www.operaverona.eu The Opera production schedule 2011 -2012 BAROQUE OPERA 1 www.operaverona.eu The Opera Production Schedule from August 2011 BAROQUE OPERA In collaboration with the Filarmonia Veneta Regional Orchestra Baroque opera is a triumph of music and spectacle, whose arias arouse a passionate and exciting range of emotions. The audience is drawn into this elegant and marvelous world through a witty comedy of errors. The many magical elements in a baroque opera allow the audience to enter into the psychological and romantic ambience of lavish “Fêtes de Court “. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart COSÌ FAN TUTTE Dramma giocoso di Lorenzo Da Ponte Gioachino Rossini L'OCCASIONE FA IL LADRO Burletta in un atto di Luigi Prividali Domenico Cimarosa LE ASTUZIE FEMMINILI Melodramma giocoso di Giuseppe Palomba Franz Joseph Haydin L'ISOLA DISABITATA Azione teatrale di Pietro Metastasio ~ Casting by OperAverona An international competition will be announced on July 2011 Artistic Director Giovanni Pacor Artistic Coordination: Julius Kalmar, Romolo Gessi, Domenico Balzani ~ Director: Monica Waitzfelder Special guest: Hui He 2 www.operaverona.eu The OperAverona Association produces concerts and performances with the aim of debuting young talent. Every year OperAverona contacts young conductors and opera singers as well as renowned guest artists who work together to set up the opera Retaining the style of the baroque opera, OperAverona offers complete or abbreviated versions (without choir), recreating the lavish artistic dimension of the opera through lively performances, which maintain the poetry and communicative powers of baroque opera. OPERAVERONA Cultural Association Board of Directors Giovanni Pacor Dorella Giardini Anna Sbampato Music Board Julius Kalmar Romolo Gessi Domenico Balzani Artistic director Giovanni Pacor Participants and special guests Giorgio Caoduro, baritono (2009-2010) Angelo Capobianco, maestro (2010-) Hui Hue, soprano (2011-) Monica Waitzfelder, director (2011-) Administrative Headquarters Associazione Culturale OperAverona Str. A. Provolo 16, 37123 Verona - ITALIA Contatti: www.operaverona.eu [email protected] tel. +39 045 80 15 352 fax +39 045 80 37 497 3 www.operaverona.eu OperAverona is in Verona, the italian city of the Opera 4 www.operaverona.eu Verona CASTELVECCHIO ! OPERAVERONA ARENA ! " FILARMONICO THEATRE ! A View of Verona OperAverona site Castelvecchio Viewers in Arena A panoramic view of Arena Opera in Filarmonico Theatre Opera in Arena 5 www.operaverona.eu The building The rehearsals will take place on Operaverona premises (Istituto Don Bosco, Str. A. Provolo 16, Verona – Italia). OperAverona is housed in a large school complex located very near the Arena of Verona, and includes ample rehearsal rooms that are currently used by the musicians of the Fondazione Arena The building has two studio-classrooms equipped with pianos and a concert hall, which also has a piano. Training and the final staging are under the management of OperAverona’s music Board. A week before the debut, OperAverona organizes one or two recitals based on some of the arias of the opera and on the singer’s repertoire. After a series of rehearsals with the orchestra, a concert will be performed. The venue for this is usually the city of Garda, on the Lake Garda. 6 www.operaverona.eu Operaverona’s Opera Studio Usually the OperAverona Event opens with a roster that includes singers from all over the world. In 2011 this opening event will become an international competition. The program opens with a series of events that takes place in the heart of the “fair Verona” - as Shakespeare describe the city – before a public made up of passionate fans and local officials. In the city of Romeo and Juliet, OperAverona stages its music events in some prestigious spots, which are often just a short stroll from the Arena. 7 www.operaverona.eu After the opening, the program continues with the final debut at Garda, a picturesque small town on the shores of Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake. Garda - a very ancient village which played a prominent role when it was part of the Republic of Venice ( from XV to XVIII century) attracts thousands of tourists every year. The reason for choosing Garda stems from the words of a great writer: “I could have been in Verona already this evening, but I was so close to a magnificent product of Nature, a splendid view, the lake of Garda, and I didn’t want to miss it and I have been recompensed for my detour.” The famous German writer, Goethe, wrote this note in his journal on the 12th of September 1786. Throughout the Summer, the schedule of events at Garda are followed by the public and press, like the OperAverona Events. 8 www.operaverona.eu The events already realized All performances produced by OperAverona have been sponsored by local institutions such as the Assessorato alla Cultura of the Province of Verona (the culture councillorship of the Province) and by the board of “Provincia in Festival”, a festival organized in collaboration with the Opera Academy of Verona. The Opera Academy is an international association of institutions, among which there are the Verona Conservatory, the Arena Foundation, the Academy of Arts, the Filarmonia Veneta Regional Orchestra, the music association Aurora Ensemble and the Society of Culture and Events Vicenza. Between 2009 and 2010, OperAverona has produced two Mozart operas based on the libretto of Da Ponte: Le Nozze di Figaro ( 7 August 2009) and Don Giovanni ( 8 Augut 2010), these productions were made in collaboration with the Filarmonia Veneta Regional Orchestra, featuring special guest baritone Giorgio Caoduro ( 2009 and 2010 editions) and m° Angelo Capobianco ( 2010 edition). 9 www.operaverona.eu The members of the Music Board of OperAverona JULIUS KALMAR - Born in Caransebes, Romania, with German nationality. He studied at the Bucarest Academy, obtaining diploma in 1968. From 1967 to 1970 Pianist and Conductor at the State Opera Bucarest. From 1970 to 1973 Principal Conductor of the Stadttheater Aachen. From 1973 to 1976 conducting studies at the “Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst” in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky and Karl Österreicher (diploma with honour 1976). From 1976 to 1981 Permanent Conductor at the “Stadtische Bühe Mainz”. From 1981 professor of Conducting at the “Hochschule für Musik” of Vienna. From 1983 to 1988 Conductor at the Wiener Volksoper. From 1995 professor of Opera Conducting at the “Hochschule fur Musik” of Hamburg. He was instructor of many Master Classes like “Wiener Meisterkurse für Dirigenten” in Vienna (1982-1997), Laboratorio Lirico Internazionale per Cantanti e Direttori d’Orchestra sulle opere di Donizetti (Zogno-Bergamo 1993), Swarowsky Masterclass in Milano, Conducting course of Szeged (Hungary), Conducting courses in Italy (Trieste, Follina, Taranto), Greece (1995), Bahia Blanca (Argentina 1996), New Zealand (1998). He has been adjudicator in important Competitions like “Hans Swarowsky Conducting Competition” (Vienna 1984), Concorso Internazionale Pianistico di Cantù (1993), Concorso di Canto di Varallo (1993), “Hans Swarowsky” Conducting Competition (1995), Concorso Internazionale Franco Ferrara per Direttori d’Orchestra (Roma 1995). He is Guest Conductor of several Orchestras in Europe, America, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Korea. 10 www.operaverona.eu The members of the Music Board of OperAverona ROMOLO GESSI - Born in Trieste, Italy, Maestro Gessi completed his musical studies at the Trieste Conservatory. Further conducting studies ensued at the State Conservatoire of St.Petersburg, under Musin and Kukuskin, at the Wiener Meisterkurse für Dirigenten in Vienna under Julius Kalmar, and at the Accademia Musicale in Pescara under Donato Renzetti, obtaining Diplomas with the highest marks. He has won many awards, including ”best performance” at the Opera Conducting Competition of Caserta, and first prize at the International Austro-Hungarian Conducting Competition of Vienna and Pécs. He was appointed professor of Conducting at the Conservatorio “Verdi” of Milan. Since 1997 he has been teaching conducting at the European Academy in Vicenza. He is also professor of Chamber Music at the National Music Conservatory of Trieste. He is Music Director of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Chamber Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Pro Musica Salzburg Orchestra and of the Filarmonia Veneta. He has been Music Director of the Cantelli Symphony Orchestra in Milan from 2006 to 2008. He has conducted many orchestras, such as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the State Opera Prague, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Cracow, the Izhevsk’s Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pécs Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra de Santo André, the Sofia’s Soloists, Milano Classica, I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, the Trieste Opera House Philharmonic, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce, the Filarmonica Marchigiana, the Teatro Lirico di Spoleto. in the principal cities of Italy as well as in those of Austria, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland. 11 www.operaverona.eu The members of the Music Board of OperAverona DOMENICO BALZANI - Born in Alghero (Sassari), he obtained his degree in Politics and Economy at the University of Sassari and, at the same time, he got the degree with mention in Singing at Conservatorio di Musica of Verona. He began his career in 1999 under the guide of Angelo Capobianco,