After the success of the tour in Prague last December and the one at the 75th Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence in July 2023, the Teatro di San Carlo returns to play the role of ambassador of Italian culture in the world with two prestigious events in France: on Wednesday 8 November, the Parisian Louvre Museum, as part of the exhibition “Capodimonte al Louvre”, will be the setting in which the students of the Accademia di Canto Lirico and the Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo will perform the comic opera Don Chisciotte by Giovanni Paisiello (Naples 1769).
The Orchestra will be conducted by Diego Ceretta, with the cast Tamar Otanadze (The Countess), Maria Knihnytsk (The Duchess), Maurizio Bove (Don Plato), Francesco Domenico Doto (Count Galafrone), Maria Sardaryan (Carmosina), Costanza Cutaia (Cardolella), Sun Tianxuefei (Don Quixote), Sebastià Serra (Sancho Panza).
On Thursday, November 9, 2023 at the Philharmonie de Paris, Giacomo Sagripanti will conduct the Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo and the students of the Accademia di Canto Lirico in a concert of music by the greatest Italian opera composers. The program includes opera arias and overtures from masterpieces by Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, and Giacomo Puccini.
The voices involved in the concert are those of the sopranos Costanza Cutaia, Désirée Giove, Maria Knihnytska, Tamar Otanadze, Maria Sardaryan, the tenors Francesco Domenico Doto, Sun Tianxuefei, the baritone Maurizio Bove and the bass Sebastià Serra. Desired by Stéphane Lissner and launched in 2021, the Academy of Opera Singing of the Teatro di San Carlo is now in its second two-year period. The Academy is directed by Ilias Tzempetonidis, and entrusted to the expert care of Mariella Devia, one of the most illustrious interpreters in the recent history of opera in the world.
"This tour – declares the superintendent Stéphane Lissner – represents an important collaboration between the Teatro San Carlo, the Louvre Museum and the Philharmonie of Paris, cultural institutions known throughout the world for the diffusion of culture, art and musical excellence.
The repertoire proposed by our orchestra together with the young students of the academy, the youngest group of our Theater, offers the spectator the opportunity to appreciate arias and overtures among the most famous of the Italian opera production, but it also wants to be an opportunity to rediscover a gem of the Neapolitan repertoire such as Don Quixote of La Mancha, a comic opera set to music by Giovanni Paisiello”.
The tour of the Teatro di San Carlo is supported by UniCredit, main sponsor of the Teatro di San Carlo and by the patron Luisa Benigno.
Article published on November 6, 2023 - 18:14
Video Chronicles
