Tribute to Verdi operas and other Italian classics
It will be an evening focusing on the best music that Italy and its composers have to offer at the Concerto all’Italiana, with opera singer baritone Orazio Mori giving his own Omaggio a Giuseppe Verdi to celebrate the 200th anniversary from his...
It will be an evening focusing on the best music that Italy and its composers have to offer at the Concerto all’Italiana, with opera singer baritone Orazio Mori giving his own Omaggio a Giuseppe Verdi to celebrate the 200th anniversary from his birth.
Mori will perform the arias Pari Siamo and Cortigiani Vil Razza Dannata from Rigoletto; Morte di Rodrigo from Don Carlo; Pietà, Rispetto, Amore from Macbeth; and Eri Tu from Un Ballo in Maschera.
The curtain-raiser will be the Preludio from Verdi’s La Traviata, performed by Mori’s daughter, pianist Debora Mori.
The programme includes other famous Italian songs and selections from popular operettas, such as Ti Voglio Tanto Bene and Non Ti Scordar di Me, both by Ernesto De Curtis; Lolita – Serenata Spagnola, by Arturo Buzzi-Peccia; Reginella by Libero Bovio; Musica Proibita, by Stanislao Gastaldon; Parlami d’amore Mariù and Lucciole Vagabonde by Cesare Andrea Bixio; Voglio Vivere Così by Giovanni D’Anzi and Chitarra Romana by Eldo Di Lazzaro.
The second part is dedicated to operetta, with selections from works such as La Duchessa del Bal Tabarin, La Principessa della Czarda, Addio Giovinezza, Il Paese Dei Campanelli, La Danza delle Libellule and more.
The gran finale will include lively selections from The White Horse Inn and The Merry Widow. The concluding encore will be a trip through Italy’s most famous melodies from various regions (Rome, Naples, Milan, Romagna and Florence).
Concerto all’Italiana is presented by Fiesole Artistic Productions in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and the Embassy of Italy on June 1 at the Manoel Theatre, Valletta, at 7.30pm.
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