LATINA – It’s moving towards the end”Twentieth century. A century to discover“, the initiative that for weeks has been animating theArena of the Cambellotti Museum.
Saturday 22 June (9pm) scheduled Impurissima foemina “Story of Caterina Medici burned alive in Milan as a famous witch”, a sound fresco for seven performing musicians. Impurissima foemina is a show in which, through music and simple stage actions, in a delicate balance between the language of popular tradition and the contemporary one, the percussionists of Ars Ludi and the vocal quartet Faraualla blend the original sounds of their repertoire to narrate a a story of great emotional strength and extraordinary relevance. The opera was written by the two ensembles with freely elaborated music by Giorgio Battistelli, Guillaume de Machaut, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Faraualla, Francesco Filidei, Lou Harrison, Lorenzo Pagliei, Henry Purcell. The literary suggestions come from Sciascia’s The Witch and the Captain, from The Betrothed, from Ermanno Paccagnini and Giuseppe Farinelli’s The Witchcraft Trial of Caterina Medici and from Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprengher. The prologue is entrusted to the musicologist and popularizer Guido Barbieri, historical voice of RAI Radio3.
Sunday 23 June (9pm), the Chiave di Volta String Orchestra, conducted by Alessandro Baccaro, will present a program built around the Cello Concerto in A major Wq 172 by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, a very intense piece, performed with the soloist Lara Biancalana, a young cellist who is embarking on an international career. The concert will open with one of perhaps the best-known pieces of Mozart’s repertoire, the Divertimento K136 in D major, an entertainment piece written by Mozart when he was just sixteen years old. The program will close with the Serenade op.11 for string orchestra by the Swedish Dag Wirén, a composer born in 1905, who from the initial neoclassical inspiration after 1945 approached the contemporary language but which is pleasant to listen to. Wirén called his Serenade, composed in 1937, “a lively work designed to amuse and entertain.”
The event will close on Saturday 29 June with the young Pontine musicians Giulia and Davide Cellacchi.
