(c) Opera e lirica srls New Year's Day Concert in Rome: The Three Tenors
Rome, Chiesa Evangelica Metodista — Main Hall
About the Event
The Opera e Lirica Three Tenors Alessandro Fortunato, Francesco Fortes and Stefano Sorrentino from the most prestigious italian theaters, accompanied by a string quartet and piano, will perform a special programme of Opera Arias, Christmas Songs and New Year’s Eve typical Waltzes. Get ready to experience an unforgettable New Year's Day by letting yourself be carried away by the sublime voices of the Three Tenors with an unparalleled repertoire inside the beautiful Chiesa Evangelica Metodista XIX century palace particularly significant for its neo‐Renaissance architecture located in the heart of the eternal city.
Program
First Half
Pietro Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo
Gaetano Donizetti, L'Elisir d'amore Una furtiva lagrima
Giacomo Puccini, Tosca E lucevan le stelle
Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto La donna è mobile
Jules Massenet, Thais Intermezzo
Giuseppe Verdi, La Traviata Dei miei bollenti spiriti
Augustìn Lara, Granada
Giacomo Puccini, Turandot Nessun dorma
Second Half
Johan Strauss, Sul Bel Danubio Blu
Christmas songs
Adeste Fideles
Tu scendi dalle stelle
White Christmas
Let it snow
Jingle Bells
War is over
Johan Strauss Marcia di Radetzky
CHIESA EVANGELICA METODISTA
The beautiful Chiesa Evangelica Metodista, now also used as a concert hall, was finished in 1895 and is located in the center of Rome a few steps from Via Nazionale and Porta Pia.
Externally the building is in sixteenth‐century style, in ashlar with high pilasters covering all floors, and several mullioned windows on the ground floor. The entrance portal, preceded by a gate, overlooks Via XX Settembre and is surmounted by a tympanum supported by columns.
The interior of the church has a rectangular plan, with a horseshoe‐shaped women's gallery and a ceiling with circular motifs inserted in panels it is also punctuated by Corinthian style lateral pilasters which rest on a high base, and by round mullioned windows. The pipe organ is the work of Carlo Vegezzi‐Bossi who built it in 1895 electrified in 1980, it has 13 registers on two manuals and pedal.
In 1924 Paolo Paschetto decorated the walls of the church by creating the wonderful internal windows these take up themes and symbols dear to the Christian iconographic tradition, such as the Christogram, the dove, the lily, the lamb, the lamp, the palm, the peacock, the ship, etc. The pulpit was built in 1930.
Practical Information
wheelchair access yes
Cast / Production
Opera e Lirica Artists:
Tenors: Alessandro Fortunato, Francesco Fortes and Stefano Sorrentino
Musicians: Elvin Dhimitri, Ilia Kanani, Alina Scoticailo, Valentino Ferraro, Denis Volpi
Address
Chiesa Evangelica Metodista, Via Firenze, 38, Rome, Italy — Google Maps
