A welcome return is that of Teresa Cardace, a well-known soprano with a now international career and acclaimed teacher. Teresa Cardace, versatile artist and teacher of opera singing at the PITchaikovsky State Conservatory of Music of Catanzaro and Nocera Terinese as well as head of the Department of Singing and Musical Theatre, just in recent days, held an important opera Gala at the ISS Auditorium “Santoni – Pertini”, home of an educational center of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory on the occasion of the posting of the plaque with the name “PITchaikovsky State Conservatory of Music” – home of Crotone, sealing an intense year characterized by a fruitful collaboration between the Tchaikovsky Conservatory directed by Dr. Valentina Currenti and the Sandro Pertini institute of Crotone led by Dr. Annamaria Maltese.
The Opera Gala saw the presence of the prestigious Philharmonic Orchestra of Calabria, the flagship of Calabrian musical culture, which, for the occasion, was directed respectively by the maestros Gianfranco Russo and Damiano Morise. Maestro Russo, also a native of the city of Pythagoras, a high-level orchestra conductor, has to his credit multiple directions of prestigious national and foreign orchestras, as well as being the founder and artistic director of important classical music festivals. Maestro Damiano Morise, an established professional, is currently completing his training and specialization at the academic conducting courses of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Catanzaro. The rich and articulated program of the evening saw the performance of famous pieces taken from operatic and symphonic repertoire: the Overture from “The Barber of Seville” by G.Rossini and the Spanish Capriccio by R.Korsakov conducted by the confident, brilliant and precise gesture of the young maestro Damiano Morise; we then continued with a classical, romantic and realist programme: from the Overture taken from “Don Giovanni” by WAMozart to the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana up to the Prelude from “La Traviata” by G. Verdi, whose direction, this time, was curated by master Gianfranco Russo, an artist with an elegant and incisive touch,
with proven experience and great interpretative qualities. Teresa Cardace, a lyric soprano with a soft and generous voice, offered the large audience in the room a high-level performance, the result of the countless artistic experiences gained over the years in Italy and abroad, performing some of the most beautiful arias on the scene. Italian opera, conducted by the expert baton of Maestro Russo: from “Vissi d’arte” by Tosca and “O mio babbino caro” by G.Puccini, the centenary of whose death is celebrated, to the refined aria of his fellow countryman from the realist school F.Cilea “Io son l’umile ancella” taken from the opera Adriana Lecouvreur, ending with the musical genius of G.Verdi with Eleonora’s aria “Pace,pace, mio Dio” taken from “La forza del Destino”. Satisfaction was expressed by the Director of the ISS Pertini, Dr. Annamaria Maltese, by the Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Crotone, Dr. Nicola Corigliano and by the Deputy Director of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Prof. Filippo Garruba. An experience of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Crotone which is laying the foundations to become a significant reality for the entire Crotone area and which already offers from this year 2023/24 the Pre Afam and Propaedeutic courses in piano, singing, trumpet, saxophone, trombone, violin and guitar.
