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Giovani Voci All’Opera

This production showcases the talents of the emerging artists who are currently training at the Fondazione Mascarade Opera. Each artist presents a principal role, within scenes from six different operas, tied together into a fully staged devised opera production.

Stage Director Jean-Romain Vesperini

Conductor Maestro Wyn Davies

Orchestra Filarmonica di Firenze - La Filharmonie.

Expect some of your favourite moments by Mozart, Donizetti and Verdi all in one!

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For those who purchase a gala ticket for the Festivalino, the opera will be followed by dinner and dancing in the theatre’s ballroom, which will be transformed into a speakeasy cabaret featuring Daisy’s jazz band.

Programme:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro: Ouverture to end of Act I

Antonio Vivaldi
Bajazet: «Sposa son disprezzata»

Gioachino Rossini
La Cenerentola: Act I «Come un'ape ne' giorni d'aprile» Act II «Un segreto d'importanza»

Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: «Regnava nel silenzio» until the end of Act I

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Entführung aus dem Serail: «Wer ein Liebchen hat gefunden», «Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln», «Ich gehe, doch rate ich dir»

Giuseppe Verdi
Un ballo in maschera: Act III «A tal colpa è nulla il pianto»

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Join us at the Palazzo Corsini al Prato (56 via il Prato, Firenze 50123) for the return of the Mascarade Trio. Following their acclaimed performance of Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du Temps in 2023, the trio - Mascarade Opera's Artistic Director Julia Lynch (piano), Tijmen Huisingh (violin)and Ross Montgomery (clarinet) - will perform a dazzling lunchtime concert as part of the Mascarade Opera Foundation's Festivalino 2024.

Programme

Darius Milhaud
Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Op. 157b

i) Ouverture

ii) Divertissement 

iii) Jeu

iv) Introduction et Finale

G. C. Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti
Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano

i) Capriccio, allegro

ii) Romanza, andante espressivo 

iii) Envoi, allegro

Francis Poulenc
Novelette no. 3 in E minor, FP 173

Julia Lynch, Piano

Francis Poulenc
L'invitation au château, FP 138

i) Act I

ii) Act II: Valse brillante

iii) Act II: Mouvement de valse hésitation

iv) Act II: Valse des petites taupes

v) Act III: Valse brillante 

vi) Act III: Tempo di Boston

vii) Act III: Tango

viii) Act III: Mouvement de valse hésitation

ix) Act III: Moderato

x) Act III: Appassionato

xi) Act III: Trés vite et trés canaille 

xii) Act III: Tempo di tarantella 

xiii) Act III: Polka finale

xiv) Act III: Presto

xv) Act III: Follement vite et gai

Igor Stravinskiy
Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet

Ross Montgomery, Clarinet

Igor Stravinskiy
L'histoire de soldat: Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano

i) Marche du soldat

ii) Le violon du soldat 

iii) Petit Concert 

iv) Tango - Valse - Ragtime

v) Danse du diable

The concert will start at 12:00 noon and will last approximately 60 minutes.

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* The ticket gives you access to the Fondazione from 11.00am, including the offer of a glass of wine.

Please arrive no later than 10 minutes before to access the concert hall, the doors close at 12pm.

For the full programme of the FESTIVALINO 2024

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The gala production Simbiosi will be staged by the remarkable company 'Reunited in Dance', a star-studded ensemble of dancers impacted by the war in Ukraine. Led by Xander Parish OBE, a former principal dancer at the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg, the company features Russian and Ukrainian dancers who were previously part of Russia’s most elite dance companies. Simbiosi hopes to show that dialogue and reconciliation can still be found in dance and art.

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Visit the Fondazione Mascarade Opera for an opera recital of the most loved arias and duets from the classical and belcanto repertoire of Rossini, Donizetti, Mozart inspired by the bloom of spring.

Artists:
Luiza Willert, soprano
Sarah Hakobyan, mezzosoprano
Yuchen Pan, tenore
William Desbiens, baritono

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The concert will start at 7pm and will last about 60 minutes.

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* The ticket gives you access to the Fondazione from 6pm, including the offer of a glass of wine.

Please arrive no later than 10 minutes before to access the concert hall, the doors close at 7pm.

The Giovani Voci alla Fenice gala presents the artists of the Mascarade Opera programme, among the most exciting young voices in Europe.

Giovani Voci alla Fenice offers you the opportunity to listen to the stars of tomorrow in a program of some of the most beautiful arias in the repertoire together with the Teatro La Fenice Orchestra, conducted for the occasion by Maestra Gianna Fratta.

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Programme:

Gioachino Rossini
L’Italiana in Algeri: Ouverture

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: «Madamina, il catalogo è questo»

Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: «Regnava nel silenzio»

Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: «O figli! O figli miei… Ah la paterna mano»

Gaetano Donizetti
Roberto Devereux: «All’afflitto è dolce il pianto»

Alfredo Catalani
La Wally: «Ebben? Ne andrò lontana»

Gioachino Rossini
La Cenerentola: «Come un’ape ne giorni d’aprile»
«Un segreto d’importanza»

Gaetano Donizetti
Don Pasquale: «Pronta io son»

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Così fan tutte: «Il core vi dono»

Giacomo Puccini
Madama Butterfly: «Un bel dì vedremo»
Manon Lescaut: intermezzo atto III
Madama Butterfly: «Scoti quella fronda di ciliegio… Tutti fior»

Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: «Un dì, se ben rammentomi… Bella figlia dell’amore»

Mascarade Emerging Artists
Caterina Meldolesi, Luiza Willert soprano
Aebh Kelly mezzosoprano
Xavier Hetherington* tenor
Daniils Kuzmins baritono
Hovhannes Karapetyan basso-baritono

*Mascarade alumnus

Conductor M Gianna Fratta
La Fenice Orchestra

This concert is generously supported by Charles & Caroline Pridgeon.

Werther and Don Giovanni present two contrasting faces of unbridled passion as they come to be undone by the love of one and none.

Programme:

Jules Massenet, Werther, Atto III
Charlotte Sarah Hakobyan
Sophie Luiza Willert
Werther Yuchen Pan
Piano Megumi Hata
Conductor Avishka Edirisinghe

W. A. Mozart, Don Giovanni, Atto I, Scena 5
Donna Elvira Caterina Meldolesi
Don Giovanni Daniils Kuzmins
Leporello Hovhannes Karapetyan
Zerlina Luiza Willert
Masetto Gabriel Fortunas
Piano Avishka Edirisinghe

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Stage Director: Federico Grazzini

Music Director: Jonathon Cole-Swinard

The concert will start at 7pm and will last about 60 minutes.

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* The ticket gives you access to the Fondazione from 6pm, including the offer of a glass of wine.

Please arrive no later than 10 minutes before to access the concert hall, the doors close at 7pm.

Artists:

Sarah Hakobyan, mezzosoprano
Luiza Willert, soprano
Caterina Meldolesi, soprano
Yuchen Pan, tenor
Hovhannes Karapetyan, bass-baritone
Daniils Kuzmins, baritone
William Desbiens, baritone
Avishka Ederisinghe, piano
Megumi Hata, piano

Programme:

Hansel und Gretel, Humperdinck
Erstes Bild “Suse, liebe Suse”

La Bohème, Puccini
Act I “Questo mar rosso”
Act I “Chi è là?...” until the end of act

Hansel und Gretel, Humperdinck
“Der kleine Sandmann bin ich”
“Evening Prayer”

Die Lustige Witwe, Lehar
“Vilja”
“Lippen Schweigen”

Die Fledermaus, Strauss
“Champagne chorus”
“Brüderlein”
The concert will start at 7pm and will last about 60 minutes.

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* The ticket gives you access to the Fondazione from 6pm, including the offer of a glass of wine.

The concert starts at 7pm.

Please arrive no later than 10 minutes before to access the concert hall, the doors close at 7pm.