The superintendent of the Teatro Carlo Felice Claudio Orazi during the presentation.
The Carlo Felice presented three concerts this morning, entitled Passion, which the Orchestra of the opera house, directed by George Petrou, soloist the violinist Giovanni Andrea Zanon, will perform in the Ligurian places of spirituality for Holy Week.
The first performance is scheduled for Friday 8 April, at 9.00 pm at the Chiesa del Gesù in Genoa; the second Saturday 9 April at 9 pm at the Co-Cathedral of Saints Maurice and Companions Martyrs in Oneglia (IM); the third Sunday 10 April at 6.00 pm at the Cathedral of Cristo Re in La Spezia.
The initiative, created by the Carlo Felice Theater of Genoa in collaboration with the Presidency and the Department of Culture of the Liguria Region, announces the inauguration of a rich concert program that will bring the artistic ensembles and theater productions, with the direction of the most famous sticks and together with high-profile international soloists, to resonate in theaters, in sites of significant historical, artistic and environmental interest, and in the most significant places of spirituality in the entire Region. The first three concerts are part of a series of eight musical events scheduled for this spring.
On this occasion, the superintendent Claudio Orazi announced the birth of the Liguria Musica work table, set up by the Presidency, the Department of Culture of the Region and the Carlo Felice Theater Foundation for the development of musical activities and collaborations in the area, which they can sit down all the Ligurian municipalities who wish to participate in the initiative.
“In the dialogue between the parties – said Orazi -, the Carlo Felice Theater, ready to incorporate the cultural needs expressed by each Ligurian municipality, from Levante to Ponente – together with its artistic and technical complexes, such as the Orchestra, the Chorus, the children’s choir, chamber ensembles – will act as a project partner and as a producer of concert, opera and ballet projects, in a site-specific perspective “.
The protagonists of these first three concerts together with the Carlo Felice Theater Orchestra are the conductor George Petrou, with a brilliant international career – Artistic Director of the renowned “Armonia Atenea” Orchestra of Athens, Musical Director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Greek Radio and of the prestigious Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen – making his debut on this occasion at the head of the Orchestra. At his side, the young virtuoso Andrea Giovanni Zanon, already known and loved by the Genoese public, as well as by international audiences, from Carnegie Hall in New York, at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, at the Smetana Hall in Prague, at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. , at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, among others.
«Through the music brought to the stage by an excellence of our region such as the Carlo Felice Theater, Liguria once again shows itself capable of expressing its excellence and traditions on a cultural level – comments the President of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti. The Liguria Musica table will increase the offer and cultural experience of citizens but above all will allow them to go and discover the most sacred places in our territory. I therefore wish good work to an artistic table which, thanks to its protagonists, will be able to internationalize our beautiful region ».
«Two years ago, in full covid we had given a great role to music with a single event, Resurrection – Voices from the Cathedral, comments the Councilor for Culture of the Liguria Region Ilaria Cavo who had engaged Francesco Meli and our great talents of Ligurian opera. The concerts that we are presenting today at a completely different time are perfectly in line with that spirit in the sign of the enhancement of music, places of art and what the Easter moment represents, but also in line with the exhibitions on the Baroque, because those who perform are among the greatest interpreters of the music of that period. Passione is the title of this triptych of concerts which proposes, but it is only the first view of the Carlo Felice Theater, to formulate a proposal to the territory that will continue thanks to the work table set up with all the Ligurian municipalities. The goal is the development of activities and collaborations related to music to bring our Theater to the service of Liguria and the Ligurians as foreseen by the vocation of the Region and shared with the Superintendent. Liguria Musica starts today and its contents will be clear once the table is shared with the territory ».
“The Carlo Felice Theater Foundation in Genoa becomes the epicenter of a wide-ranging cultural initiative, declares the Mayor Marco Bucci, President of the Carlo Felice Theater Foundation, which will bring each reality involved in the activity of the Liguria Musica table to the center of a great , the only artistic project with international potential that will at the same time enhance the production reality of the Theater, with its artists, workers, its highly qualified and specialized workers, and the places, municipalities and Ligurian institutions involved, each with its own uniqueness , their own identity, their own cultural specificity “.
“I would like to express my deep satisfaction for the launch of a collaboration project between our Foundation, the Liguria Region and the Municipalities of the wonderful Ligurian territory in respect of which the Carlo Felice Theater wants to act as a present and attentive interlocutor, respecting the vocation music expressed by each place, comments the Superintendent Claudio Orazi. The concerts realized are produced as part of the ordinary activities of the Theater, in harmony with the programmatic objectives set out by the Foundation in its mission. Among these, together with the fundamental artistic and educational purposes, the determination to enrich the territory of belonging with high-profile musical proposals, which spread the specific musical and theatrical knowledge of a Symphonic Opera Foundation, in accordance with the needs expressed by the territory and in in line with the addresses of the Liguria Region ».
Tickets for the concert on Friday 8, Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 April are free of charge, subject to availability. Tickets for the concert on Friday 8 April at the Chiesa del Gesù will be available at the ticket office of the Carlo Felice Theater during opening hours, starting from Wednesday 6 April. Tickets for the concerts on 9 and 10 April will be available in the respective concert venues: the Co-Cathedral of Saints Maurizio and Compagni Martiri in Oneglia (IM) and the Cathedral of Christ the King of La Spezia.
The oratorio The last seven words of Christ on the Cross (Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze), of which the Carlo Felice Theater Orchestra conducted by George Petrou will perform the Sonata VI, “Consummatum est”, was written by Franz Joseph Haydn between 1795 and 1796, and represents a singular case in the composer’s work, also for the notoriety it earned him in life. It consists of a series of “adagi-meditations”, of which Haydn created the original version for orchestra only, and others for string quartet and piano, in addition to the vocal-instrumental version. The seven sonatas of which the work is composed, preceded by an introductory adage and followed by a stormy epilogue, are conceived as a musical commentary inspired by equally sermons on the Seven Words. The austere “Consummatum est” is built on a paraphrase of the Dies Irae.
By the same author, the Symphony in F minor, The Passion, written in 1768, and classified with the number 49 (in a symphonic catalog that consists of 108 works), is part of the production of the Sturm und Drang period by Franz Joseph Haydn, characterized from the development of a richer instrumentation with greater weight on the winds. Its subtitle “The Passion”, attributed by Haydn’s publisher, highlights both the particular emotional connotation of the work, while at the same time referring to the formal proximity to the scheme of the “church sonata”, in the symmetrical alternation of slow tempos – starting from Initial Adagio – with animated movements, in the entire range of the key of F minor, with the exception of the Minuet Trio in F major.
Inserted between the two Haydni masterpieces, the Concerto n. 5 for violin and orchestra in A major KV219, interpreted on the violin by the young soloist Andrea Giovanni Zanon together with the Orchestra, is the most mature and elaborate of the five concertos composed in Salzburg, in 1775, by a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart just over eighteen years old , at the service of Archbishop Colloredo. Although Mozart performed since his youth as well as a keyboard virtuoso also as a violinist, it seems that this concert was intended for his friend Antonio Brunetti, first violinist of the Court orchestra. In its construction, in three movements, Allegro Aperto, Adagio and Minuetto and Trio, it presents some formal freedom, in the invention and in the relationships, of an almost experimental character, as often happens in the works of the young Mozart.
PASSION
The musical vocation of the Ligurian territory enters the scene.
The concerts of the Carlo Felice Theater Orchestra in Genoa inspired by the themes of Holy Week, in some of the most significant places of spirituality in the region, announce the birth of Liguria Musica
George Petrou, director
Giovanni Andrea Zanon, violin
Orchestra of the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa
Friday 8 April 2022, 9.00 pm
Church of the Gesù in Genoa
Saturday 9 April 2022, 9.00 pm
Co-cathedral of Saints Maurice and Companions Martyrs of Oneglia (IM)
Sunday 10 April 2022, 6.00 pm
Cathedral of Christ the King of La Spezia
Info: www.teatrocarlofelice.com
Liguria music, the Carlo Felice concerts in the places of spirituality for Holy Week