XX Festival Verdi "Sparks of opera"

"In such troubling times for both life and art, the Festival Verdi wishes to celebrate its twentieth anniversary in this way, and with the audacity and enthusiasm of its youth, it won’t stop. Unable to stage the works that have were announced, either in theatres or in monumental places, due to public health regulations, the Festival will bring them to life and share their strength and power by other means and in different places.
For the new open-air stage at the Parco Ducale, the Festival anticipates its programming and will take place in Parma and Busseto from September 11 to October 10, ending on the day of the Maestro's 207th birthday". (extract Press Release Teatro Regio di Parma).

PROGRAMME

MACBETH
French version, concert version
Parco Ducale di Parma
Friday September 11, 2020, h. 08.00 pm, opening night
Sunday September 13, 2020, h. 08.00 pm
Roberto Abbado conducts Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini and Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma with Maestro Martino Faggiani. Ludovic Tézier (Macbeth), Davinia Rodriguez (Lady Macbeth), Riccardo Zanellato (Banque), Giorgio Berrugi (Macduff), David Astorga (Malcom), Francesco Leone (Il medico), Natalia Gavrilan (La dama di Lady Macbeth) e Jacobo Ochoa (Domestico /Araldo/Sicario).

MESSA DA REQUIEM
Dedicated to the victims of the pandemic
Friday September 18, 2020, h. 08.00 pm
Sunday September 20, 2020, h. 08.00 pm
Roberto Abbado conducts Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini and Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma with Maestro Martino Faggiani. Soprano Eleonora Buratto, mezzosoprano Ksenia Dudnikova, tenor Giorgio Berrugi, bass Michele Pertusi. 

ERNANI
Concert version
Parco Ducale di Parma
Friday September 25, 2020, h. 08.00 pm
Sunday September 27, 2020, h. 08.00 pm
Conductor Michele Mariotti, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini and Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, with Maestro Martino Faggiani. Piero Pretti (Ernani), Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Don Carlo), Eleonora Buratto (Elvira), Roberto Tagliavini (Don Ruy de Silva), Paolo Antognetti (Don Riccardo), Federico Benetti (Jago), Carlotta Vichi (Giovanna).

CARAVAN VERDIANO, LA TRAVIATA
Piazzale Picelli, Parma: Saturday September 12 2020, h. 4.00 pm and h. 06.00 and Sunday September 13 2020, h. 11.00 am and h. 04.00 pm
Piazza Verdi, Busseto: Saturday September 2020, h. 04.00 and h. 06.00 and Sunday September 20 2020, h. 04.00 and h. 06.00
Piazza Guareschi, Zibello: Saturday September 26 2020, h. 04.00 and h. 06.00
The Opera travels through the spaces of the Theatre, bringing its stories and music face to face with the public: the new project of the Verdi Caravan Festival opens with the opera "La traviata, Lo spirito di Violetta", in the enchantment of a small mobile theatre with the sets and costumes of Aurelio Colombo and the direction and dramaturgy of Manuel Renga. The opera is narrated by an actor and an actress of the Teatro del Cerchio company and sung by the voices of three soloists, soprano, tenor and bass, accompanied by the piano, who will perform the most famous arias, taking it to the squares of the cities of the territory.

SINFONIC CONCERT CONDUCTED BY VALERIJ GERGIEV
Parco Ducale di Parma
Friday October 2 2020, h. 08.00 pm
Valerij Gergiev conducts Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna with Ouverture del Guillaume Tell by Gioachino Rossini, Sinfonia n.4 in la maggiore, op.90 (“Italiana”) by Felix Mendelssohn, Sinfonia of La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi, Sinfonia n.5, in mi minore, op. 64 by Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij.

QUARTETTO IN MI MINORE
Teatro Regio di Parma
Saturday October 3 2020, h. 08.00 pm
The only chamber music composition in Verdi's catalogue, the Quartetto in E minor will be performed at the Teatro Regio in Parma.

LETTERALMENTE VERDI
with LUIGI LO CASCIO and QUARTETTO LEONARDO
Teatro Regio di Parma
Tuesday October 6 2020, h. 08.30 pm
and
RIGOLETTO, LA NOTTE DELLA MALEDIZIONE 
with MARCO BALIANI and i FILARMONICI DI BUSSETO
Teatro Regio di Parma
Friday October 9 2020, h. 08.30 pm
Two new commissions at the Teatro Regio di Parma are realized by the Società dei Concerti di Parma, for AroundVerdi the section of the Festival where the Maestro's work and words meet other ways of communication.

GALA VERDIANO
Teatro Regio di Parma
Saturday October 10 2020, h. 08.00 pm, 207th Giuseppe Verdi's Birthday
Luca Salsi, accompanied on piano by Milo Martani, is the protagonist of the Gala Verdiano that closes the 20th Festival Verdi and the celebrations in honor of Giuseppe Verdi's 207th birthday, on October 10 at the Teatro Regio in Parma. The programme of the recital is dedicated to the most beautiful opera arias and romances by Giuseppe Verdi, interspersed with Verdi's virtuoso piano paraphrases inspired by Franz Liszt and Giuseppe Martucci. The celebrations for the Maestro's birthday will open as usual at 11.30 a.m. with the Ceremony in honour of Verdi that will take place in Piazzale della Pace at the Monument named after him, with the participation of the city's institutions and associations and with the Va pensiero sung by the Choir of the Teatro Regio di Parma and the Corale Verdi conducted by Martino Faggiani.

VERDI SOTTO CASA
Streets, Courtyards, Squares in Parma
Saturday September 2020, h. 080.00 pm, Verdi Off opening night
The fifth edition of Verdi Off, scheduled from September 12 to October 11, 2020 in this special year will particularly enrich the Verdi Festival with new and unpredictable ideas and themes and spectacular forms, which this year will be even closer to the community, with one-to-one events in the streets, courtyards, neighborhoods in the center and suburbs. It starts on Saturday, September 12 with Verdi sotto Casa: 100 artists (singers, dancers, musicians) will go under the houses, palaces, courtyards, hospitals and prisons to sing and interpret the most famous Verdi arias, concluding their performance singing together with the audience overlooking the balconies the Va pensiero. The complete programme of Verdi Off will be presented at the beginning of September.

REQUIEM AND GALA IN THE CITY
Requiem Mass and Gala Verdi will be broadcast on large screens in the city squares, so that a wider audience can enjoy them.

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