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Symphonic Opera Concert
Baritone Leo Nucci
Soprano Silvia Dalla Benetta
Mezzo-soprano Anna Maria Chiuri
Tenor Marco Ciaponi
Bass Graziano Dallavalle
ORCHESTRA FARNESIANA
Conductor Alvise Casellati
CHORUS OF THE MUNICIPAL THEATER OF PIACENZA
Chorus Master Corrado Casati
Production by Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza
The second event of the series “E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle” organized by Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza and the Municipality of Piacenza, the Symphonic Opera Concert in the Courtyard of Palazzo Farnese will feature one of the greatest stars of the world opera scene, baritone Leo Nucci, who has a special connection to the city of Piacenza and its Theater. The direction will be entrusted to the baton of Alvise Casellati, considered one of the emerging talents of recent years, leading a new ensemble created for this occasion, the Orchestra Farnesiana, largely composed of musicians from Piacenza, and the Chorus of the Municipal Theater of Piacenza conducted by Corrado Casati. With Nucci on stage, the voices of soprano Silvia Dalla Benetta, mezzo-soprano Anna Maria Chiuri, tenor Marco Ciaponi and bass Graziano Dallavalle will alternate. The concert will feature a first part of the program dedicated to Verdi and Rossini arias and symphonies, while the second part will include the IV movement of Symphony No. 9 op. 125 by Ludwig van Beethoven, with Schiller’s famous ode “Ode to Joy.”
Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi arias and symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 op. 125, IV movement
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MUNICIPAL THEATRE OF PIACENZA
A splendid example of late 18th-century architecture, Piacenza’s Municipal Theater was inaugurated on September 10, 1804, with Zamori, or Hero of the Indies, a dramma serio for music by Giovanni Simone Mayr, a Bavarian musician who was Gaetano Donizetti’s teacher and who lived for a long time in Bergamo.
Construction of the theater, designed by Piacenza architect Lotario Tomba (author, among other things, of the Governor’s Palace in Piazza Cavalli) began in September 1803 and was completed the following year.
Piacenza was the first city in Emilia to have a new, modernly conceived, capacious and, above all, beautiful theater; Parma would have it in 1829, Modena in 1838, Reggio Emilia in 1857.
