On Sunday 30 June in the Sala Giardino on Via Lino Suppressa (a cross street of Via Petraglione) in Lecce, soprano Cecilia Taliano Grasso and bass Angelo De Matteis, winners of the Concert Prize awarded by the Camerata at the 2023 Magliano Ti Amo International Opera Singing Competition, will perform famous opera arias from Puccini’s “Turandot”, Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville”, Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and others, accompanied on the piano by Enrico Tricarico.
The concert organized by the Camerata Musicale Salentina as part of the “Classica d’Estate…& Wine” event. Start at 8.45pm.
Cecilia Taliano Grasso began her musical studies as a child, first with the transverse flute and later with the piano. In 2015 she was then admitted to the singing class at the “A. Casella” in L’Aquila, and then continued his studies at the “O. Respighi” of Latina. There she obtained the first level academic diploma in singing in 2019 and subsequently the second level in 2021, with honours. In 2019 she made her debut in “The Marriage of Figaro” at the Clitunno Theater in Trevi in the role of Susanna.
In 2023 he sang the role of Fiordiligi in “Così fan tutte” at the Rocca Albornoz in Viterbo; in the same year he won the second prize of the “Magliano ti amo” international lyric competition and the third prize of the “Luigi Zanuccoli” international lyric competition. In 2024 she sang the role of Liù in “Turandot” with Europa InCanto at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome and the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona. She currently continues her improvement with the Masters Caterina Di Tonno and Fabio Centanni.
Angelo Diego Maria De Matteis was born in Brindisi, where he cultivated his passion for music since he was a child. Initially approaching the study of the guitar, he subsequently began studying opera singing under the guidance of Professor Raffaella Liccardi. Having graduated with honors from the Tito Schipa Conservatory in Lecce, he made his debut at the Teatro Umberto Giordano in Foggia in the role of Don Bartolo in the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia. He then played the role of the Count of Ceprano in the opera Rigoletto at the Garibaldi Theater in Modica. Furthermore, he was a soloist in the concert Il Francescanesimo in Musica in Pietrelcina. He further enriched his experience by participating in various masterclasses, including the one on Italian opera with Maestro Michele D’Elia, held at the Palazzo Pesce in Mola di Bari, as well as those held in the Gaffurio Academy in Lodi with the Maestro Leo Nucci, renowned international singer.
Pianist and composer, Enrico Tricarico completed his musical studies at the Bari conservatory. His production currently includes around a hundred titles, where an exclusive modern, educated and refined language stands out on the threshold of tradition. His revisions and transcriptions of important recently rediscovered works by Giovanni Paisiello (buff opera Il marimoni unexpected), Saverio Mercadante (Concerto for flute and orchestra n°4) and Vincenzo Alemanno (sacred oratorio Mira! O fedel) were performed. His music has been performed in numerous festivals and theaters by authoritative interpreters and is published and recorded on various CDs.
He has held solo and ensemble piano recitals and conducted his symphonic-choral compositions Rapsodia Mediterranea and Stabat Mater. As a pianist and composer he has collaborated with the Tirana Opera Orchestra, the Diabelliorchester of the Salzburg Musikum and the Lumina ensemble. In addition to his interest in classical, sacred and contemporary music, he is active as director and arranger of the Orchestra Terra del Sole, conducting numerous events including the Magliano festival from 2012 to today, the historic Premio Barocco and a
stage of the Notte della taranta festival in 2019, collaborating with many artists of Italian songwriting. He is the artistic director of the Terra tra due Mari Festival, of the Giuseppe Tricarico Music Competition and of the Magliano Città della Musica Lyric Competition. He is also the organist of the Basilica Cattedrale Sant’Agata in Gallipoli and is a teacher at the Enrico Giannelli music-dance high school in Parabita (Le).
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MUSICAL PROGRAM
- A. Mozart – from “Don Giovanni”, Madamina, the catalog is this
- A. Mozart – from “The Marriage of Figaro”, The moment has finally come… Oh come, don’t delay
- Rossini – from “The Barber of Seville”, To a Doctor of My Sorrow
- L. Bianco, Tempo di Polacca (piano solo)
- Rossini – from “The Barber of Seville”, La calunnia
- Puccini, from “Turandot”, Lord Listen
- Puccini, from “Le Villi”, If I were little like you
- Brahms, Rhapsody in G minor op. 79 n°2 (piano solo)
- Bellini – from “La sonnambula”, I recognize you or pleasant places
- Donizetti – from “L’elisir d’amore”, Udite o rustici
- Puccini, from “La rondine”, Money, nothing but money… Sweet and divine hours
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