Bologna Festival: Galà Lirico
Bologna, Cortile dell’Archiginnasio
About the Event
A play of masks and emotions: the wit and energy of Rossini’s characters from Il barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola the tenderness and deception of L’elisir d’amore the extreme passions of Lucia di Lammermoor and, finally, the suspended, idealised love of Faust and Juliette. Arias, duets and trios—entrusted to three rising revelations of operatic singing—follow one another like scenes in a single theatrical fresco, where vocal individuality is constantly intertwined with action and introspection: the last radiant gleams of bel canto projected towards its glorious metamorphosis in nineteenth‐century Italian opera.
In collaboration with the “Maria Callas” Accademia Lirico Interpretativa.
PROGRAMME
Opera Gala
Gioachino Rossini: “Largo al factotum” — Figaro’s aria from Il barbiere di Siviglia (Tomohiro Nomachi, baritone)
Gioachino Rossini: “Principe più non sei – Sì, ritrovarla io giuro” — Don Ramiro’s aria from La Cenerentola (Ling Nie, tenor)
Gioachino Rossini: “Una voce poco fa – Io sono docile” — Rosina’s aria from Il barbiere di Siviglia (Alessandra Rizzini, soprano)
Gaetano Donizetti: “Di tua beltade immagine” — Severo’s cavatina from Poliuto (Tomohiro Nomachi, baritone)
Giuseppe Verdi: “Signor né principe” — duet for Gilda and the Duke from Rigoletto (Alessandra Rizzini, Ling Nie)
Gioachino Rossini: “Zitti, zitti, piano, piano” — trio for Rosina, the Count and Figaro from Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rizzini / Nie / Nomachi)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Hai già vinta la causa! – Vedrò, mentr’io sospiro” — the Count’s aria from Le nozze di Figaro (Tomohiro Nomachi, baritone)
Gaetano Donizetti: “Benedette queste carte – Della crudele Isotta” — Adina’s aria from L’elisir d’amore (Alessandra Rizzini, soprano)
Charles Gounod: “Salut! demeure chaste et pure” — Faust’s cavatina from Faust (Ling Nie, tenor)
Gaetano Donizetti: “Appressati, Lucia – Il pallor funesto orrendo” — duet for Lucia and Enrico from Lucia di Lammermoor (Rizzini / Nomachi)
Gaetano Donizetti: “Una furtiva lagrima” — Nemorino’s aria from L’elisir d’amore (Ling Nie, tenor)
Charles Gounod: “Je veux vivre” — Juliette’s aria from Roméo et Juliette (Alessandra Rizzini, soprano)
Gaetano Donizetti: “Tran tran” — trio for Adina, Nemorino and Belcore from L’elisir d’amore (Rizzini / Nie / Nomachi)
Cast / Production
Alessandra Rizzini, soprano
Ling Nie, tenor
Tomohiro Nomachi, baritone
Samuele Piccinini, piano
Address
Cortile dell’Archiginnasio, Piazza Galvani 1, Bologna, Italy — Google Maps
