Not to be missed tonight 7 June 2024 on Raiuno at 8.35 pmThe great Italian work, a world heritage site“, the cultural event promoted by the Ministry of Culture to celebrate Italian opera. This is an extraordinary event which will take place in the marvelous setting of the Verona Arena and which will be broadcast exceptionally on RAI worldwide.
The absolute protagonist of the evening will be opera singing, which involves 160 orchestra professors and 300 choir artists from Italian opera-symphonic foundations. With the extraordinary participation of the Maestro Riccardo Muti.
The protagonists
In a single evening they will perform, in the largest open-air theater in the world, Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Juan Diego Flórez, Ludovic Tézier, Vittorio Grigolo, Luca Salsi, Eleonora Buratto, Francesco Meli and many other artists, with the dance of Roberto Bolle and Nicoletta Manni.
Three different narrators will introduce the general public to the exceptional heritage of Italian opera and opera singing, together for the first time: Alberto Angela, Cristiana Capotondi And Luca Zingaretti.
They will be the ones to move in the different spaces of the Arena, among the audience and behind the scenes of this monumental set, a jewel built by the Ancient Romans and perfectly preserved which every summer since 1913 has hosted the most complex, accomplished and grandiose live show ever : the work.
The Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Verona Arena Foundation, will celebrate Italian opera singing, a world heritage site, in an exceptional evening at the Verona Arena. In one night, the most beautiful pages of the Opera and, on the same stage, the best performers in the world.
A unique event in the history of Opera, broadcast worldwide by RAI, with a large orchestra made up of 160 elements and a choir of 300 artists, coming from the Italian opera-symphonic foundations, with the extraordinary participation of Maestro Riccardo Muti.
The show
The show will open with maestro Riccardo Muti, ambassador of Italian excellence in the world, on the podium. He will conduct the first part of the evening, and the most significant pieces for orchestra and choir of the great Italian opera, from the reign of Belcanto of Guglielmo Tell and Norma, to the Verdi and Risorgimento epics of Nabucco and Macbeth, to the grandiose symphonic and choral pages from Mephistopheles and Manon Lescaut.
The largest open-air theater in the world, home to the oldest and most popular opera festival at an international level, will host a great party that will bring together the world of culture and the greatest international artists, exceptionally on the same stage.
The stars of the opera united at the Arena of Verona
In addition to the great pages that have made the history of music, and of Italy itself, the second part of the evening will offer an exciting anthology of the most famous opera pieces of Puccini, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordanoplayed by an unrepeatable cast.
Stars from all over the world united by Italian opera singing, such as the sopranos Anna Netrebko, Eleonora Buratto, Rosa Feola, Juliana Grigoryan, Jessica Pratt, Mariangela Sicilia, the mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina, the tenors Jonas Kaufmann, Renè Barbera, Juan Diego Flórez, Vittorio Grigolo, Brian Jagde, Francesco Meli, Galeano Salas, the baritones Nicola Alaimo, Luca Salsi, Ludovic Tézier, the bass Alexander Vinogradov, conducted by the young maestro Francesco Ivan Ciampa.
Dance and opera
For the occasion, Verona Arena Foundation he conceived, with Filippo Tononan original scenographic system, which will welcome orchestra and choir on the stage and will transform the mystical gulf into a new scenic space for another Italian excellence in the world, dance.
Le Étoile Roberto Bolle And Nicoletta Manni they will perform two choreographies signed by Massimiliano Volpini, created specifically for this event and performed for the first time.
On the music of the great masters, including Giacomo Puccini whose centenary of his death is being celebrated this year, the two Étoiles of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan will first perform a pas de deux to the notes of Madama Butterfly, followed by the solo of Bubbles on Cavalleria Rusticana.
Also on stage during the evening were 50 dancers from the Fondazione Arena dance troupe.
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