07May
2014
SAN PIETROBURGO-MONTECATINI OPERA FESTIVAL
In the intercultural relationships between Italy and Russia art and particularly music has always represented a strong link (trait-d’union) between these two countries, which have a lot in common though very distant geographically. Both of them have a great number of extraordinary works of art thanks to the many highly gifted artists who have lived there. Both of them can boast great music schools and brilliant musicians in addition to artistic masterpieces. Russia has some of the oldest famous theatres, often realized by Italian architects, who for long used to go to Russia to share their creativity and their skills. St. Petersburg itself, considered the pearl of the world culture, shows many examples of artistic Italian influence.
Being 2014 the year of Italian – Russian Tourism it has seemed appropriate to plan a project aiming at consolidating the previous artistic links between Italy and Russia and developing new forms of collaboration through a better knowledge of each other’s huge cultural heritage.
OLESYA PETROVA mezzo-soprano
NICOLA MUGNAINI tenor
LAURA PASQUALETTI piano
14May
2014
SAN PIETROBURGO-MONTECATINI OPERA FESTIVAL
In the intercultural relationships between Italy and Russia art and particularly music has always represented a strong link (trait-d’union) between these two countries, which have a lot in common though very distant geographically. Both of them have a great number of extraordinary works of art thanks to the many highly gifted artists who have lived there. Both of them can boast great music schools and brilliant musicians in addition to artistic masterpieces. Russia has some of the oldest famous theatres, often realized by Italian architects, who for long used to go to Russia to share their creativity and their skills. St. Petersburg itself, considered the pearl of the world culture, shows many examples of artistic Italian influence.
Being 2014 the year of Italian – Russian Tourism it has seemed appropriate to plan a project aiming at consolidating the previous artistic links between Italy and Russia and developing new forms of collaboration through a better knowledge of each other’s huge cultural heritage.
ZHANNA DOMBROVSKAYA soprano
GIUSEPPE ALTOMARE baritone
LAURA PASQUALETTI piano
03September
2014
MASSIMO CAVALLETTI LAURA POLVERELLI
Veterans from the successes in the “temples” of the opera world, as the “Teatro della Scala” in Milan, Covent Garden in London and the Metropolitan in New York, here are two formidable performers of the international scene, exceptionally together for an exclusive concert in Montecatini.
The program, in which the protagonists are going to face their warhorses, is tailored to exalt their skills of interpreters, extraordinarily intense and refined.
It begins with some of the masterpieces of Mozart’s musical pillars of the XVIII century, to get to the erotic passion of Carmen, a work that despite the lack of the initial success today is one of the most represented in the world, all through the force of Verdi, the limpid beauty of the melodies of Bellini and the overwhelming frenzy of the world’s most famous barber.
A concert not to be missed!
MASSIMO CAVALLETTI baritone
LAURA POLVERELLI mezzo-soprano
LAURA PASQUALETTI piano
08September
2014
SAN PIETROBURGO-MONTECATINI OPERA GALA
In the Year of Italy-Russian Tourism an extraordinary closure event of the "St. Petersburg-Montecatini Opera Festival”. Accompanied by the ensemble of the Hermitage Theatre directed by FABIO MASTRANGELO, by far the most famous and beloved Italian conductor of the contemporary Russia, important Italian artists alongside stars of the most famous theaters of Petersburg as the Bolshoi and the Mikhailovsky. Exceptionally on stage, Olesya TERTYCHNAIA, first flute of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and GUNTHER SANIN, first Violin of the Arena of Verona Orchestra with a precious violin Gofrieller Venice 1712.
FABIO MASTRANGELO conductor
OLESYA TERTYCHNAIA flute
GUNTHER SANIN violin
FABIO FAPANNI pianist
ANNA NECHAEVA soprano
STANISLAV LEONTEV tenor
ALESSANDRA MEOZZI soprano
BORIS PINKHASOVICH baritone
TEATRO HERMITAGE ENSEMBLE