BRAHMS - STRAUSS

ALBERTO MALAZZI conductor

NICOLETTA MEZZINI, CRISTINA GIARDINI, piano

The Waltz between Germany and Austria

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.

Wednesday 8 July | H 21.00

Thursday 9 July | H 21.00

Teatro Comunale

TICKETS

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Program

JOHANNES BRAHMS

Liebeslieder-Walzer op. 52

JOHANN STRAUSS

An der schönen blauen Donau op. 314

JOHANNES BRAHMS

Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer op. 65

ComposERS

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) from Germany was a great composer, pianist and conductor of the Late Romantic period. In his creative activity, the piano composition constituted an essential constant and a fundamental workbench on which to prepare the indispensable tools to deal with other genres. Prepared by the piano, Brahms’ chamber music is dominated by a need for harmonic density and fullness of sound.

Johann Strauss

Johann Strauss, son (1825-1899), Austrian conductor and composer, has been called the “king” of waltzes: his greatest fame lies mainly in those composed in the sixties of the nineteenth century for the Viennese court, with the who was able to translate the carefree and joyful environment of Habsburg Vienna into music. His An der schönen blauen Donau has now become a kind of official Austrian anthem.

CHORUS OF THE 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 FavoritaMacbethManon Lescaut, RigolettoLa 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.