Over the weekend double concert in Turin and Genoa for the victims of the Morandi bridge
Genoa. A concert to commemorate the 43 victims of the Morandi Bridge, four years after the tragedy. The initiative, which will take place Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 April respectively in Turin and Genoawith the patronage of the Municipality and the Archdiocese of Genoa, it was created by the Stefano Tempia Choral Academy, the Ponte Morandi Victim Remembrance Committee, the Academy of the Cathedral of San Giovanni and the Rotary Club Torino Duomo.
“An event that wants to celebrate the memory of a frightening tragedy, keeping alive the memory of the 43 people who lost their lives in the collapse of Morandi and, at the same time, wants to be an opportunity to celebrate art – explains the Councilor for Policies cultural Barbara Grosso – This double concert will in fact feature the first ever performance of works by contemporary authors: three pieces specially created and performed by the young Turin mezzo-soprano Laura Capretti ”.
The first appointment is for Saturday 2 April at 9.00 pm, in the Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista in Turin. The next day, Sunday 3 April at 9.00 pmis replicated in Genoa in the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata del Vastato one free admission.
The program combines three wide-ranging pieces commissioned for the occasion (August 14 for mezzo soprano, chorus and orchestra by Giuliana Spalletti, Disorient for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by Marco Sinopoli e Sails of light for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by Giancarlo Zedde) to the Pastorale d’été by Arthur Honegger and tender Siegfried-Idyll by Richard Wagner. While Honegger and Wagner classics don’t need to present, here are a few notes on the premiered songs.
AUGUST 14th it is the acknowledgment of the news of the tragedy, a progressive awareness because initially incredible, which generates a sort of cosmic pain, without ever losing contact with the reality of the news and of history.
SAILS OF LIGHT it is a real hymn to Genoa, to his soul said by Anton Chekhov in an incomparable way: “A wonderful crowd walks through the streets of Genoa. When you go out in the evening, the whole street is full of people. Then you go for a stroll, aimlessly among that crowd; you live of her of her life, you are confused with her in the soul; and you begin to believe that there can be only one universal soul“. A hymn to his ability to undertake new routes and to rebuild on the foundations of collective memory.
DISORIENT it presents itself as a reflection on the signs of the times that inhabit it, on the disorientation, on the loss of traditional cardinal points, on the need to recover the sense of the human as a compass to re-establish an alliance with nature, a direction for existence.
Interpreters:
Laura Capretti mezzo soprano
Choir of the Stefano Tempia Academy, Luigi Cociglio choir master
Stefano Tempia Orchestra, Antonmario Semolini director
Plan:
Giuliana Spalletti (1944)
August 14 for mezzo-soprano, choir and orchestra
Marco Sinopoli (1985)
Disorient for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Pastorale d’été for orchestra
Giancarlo Zedde (1954)
Sails of light for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Siegfried-Idyll for orchestra
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