Virtuosi! Theo Fouchenneret & Ryoko Yano
Az eseményről
In an avant‐premiere of La Traviata at the end of the month, violinist Ryoko Yano takes you into the Verdian opera through a hidden door with that second human voice, the violin.
When you think of music in Italy, you think of opera and Verdi, who at the time of the Risorgimento (the struggle to unite Italy at the end of the 19th century) became its living symbol, the titular figure in which the people recognised the best of themselves. In the opera houses of Venice, Rome and Milan, the cry of “Viva Verdi” rang out. In the opening scene of Senso, the Italian film maker Luchino Visconti shows the people shouting “Viva Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy”, thus creating a cryptogrammic connection between the composer dearest to the hearts of Italians and the Piedmontese monarch who fought against Austrian domination and was called to the throne. Verdi was personally highly involved in these movements, a commitment that would lead him to a seat as deputy in the first Italian parliament. With his popular trilogy (Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata), he became the most famous living composer in Italy, or even the world.
If the name of Verdi is known to everyone, even to those who are not regulars at the opera, it is also thanks to the many musicians – unknown or famed, such as Liszt – whose transcriptions succeeded in bringing his airs to music salons, grand hotels and concert halls.
