Four hands at the Opera concerts

“Quattro mani all’Opera…..”
“Four hands at the Opera”

Friday, 19 July 2013 at 19.30
Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta
Jalan HOS Cokroaminoto 117, Menteng
Jakarta 10310

The program is entirely devoted to the four most famous Italian opera composers of the nineteenth century: Rossini, Verdi, Donizetti, Puccini, and features 4 Fantasies taken from their most popular and famous works.
The spectacular concert of great emotional impact is an exciting and joyful celebration of the Italian music and melodrama, which is perhaps the most typical expression of the Italian culture throughout the world.
On the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, the program has been further enriched with the Overture taken from “Forza del Destino” and with his only two piano solos found so far: “Romance sans paroles”,rarely performed, a short and inspired page of an intimate nature and in an unequivocally Verdi’s style; and “Waltz in F Maj”, used and orchestrated a century later by Nino Rota for the famous scene of the Grand Ball in the movie “the Leopard” by Luchino Visconti. The aim of this chamber music concert is to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of the great Master fromBusseto and in the meantimeto add the prestigious figure of Luchino Visconti in a performance dedicated to the excellence of Italian art and culture.

Music Program

G. Donizetti “Lucia di Lammermoor”

G. Verdi “Romanza senza parole”(piano solo)

G. Verdi “La Traviata”

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G. Rossini “Barbiere di Siviglia”

G. Puccini “Tosca”

G. Verdi“Valzer in Fa”(piano solo)

G. Verdi“La Forza del Destino”(Overture)

Luciano Bellini has realized all the musical arrangements and four-hands piano transcriptions, dedicating them to “DuoPianisticoItaliano” and to anyone who wishes to explore the kaleidoscopic world of the nineteenth century Italian Opera.

Limited seats

Reservation 021 3927531-2

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