Return the Verona Piano Festival, program of concerts in the cultural places of Verona and its province promoted by the Liszt Musical Association 2011. And it does with a billboard, for summer 2024, more than doubled. In fact, there are 14 events scheduled for this twelfth edition. Four months of beauty, from 6 June to 6 October, with a single common thread: music and its protagonists.
Orchestras, vocal and instrumental chamber groups, soloists, young artists who have won international prizes and musicians already acclaimed throughout the world will enliven the summer evenings in ten dream locations: courtyards, parish churches, historic homes from the historic centre, to Valpolicella, to Valpantena, which for the occasion will be enhanced by cultural accompaniments and tastings of Veronese wines.
The Verona Piano Festival doubles
“The Verona Piano Festival transmits the great heritage of classical music, and access to it, to a transversal audience and therefore to the new generations,” he explains the artistic director Roberto Pegoraropresident of the Liszt Association 2011.
“A Festival that has its roots in the territories of the fascinating province of Verona, which will welcome us, becoming themselves social places of cultural enrichment and aggregation. Spaces – some already known, others less known – capable of presenting artistic contents in a new experiential dimension and which, in turn, we will try to enhance with the help of art historian experts, for a wonderful journey through centuries of architecture , of art, of music”.
The program – June 2024
The Festival debuts with a preview and an inaugural concert, both free, in collaboration with the Civic Museums of Verona, in the courtyard of the Castelvecchio Museum.
Thursday 6 Junepreview with the University of Alabama at Birminghman Choir, which will perform “Choral Music from Contemporary America” (visit of the Courtyard by Gianni Lollis).
Great inaugural concert, therefore, Tuesday 11 June with “Kreutzer Passion: from Beethoven to Tolstoj”: introduction to the novel “The Kreutzer Sonata” by Lev Tolstoj edited by Anna Giust and Stefano Aloe, theatrical adaptation by Andrea de Manincor, then “A Kreutzer” Sonata performed by Davide Alogna at violin and Roberto Pegoraro on piano.
Tuesday 18 June at the Pieve di San Giovanni in Valle (illustrated by the volunteers of Verona Minor Hierusalem) on stage “Violin and cello: variable geometries”, with Enzo Ligresti on the violin and Giorgio Fiori on the cello.
