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PRESS RELEASE (3/07/2013)
Thursday, July 4, at Loano, in the’Prince's Garden Summer Arena, the big show returns of’OPERA. They will be three opera productions of summer 2013, promoted by the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and organized by the I.So THeatre.
The first two evenings are part of the project Liguria Opera Festival dedicated to the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi's birth. Two of the works that constitute the so-called popular trilogy will be presented: The Troubadour (July 4) e La traviata (July 11). Protagonist of the productions will be the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra.
L’Return to the Opera Association will present the August 9 La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini with musical direction and piano accompaniment by Maestro Bill Doherty.
The July 4 the opera season will be opened at 9:30 pm with “The Troubadour” is one of the three great operas (along with Rigoletto and La Traviata) with which Giuseppe Verdi reached full artistic maturity and was recognized as the greatest Italian composer of the 19th century. The story takes place in Biscay and Aragon at the beginning of the 15th century and tells tales of power and suffering. It is inspired by El Trovador, by the Spanish writer Antonio Garcìa-Gutiérrez, a Romantic-inspired drama, performed in Madrid in 1836, which had been a great success and had impressed audiences especially for the power and originality of its plot and characters. Verdi himself loved these qualities and made arrangements with Cammarano for a libretto inspired by that subject. Once free of commitments for Rigoletto, therefore, he began to think about the opera that would be titled Il Trovatore. Unfortunately, in July 1852 Cammarano's death occurred. The libretto was completed by the Neapolitan poet Leone Emanuele Bardare. In November 1852 the composition of the music was completed, and the opera was presented at the Apollo in Rome on January 19, 1853. It was an unprecedented success for Verdi. Audiences were enthusiastic and Il Trovatore was called a masterpiece.
The opera will be performed by Milo Buson (The Moon Count), Gianna Queni (Leonora), Leon Viola (Manrico), Candida Spineli (Azucena), Stefano Maneddu (Ferrando), Lucia Eusebi (Ines). Directing the performance of the opera will be the Master Alessandro Arigoni.
Ticket sales and presale
Lollipop records - Via Garibaldi 64, Loano - tel. 019.675488 or online : www.bookingshow.it
On the day of the show, opening of the box office, In the Prince's Garden Summer Arena, from 8 p.m.
Ticket cost: Full 20.00 Euro, Reduced 18.00 Euro (Reduced ticket valid for under 18 and over 70. Children under 12, free admission). Presale fee € 1.50
The Italian Philharmonic Orchestra, formed in July 1988 in Trent, has its official and operational headquarters in Turin. It has given chamber and symphony concerts in many Italian cities (Milan, Turin, Genoa, Brescia, Trento) and has organized the Festival delle Dolomiti for many years. Alongside its concert activity, the orchestra is dedicated to staging operas, giving life, among other things, to the Trentino Opera summer season. It is a promoter of an important opera circuit that promotes opera seasons in Asti, Aosta, Biella, Sanremo, Pietra Ligure, Stresa, Ventimiglia, Vercelli and Salsomaggiore. In 1991, under the musical direction of Alessandro Arigoni, with the direction of Massimo Scaglione and the critical advice of Alberto Basso, it recorded in the evocative setting of the Royal Palace in Turin Mozart's entire symphonic opera. The prestigious production was broadcast by Telemontecarlo in Italy , Tf1 in France, TVE in Spain. Thirty CDs by composers ranging from the Baroque to the 20th century were recorded for Fabbri Editori. The discs are included in the collection ’The Great Musicians.“ The Orchestra has also made ”I grandi Romantici,“ a collection of 6 CDs distributed by various national newspapers and periodicals. For RCS it recently recorded 5 CDs of instrumental and vocal Mozart works for the 2006 celebrations. He is the owner of www.onlinesymphony.it, the channel that allows people to see all the videos produced by the Orchestra.
Alexander Arigoni, born in Cremona in 1948, completed his musical studies at the A. Boito Conservatory in Parma and studied conducting with Jgor Marchevich. After instrumental experience in the Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI in Turin, he was Music Director of Orchestra Fodri, Orchestra Stradivari and Orchestra Boccherini. In his activity he has had the opportunity to collaborate with prestigious soloists (Severino Gazzelloni, Cristiano Rossi, Paolo Bordoni, among others). He has organized concert seasons and festivals at Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, in Trentino Alto Adige, at the RAI Auditorium and Teatro Carignano in Turin. He has conducted for Telemontecarlo, TF1 and other European televisions, all of Mozart's symphonies with the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he has been music director since 1988 and for which he has directed all recordings. He is director of the opera productions of Trentino Opera. He teaches orchestral exercises at the ’Ghedini« Conservatory of Music in Cuneo.{:}
