schubert - SALOMON - BERLIOZ - VERDI - FOSTER
ALBERTO MALAZZI chorus master
CRISTINA GIARDINI piano
L'Ottocento tra Europa e Stati Uniti d'America
Born in 1961, he studied piano and composition at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan. From 2002 to 2018 he was Chorus Master at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, previously held the role of guest Chorus Master at Radio-France, piano accompanist for the Sommerakademie Mozarteum in Salzburg and worked extensively with the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. From 2019 he is Chorus Master at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
Sunday 27 December 2020 | H 17.30
Online event - Canale Youtube del TCBO
APERTI NONOSTANTE TUTTO
INITIATIVE PROMOTED BY
Program
… LA NATURA
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Widerspruch D. 865
Die Nacht D. 983 n. 4
HECTOR SALOMON
L’Orage
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Der Gondelfahrer D. 809
Das Dörfchen D. 641
… LA PATRIA
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Le Chant des Bretons
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Euterpe Patria
… AN AMERICAN SONGBOOK
STEPHEN FOSTER
Jeanie with the light brown hair
Some folks
Ring ring de banjo
Beautiful dreamer
Oh, Susanna
MALE CHORUS OF TEATRO COMUNALE DI BOLOGNA
Considered one of the most prestigious ensembles worldwide, through the years the Chorus has been led by Gaetano Riccitelli, Leone Magiera, Fulvio Fogliazza, Fulvio Angius, Piero Monti, Marcello Seminara, Paolo Vero, Lorenzo Fratini, Andrea Faidutti, and, since 2019, Alberto Malazzi. Among its many recordings are those of La Favorita, Macbeth, Manon Lescaut, Rigoletto, La Cenerentola, and Rossini’s Messa Solenne. Its numerous international tours include Amsterdam (1987), Wiesbaden (1994), Japan (1993, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2011, 2017), Savonlinna (2006), Santander (2008), Muscat (2015), Paris (2018). In 2001 the Chorus performed Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at the London Royal Albert Hall within the BBC Proms Festival, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Daniele Gatti. In June 2019 the Chorus is again touring Japan (Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama, Fukuoka) with Rigoletto conducted by Alessio Pizzech, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia conducted by Federico Grazzini.
Noteworthy is its return to the Rossini Opera Festival from 2009 to 2016, where in 2011 the Chorus was part of the production of Mosè in Egitto, directed by Graham Vick and conducted by Roberto Abbado, that won the “Abbiati” award as best show for that year.
In 2017 the Chorus was at the Verdi Festival in Parma performing Traviata, and the Stiffelio directed by Graham Vick at the Teatro Farnese that was awarded the “Franco Abbiati” Special Prize.
Its engagements with the Verdi Festival for the Fall of 2019 will see the Chorus perform Luisa Miller at the Chiesa di San Francesco del Prato in Parma, and Aida at the Teatro Verdi in Busseto.
The Teatro Comunale’s 2018 production of La Bohème staged by Graham Vick received the Abbiati Award as best show.