Pto celebrate i One hundred years since the death of Giacomo Puccinithis evening at 9.20pm on Rai 3 will be broadcast live from Lucca Puccini according to Muti. A concert-event directed by Maestro Riccardo Muti which will propose again some of the great classics of the repertoire of the famous composer.
On stage, as well as un’orchestra of 120 elementsAlso some of the most acclaimed sopranos and tenors of the last years, from Francesco Mieli to Mariangela Sicilia.
Riccardo Muti, the musical homage to Puccini
The concert takes place on the prestigious stage set up within the historic walls of Lucca, in the birthplace of the legendary artist. Puccini in fact he was born in Lucca in 1858 and died in Brussels in 1924following a complication that arose after a difficult throat operation.
Riccardo Muti will conduct the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestraformed exceptionally by 120 musicians which will accompany the performances of the leading singers. The concert takes place at Campo Balillaan evocative place in the thousand-year-old city, and will be Presented by actress and presenter Serena Autieri.
Conductor Riccardo Muti (Getty Images).
The singers of Puccini according to Muti: and soprano
Protagonists of Puccini’s arias that we will listen to tonight, three opera singers chosen by Maestro Riccardo Muti, among the most acclaimed contemporary performers. Starting from Elena Burattoborn in Mantua in 1982 and performer of many Puccini works.
Lidia Friedman is a young Russian soprano who has lived in Italy since 2015, a regular guest at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Last but not least, finally, Mariangela Sicilia, appreciated interpreter of both Bohemian what of Turandotboth legendary works by the composer.
The tenors chosen by Riccardo Muti
Among the most requested of his generation, Luciano Ganci specialized in the repertoire of Verdi and PucciniThe famous American magazine Metropolitan Opera Guild he defined him as the best “Verdian” tenor in Italy.
Russian Dmitry Korchack he is also an orchestra conductor, and recently sang in Don Giovanni by Mozart e Cinderella by Gioacchino Rossini in Vienna. Francesco Meli instead is among the most appreciated opera singers in the world. Born in Genoa in 1980, he began his international career, now spanning twenty years, when he was just a teenager.
A portrait of Giacomo Puccini (Getty Images).
The lineup of the Lucca concert
One fine day we will see and Madama Butterfly (soprano, Eleonora Buratto)
Recondite harmony and Tosca (tenor, Luciano Ganci)
What a cold little hand and Bohemian (tenore, Dmitry Korchak)
Art lives and Tosca (soprano, Eleonora Buratto)
That’s my belief and The girl of the West (tenor, Francesco Meli)
Oh sweet boyat Bohemian (soprano Mariangela Sicilia, tenor Dmitry Korchak)
Where lieta and Bohemian (soprano, Mariangela Sicilia)
Without a mother and Sister Angelica (soprano, Lidia Fridman)
And the stars were shining and Tosca (tenor, Luciano Ganci)
You who are surrounded by gel and Turandot (soprano, Eleonora Buratto)
Interlude and Manon Lescaut e Act Fouralways Manon Lescaut(soprano Lidia Fridman, tenor Francesco Meli).
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