I Tre Tenori

The Three Tenors

from Opera to Musical

Taormina Opera Stars Festival

Ancient Theatre, Thursday 27th August 2020 @ 9.30 pm

 

The three tenors are Delfo Paone, Paolo Spagnuolo and Raffaele Tassone.
Piano: Davide Dellisanti
Special Guest Le DIV4S – Italian Sopranos

 

 

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Cavea > € 30,00

 

 

MORE INFO
Taormina Opera Stars > www.taorminaoperastars.it – taorminaoperastarsrl@gmail.com

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione Svizzera (reopening in 2021) – Hotel Villa Schuler (reopening in 2021) – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

 

 

Le Quattro Stagioni

The Four Seasons

by Antonio Vivaldi

Ancient Theatre, Tuesday 25th August 2020 @ 9.30 pm

 

The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. They were written around 1716–1717 and published in 1725 in Amsterdam.

They were a revolution in musical conception: in them Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds (of different species, each specifically characterized), a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties from both the hunters’ and the prey’s point of view, frozen landscapes, and warm winter fires.

Unusually for the period, Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying sonnets (possibly written by the composer himself) that elucidated what it was in the spirit of each season that his music was intended to evoke. The concerti therefore stand as one of the earliest and most detailed examples of what would come to be called program music—i.e., music with a narrative element. Vivaldi took great pains to relate his music to the texts of the poems, translating the poetic lines themselves directly into the music on the page. For example, in the middle section of “Spring”, when the goatherd sleeps, his barking dog can be heard in the viola section. The music is elsewhere similarly evocative of other natural sounds. Vivaldi divided each concerto into three movements (fast–slow–fast), and, likewise, each linked sonnet into three sections.

 

Direction

Giulio Plotino

 

Orchestra and technical Staff

Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania

 

PROGRAMME

Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, “Spring” (La primavera)
Allegro (in E major); Largo e pianissimo sempre (in n C♯ minor); Allegro pastorale (in E major)

Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, “Summer” (L’estate)
Allegro non molto (in G minor); Adagio e piano – Presto e forte (in G minor); Presto (in G minor)

Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, “Autumn” (L’autunno)
Allegro (in F major); Adagio molto (in D minor); Allegro (in F major)

Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, “Winter” (L’inverno)
Allegro non molto (in F minor); Largo (in E♭ major); Allegro (in F minor)

 

The Program may vary by adding:

Serenade No. 6 for Orchestra in D major K 239
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Marcia. Maestoso (D major), Minuetto (D major), Rondò. Allegretto (D major)

 

 

TICKETS on boxol.it

Cavea – sector 1, central > € 22,00
Cavea – sector 2, intermediate > € 16,50
Cavea – sector 3, lateral > € 11,50

 

 

MORE INFO
Fondazione Taormina Arte > www.taoarte.it – info@taormina-arte.com – T. 0039 391 746 2146

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione Svizzera (reopening in 2021) – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

Puccini e Verdi Opera Gala

Ancient Theatre, Thursday 20th August 2020 @ 21.30 pm

 

PUCCINI and VERDI OPERA GALA will be an opportunity to appreciate great voices of the Italian and international opera scene.

In the first part of the evening we will be able to listen to the eternal and sublime melodies with which Giacomo Puccini embodied the love and the strength of feeling; a tribute to the composer who has always praised love and beauty. Suite from “La Bohème”, “Madama Butterfly”, “Tosca”, “Il Tabarro”, “Turandot” and “La Fanciulla del West”.

The second part is a tribute to Giuseppe Verdi, known as “the Swan of Busseto” who brought embodied the to the theatre the most sublime human feelings, the man who managed to bring the human voice to its highest peaks. The most interesting pages from “Don Carlo”, “Aida”, “Il Trovatore”, “Rigoletto”, “La Traviata”, “Ernani”, “A Masked Ball” “Nabucco”, and many others.

 

Direction: Francesco Costa
Piano: Ruben Micieli
Voices: Coro Lirico Siciliano

 

TICKETS on ticketone.it

Cavea (upper circle) – sector 1, central : € 61,50 – Reduced (under 25/over 65) € 49,50
Cavea (upper circle) – sector 2, intermediate: € 41,50 – Reduced (under 25/over 65) € 33,50
Cavea (upper circle) – sector 3, lateral: € 26,50 – Reduced (under 25/over 65) € 21,50

 

 

MORE INFO
Coro Lirico Siciliano > www.facebook.com/coroliricosiciliano – grancoro@hotmail.it – T. 0039 347 515 5833

Festival dei Teatri della Pietra > T. and Whatsapp: 0039 351 546 0236

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione Svizzera (reopening in 2021) – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

 

Inferno (Hell)

by Dante Alighieri

Alcantara Gouges, Motta Camastra 20 km from Taormina
Eevery Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from July 23rd to August 23. Two performances every night, @ 8.30 pm and 10.15 pm

 

An innovative interpretation of the Inferno, “Hell”, the first part of Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy.
The Inferno tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the “realm … of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen”. As an allegory, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.

The Inferno is set on the pebbly riverbed of the Alcantara River, inside the Alcantara Nature Park.

 

 

Direction

Giovanni Anfuso

 

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ITALIAN PRESS RELEASE – COMUNICATO STAMPA

Gole dell’Alcantara, l’Inferno di Dante e l’Odissea di Omero

Entrambi gli spettacoli sono inseriti tra i Grandi eventi della Regione Siciliana. Il 23 luglio debutta il kolossal tratto dall’opera di Omero e si prosegue dal 27 agosto con Dante.

Due lavori teatrali che hanno riscosso un enorme successo di pubblico perché sono a un tempo di grande livello artistico e popolarissimi, com’era del resto nelle intenzioni dei produttori, Buongiorno Sicilia e Vision Sicily.

I due kolossal, per tutte queste loro caratteristiche, sono stati inseriti nell’elenco dei Grandi eventi 2020 dall’Assessorato al Turismo della Regione Siciliana.

E c’è infatti una grande attesa da parte degli spettatori, affamati di teatro dopo il lockdown, per il ritorno delle due rappresentazioni, che, entrambe dirette da Giovanni Anfuso, debutteranno presto: il 23 luglio aprirà la stagione l’Odissea che andrà avanti per venti repliche, – due a sera dal giovedì alla domenica per cinque settimane – mentre dal 27 agosto il magnifico scenario delle Gole ospiterà l’Inferno.

I produttori hanno ovviamente dedicato grande attenzione alla sicurezza degli spettatori: ingegneri specializzati hanno progettato le piante – su una riva ci saranno in tutto 198 posti a sedere, mentre sull’altra riva, al di là del fiume, reciteranno gli attori – e tracciato percorsi da e per il greto del fiume che consentissero sempre l’indispensabile distanziamento. Sono stati inoltre messi a punto tutti i protocolli di sanificazione tenendo conto tra l’altro che si opera all’interno del Parco fluviale dell’Alcantara.

 

 

 

 

 

MORE INFO

www.facebook.com/InfernoDiDanteOfficial

Infoline: 0039 095 722 5340 – Whatsapp: 0039 347 638 0512

www.parcoalcantara.it/Eindex.php

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione Svizzera (reopening in 2021) – Hotel Villa Schuler (reopening in 2021) – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta