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Sptember 5th, 2012 – Taormina Greek Theatre, 9.00pm

Salvatore Accardo and the Italian Chamber Orchestra

The great Italian violinist and the orchestra will be performing musics by Fritz Kleiser, Nicolò Paganini, Gioacchino Rossini and Benjamin Britten.

Rendezvous with the Italian Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the Maestro Salvatore Accardo and his magic Stradivarius. The programme includes music by Fritz Kleiser, Nicolò Paganini, Gioacchino Rossini and Benjamin Britten. The Orchestra, founded in 1996 by Accordo himself, is a string orhestra whose members all descend from the same school, reaching an unparalleled expressive, technical and stylistic unity. With his orchestra, Salvatore Accardo addresses both the public of the most important concert season and non-specialist listeners, especially young people, involving them in the rehearsals, talking about music, speaking of the characteristics of the orchestra, the violin, the orchestra conduction and the repertoire. The concert is organised by E20 of Marco Grimaldi, in collaboration with Taormina Arte.
(Source: Taormina Arte)

Stalls (Parterre): € 49,50
Gallery: € 39,50
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 29,50
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 22,50
Tickets on boxol.it
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730

 Within the Bellini Festival

Greek Theatre

Cocciante canta Cocciante – 9.30pm

Riccardo Cocciante (also known in French-speaking countries as Richard Cocciante) is back in tour with only two Italian dates, Rome and Taormina.
The concert will be the great opportunity to enjoy old successes of his extraordinary career as a songwriter and singer – such as “Margherita”, “Bella Senz’Anima”, “Poesia” and the early world successes “Notre Dame de Paris” and “Romeo and Juliet”.

60 artists will perform on the stage with Riccardo Cocciante and the orchestra – composed by some of the best Italian musicians – will be directed by Leonardo De Amicis. The “National Orchestra of Academies of Music” is an amazing orchestra which brings together the best students of the Italian musical institutions and will involve the cast of “Romeo and Juliet” and “Notre Dame de Paris”.

Tickets at ticketone.it and boxol.it

 
Parterre and stands: € 74,80
Numbered Tiers: € 49,50
Non-numbered tiers: € 34,50

Greek Theatre, 9.30pm

Carmina Burana

Original version for two pianos and drums

Music: Carl Orff
Pianos: Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara and Roberto Carnevale
Euro Mediterraneo Chamber Orchestra
Chorus: Coro Lirico Siciliano directed by Francesco Costa
Conductor: Massimo Incarbone

Tickets available on boxol.it  
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730

Parterre: € 40,00
Stands: € 35,00
Tiers: € 25,00 – Under 18/Over65 € 20,00
Non-numbered tiers: € 20,00 – Under 18/Over65 € 16,00

Greek Theatre, 9.30pm

Carmen (Ballett)

The Sleeping Beauty is a ballet in a prologue and three acts, first performed in 1890. The music was by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (his Opus 66). The score was completed in 1889, and is the second of his three ballets. The original scenario was conceived by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, and is based on Charles Perrault’s La Belle au bois dormant.
The ballet’s focus was undeniably on the two main conflicting forces of good (the Lilac Fairy) and evil (Carabosse); each has a leitmotif representing them, which run through the entire ballet, serving as an important thread to the underlying plot. Act III of the work, however, takes a complete break from the two motifs and instead places focus on the individual characters of the various court dances.

The Sleeping Beauty is Tchaikovsky’s longest ballet, lasting nearly four hours at full length – counting the intermissions. Without intermissions (as it appears on several CD sets), it lasts nearly three hours. It is nearly always cut.

The ballet at the Greek Theatre will be performed by Balletto del Sud company and will last 2 hours.
Choreography: Fredy Franzutti
Scene: Francesco Palma

Tickets available on boxol.it  
Ticket Office in Taormina: +39 0942.628730

Parterre: € 50,00
Stands: € 45,00
Tiers: € 35,00 – Under 18/Over65 € 28,00
Non-numbered tiers: € 25,00 – Under 18/Over65 € 20,00

Greek Theatre, 9.30pm

Ivo Pogorelich plays Tchaikovsky

The croatian pianist is famous for his expressive way of playing the piano.
He was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia, to a Croatian father and a Serbian mother.(Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Pogorelić became a Croatian citizen. He received his first piano lessons when he was seven and attended the “Vojislav Vučković Music School” in Belgrade until he was 12, when he was invited to Moscow to continue his studies. Later he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory. In 1976 he began studying intensively with the Georgian pianist and teacher Aliza Kezeradze, who passed on to him the tradition of the Liszt–Siloti school. They were married from 1980 until her death in 1996.
He became famous for the prize he didn’t win. In 1980 he entered the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and was eliminated in the third round. One of the adjudicators, Martha Argerich, proclaimed him a “genius” and resigned from the jury in protest.
Pogorelich’s performances have often been controversial. His interpretations were well received by a large number of concert audiences, but not by some critics, who criticized him as a “musician of distortion and exaggeration”.
Following the death of his wife in 1996, Pogorelić stopped performing for several years, devoting himself to jewellery design. In the early 2000s he returned to the concert stage. Pogorelić currently resides in Lugano, Switzerland.

In Taormina he will perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra n. 1, op. 23
Capriccio italiano op. 45
E. Onegin
Polacca – Valzer

Mediterranea Chamber Orchestra – Director Joachim Jousse

Tickets available on ticketone.it and ctbox.it
Parterre and Stands: € 28,00
Non-numbered tiers: € 18,00