Donizetti Opera: starting on 22nd November with the Inaugural Gala
The Donizetti Opera Festival raises the curtain with its Inaugural Gala starring the belcanto divas Daniela Barcellona and Jessica Pratt
On the podium, the musical director Riccardo Frizza
The concert with the RAI National Orchestra is dedicated to Donizetti and Rossini
Bergamo, Teatro Sociale, Thursday 22nd November, 8.30pm
Up go the lights for the fourth edition of the International Donizetti Opera Festival 2018, which, prepared by the artistic director Francesco Micheli, will involve the public, until 2nd December, in a great celebration of Gaetano Donizetti.
The first event of the festival is the Inaugural Gala on 22nd November, at the Teatro Sociale, at 8.30pm. As well as Donizetti, the event is also dedicated to Rossini, to mark the 150th anniversary of his death. The festival’s musical director, Riccardo Frizza launches the debut in Bergamo on the podium for the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, with the Donizetti Chorus (whose choral master is Fabio Tartari) and a group of exceptional vocal soloists, including the mezzo-soprano Daniela Barcellona and soprano Jessica Pratt (nominated this year as artist in residence of the Festival), with tenors Levy Segkapane and Xabier Anduaga, engaged in roles from ‘Rita’, ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, ‘Don Pasquale’ and ‘La Favorite’, by Donizetti and Tancredi, and ‘Semiramide’, ‘La donna del lago’ and ‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’ by Rossini.
The inauguration will also be an opportunity to present another company that has joined the ‘Ambasciatori di Donizetti’ (Donizetti Ambassadors) project, with Jessica Pratt, during the concert, wearing jewellery by D’orica, a goldsmith’s of excellence from Vicenza. As part of the Donizetti Opera Festival, D’orica will also present its new jewellery collection entitled ‘Treesure’, precious and exclusive items that combine the art of goldsmithery with that of silk entirely produced in Italy. Thus another member joins the group of private citizens and companies that, through Art Bonus, lends its support to the festival, and to the promotion of the community of Gaetano Donizetti’s birthplace.
22nd November 2018
Teatro Sociale
Inaugural Gala
Music by Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti
Soprano Jessica Pratt
Mezzosoprano Daniela Barcellona
Tenore Levy Sekgapane
Tenore Xabier Anduaga
Tenore Matteo Mezzaro
Baritono Riccardo Certi
Basso Luca Tittoto
Conductor Riccardo Frizza
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI
Coro Donizetti Opera
Choirmaster Fabio Tartari
Gioachino Rossini
Tancredi, Sinfonia
“Oh patria! dolce e ingrata patria!” (Tancredi, Atto I) – Daniela Barcellona
Gaetano Donizetti
“Je suis joyeux” (Rita) – Xabier Anduaga
Gioachino Rossini
“O fiamma soave” (La donna del lago, Atto II) – Levy Sekgapane and Choir
Gaetano Donizetti
“Oh giusto cielo!” (Lucia di Lammermoor, Atto III) – Jessica Pratt, Matteo Mezzaro, Riccardo Certi, Luca Tittoto and Choir
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Gioachino Rossini
Semiramide, Sinfonia
“Eccomi alfine in Babilonia” (Semiramide, Atto I) – Daniela Barcellona and Choir
“Cessa di più resistere” (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Atto II) – Levy Sekgapane and Choir
Gaetano Donizetti
Don Pasquale, Ouverture
“Cercherò lontana terra” (Don Pasquale, Atto I) – Xabier Anduaga
La Favorite, Prélude
“L’ai-je bien entendu!” (La Favorite, Atto III) – Daniela Barcellona
