2024-07-14 07:56:19
With six minutes of applause, more than 5 thousand spectators thanked the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro La Fenice for the guard created, on the evening of Saturday 13 July, in Piazza San Marco with a tribute to the great composer Giacomo Puccini on the centenary of his death , entitled “Tribates to Puccini from the world”. Even the light and the sudden shower, which with perfect timing began to descend on the Venetian square surprisingly at the precise moment in which the concert ended, caused the audience to stop ovation for the amazing and powerful performances performed under the direction by maestro James Conlon, with soprano Selene Zanetti and tenor Brian Jagde.
The two musicians enthralled the audience, where many foreign tourists were standing outside, with the enthusiasm of their performances. The great voice of the soprano Selene Zanetti played with Cio-Cio-San’s aria “Un bel dì massimo” from “Madama Butterfly”, “Mi cuore Mimì” from “La bohème”, Liù’s aria “Tu that you are surrounded by gel ” from “Turandot”, and the ending “Padre augusto” also from “Turandot”. Support also for the tenor Brian Jagde (who last time replaced Francesco Demuro forced to withdraw due to negligence) who did well Cavaradossi’s aria “E lucevan le stelle” from “Tosca” and that of the prince Calaf “Nessun dorma” from mortar. “Turandot” which caused a triumphant applause followed by many “bravo, bravo”.
Apotheosis of praise also for the twenty-three-year-old Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev, winner of the First Prize in the Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians at the age of 13, for the extraordinary solo performance of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”, proposed on the centenary of its founding (first held on February 12, 1924 in New York). The Orchestra della Fenice has graced with brilliant performances of some pieces of extraordinary impact such as the triumphant march of “Aida” by Giuseppe Verdii, “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel, testifying to Puccini’s influence on the world of French music, and the effectiveness of “Ride the Valkyries” from Richard Wagner’s “Walküre”.
“We offer an impeccable show, the best in every respect, up to the great tradition of Fenice”, commented the curator Fortunato Ortombina, the great director of his last concert in Piazza San Marco as director of the Venetian theater, of it is given from next September. he will be the appointed curator of La Scala in Milan. “But I will definitely come back to enjoy Fenice’s show in Piazza San Marco as a spectator, who bought the ticket”, said Ortombina emotionally as the rain eased at the end of the concert.
La Fenice received praise from Mayor Luigi Brugnano through social media: “In Piazza San Marco a unique concert to celebrate one of the most famous composers of all time. An evening of magical music, in the heart of our city”, he wrote to a post showing beautiful photos.
In the front row to attend the concert is the Minister of Industrial Reforms Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati. In addition to many local authorities, including Roberto Ciambetti, president of the Veneto Regional Council, and Tiziana Lippiello, rector of the Ca’ Foscari University, there are also many activists from the world of sport: singer-songwriter Manuel Agnelli, actor makeup Diego Dalla Palma, former ‘you lost a good evening’ Mariagiovanna Elmi, television presenter Rai history, actress Laura Morante, director and actress Marco Paolini, actress Anna Valle. Among the guests, former athlete Sara Simeoni, gold medalist in the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, Fulvio Macciardi, director of Teatro Comunale di Bologna and president of Anfols, physicist Piero Martin, writers Alessandro Marzo Magno, Andrea. Molesini, Giovanni Montanaro and Tiziano Scarpa.
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