The Opera production schedule BAROQUE OPERA

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1 The Opera production schedule BAROQUE OPERA 1

2 The Opera Production Schedule from August 2011 BAROQUE OPERA In collaboration with the Filarmonia Veneta Regional Orchestra Baroque opera is a triumph of music and spectacle, whose arias arouse a passionate and exciting range of emotions. The audience is drawn into this elegant and marvelous world through a witty comedy of errors. The many magical elements in a baroque opera allow the audience to enter into the psychological and romantic ambience of lavish Fêtes de Court.. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart COSÌ FAN TUTTE Dramma giocoso di Lorenzo Da Ponte Gioachino Rossini L'OCCASIONE FA IL LADRO Burletta in un atto di Luigi Prividali Domenico Cimarosa LE ASTUZIE FEMMINILI Melodramma giocoso di Giuseppe Palomba Franz Joseph Haydin L'ISOLA DISABITATA Azione teatrale di Pietro Metastasio ~ Casting by OperAverona An international competition will be announced on July 2011 Artistic Director Giovanni Pacor Artistic Coordination: Julius Kalmar, Romolo Gessi, Domenico Balzani ~ Director: Monica Waitzfelder Special guest: Hui He 2

3 The OperAverona Association produces concerts and performances with the aim of debuting young talent. Every year OperAverona contacts young conductors and opera singers as well as renowned guest artists who work together to set up the opera Retaining the style of the baroque opera, OperAverona offers complete or abbreviated versions (without choir), recreating the lavish artistic dimension of the opera through lively performances, which maintain the poetry and communicative powers of baroque opera. OPERAVERONA Cultural Association Board of Directors Giovanni Pacor Dorella Giardini Anna Sbampato Music Board Julius Kalmar Romolo Gessi Domenico Balzani Artistic director Giovanni Pacor Participants and special guests Giorgio Caoduro, baritono ( ) Angelo Capobianco, maestro (2010-) Hui Hue, soprano (2011-) Monica Waitzfelder, director (2011-) Administrative Headquarters Associazione Culturale OperAverona Str. A. Provolo 16, Verona - ITALIA Contatti: info@operaverona.eu tel fax

4 OperAverona is in Verona, the italian city of the Opera 4

5 Verona CASTELVECCHIO! OPERAVERONA! ARENA " FILARMONICO THEATRE! A View of Verona OperAverona site Castelvecchio Viewers in Arena A panoramic view of Arena Opera in Filarmonico Theatre Opera in Arena 5

6 The building The rehearsals will take place on Operaverona premises (Istituto Don Bosco, Str. A. Provolo 16, Verona Italia). OperAverona is housed in a large school complex located very near the Arena of Verona, and includes ample rehearsal rooms that are currently used by the musicians of the Fondazione Arena The building has two studio-classrooms equipped with pianos and a concert hall, which also has a piano. Training and the final staging are under the management of OperAverona s music Board. A week before the debut, OperAverona organizes one or two recitals based on some of the arias of the opera and on the singer s repertoire. After a series of rehearsals with the orchestra, a concert will be performed. The venue for this is usually the city of Garda, on the Lake Garda. 6

7 Operaverona s Opera Studio Usually the OperAverona Event opens with a roster that includes singers from all over the world. In 2011 this opening event will become an international competition. The program opens with a series of events that takes place in the heart of the fair Verona - as Shakespeare describe the city before a public made up of passionate fans and local officials. In the city of Romeo and Juliet, OperAverona stages its music events in some prestigious spots, which are often just a short stroll from the Arena. 7

8 After the opening, the program continues with the final debut at Garda, a picturesque small town on the shores of Lake Garda, Italy s largest lake. Garda - a very ancient village which played a prominent role when it was part of the Republic of Venice ( from XV to XVIII century) attracts thousands of tourists every year. The reason for choosing Garda stems from the words of a great writer: I could have been in Verona already this evening, but I was so close to a magnificent product of Nature, a splendid view, the lake of Garda, and I didn t want to miss it and I have been recompensed for my detour. The famous German writer, Goethe, wrote this note in his journal on the 12 th of September Throughout the Summer, the schedule of events at Garda are followed by the public and press, like the OperAverona Events. 8

9 The events already realized All performances produced by OperAverona have been sponsored by local institutions such as the Assessorato alla Cultura of the Province of Verona (the culture councillorship of the Province) and by the board of Provincia in Festival, a festival organized in collaboration with the Opera Academy of Verona. The Opera Academy is an international association of institutions, among which there are the Verona Conservatory, the Arena Foundation, the Academy of Arts, the Filarmonia Veneta Regional Orchestra, the music association Aurora Ensemble and the Society of Culture and Events Vicenza. Between 2009 and 2010, OperAverona has produced two Mozart operas based on the libretto of Da Ponte: Le Nozze di Figaro ( 7 August 2009) and Don Giovanni ( 8 Augut 2010), these productions were made in collaboration with the Filarmonia Veneta Regional Orchestra, featuring special guest baritone Giorgio Caoduro ( 2009 and 2010 editions) and m Angelo Capobianco ( 2010 edition). 9

10 The members of the Music Board of OperAverona JULIUS KALMAR - Born in Caransebes, Romania, with German nationality. He studied at the Bucarest Academy, obtaining diploma in From 1967 to 1970 Pianist and Conductor at the State Opera Bucarest. From 1970 to 1973 Principal Conductor of the Stadttheater Aachen. From 1973 to 1976 conducting studies at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky and Karl Österreicher (diploma with honour 1976). From 1976 to 1981 Permanent Conductor at the Stadtische Bühe Mainz. From 1981 professor of Conducting at the Hochschule für Musik of Vienna. From 1983 to 1988 Conductor at the Wiener Volksoper. From 1995 professor of Opera Conducting at the Hochschule fur Musik of Hamburg. He was instructor of many Master Classes like Wiener Meisterkurse für Dirigenten in Vienna ( ), Laboratorio Lirico Internazionale per Cantanti e Direttori d Orchestra sulle opere di Donizetti (Zogno-Bergamo 1993), Swarowsky Masterclass in Milano, Conducting course of Szeged (Hungary), Conducting courses in Italy (Trieste, Follina, Taranto), Greece (1995), Bahia Blanca (Argentina 1996), New Zealand (1998). He has been adjudicator in important Competitions like Hans Swarowsky Conducting Competition (Vienna 1984), Concorso Internazionale Pianistico di Cantù (1993), Concorso di Canto di Varallo (1993), Hans Swarowsky Conducting Competition (1995), Concorso Internazionale Franco Ferrara per Direttori d Orchestra (Roma 1995). He is Guest Conductor of several Orchestras in Europe, America, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Korea. 10

11 The members of the Music Board of OperAverona ROMOLO GESSI - Born in Trieste, Italy, Maestro Gessi completed his musical studies at the Trieste Conservatory. Further conducting studies ensued at the State Conservatoire of St.Petersburg, under Musin and Kukuskin, at the Wiener Meisterkurse für Dirigenten in Vienna under Julius Kalmar, and at the Accademia Musicale in Pescara under Donato Renzetti, obtaining Diplomas with the highest marks. He has won many awards, including best performance at the Opera Conducting Competition of Caserta, and first prize at the International Austro-Hungarian Conducting Competition of Vienna and Pécs. He was appointed professor of Conducting at the Conservatorio Verdi of Milan. Since 1997 he has been teaching conducting at the European Academy in Vicenza. He is also professor of Chamber Music at the National Music Conservatory of Trieste. He is Music Director of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Chamber Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Pro Musica Salzburg Orchestra and of the Filarmonia Veneta. He has been Music Director of the Cantelli Symphony Orchestra in Milan from 2006 to He has conducted many orchestras, such as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the State Opera Prague, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Cracow, the Izhevsk s Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pécs Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra de Santo André, the Sofia s Soloists, Milano Classica, I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, the Trieste Opera House Philharmonic, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce, the Filarmonica Marchigiana, the Teatro Lirico di Spoleto. in the principal cities of Italy as well as in those of Austria, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland. 11

12 The members of the Music Board of OperAverona DOMENICO BALZANI - Born in Alghero (Sassari), he obtained his degree in Politics and Economy at the University of Sassari and, at the same time, he got the degree with mention in Singing at Conservatorio di Musica of Verona. He began his career in 1999 under the guide of Angelo Capobianco, with whom he s still specializing. After that he won many competitions dedicated to opera singers, among them we find the Basiola of Cremona, the Tagliavini of Deutschlandsberg (Austria), the Belli of Spoleto and the Placido Domingo Operalia of Hamburg. He sang under the direction of many important conductors such as Yuri Ahronovich, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Giuliano Carella, Michel Plasson, Anton Guadagno, Maurizio Barbacini, Stefano Ranzani, Maurizio Arena, Evelino Pidò, Donato Renzetti, Kery-Linn Wilson, Yoram David, Lukas Karytinos, Michele Mariotti, Gianluigi Gelmetti and he even worked with famous directors as Franco Zeffirelli, Maurizio Scaparro, Hugo de Ana, Denis Krieff, Christopher Loy, Mario Martone, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Luca Ronconi, Jean Reno, Lorenzo Mariani, Alfredo Corno, Stefano Mazzonis, Nicolas Joel, G. Del Monaco and Sparvoli. In 2002, under the guide of Riccardo Chailly, Domenico Balzani recorded for Decca the role of Ping in the world premiere of Turandot with the ending by Luciano Berio. With Bongiovanni he even recorded for the first time ever Leoncavallo s Zazà and he is going to publish with Phaedra a CD of chamber arias. He sang in many important theatres as Massimo of Palermo (Elisir d amore, Belcore; Boheme, Marcello; Don Pasquale, Malatesta), Lirico di Cagliari (Don Giovanni, Leporello), Regio di Torino (Pagliacci, Silvio; Faust, Valentine; Boheme, Marcello; Cenerentola, Dandini; Manon Lescaut, Lescaut, Edgar, Frank), Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago (Boheme, Marcello; Turandot, Ping; Manon Lescaut, Lescaut), Verdi of Trieste (Signor Bruschino, Bruschino; Cambiale di Matrimonio, Mill; Ginevra di Scozia, Il Re di Scozia; Turandot, Ping; Madame Butterfly, Sharpless; Elisir d amore, Belcore), Opèra Nacional du Rhin of Strasburgo (Don Pasquale, Malatesta; L Italiana in Algeri, Taddeo), Oper Frankfurt (Manon Lescaut, Lescaut), Opera di Istambul (Elisir d amore, Belcore), Opera of Lima (Pagliacci, Silvio), Concertgebown of Amsterdam (Turandot, Ping), Bellini of Catania (Barbiere di Siviglia, Figaro; Traviata, Germont; Don Pasquale, Malatesta; Cenerentola, Dandini; Manon Lescaut, Lescaut) Opera of Montpellier (Lucia di Lammermoor, Enrico); Opera of Toulouse (Elisir d amore, Belcore), Opera of Basilea (Traviata, Germont), Opera Roma-Terme of Caracalla (Pagliacci, Silvio), Tokio New National Theatre (Boheme, Marcello), Avenches Opera Festival (La Traviata, Giorgio Germont, Don Giovanni (Leporello), Deutches Oper of Berlino (Lucia di Lammermoor, Enrico; Boeheme, Marcello), Opera of Tel-Aviv in Israele (Boheme Marcello), Opera Theater of Roma (Pagliacci, Silvio), San Carlo's Theater of Napoli (Butterfly, Sharpless). Interprets Figaro in Barberiere of Seville in many theaters including Opera of Malta, Opera of Palm Beach, Opera of Toronto, Opera of Atene, Teatro Filarmonico Arena of Verona, Opera of Liegi, Teatro Ponchielli of Cremona, Teatro Sociale of Como, Teatro Vittorio Emanuele of Messina, Teatro Alighieri of Ravenna, Teatro Grande of Brescia, Teatro Fraschini of Pavia, Opera of Wiesbaden in Germania and Teatro Villamarta of Jerez in Spain. His repertoire also included works such as the modern Cirano de Bergerac by Marco Tutino, who saw in the difficult role of the first Cirano absolute representation in France at Metz. 12

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14 The Artistic director GIOVANNI PACOR - He started studying the violin in his home town of Trieste where he obtained his diploma in Already a member of the Teatro Comunale Orchestra, he went on to specialise in orchestral conducting at the Vienna Music Academy under the guidance of Karl Österreicher. At the same time he was playing first violin at the Stadttheater in Baden in Vienna and was attending an orchestral conducting course with Franco Ferrara. In 1985 he passed his diploma in orchestral conducting with full marks and the following year he obtained his diploma in choral conducting at the B. Marcello conservatory in Venice. In 1986 he was called upon to act as musical director for the Budapest Chamber Orchestra, a position that he held until With the Budapest Chamber Orchestra he conducted over 150 concerts throughout Europe with such soloists as J.P. Rampal, Nina Belina, Cecilia Gasdia, JESS Trio Vienna, Andras Adorian, etc. He began collaborating with the 'A. Belli' Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto in 1991 as music consultant and orchestra conductor where he worked with Ruggero Raimondi, Leo Nucci, Giorgio Merighi, Giusi Devinu, Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz and, in the same period, he also conducted a series of concerts in Rome at the Palazzo Farnese with the Chamber Orchestra from the S. Cecilia National Academy. He was the Generalmusikdirektor at the Stadttheater in Klagenfurt from 1993 to 1998 where he conducted Manon Lescaut, La Bohéme, Tosca, The Masked Ball, The Requiem Mass, Pagliacci, Cavalleria rusticana, Carmen, Così fan tutte, Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow and various symphonic concerts saw him at the Bregenz Festival on invitation from Fabio Luisi to conduct Francesca da Rimini by Zandonai. In Pisa in 1996, he conducted Il Signor Bruschino and La Scala di Seta, Nabucco at Regensburg and La Traviata in Nuremburg. He conducted the orchestra of Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan and the Camerata Fiorentina in Florence. From 1996 to 2002 he was the vice-artistic Director at the 'G. Verdi' Teatro Comunale in Trieste and from 2002 to 2007 he was the Artistic Coordinator for the Arena di Verona. He also conducted the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baden-Württemberg Orchestra in Stuttgart, the Niederoesterreich Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna, the Philharmonic orchestra in Graz and the Festival Orchestra of Tenerife. Since 1998 he has been the musical consultant for the European Opera Centre in Manchester where he conducted three projects during their European tour: 'Lucio Silla' by Mozart at the Copenhagen Royal Theatre in 1998, 'La Scala di Seta' by Rossini and 'Il Maestro di Cappella' by Cimarosa at the 'Tibor Varga' Festival in 2000 in Switzerland and during , he conducted in Liverpool the first modern version of Emilia di Liverpool by Donizetti. In 2002 he conducted a new production of 'La Bohème' at the Teatro Municipale in Salerno and in 2003 he led 'L'elisir d'amore' and a new production of 'Don Pasquale' at the Graz Opera House. He recorded Der todt und das Maedchen by Schubert with G. Mahler s arrangement for chamber orchestras with the Budapest Chamber Orchestra, the first full-length version of concerts for the trumpet by Giuseppe Torelli with Mauro Maur and the two Divertimenti by Leo Weiner. He was the first to translate Leopold Mozart s Scuola di violino into Italian for the Ut-Orpheus in Bologna and the new rhythmic version of Strauss Viennese Blood created for Weinberger-London / Suvini Zerboni-Milan is also due to him is the general director of the Greek National Opera of Athens. From 2010 is the general manager of the Carlo Felice Theatre of Genova. 14 The Music Board members

15 The OperAverona Music Board members 15

16 Special guest OperAverona 2011 HUI HE - Is a Chinese vocalist who will be performing the role of Aida at Masada next year in the form of soprano and has already played Aida in two different instances, 2000 and She has won an award, first prize in the International Voices for Verdi's Operas competition in Both of these things lend credibility to her outstanding ability to play Aida in Verdi's classic. Hui He was born in Xi An in 1972 and had her debut in vocal talents in Since then, she has done amazing things, including working closely with Placido Domingo in several different international opera theaters with several different classic and contemporary roles. Hui He is one of the most loved soloists by Chinese audience and mass media (recently, she sang at the New Year Concert, in the Big Room of Beijing Parliament in front of the Chinese Republic President, and the main chinese politics and cultural personalities). She also triumphed in Madama Butterfly, in Hong Kong, for the opening of the Philharmonic Ensamble season 2006/2007, where she gained a moving standing ovation. Associate Artist for the 2011 edition at Operaverona MONICA WAITZFELDER - Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1953, she has lived in Paris since She has directed operas at the Opera National de Paris, the Theatre du Chatelet, and at many other French and international venues. She worked at the Opèra de Paris for 19 years, directing many well-known productions, among which Carmen, The Magic Flute and Parsifal. She is currently working at the opera Salomé together with Lev Dodin. ~ 16

17 Associazione Culturale OperAverona Str. A. Provolo 16, Verona - ITALIA info@operaverona.eu tel fax