of Jacobs, Christie, Corboz, Koopman, Herweghe and Norrington.
Accademia Bizantina from Ravenna is one of the most impressive Italian band: with its conductor, Ottavio Dantone, it is present at the main European Festivals (Montreux, Bilbao, Settimana Musicale Senese, Ravenna Festival). Accademia Bizantina recorded for Decca the concerts for harpsichord by Domenico Scarlatti and it is now recording arias by Händel and Vivaldi with Andreas Scholl.
Saturday, August 31st, 6 PM
Monte San Vito Teatro Condominiale La Fortuna
L'IMPRESARIO DELLE CANARIE
Preview for local Associations
Sunday, September 1st, 9 PM
Monte San Vito Theatre Condominiale La Fortuna
L'IMPRESARIO DELLE CANARIE
Intermezzo in two acts by Pietro Metastasio
Music by Giovanni Battista Martini with instrumental music by di Händel, Couperin, Bach
Federico Amendola, conductor
Idalberto Fei, director
Antonella Cappuccio, puppets
Dorina Barbara Di Castri
Nibbio Luciano Di Pasquale
Teatro dei Burattini "Il Laboratorio"
Sonorum Concentus
Giorgio Sasso, Gabriele Folchi, violins
Pietro Meldolesi, viola
Andrea Fossà, violoncello
Andrea De Carlo, bass viol
Federico Amendola, harpsichord
NEW PRODUCTION
The Impresario delle Canarie is the unique comic intermezzo among the wide Metastasian production: originally born to gladden the Neapolitan public during Dinone abbandonata’s interacts, it had been set in music by Sarro at the San Bartolomeo Theatre, in accordance with the use that alternates opera seria’s vicissitudes and a short comic show executed during the intervals.
The Festival suggests the score of Padre Giovanni Battista Martini from Bologna, one of the protagonists of the XVIII musical Century, in one of his two rare forays in theatrical genre, in a version for puppets theatre.
Federico Amendola, harpsichordist and conductor, is a member of the scientific committee of the national edition of Stradella’s Opera omnia, of which he recorded the oratorio San Giovanni Battista. Among his discography it must be remembered Le astuzie femminili by Cimarosa, Rita by Donizetti, Stabat Mater and Arie Accademiche by Boccherini.
Sonorum Concentus is a band dedicated to baroque and classic repertoire, with special reference to the roman oratorio and the vocal and instrumentalist music from Bologna of XVII and XVIII Centuries.
[Widening]
Monday, September 2nd, 9 PM
Maiolati Spontini G. Spontini Museum House
NOTTURNO METASTASIANO
(Metastasian nocturne)
Music by Salieri, Spontini, Haydn, Schubert, Mercadante
Norma Raccichini, soprano
Damiana Pinti, mezzo-soprano
Mirco Palazzi, bass
Federico Amendola, piano
A collection of arias, nocturnes, serenades, ensembles, based on text by the Roman abate, set to music by composers from two different Centuries: Paisiello and Salieri from the XVII Century, and Schubert, Spontini, Mercadante, Rossini, from the new one; a sign of an enduring predilection for the poet’s verses. Three young vocal interpreters, known by the Italian public for their theatrical interpretation of the belcanto and romantic repertoire, face here the lieder dimension.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 9 PM
Monsano Aroli Church
BACH
Music by Bach
Christophe Coin, violoncello
Bach, the most eminent among all Pergolesi’s contemporaries, create of a personal version of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in a new German text.
Christophe Coin, the famous French violoncellist, one of the main presences in the international baroque panorama, will execute three Suites by Bach for violoncello.
[Widening]
Wednesday, September 4th, 9 PM
Fabriano Gentile Theatre
DA DANTE A METASTASIO
(from Metastasio to Dante)
Music by Beethoven, Rossini, Donizetti, Liszt, on texts by Italian poets
Renato Bruson, baritone
Carlo Bruno, piano
This is a view on the Italian literature set to music by big composers: from the Canto of Conte Ugolino intoned by Donizetti, to Petrarca’s sonnets set to music by Liszt, to Metastasian verses set to music by Rossini. The famous baritone Renato Bruson leaves for a while his Verdi’s interpretations to start a literary itinerary for which he received the Honorem Laurea at Urbino University.
[Widening]
Thursday, September 5th, 9 PM
San Marcello Paolo Ferrari Theatre
OLIMPIADI
Music by Hasse, Vivaldi, Piccinni, Traetta
based on the Olimpiade by Pietro Metastasio
Monica Gonzalez, Eleonora Contucci, Rosita Ramini, soprano
Anna Rita Gemmabella, mezzo-soprano
Musica Rara Ensemble
Arnold Bosman, conductor
Vocal interpretation by Regina Resnik
in collaboration with Eurobottega - La Bottega Europea della Musica
The Olimpiade by Metastasio was set to music by something like thirty different composers during the period that starts from the first half of XVIII Century until the second half of the following one. The concert presents a view to the several descriptions of feelings and passions that animate drama’s characters, through the sensibilities of several musicians.
Arnold Bosman, pianist and conductor, born in South Africa and ‘naturalized’ in Italy, recently conducted Donizetti’s La Zingara and Il fortunato inganno in Martina Franca, Piccini’s Didone in Bari. Together with the band Musica Rara, Bosman devoted himself to the rediscovery of Hasse’s theatrical works and oratorios (recording Il cantico dei tre fanciulli and La caduta di Gerico) and Johann Christian Bach’s works, and to the execution of Mozart’s early works.
Friday, September 6th, 9 PM
Maiolati Spontini Santo Stefano Church
PER ORGANO
(for organ)
Inauguration of the eighteenth-century Organ, after its restoration
Music by Italian and German composers of XVIII Century
Andrea Marcon, organ
The inauguration of a eighteen-century instrument, made by the famous Venetian organ-builder Callido, bought by Gaspare Spontini’s uncle for the parish church of his native Maiolati, gives the occasion for an excursus about organ music of XVIII Century.
Andrea Marcon, organist and conductor, collaborated for fifteen years with I Suonatori della Gioiosa Marca receiving among others the Vivaldi Award from the Cini Foundation of Venice. Founder and conductor of the Venice Baroque Orchestra, he conducted the Cimarosa’s Olimpiade at La Fenice and Händel’s Siroe. He is Artistic Director of the Festival Organistico of Treviso.
[Widening]
Saturday, September 7th, 8 PM
Jesi Historic Centre METASTASIANA
Viaggio sentimentale da Napoli a Vienna
(Sentimental Journey from Naples to Vienna)
Stage action from Pietro Metastasio’s dramas
Original music reworking from composers of XVIII e XIX Centuries by Arnold Bosman
First representation
Arnold Bosman, conductor
Michal Znaniecki, director and scenes
Paolo Cavinato, costumes
Monica Gonzalez, Eleonora Contucci, Rosita Ramini, soprano
Anna Rita Gemmabella, mezzo-soprano
Musica Rara Ensemble
Faraualla, vocalist
Wanda Koczeska, Debora Virello, Cristiana Voglino, Sandra Enel, Luca Fagioli, Simone Faucci, Diego Spini, actors
Corale Pergolesiana
Coro Regina della Pace
Coro "Brunori" of Moie
Coro di Voci bianche della Scuola di Musica "G.B.Pergolesi"
Banda "G. Spontini"di Maiolati Spontini
Banda "L'Esina" of Moie
Banda of Jesi
Students from the Universität für Musik und darlstellende Kunst of Vienna
Students from the Accademia del Teatro Bellini of Naples
Students from primary and secondary schools of Jesi
Students from Centro Studi Danza "Gaspare Spontini", Linea Club, Spazio Danza.
Didactic Project by Limen Theatre
Vocal interpretation by Regina Resnik
in collaboration with Eurobottega - La Bottega Europea della Musica
The performance is conceived as an itinerary through the Jesi Historical Centre: Naples, Rome and Vienna are the starting point, the middle stop and the destination. This is the itinerary of the protagonist, Metastasio, and his works: the Roman poet reveals his talent in the Parthenopean city and becomes popular all over the world in the Imperial Capital.
Without entering in a biographical and historical narration, environments, atmospheres, musical and cultural itineraries of three different cultural centres of European XVI Century are created: the Metastasio’s biography is not followed, but all settings and worlds that inspired the poet are recreated.
Metastasiana is also a project promoted by the Pergolesi Spontini Foundation with the participation of musical, theatrical and didactical Institutions, in an itinerary that from the cultural and artistic formation arrives to stage a performance, presented at the Pergolesi Spontini Festival.
The formative project address to students of primary and secondary schools of Jesi and Maiolati Spontini, with seminars about the relation between music, poetry and theatre on XVIII Century and with workshops.
The formative moment – that is about all different way and technique to make theatre: street theatre, shadow theatre and animation of shapes – is preparatory for the participation at rehearsals and representation, when students will interact with young singers from Eurobottega’s programmes - by Regina Resnik, with students from the Theatre School of the Universität für Musik und darlstellende Kunst of Vienna, from the Neapolitan Schools of Theatre, with the students of the Ensemble Opera Rara, with the Choral of Jesi and Moie, with the Bands of Maiolati Spontini and Moie, under the baton of the South African conductor Arnold Bosman.
The direction is by the Polach Michal Znaniecki, that will stage at the Spoleto Festival the new test Lucrezia B., and that made the direction of Carmen in Cagliari, Prokof'ev’s Maddalena, Musorgskij’s Il matrimonio at the Accademia of Santa Cecilia, and of En attendant Chopin in the La Scala’s foyer in Milan.
[Widening]
Sunday, September 8th, 9 PM
Arcevia Misa Theatre
ACCADEMIA STRUMENTALE
Music by Bach
Viktoria Mullova, violin
Ottavio Dantone, harpsichord
Bach and Pergolesi are here entrusted to the talent of a refined interpreter, Viktoria Mullova, a constant presence in the Italian concert hall since the Cajkovskij Award in 1982 (and recently awarded with one of the CD of Repubblica). Left the seventeenth-century virtuosity and the predilection for the contemporary repertoire, for the first time in Italy the musician execute by her baroque violin the sixteen-century repertoire, in a duo with Dantone.
[Widening]
July 1st – September 8th, 2002
Gaspare Spontini House Museum
Maiolati Spontini
Exhibition:
Celeste, mia dolce sposa
(Celeste, my sweet bride)
in collaboration with the Associazione Sistema Museale Provincia di Ancona
by
Vincenzo De Vivo
[Widening]
August 28th - September 8th, 2002
Planettiana Library – Sala Maggiore
Palazzo della Signoria
Jesi
Metastasio a stampa
Libri e Stampe dalla Biblioteca Planettiana
In collaboration with Biblioteca Comunale Planettiana
by
Rosalia Bigliardi and Vincenzo De Vivo
