At the Mav in Ercolano the European Music Festival

On Friday 21 June 2024, from 18pm to 21.30:2024pm, the European Music Festival XNUMX will take place between the Ercolano excavations, at the Mav/Virtual Archaeological Museum of Ercolano and at the Royal Palace of Portici, on three special stages enlivened by the music of students from the local music and dance high schools.

The “European Music Festival 2024”, organized by the Metropolitan City of Naples with the students of the music and dance high schools, with the patronage of the Municipalities of Portici, Ercolano and the Faculty of Agriculture of the Federico II University of Naples, this year is divided into three: the notes to welcome the summer will resonate at the MAV-Virtual Archaeological Museum of Ercolano, the Galoppatoio of the Royal Palace of Portici and the Excavations of Ercolano.

The event, which will be attended by Metropolitan City Councilors for Planning and School Building, Ilaria Abagnale and Marianna Salierno, features students from the following music and dance high schools in the Metropolitan City of Naples: Margherita Di Savoia High School in Naples, Melissa Bassi High School in Naples, Palizzi High School in Naples, Francesco Severi High School in Castellammare di Stabia, Bruno Munari High School in Acerra, Girolamo Albertini High School in Nola, Pitagora-Benedetto Croce High School in Torre Annunziata, and Giuseppe Moscati High School in Sant'Antimo.

The event will start at 18.00:XNUMX pm at the MAV theatre in Ercolano, where the 'Palizzi' choreographic and musical high school of Naples will perform with the orchestra and the ballet company. Among the pieces on the programme are Presentimento by EA Mario, Tu ca nun chiagn by L. Bovio and E. De Curtis, the concert in C major for mandolin and strings by Vivaldi, the Symphony in D minor by Francesco Piccone, Sant'Elmo from the Suite Buenos Aires by Pujol.
And then a real gem: A verità nunn è, an unreleased song written by the students of the music high school.

At 19.00:XNUMX pm, at the Galoppatoio of the Reggia di Portici, the Wind Orchestra of the 'Margherita di Savoia' music high school of Naples will perform with a repertoire ranging from Giacomo Puccini with the Corazzata Sicilia on themes from “Boheme“ to Lorenzo Bocci with A Tribute To Nino Rota passing through Johano De Meij, Moment For Morricone.

Following the 'Melissa Bassi' orchestra with Yo Soy Maria by Astor Piazzolla, Anima Sonora by Antonio Graziano, Passeggiando per Brooklyn by Heghel Gualdi, All Of Me by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons and Brindisi from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi. The Big-band of the 'Francesco Severi' of Castellammare di Stabia presents Oye Como Va by Tito Puente, I Remember by Clifford Benny Golson, Street Life composed by “The Crusanders” and performed by singer Randy Crawford and Mas Que Nada by Sergio Mendez. The choir of the 'Pitagora-Benedetto Croce' high school of Torre Annunziata has on its program H. Purcell with Thou knowest Lord, G. Fauré with Benedictus and WA Mozart with Ave verum corpus.

The Bruno Munari High School in Acerra will perform Bruno Mars' "Treasure" and "Uptown Funk" and Il Volo's "Grande Amore Rock." The Isis "Girolamo Albertini" Symphony Orchestra of Nola has chosen Donizetti's "Elisir d'amore" with "Quantita è bella" and "Duetto," Rameau's "Les Sauvages," and Bizet's "Habanera." The grand finale will be the Isis "Giuseppe Moscati" Wind Orchestra of Sant'Antimo with Jacob De Haan's "Concerto d'Amore" and Ennio Morricone's "A Fistful of Dollars."

At the Ercolano Archaeological Park (Parco Maiuri), instead, the notes will start to resonate starting at 19.30:XNUMX pm. The musical high schools 'Pitagora-Benedetto Croce' of Torre Annunziata, 'Bruno Munari' of Acerra and 'Francesco Severi' of Castellammare di Stabia will perform in chamber and ensemble formations.

The 'Severi' will be present with the seven-guitar ensemble performing Aria from Armida al campo d'Egitto, Concerto in D major by Vivaldi, Canarios by Gaspar Sanz and Anonimo with Quando nascette Ninno and the Flute and Harp Duo with a repertoire of G. Bizet – Menuet, G. Donizetti - Largo and B. Andres – Algues. The 'Pitagora - Croce' with the guitar quartet will perform Morreno Torroba in Bailando un Fandango Charro and C. Domeniconi with A las doce de la noche (Suite: A las doce de la noche. Canção de natal. Fum, Fum, Fum. Corramos, Corramos). Finally, the “Munari” high school will perform with the Horn Duo who will play the Te Deum by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the Minuet by Johann Sebastian Bach.

“As a Metropolitan City we wholeheartedly support this event – stated Ilaria Abagnale, metropolitan councilor responsible for Planning and School Building for the Vesuvian, Sorrento, Nola and Phlegraean areas - also through a significant financial commitment so that the conditions are created to allow students to best express their talent, to be heard and appreciated for their abilities and skills acquired during their years of school education. The wish I want to address to them is to be able to make their instruments vibrate throughout their lives with a fruitful insertion in the world of music and art, always following their own inclinations and their own creativity”.

“I am particularly pleased to be present at an event of great educational and cultural value that the Metropolitan City of Naples has been carrying out for several years now. – added the metropolitan councilor delegated to the School for Naples and the northern area, Marianna Salierno – and that makes the students of our music and dance high schools the protagonists. The orchestra is the small paradigm of society, learning to play in an orchestra, knowing how to listen to other people's times teaches respect for the rules and is a joyful way to train the citizens of the future".

The cultural narration of the MAV/Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum continues in beauty and inclusion, which, a few hundred meters from the archaeological excavations of ancient Herculaneum, represents a center of culture and technology applied to Cultural Heritage and communication among the most cutting-edge in Italy, thanks to the technological magic of the latest version MAV 5.0 – Virtual multiReality, the most advanced ever which, since October 2019, has radically revolutionized the way of living the cognitive experience of the virtual journey into the life and splendor of the main archaeological areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Baia, Stabia and Capri, to better understand their past and beauty, in a journey preparatory to visiting the open-air archaeological sites of the Campania region.

The use of the MAV museum, thanks always to the initiative “The MAV exclusively for you”, through a dedicated reservation, can always take place exclusively for organized groups of up to 20 people, at a special entrance fee, from Tuesday to Sunday, with the only recommendation to stagger visits every hour.

The area open to the public will be the museum route, the room for viewing the 3D film on the eruption of Vesuvius and the holographic installation of the digital Siren.