Thursday, February 6th the Experimental Cinematography Centre organizes at the Cinema Trevi in Rome the tribute to the actor Arnoldo Foa, who died on January 11, titled The Voice and the Cinema: Arnoldo Foa film actor.

Actor of film, television and theater, multi-talented artist has also dedicated himself to painting, poetry and sculpture. It was his voice which, in 1945 , made the announcement of the end of the Second World War. We wanted to remember him not only with the screening of two films, at 17.00 Ettore Scola’s People of Rome (2003), and at 18.45 Vittorio Cottafavi’s The Hundred Knights  (1964 ), but also with the presentation of a recently published book – at 21.00 – Alessandro Ticozzi’s “The Voice and the Cinema: Arnoldo Foa film actor” and with the documentary At least I Fo…à (2007) directed by Alan Bacchelli and Lorenzo Degl’Innocenti.

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“He was a master with a smile: it made you feel like you’re just you, the center of his attention.

With anyone, and especially with the orchestra: it was almost impossible to subtract him – after the concert – to the rite of staying with his musicians. But if I can draw on my own memories, I choose this: he had a house in Engadine, Val Fex, a place where you can not go by car, a sublime beauty, wisely protected. He said, “I get up in the morning and I want to give the cows down there under the windows, with their bells.”

For a seventh after his death, in Milan, eight thousand people in Piazza della Scala for the last farewell to Maestro Abbado.

A crowd moved and silently gathered to hear the notes of the Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim who performed inside the theatre the Funeral March from the third Eroica Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven. For the occasion, the theatre was empty and the doors open. Playing the Eroica is a tradition that is repeated for the Masters of the orchestra for over half a century. Rang in 1957 to bid farewell to Arturo Toscanini , under the direction of De Save, followed in 1967 by Victor De Sabata, with the orchestra without a conductor, Gianandrea Gavazzeni in 1996, under the direction of Maestro Muti, and in 2005 Carlo Maria Giulivi with the direction of Myung Whun Chung. In Milan, a crowd has seen this sort of secular funeral, from famous faces such as Mayor Pisapia and Stéphane Lissner, superintendent of the Teatro alla Scala (theatre where Abbado was music director for 18 years), with all other citizens flocked to give a final farewell to their fellow citizen .

We join the outrage and concern for the repugnant and offensive intimidation that the Italian Jewish Community received on the day of the Shabbat,

in the words of the historian Norman Cohn, “A grossly misleading conception of the world has been able to express murder and torture beyond imagination. It was a historical model of psychopathology collective whose deeper implications transcend anti-Semitism and the fate of the Jews.”

Those who believed naively that anti-Semitism was over were wrong. The Judeophobia is still rampant, we must fight the most ancient history of prejudice against a people and a culture. 

We are here. 

Paola Severini Melograni

Angelipress.com and International Committee of Viva Toscanini 

The following is the full text of the interview with Maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti exit the Corriere di Siena on Thursday January 16.

Interview of Maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti Reflections on the future of the Academy Chigiana

“An artistic director of international fame and a lot of imagination”

SIENA – In the uncertainty of the future of the Monte dei Paschi Foundation is natural to think that the Academy will Chigi, the Sienese jewel par excellence who currently have to choose a new artistic director. We spoke with the teacher Gialuigi Gelmetti, fresh from triumphant success for the opening of the season at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, which took place on 9 January, with the Ballo in Maschera by Verdi.

“It is not for me to say – comments Gelmetti – but in fact I would say the response was total. After the seats were all sold out until the final act. This, along with the cheers of the audience and the critics are the things that gratify most interpreters and repay the labors. “

It was the same successful edition with historical scenes of the Samaritans, which opened in 2011, the Verdi Festival in Parma ?

“Yes, the singers were changed, then it is very good today, but this time in the company of singers were several alumni of the Chigi who had participated in my classes when we had made the final events like Cinderella by Rossini, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, Tosca, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica by Puccini, Verdi’s La Traviata… good times . “

We seem to hear a note of regret in his voice …

“Over the past few years due to lack of funds was cut the Opera. Past few years due to lack of was cut the Opera, which had become almost a constant at Chigi. We did concerts and events interesting, but the opera was particularly important. The work is a crucial part of our culture.”

What can you tell us the current situation of the Chigi ?

“I have not had the opportunity to speak with the president Mansi, which I know is working with passion for the continuity of the Academy, so I can not venture opinions on the subject. Shaking times, however, and must take urgent decisions.”

It refers to the appointment of the artistic director?

“No, at least not alone: I think quite a clear setting and the redefinition of the identity of Chigi. Chigi This is one of the most important musical institutions and recognized throughout the world, then it is desirable to entrust it to someone who has an international reputation but also fantasy, organizational skills and leadership experience. Simultaneously, we must keep in mind that Siena is a reality apart and can not be ignored by the Sienese`’. should then know the city well, love it and make it participatory and protagonist of the identity of Chigi.”

The economic crisis will be conditioning.

“Of course, but we learned that if, as a result of the crisis, there is contained on themselves, is the end. Should be certainly make savings and pay attention to the financial statements, but not only, It must draw on other economic realities but above all react with creativity and imagination.”

She insists on the concept of ” fantasy.”

“It’s true: in my imagination it will be crucial for the future of the Chigi. Sienese context , such as the world has changed a lot and we can not ignore it. When I arrived boy for the first time at Chigi, with a scholarship of the count was the 1960s. would be unthinkable that everything remained as it was then. present and future are rooted in the past, should certainly not be rigidly constrained. should however be studied, analyzed, interpreted and reinterpreted in different context. ends this year with the long management of Bennici, we take the good things that gave us proiettiamoci and in the future. economic crisis is not necessarily negative, can be a stimulus and a challenge. As the hypothesis of Siena Capital of Culture: I hope with all my heart that those responsible have clear the importance of the Chigi has in the world and what could be crucial.”

His courses have always been a great success.

“Thank you but not only mine. Regarding the course of Conducting however last year we broke all records with over a hundred applications for registration.”

The Future engagements ?

“I will replace Claudio Abbado unfortunately indisposed, on tour with the Orchestra Mozart and Maurice Pollini as soloist. So the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo which are artistic and musical director, the Capitol of Toulouse with the two Foscari, still Trieste Traviata, concerts in the courtyard of the palace in Monte Carlo and then finally . . Siena.”

B.M.

Among the four senators for life appointed by the Head of State August 30, 2013, Claudio Abbado was certainly the one that most of all deserved it.

For two reasons: the first concerns his “italianità” that had brought him to represent the best of our country all over the world, and the second reason was his generosity among the greatest interpreters of Italian music these past fifty years, Abbado was probably one who has done more for young people through its commitment to enhancing and promoting the work of the Master Abreu in the favelas, and through his enthusiasm to build and launch the youth orchestras .

Born in 1933 into a family of musicians, was formed in some of the most prestigious musical contexts of Italy and Europe, making his debut in 1959 in Trieste as a symphonic conductor, and giving way to a flourishing career. He was director of La Scala from 1968 to 1986, and during those years helped to revolutionize the programming of the theater, giving new emphasis to authors and works less heard. During his tenure, in 1972 , ushered in the Concerts for students and workers, confirming once again his desire to bring classical music to all levels of society .

From 1971 he was also the principal conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic from 1979 to 1987 and music director of the London Symphony Orchestra. Her unstoppable career has touched the Staatsoper in Vienna, 1986-1991 , and the Berliner Philharmoniker, 1989-2002. Since 2004 he has been music director and artistic Mozart Orchestra of Bologna.

Paola Severini Melograni, the staff of the International Committee Angelipress.com and Viva Toscanini join the pain for this immense loss .

The Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, this evening at 21.00, hosts the pre-Christmas concert of the Chamber Orchestra of Ravenna directed by Paolo Manetti, who will also attend the young pianist from Cosenza, Maria Perrotta, who will play the Fourth Concerto in sol major, Op. 58 by Beethoven.

The pianist , winner of the 2008 award Encore! Shura Cherkassky , has prevailed to the public and critics in January 2012 for a performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations . The live album of this performance won the 5 Stelle Award of the magazines Amadeus, Musica, Suonare News and the Critics Award in 2012 sponsored by the magazine Musica & Dischi, chosen through a referendum between one hundred music critics.

Maria Perrotta has dedicated a lot of time to the music of Beethoven, in fact it was released recently by the english label Decca, the CD containing his live performance of the last three Beethoven sonatas .

The next round of Perrotta will be on January 21, 2014 at the Teatro Rossini in Lugo (RA) in the programme some of the most famous songs by Chopin, including the Third Sonata in si minore, Op. 58 that will close the evening.

For further information visit http://www.teatroalighieri.org/ and http://www.teatrorossini.it

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It will be inaugurated this evening in Milan, the Italian Diagnostic Center, prima donnas – The heroines of Verdi lovers, victims, misled, the exhibition organized by the Accademia Teatro alla Scala with support from the Bracco Foundation in collaboration with the CDI, which this year proposes the characters of Violetta, Desdemona, Elizabeth and Amelia.

After the great success in 2012 with Puccini’s women, this year is a tribute to the composer turned to Busseto, in the year that celebrates the bicentennial .

The costumes offered to the public have been rebuilt for the occasion by the students of the course for tailors the show, starting from sketches made by some of the most beautiful signatures illustration and scenography Italian nineteenth and twentieth centuries .

To accompany the exhibition, numerous photographs illustrating the process of creation of clothes – from design to appear on pattern , from prototype to cut up the package – documenting the work precious and refined young students learn daily La Scala under the guidance of professionals the Teatro alla Scala, and those of historical exhibitions, at the same theater, evoked by the exhibition of the same works, images courtesy of Archivio Fotografico Scala.

The works will be on display until March 31, 2014 with free admission .

Info: Prime Donne. The heroines of Verdi lovers, victims and misguided

From December 16 2013 to 31 March 2014

CDI Italian Diagnostic Center

Milan, Via Simone Saint Bon , 20

From Monday to Friday from 7.30 to 19.00

On 13 December at 20:30 debuted at the Verona Philharmonic Don Pasquale by Donizetti, conducted by Omer Meir Wellber, directed by Antonio Albanian, scenes by Leila Fteita and costumes by Elizabeth Gabbioneta.

The opera in three acts, which immediately reveals his comic spirit, tells a story ageless and timeless, an elderly man who falls in love with a girl.

The protagonists of the representation are the bass Simone Alaimo in the role of Don Pasquale, the baritone Mario Cassi in the role of Malatesta, Norina the protagonist is played by Russian soprano Irina Lungu and the tenor Francesco Demuro as Ernesto.

The show will repeat Sunday 15, Tuesday 17, Thursday 19 and Sunday 22 of December.

For further informations visit http://www.arena.it

Sergio, dreamy provincial and student of classical literature, left for the military service with a backpack full of books and discouraged certainty of losing a year of life. And instead.

In Albenga meets the eccentric Marcello, avid music lover, Callas iron. For Sergio begins a formidable and accelerated education to music and singing , which continues with the attendance of the Marcello family, especially his uncle Marzio Giuffrida, tenor acclaimed, and his wife Glo, soprano without talent.

Against the backdrop of a large villa in the heart of Milan move oblique characters, rowdy, poisonous. Scapegoat of the follies of the family Giuffrida seems the poor dog, Titus, subject to the daily abuse of Glo and teenage daughter Vanna. Sergio, until then fiercely cinofobo is lit on the road to Damascus by the innate goodness of Titus and becomes the champion of freedom and salvation of the poor dog. From here forward, up and down devastating acute screams out of tune, the story unfolds doubt, mysteries, betrayals and surprises.

Fauci, Nicola Gardini, Feltrinelli 2013, p. 192 € 16,00 .

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