FILOSOFI E BUFFONI

The musical genius that fired Paris. Pergolesi and the Comic Opera
September, 4^th to 12^th, 2004

(presentation)

The program of Pergolesi Spontini Festival 4^th  Edition is based on the Querelle des Bouffons, that animated the Paris of XVIII Century and that was strictly connected with La serva padrona’s representation: in an absurd dispute between French Tragedy Neapolitan Comic Opera, Encyclopaedists branded the first as conventional and affected, and praised the second as an authentic representation of real feelings and dramatic situations. 
Pergolesi, considered, after his death, by Rousseau as the genial artificer of a new music theatre, become the trait-d’union of Naples and Paris, the two capital cities of European music.

The musical life in the two cities is here the thread: compositors and virtuous men from the two courts, Scarlatti and Marais, Couperin and Leo, Rameau and Durante, but also the popular music and the song.
Next to Pergolesi’s masterpieces - Il Flaminio, his last comic opera, and La Serva Padrona, that in 1752 triumphed in Paris – and to Rousseau’s Le Devin du Village – inspired by the Neapolitan model –contemporary music appears, tied with a red line to that far times.

Saturday, September 4^th, 9 PM - Jesi, Pergolesi Theatre
Variazioni
(Variations)
pianist Uri Caine
Uri Caine Ensemble
Music by Uri Caine from Pergolesi (first execution) and Bach (Goldberg Variations)

Sunday, September 5^th, 6 PM - Maiolati Spontini, S. Stefano Church
Per organo
(for organ)
Andrea Marcon, organ
Music by Durante, Pergolesi , Paisiello, Leo, Cimarosa, Lebegue, Dandrieu
in collaboration with Festival Organistico of Treviso and the Associazione Organistica Vallesina

Sunday, September 5^th, 9 PM - Monte Roberto (Pianello Vallesina), Park of Villa Salvati
Le devin du village
Music by J.J. Rousseau
(Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini Editions with critical review by Claudio Toscani)
La serva padrona
Music by G.B. Pergolesi
(critical review by Francesco Degrada)
direction Henning Brockhaus
scenes and costumes Julio Paz
Alessandra Marianelli, Filippo Adami, Maurizio Lo Piccolo, Jean Mening
Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti of Macerata and Asolo Musica
new production

Monday, September 6^th, 9 PM - Montecarotto, Teatro Comunale
Notturno napoletano
(Neapolitan nocturne)
Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
Music by Durante, Scarlatti, Leo

Tuesday, September 7^th, 9 PM - Monte San Vito, Teatro Condominiale La Fortuna
Duo
Fabio Biondi, violin
Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord
Music by Mascitti, Castello, Vivaldi, Corselli, Veracini, Lonati

Wednesday, September 8^th, 9 PM - Monsano, Chiesa degli Aroli
Per violoncello
(for cello)
Giovanni Sollima, cello
Music by Marais, Sollima

Thursday, September 9^th, 9 PM - San Marcello, Wineshops
Tarantella
Antonello Paliotti Quartet:
Antonello Paliotti, guitar and guitar battente
Mauro Squillante, mandoline, mandoloncello
Leonardo Massa, cello
Raffaele Filaci, percussions
Music from the Popular Neapolitan Tradition

Friday, September 10^th, 9 PM - Jesi, San Floriano - Teatro Studio
Il Flaminio
Music by G. B. Pergolesi
(Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini Editions, sources review by Francesco Degrada)
Angela Bonfitto, Anna Bonitatibus, Giovanni Botta, Laura Cherici, Roberta Invernizzi, Filippo Morace, Sonia Prina
Ottavio Dantone, conductor
Michal Znaniecki, direction and scenes
Accademia Bizantina
in collaboration with Opéra Baroque International Festival of Beaune
new production

Saturday, September 11^th, 9 PM - Senigallia
Santa Maria dell’Assunta known as of Cancelli Church
Accademia strumentale
(instrumental academy)
Ottavio Dantone, conductor
Accademia Bizantina
Music by Italian and French composers of XVIII Century

Sunday, September 12^th, 9 PM - Jesi, San Floriano - Teatro Studio
Il Flaminio
Music by G. B. Pergolesi
(Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini Editions, sources review by Francesco Degrada)
Angela Bonfitto, Anna Bonitatibus, Giovanni Botta, Laura Cherici, Roberta Invernizzi, Filippo Morace, Sonia Prina
Ottavio Dantone, conductor
Michal Znaniecki, director and scenes
Accademia Bizantina
in collaboration with Opéra Baroque International Festival of Beaune
new production 

Saturday and Sunday, September 11^th and 12^th, - Jesi, Fondazione Colocci – Aula Magna
Convegno Internazionale Pergolesiano
"Pergolesi and his Naples: new acquisitions and new prospective of research"
coordinator Prof. Francesco Degrada, Università Statale of Milano – History of Arts, Music and Spectacle department