Emma Alessi Innocenti

"San Filippo Neri" Oratorio - A. Scarlatti | Festival del '700 Musicale Napoletano
2025-12-28 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Rome) | Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, Via Portamedina, 41, Naples, NA, 80134, Italy
Festival «18th Century Apotheosis of Naples, Capital of Music»
promoted by the Domenico Scarlatti Association

San Filippo Neri
Oratorio in two parts for 4 voices with Instruments, Rome, 1705.
Music by Alessandro Scarlatti – Libretto by Pietro Ottoboni

Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Advanced course in Baroque singing. Teacher: Sara Mingardo

San Filippo Roberto Manuel Zangari tenor
Carità Maddalena De Biasi soprano
Fede Emma Alessi Innocenti mezzo-soprano
Speranza Zoreslava Vynnyk alto

Orchestra da Camera di Napoli
conductor Enzo Amato

The Oratorio San Filippo Neri, composed in Rome in 1705, is a masterpiece by Alessandro Scarlatti with a libretto by Pietro Ottoboni. This emblematic Baroque composition reflects Scarlatti’s extraordinary talent for blending vocal intensity with refined orchestration, engaging in an open artistic dialogue with the great European masters of his era. The four soloists embody powerful Christian allegorical characters: Roberto Manuel Zangari gives voice to St. Philip, Maddalena de Biasi interprets Charity, Zoreslava Vynnyk lends her alto voice to Faith and Emma Alessi Innocenti takes on the role of Hope. The Naples Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Enzo Amato, accompanies the theatrical and spiritual expressions of this work, which embodies the Neapolitan musical tradition and its European influence.
This concert invites audiences to immerse themselves in a reimagined early 18th-century atmosphere, celebrating Alessandro Scarlatti as a pivotal figure in Baroque music and as a bridge between European artistic cultures.

Christmas Concert | Teatro Caio Melisso (Spoleto)
2025-12-17 20:30 - 22:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Caio Melisso, Piazza del Duomo, 4, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto is pleased to invite you to its Christmas Concert 2025, to be held on Wednesday , Dec. 17 , 2025, 8:30 p.m. at the Teatro Caio Melisso in Spoleto.
A moment of reflection, illuminated by the high degree of melodic and polyphonic invention typical of Antonín Dvořák, author of the Symphony from the New World, is followed by a more festive and light-hearted moment at the end of which it will be spontaneous to raise a glass to wish each other Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
It will be possible to purchase tickets on the Ticket Italia website at the following link: https://ticketitalia.com/concerto-di-natale-teatro-caio-melisso-spoleto-17-dicembre-2025. For information: 0743.221645.
Programme
Various Authors, Christmas Carols
Antonín Dvořák
Mass in D major for 4 soloists, choir and organ
for soloists, choir, strings and organ
Conductor, Mauro Presazzi
Beatrice Caterino, soprano
Emma Alessi Innocenti, mezzo-soprano
Joaquin Cangemi, tenor
Nicolò Lauteri, bass

Soloists and Choir of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale

Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Un Concert de Noël | Hortus Harmonicus Festival
2025-12-14 21:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Rome) | Shrine of Montenero, Piazza di Montenero, 9, Livorno, LI, 57128, Italy
I musici del Gran Principe
Samuele Lastrucci, conductor

Lili Aymonino, dessus
Valentina Fin, dessus
Emma Alessi Innocenti, dessus
Gabriel Belkheiri, haute contre
Marco Angioloni, taille
Francesco Masilla, basse
Matteo Saccà, violin
Rossella Pugliano, violin
Giulia Serio, baroque flute
Giuditta Isoldi, baroque flute
Johanna Lopez,
Tommaso Tarsi, theorbo

Programme
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
Antiphona sine organo ad virginem “Sub tuum præsidium”, H. 28
In Assumptione Beata Mariae Virginis, H. 353
Ad beatam Virginem canticum, H. 340
Salve Regina H. 27
Magnificat, H. 73
Litanies de la Vierge, H. 83
Notes to the program
The Marian nucleus presented here offers an exemplary sample of the Charpentierian synthesis between Italian vocabulary learned from Carissimi and elegant French taste. French chapel forms and organics parade in the chosen program, from the bare splendor of the “Antiphona sine organo ad Virginem” H. 28 (Sub tuum praesidium), for three a cappella dessus, to the sweeping fresco of the “In Assumptione Beatae Mariae Virginis” H. 353, where choral and solo invocations, imitative-concert sections alternate episodes of relaxation with litanean refrains. The canticle “Ad beatam Virginem” H. 340 chisels a trio Haute-contre, Taille and Basse with concertante instruments and continuo, in fine timbral balance and affective suspensions. The “Salve Regina” H. 27, is conceived as a solo intermediate entrusted to the soprano voice. The “Magnificat” H. 73 distills the poetics of the male voice trio on chaconne bass, varying the affects between humilitas and exaltatio. The “Litanies de la Vierge” H. 83 closes: chain of invocations according to Parisian praxis, with luminous progressions, persuasive modulations and wide-ranging devotional culmination.
Free admission subject to availability

Le Nozze di Figaro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-09-23 20:00 - 2025-09-24 23:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Comunale of Todi, Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 15, Todi, PG, 06059, Italy
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season 2025 ends with a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This masterpiece, which premiered in Vienna in 1786, is a comedy of intrigue and deception that lays bare a dizzying, deeply human gallery of feelings and moods. The latter aspect distinguishes it from its source, the drama of the same name contained in Beaumarchais’ Figaro Trilogy, which is more devoted to the reasons for biting social and political criticism.After Don Giovanni (2022), the staging of Mozart’s Dapontian Trilogy thus continues. The performance is conducted by Marco Angius, the direction and sets are by Henning Brockhaus, for a production marked by the theme of eroticism as a key to self-consciousness and knowledge of the world. Costumes are by Giancarlo Colis.
The opera will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto (Sept. 12, 13, 14: performances open to the public; Sept. 15 and 16: performances for schools) and at main theaters in the Umbria region: Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia (Sept. 18), Politeama Clarici in Foligno (Sept. 20); Teatro degli Illuminati in Città di Castello (Sept. 21), Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto (Sept. 22); Teatro Comunale in Todi (Sept. 23 and 24).
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction and scenes: Henning Brockhaus
Costumes: Giancarlo Colis
Coreography: Valentina Escobar
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Figaro: Nicolò Lauteri | Mattia Ribba | Marco Gazzini
Susanna: Kristýna Kůstková | Eleonora Benetti | Sara Di Santo | Gaia Cardinale
Contessa: Lorena Cesaretti | Giorgia Costantino | Francesca Paoletti | Viktoriia Balan
Conte: Andrea Ariano | Marco Guarini | Stepan Polishchuk
Cherubino: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione | Francesca Mercuriali
Marcellina: Elena Finelli | Chiara Latini
Bartolo/Antonio: Sathya Gangale | Davide Romeo
Basilio/Don Curzio: Nicola Di Filippo | Joaquin Echave Cangemi
Barbarina: Beatrice Caterino | Ariadna Vilardaga
Calamani Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Choir and Technicians del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
23 and 24 September | 8:00 pm
Teatro Comunale, Todi (PG)

Le Nozze di Figaro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-09-22 16:30 - 20:00 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Mancinelli, Corso Cavour, 122, Orvieto, TR, 05018, Italy
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season 2025 ends with a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This masterpiece, which premiered in Vienna in 1786, is a comedy of intrigue and deception that lays bare a dizzying, deeply human gallery of feelings and moods. The latter aspect distinguishes it from its source, the drama of the same name contained in Beaumarchais’ Figaro Trilogy, which is more devoted to the reasons for biting social and political criticism.After Don Giovanni (2022), the staging of Mozart’s Dapontian Trilogy thus continues. The performance is conducted by Marco Angius, the direction and sets are by Henning Brockhaus, for a production marked by the theme of eroticism as a key to self-consciousness and knowledge of the world. Costumes are by Giancarlo Colis.
The opera will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto (Sept. 12, 13, 14: performances open to the public; Sept. 15 and 16: performances for schools) and at main theaters in the Umbria region: Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia (Sept. 18), Politeama Clarici in Foligno (Sept. 20); Teatro degli Illuminati in Città di Castello (Sept. 21), Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto (Sept. 22); Teatro Comunale in Todi (Sept. 23 and 24).
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction and scenes: Henning Brockhaus
Costumes: Giancarlo Colis
Coreography: Valentina Escobar
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Figaro: Nicolò Lauteri | Mattia Ribba | Marco Gazzini
Susanna: Kristýna Kůstková | Eleonora Benetti | Sara Di Santo | Gaia Cardinale
Contessa: Lorena Cesaretti | Giorgia Costantino | Francesca Paoletti | Viktoriia Balan
Conte: Andrea Ariano | Marco Guarini | Stepan Polishchuk
Cherubino: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione | Francesca Mercuriali
Marcellina: Elena Finelli | Chiara Latini
Bartolo/Antonio: Sathya Gangale | Davide Romeo
Basilio/Don Curzio: Nicola Di Filippo | Joaquin Echave Cangemi
Barbarina: Beatrice Caterino | Ariadna Vilardaga
Calamani Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Choir and Technicians del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
22 September | 4:30 pm
Teatro Mancinelli, Orvieto (TR)

Le Nozze di Figaro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-09-21 16:30 - 20:00 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro degli Illuminati, Via Fucci, 12, Citta di Castello, PG, 06012, Italy
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season 2025 ends with a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This masterpiece, which premiered in Vienna in 1786, is a comedy of intrigue and deception that lays bare a dizzying, deeply human gallery of feelings and moods. The latter aspect distinguishes it from its source, the drama of the same name contained in Beaumarchais’ Figaro Trilogy, which is more devoted to the reasons for biting social and political criticism.After Don Giovanni (2022), the staging of Mozart’s Dapontian Trilogy thus continues. The performance is conducted by Marco Angius, the direction and sets are by Henning Brockhaus, for a production marked by the theme of eroticism as a key to self-consciousness and knowledge of the world. Costumes are by Giancarlo Colis.
The opera will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto (Sept. 12, 13, 14: performances open to the public; Sept. 15 and 16: performances for schools) and at main theaters in the Umbria region: Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia (Sept. 18), Politeama Clarici in Foligno (Sept. 20); Teatro degli Illuminati in Città di Castello (Sept. 21), Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto (Sept. 22); Teatro Comunale in Todi (Sept. 23 and 24).
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction and scenes: Henning Brockhaus
Costumes: Giancarlo Colis
Coreography: Valentina Escobar
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Figaro: Nicolò Lauteri | Mattia Ribba | Marco Gazzini
Susanna: Kristýna Kůstková | Eleonora Benetti | Sara Di Santo | Gaia Cardinale
Contessa: Lorena Cesaretti | Giorgia Costantino | Francesca Paoletti | Viktoriia Balan
Conte: Andrea Ariano | Marco Guarini | Stepan Polishchuk
Cherubino: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione | Francesca Mercuriali
Marcellina: Elena Finelli | Chiara Latini
Bartolo/Antonio: Sathya Gangale | Davide Romeo
Basilio/Don Curzio: Nicola Di Filippo | Joaquin Echave Cangemi
Barbarina: Beatrice Caterino | Ariadna Vilardaga
Calamani Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Choir and Technicians del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
21 September | 4:30 pm
Teatro degli Illuminati, Città di Castello (PG)

Le Nozze di Figaro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-09-20 16:30 - 20:00 (Europe/Rome) | Cinema Politeama Clarici, Via Garibaldi, 147, Foligno, PG, 06034, Italy
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season 2025 ends with a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This masterpiece, which premiered in Vienna in 1786, is a comedy of intrigue and deception that lays bare a dizzying, deeply human gallery of feelings and moods. The latter aspect distinguishes it from its source, the drama of the same name contained in Beaumarchais’ Figaro Trilogy, which is more devoted to the reasons for biting social and political criticism.After Don Giovanni (2022), the staging of Mozart’s Dapontian Trilogy thus continues. The performance is conducted by Marco Angius, the direction and sets are by Henning Brockhaus, for a production marked by the theme of eroticism as a key to self-consciousness and knowledge of the world. Costumes are by Giancarlo Colis.
The opera will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto (Sept. 12, 13, 14: performances open to the public; Sept. 15 and 16: performances for schools) and at main theaters in the Umbria region: Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia (Sept. 18), Politeama Clarici in Foligno (Sept. 20); Teatro degli Illuminati in Città di Castello (Sept. 21), Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto (Sept. 22); Teatro Comunale in Todi (Sept. 23 and 24).
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction and scenes: Henning Brockhaus
Costumes: Giancarlo Colis
Coreography: Valentina Escobar
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Figaro: Nicolò Lauteri | Mattia Ribba | Marco Gazzini
Susanna: Kristýna Kůstková | Eleonora Benetti | Sara Di Santo | Gaia Cardinale
Contessa: Lorena Cesaretti | Giorgia Costantino | Francesca Paoletti | Viktoriia Balan
Conte: Andrea Ariano | Marco Guarini | Stepan Polishchuk
Cherubino: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione | Francesca Mercuriali
Marcellina: Elena Finelli | Chiara Latini
Bartolo/Antonio: Sathya Gangale | Davide Romeo
Basilio/Don Curzio: Nicola Di Filippo | Joaquin Echave Cangemi
Barbarina: Beatrice Caterino | Ariadna Vilardaga
Calamani Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Choir and Technicians del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
20 September | 4:30 pm
Cinema Politeama Clarici, Foligno (PG)

Le Nozze di Figaro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-09-18 09:30 - 23:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Morlacchi, Piazza Francesco Morlacchi, 13, Perugia, PG, 06123, Italy
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season 2025 ends with a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This masterpiece, which premiered in Vienna in 1786, is a comedy of intrigue and deception that lays bare a dizzying, deeply human gallery of feelings and moods. The latter aspect distinguishes it from its source, the drama of the same name contained in Beaumarchais’ Figaro Trilogy, which is more devoted to the reasons for biting social and political criticism.After Don Giovanni (2022), the staging of Mozart’s Dapontian Trilogy thus continues. The performance is conducted by Marco Angius, the direction and sets are by Henning Brockhaus, for a production marked by the theme of eroticism as a key to self-consciousness and knowledge of the world. Costumes are by Giancarlo Colis.
The opera will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto (Sept. 12, 13, 14: performances open to the public; Sept. 15 and 16: performances for schools) and at main theaters in the Umbria region: Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia (Sept. 18), Politeama Clarici in Foligno (Sept. 20); Teatro degli Illuminati in Città di Castello (Sept. 21), Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto (Sept. 22); Teatro Comunale in Todi (Sept. 23 and 24).
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction and scenes: Henning Brockhaus
Costumes: Giancarlo Colis
Coreography: Valentina Escobar
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Figaro: Nicolò Lauteri | Mattia Ribba | Marco Gazzini
Susanna: Kristýna Kůstková | Eleonora Benetti | Sara Di Santo | Gaia Cardinale
Contessa: Lorena Cesaretti | Giorgia Costantino | Francesca Paoletti | Viktoriia Balan
Conte: Andrea Ariano | Marco Guarini | Stepan Polishchuk
Cherubino: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione | Francesca Mercuriali
Marcellina: Elena Finelli | Chiara Latini
Bartolo/Antonio: Sathya Gangale | Davide Romeo
Basilio/Don Curzio: Nicola Di Filippo | Joaquin Echave Cangemi
Barbarina: Beatrice Caterino | Ariadna Vilardaga
Calamani Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Choir and Technicians del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
18 September (show for schools) | 9:30 am
18 September | 8:00 pm
Teatro Morlacchi, Perugia (PG)

Le Nozze di Figaro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-09-12 20:00 - 2025-09-16 12:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, Via Vaita Sant'Andrea, 20, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season 2025 ends with a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This masterpiece, which premiered in Vienna in 1786, is a comedy of intrigue and deception that lays bare a dizzying, deeply human gallery of feelings and moods. The latter aspect distinguishes it from its source, the drama of the same name contained in Beaumarchais’ Figaro Trilogy, which is more devoted to the reasons for biting social and political criticism.After Don Giovanni (2022), the staging of Mozart’s Dapontian Trilogy thus continues. The performance is conducted by Marco Angius, the direction and sets are by Henning Brockhaus, for a production marked by the theme of eroticism as a key to self-consciousness and knowledge of the world. Costumes are by Giancarlo Colis.
The opera will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto (Sept. 12, 13, 14: performances open to the public; Sept. 15 and 16: performances for schools) and at main theaters in the Umbria region: Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia (Sept. 18), Politeama Clarici in Foligno (Sept. 20); Teatro degli Illuminati in Città di Castello (Sept. 21), Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto (Sept. 22); Teatro Comunale in Todi (Sept. 23 and 24).
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction and scenes: Henning Brockhaus
Costumes: Giancarlo Colis
Coreography: Valentina Escobar
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Figaro: Nicolò Lauteri | Mattia Ribba | Marco Gazzini
Susanna: Kristýna Kůstková | Eleonora Benetti | Sara Di Santo | Gaia Cardinale
Contessa: Lorena Cesaretti | Giorgia Costantino | Francesca Paoletti | Viktoriia Balan
Conte: Andrea Ariano | Marco Guarini | Stepan Polishchuk
Cherubino: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione | Francesca Mercuriali
Marcellina: Elena Finelli | Chiara Latini
Bartolo/Antonio: Sathya Gangale | Davide Romeo
Basilio/Don Curzio: Nicola Di Filippo | Joaquin Echave Cangemi
Barbarina: Beatrice Caterino | Ariadna Vilardaga
Calamani Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Choir and Technicians del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
12 and 13 September | 8:00 pm
14 September | 4:30 pm
15 and 16 September (shows for schools) | 9:30 am
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, Spoleto (PG)

Giorno di Nozze / Vieni qui Carla / Il tè delle tre | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-08-28 20:30 - 2025-08-31 19:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Caio Melisso, Piazza del Duomo, 4, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
20th-century Opera
The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale offers a Triptych of operas by Gino Negri (1919-1991), author of both music and librettos: Giorno di nozze (1958), a short opera for soprano, recorded voice, piano, violin, organ, guitar and guns; Vieni qui Carla (1954), a one-act opera inspired by Moravia’s famous novel Gli indifferenti for soprano, baritone and 10 instruments; and Il tè delle tre (1958), a one-act musical farce for 3 singers and 8 instrumentalists, three of whom are also given mimic roles.
Singer Stefano Belisari, known as Elio, was cast in Giorno di nozze for a recorded part (a song the protagonist hears on the radio).
Conceived as a kind of performance in the form of a Prologue and two one-acts, the Triptych will feature Marco Angius conducting the musical ensemble. Direction, sets and costumes are by Pier Luigi Pizzi. For the Milanese artist, who has to his credit dozens and dozens of performances in the world’s most prestigious theaters, this is a long-awaited debut at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale.
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Conduction, scenes and costumes: Pier Luigi Pizzi
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Giorno di Nozze

Marina: Giorgia Costantino | Kristýna Kůstková
Butler (mime): Antonio Vicentini
Vieni qui Carla
Carla: Gaia Cardinale | Beatrice Caterino
Leo: Alberto Petricca | Dario Sogos
Il tè delle tre
Soprano a sorpresa: Luca Giacomelli Ferrarini | Paolo Mascari
Favetta: Eleonora Benetti | Chiara Latini
Splendore: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione
Ornella (mime, vibraphone): Marco Eugeni
A répetiteur (piano): Antonio Vicentini
A decrepit butler (mime): Jacopo Spamapanato
Ensemble Calamani of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
28, 29, 30 August | 8:30 pm
31 August | 5:00 pm
Teatro Caio Melisso, Spoleto (PG)

Liederabend | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-08-12 20:30 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Pegasus Cinema Hall, Piazza Bovio, 1, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
On Tuesday, Aug. 12, at 8:30 p.m., Spoleto’s Sala Pegasus will host Liederabend (Lieder Evening), an intimate and evocative performance that invites the audience to (re)discover a musical and poetic world of delicate nuances and subtle expressive intensity. Liederabend represents a privileged gateway to a poetic universe that, with grace, authenticity and sobriety, manages to touch the deepest chords of the soul.
This year Liederabend will focus on the German Lieder repertoire of the early 19th century, offering a selection of Lieder by Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Maria von Weber, Carl Loewe, Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann.
On stage the soloists of the Sperimentale Viktoriia Balan, Eleonora Benetti, Beatrice Caterino, Lorena Cesaretti, Giorgia Costantino, Sara Di Santo, Kristýna Kůstková, Chiara Latini, Francesca Paoletti, Ariadna Vilardaga (sopranos), Emma Alessi Innocenti,
Francesca Lione (mezzo-sopranos), Andrea Ariano, Marco Guarini, Stepan Polishchuk (baritones) e Nicolò Lauteri (bass). Maestro Antonio Vicentini will be at the piano.
Date event and location
Tuesday 12 August | 8.30 pm
Pegasus Hall of Spoleto

Nanof, l'altro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-08-07 20:30 - 2025-08-10 18:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Caio Melisso, Piazza del Duomo, 4, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
Contemporary Opera
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season opens with the premiere performance of Nanof, l’altro, a one-act opera by Antonio Agostini on a libretto by Chiara Serani and Antonio Agostini with the collaboration of Davide Toschi. The opera is inspired by the true story of Oreste Fernando Nannetti, who was interned between the 1960s and 1970s at the Volterra Asylum, where with a belt buckle he engraved an enormous and mysterious graffito; the composer explores in music the theme of creativity as an antidote to madness and an act of rebellion. Nanof will be staged at Spoleto’s Teatro Caio Melisso on Friday, Aug. 8 and Saturday, Aug. 9 at 8:30 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 9 at 5 p.m. (Preview: Thursday, Aug. 7 at 8:30 p.m.).
Performers
Conduction: Mimma Campanale
Direction: Alessio Pizzech
Scenes: Andrea Stanisci
Costumes: Clelia De Angelis
Lighting: Eva Bruno
Nanof: Marco Guarini | Davide Peroni
Lei 1: Chiara Latini | Lorena Cesaretti
Lei 2: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione
Primario: Giuseppe Zema | Sathya Gangale
Infermiere 1: Paolo Mascari | Nicola Di Filippo
Infermiere 2: Dario Sogos | Stephan Polishchuk
Ensemble Calamani of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Coro e Tecnici del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, maestro del coro Mauro Presazzi.
Nuovo allestimento del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale.
Representations
7th August | 8:30 pm (preview)
8th, 9th August | 8:30 pm
10th August | 5:00 pm
Teatro Caio Melisso, Spoleto (PG)
On Friday, August 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Teatro Caio Melisso there will be a conference presentation of the work. Artistic Director Enrico Girardi will talk with Mimma Campanale and Alessio Pizzech, free admission.
The conference will be preceded at 12:00 am by the presentation of the essay Dalla legge Basaglia al Trattamento sanitario obbligatorio (From the Basaglia Law to Compulsory Health Treatment) by Filippo Teglia, a lawyer at the Spoleto Court, journalist and university lecturer. Together with the author, Pietro Morichelli, president of the Spoleto Court Association, and Roberto Calai, president of the Spoleto Criminal Chamber and the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, will speak. You can register by Thursday, Aug. 7, by writing to formazione@avvocatispoleto.it.
Tickets can be purchased at the Box Office of the Caio Melisso Theater on Thursday, Aug. 7, Friday, Aug. 8 and Saturday, Aug. 9 from 6 p.m. to showtime and Sunday, Aug. 10 from 3 p.m. to showtime, or on the Ticket Italia platform (tel. 0743.222889, www.ticketitalia.com).

"La Cenerentola" in concert form | Vicenza in Lirica
2025-04-15 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Istanbul) | Türkocağı Sahnesi, Hacettepe, 3, Türkocağı Sk. Resim Ve Heykel Müzesi , Ankara, 06230, Turkey
Next April 15 at 8 p.m., the Operetta Hall of the Ankara Museum of Sculpture and Painting will host a prestigious musical event, “Külkedisi Operasından Aryalar Konseri,” or arias from Gioachino Rossini’s opera La Cenerentola. The concert, organized by the General Direction of State Opera and Ballet of Turkey in cooperation with theEmbassy of Italy in Ankara, will feature on stage an international cast of young artists who won the prestigious Tullio Serafin Opera Competition and starred in past editions of the “Vicenza in Lirica” Festival.
Protagonists of the event will be Quan Zhou (Don Ramiro), Carlo Sgura (Dandini), Gianpiero Delle Grazie (Don Magnifico), Silvia Porcellini (Clorinda), Elisabetta Ricci (Tisbe), Emma Alessi Innocenti (Cenerentola/Külkedisi), Said Gobechiya (Alidoro) and Fausto Di Benedetto on piano.
Standing out among the promoters of the initiative is the cultural association “Concetto Armonico” with the “Vicenza in Lirica” Festival, realities that are now rooted in the international opera scene and that once again carry the name of the city of Vicenza and Tullio Serafin in Turkey as a symbol of artistic and cultural excellence.
In fact, the concert in Ankara represents the continuation of an important institutional and cultural dialogue between “Concetto Armonico” and the Embassy of Italy in Turkey, strengthened by the fruitful collaboration initiated in 2024, when the association organized as many as four concerts on the occasion of the National Day of the Italian Republic at the Ankara Opera and Ballet Theater, the Italian Embassy in Ankara, the Italian Institute of Culture in Istanbul and the Izmir Consulate, enjoying great success with the public and media attention, consolidating the Italian cultural presence in the country.
Thanks to these initiatives, Vicenza – with its architectural jewel, the Teatro Olimpico, and with “Concetto Armonico” is confirmed as an ambassador of Italian culture abroad. The “Vicenza in Lirica” Festival, which over the years has nurtured young talents now present in major European opera institutions, aims to be a bridge between generations, nations and traditions, promoting not only the beauty of bel canto, but also the value of meeting and cultural exchange.
The inclusion of this event within the Festival of Italian Creativity further underscores the high profile of the initiative, which combines art, diplomacy and cultural promotion in a highly relevant international context.
Andrea Castello, artistic director of the “Vicenza in Lirica” Festival and president of “Concetto Armonico,” stresses:
«To once again bring the name of the city of Vicenza to Turkey, thanks to the collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Ankara, is a source of great pride for us. The “Vicenza in Lirica” Festival not only trains and debuts young artists through the Tullio Serafin Opera Competition, but also takes on the task of accompanying them in international artistic growth, offering them the opportunity to perform in other countries. This is an important added value for Vicenza, which is represented in the world not only as a city of art, but also as a hothouse of talent and living culture.»

Guido Faggion

Christmas Concert | Teatro Caio Melisso (Spoleto)
2024-12-20 21:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Caio Melisso, Piazza del Duomo, 4, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale is pleased to invite you to its Christmas Concert, which will be held on Friday 20 December 2024 (9 p.m.) at the Teatro Caio Melisso in Spoleto.
Free entrance, subject to availability. Free tickets will be available at www.ticketitalia.com from 10 December 2024. For information call 0743.221645.

Programme
Various authors, Christmas carols
for children’s choir
Antonio Vivaldi
Magnificat
for solos, choir, strings and organ
Camille Saint-Saëns
Oratorio de Noel
for solos, choir, harp, strings and organ
Conductor, Mauro Presazzi
Giorgia Costantino, soprano
Emma Alessi Innocenti, mezzo-soprano
Nicola Di Filippo, tenor
Andrea Ariano, bass

Choir of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Children’s Choir of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Orfeo Ensemble

"Suor Angelica" by G. Puccini - AMAT
2024-12-11 21:15 - 23:00 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro dei Rinnovati, Piazza il Campo, 1, Siena, SI, 53100, Italy
AMAT’s (Academy Music Art Theater) Regeneration Opera 2024 Musical Theater Review is pleased to announce the production of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Suor Angelica, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death.
This project is being carried out in collaboration with Teatri di Siena (Artistic Director: Vincenzo Bocciarelli).
Performers
Suor Angelica, Cristina Rosa
La zia principessa, Irene Zas
La Badessa/La Zelatrice, Francesca Lazzeroni
La maestra delle novizie, Anastasia Egorova
Suor Genovieffa, Costanza Renai
Suor Osmina/Suor Dolcina, Keren Or Davidovitch
La suora infermiera, Alessandra Normanno
Prima conversa/Prima cercatrice, Gioia Pucci
Seconda conversa/Seconda cercatrice, Emma Alessi Innocenti
Novizia, Sara Michelassi
Conductor, Concetta Anastasi
Stage direction, Sergio Basile
Unconventional Orchestra
Date event and location
Teatro dei Rinnovati, Siena (SI), 9:15 pm.
Ticket cost: 10 € reduced price (under 20); 20 € full price.
For class groups consisting of 1 teacher and at least 10 students, the cost is €8 per student and free admission for the teacher.

Presentation of the album 'AMOR FIERO'
2024-11-22 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Rome) | Dischi Fenice, Via Santa Reparata 8/B, Florence, FI, 50129, Italy
Emma Alessi Innocenti and the ensemble L’armonia delle Cetre are happy to invite you to the presentation of their album ‘AMOR FIERO,’ produced by the NovAntiqua label. The CD features Six unreleased cantatas for voice, two violins and basso continuo by Baroque composer Giovanni Bononcini.
The meeting will take place in the historic Florentine music shop Dischi Fenice: short excerpts from the CD will be broadcast and commented by the musicians, who will also talk about the genesis of this record project and provide the audience with some interesting historical-musical information.
An aperitif will follow to celebrate the release of the album together.
You are all invited!
Date event and location
Friday 22th November, 6:00 pm. | Via Santa Reparata 8/B, Florence

"Aci, Galatea e Polifemo" - Ente Luglio Musicale Trapanese
2024-11-16 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/Rome) | Complesso San Domenico, Piazza San Domenico, Trapani, TP, 91100, Italy
Music by Georg Friedrich Händel
Libretto by Nicola Giuvo

Performers
Aci Maddalena De Biasi
Galatea Emma Alessi Innocenti
Polifemo Ugo Guagliardo
Director Mirco Reina
Stage, scenes and costumes Giuseppe Amato
Instrumental Ensemble of Ente Luglio Musicale Trapanese
Date event and location
16th November 2024, 6:30 pm. | Sala Grande – Complesso San Domenico (Trapani)
Tickets are available at the Villa Margherita box office, online, through www.lugliomusicale.it or, subject to seat availability, on site up to one hour before the start of the performance.

Lyric Concert | Singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2024-09-29 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Secci, Via Giandimartalo da Vitalone, Terni, TR, 05100, Italy
The Lyrical Vocal Concert will close the season of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale and will be held on Sunday 29 September at 6.00 pm, at the Secci Theater in Terni.
Date event and location
29 September | 6:00 p.m.
Teatro Secci in Terni

Liederabend | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2024-09-10 20:30 - 22:00 (Europe/Rome) | Pegasus Cinema Hall, Piazza Bovio, 1, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale of Spoleto will offer a Liederabend (Lieder Evening) as part of its season: this is an intimate and intimate performance of vocal chamber music, during which the audience can (re)discover a poetic and musical world made up of nuances, whispered expressions and precisely for that reason profound. It is the privileged access to a poetic universe that touches, with sobriety, elegance and truth, the most touching chords of the soul. The Lied is the song of the man who faces a long journey in search of the meaning of existence. Whether he finds it or not is hard to say. But the stages of the long journey are nonetheless milestones of a worthwhile experience.
During the evening many Lieder of the German tradition will be performed, with uthors like Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss and other composers who have contributed to the history of this genre.
The students of the Course for preparing debut for young opera singers of the Sperimentale will be accompanied on the piano by M° Antonio Vicentini.
Date event and location
Tuesday, September 10 | 8:30 p.m.
Pegasus Hall of Spoleto

Moschetta e Grullo / Eurilla e Beltramme | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2024-09-06 20:30 - 2024-09-08 18:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Caio Melisso, Piazza del Duomo, 4, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
Intermezzi of the 18th century
The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, in collaboration withtheUniversity of Milan – Centro Studi Pergolesi, will stage as many as two performances dedicated to the Baroque repertoire for the 2024 season.
This review has now become a traditional fixture in the theater’s playbill and is dedicated to 18th-century Intermezzi. They are short works between comic and farcical centered on two or three characters, which were performed in Neapolitan theaters during the intervals between the acts of serious operas. Intermezzi served the function of entertainment for the audience, which was highly entertained by these small operatic creations, sometimes showing even greater interest than the main serious melodrama.
This year, the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale will stage two intermezzi by Domenico Sarro, leading composer of the glorious season of the early 18th-century Neapolitan School, which played a key role in exporting Italian opera throughout Europe.
These interludes are entitled Moschetta and Grullo and Eurilla and Beltramme and were composed by Sarro himself for the interludes of two of his serious melodramas. Moschetta e Grullo is in fact the intermezzo for the opera Siroe re di Persia, which was first performed at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples in 1727; Eurilla e Beltramme , on the other hand, is the intermezzo for La Partenope, the first performance of which took place in 1722 at the same theater.
The production of Moschetta e Grullo is a revival from the 2023 season, while the staging of Eurilla e Beltramme is a first performance in modern times.
Performers
Moschetta e Grullo
Music by Domenico Sarro
Critical edition by Antonio Dilella and Claudio Toscani
Moschetta: Chiara Guerra | Aloisia de Nardis
Grullo: Davide Piva | Marco Gazzini
Mimes: Vania Ficola, Valentino Pagliei
Eurilla e Beltramme
Music by Domenico Sarro
Critical edition by Benedetta Amelio
Eurilla: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione
Beltramme: Andrea Ariano | Marco Pierangelo Maria Guarini
Mimes: Vania Ficola, Valentino Pagliei
Direction: Pierfrancesco Borrelli
Moschetta and Grullo direction and scenes: Andrea Stanisci
Eurilla and Beltramme direction and scenes: Laura Cosso
Moschetta and Grullo costumes: Clelia De Angelis
Eurilla and Beltramme costumes: Clara Restivo
Lights: Eva Bruno
Ensemble Calamani of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Technicians of the Experimental Lyric Theater
Harpsichord: Davor Krkljus
Representations
6, 7 September | 8: 30 pm
8 September | 5:00 pm
Teatro Caio Melisso, Spoleto (PG)

Procedura Penale / La smorfia | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2024-08-29 20:30 - 2024-09-01 18:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Caio Melisso, Piazza del Duomo, 4, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
20th-century Opera
Procedura penale by Luciano Chailly and La smorfia by Bruno Bettinelli are two short comic operas in one act, conceived as a diptych and thus performed during the first representation at the Teatrino of Villa Olmo in Como, in 1959.
For the first time since the first performance, they are revived in their original form, in a new staging curated by the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale of Spoleto. The skillful, imaginative and surprising writing of composers Chailly and Bettinelli highlights the sophisticated and surreal comedy of their two librettists and celebrated writers: respectively Dino Buzzati and Riccardo Bacchelli.
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction: Giorgio Bongiovanni
Scenes: Andrea Stanisci
Costumes: Clelia De Angelis
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Procedura Penale

Mauritia Delormes: Aloisia de Nardis | Giorgia Costantino
Titti Stefanetti: Eleonora Benetti | Chiara Latini
Giandomenico: Marco Pierangelo Maria Guarini | Alberto Petricca
Paola Isoscele: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione
Dottor Polcevera: Nicola Di Filippo | Paolo Mascari
Due gemelle: Viktoria Balan e Chiara Guerra
La Smorfia
Astronio Tridapali: Davide Piva | Andrea Ariano
Adone Vigorelli: Paolo Mascari | Claudio Rocchi
Vanda Tridapali: Eleonora Benetti | Kristyna Kustkovà | Chiara Latini
Lucio Baiesi: Ferruccio Finetti | Marco Gazzini
Franco Bizzi: Federico Vita
Luigi del Fante: Nicola Di Filippo
Representations
29, 30, 31 August | 8:30 pm
1 September | 5:00 pm
Teatro Caio Melisso, Spoleto (PG)

Concert "The Secular Cantata of the Italian 18th century" | Academia Montis Regalis
2024-07-18 21:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Rome) | Stanislao Cordero Castle in Pamparato, via Marconi, 43, Pamparato, CN, 12087, Italy
Academia Montis Regalis is organizing a concert featuring the best students of the Masterclass on Seventeenth-Century Italian Cantata held last November by renowned soprano Roberta Invernizzi at Villa Mondragone (Frascati).
Programme

Sigismondo d’India, Lamento di Didone, from the collection “Le musiche a una voce – libro V”
Emma Alessi Innocenti, singing
Claudio Monteverdi, “Rosa del ciel”, from the favola pastorale L’Orfeo SV 318
Mauro Cristelli, singing
Claudio Monteverdi, Lettera amorosa, from the collection “Ottavo libro di madrigali a voce sola”
Margherita Scaramuzzino, singing
Claudio Monteverdi, Interrotte speranze, from the collection “Settimo libro di madrigali”
Emma Alessi Innocenti and Margherita Scaramuzzino, voices
Claudio Monteverdi, “Tu s’è morta” from L’Orfeo SV 318
Mauro Cristelli, singing
Francesco Lucio, Fuggi pur, o crudele, from the collection “Arie a voce sola – Libro Primo”
Margherita Scaramuzzino, singing
Claudio Monteverdi, Se pur destina, SV 142, a voce sola in genere rappresentativo e si canta senza battuta
Mauro Cristelli, singing
Barbara Strozzi, Per un bacio, from the collection “Diporti di Euterpe”
Emma Alessi Innocenti, singing
Claudio Monteverdi, In un fiorito prato, from L’Orfeo SV 318
Margherita Scaramuzzino, singing
Claudio Monteverdi, Bel pastor, from the collection “Nono libro di madrigali”
Emma Alessi Innocenti and Mauro Cristelli, voices

Performers
Emma Alessi Innocenti and Margherita Scaramuzzino, mezzo-sopranos
Mauro Cristelli, tenor
Chamber Ensemble of the Academia Montis Regalis
Elisabetta Ferri, harpsichord
Francesco Mattacchione, cello
Date event and location
8th July 2024, 9:00 pm. | Council Chamber of the Stanislao Cordero of Pamparato Castle

Aci, Galatea e Polifemo - G.F. Händel | Teatro Arrigoni, S. Vito al Tagliamento
2023-11-19 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Arrigoni in S. Vito al Tagliamento, Piazza del Popolo, 38, San Vito al Tagliamento, PN, 33078, Italy
The performance of Aci, Galatea e Polifemo is part of the 2023 playbill of the MusicAntica Festival BAROQUE STORIES Reflections, incroci, rivisitazioni, produced by the BAROCCO EUROPEO Association of Sacile (www.barocco-europeo.org) in collaboration with Epicantica and the Wunderkammer-Trieste Festival.
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo HWV 72 by G. F. Händel is the opera chosen this year as the project for the LABORATORIO PER L’OPERA BAROCCA, in order to create a new professional opportunity for young artists. Such Serenata has been revived at the theaters of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region.
In the roles of the protagonists will be the young winners of the Vocal Competition held precisely for the staging of the performance. The young students of NABA – New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan – have contributed their fresh inventiveness to the realization of the set design, under the banner of a modern and appealing reading of the Baroque repertoire. Musical support will be provided by the Cenacolo Musicale orchestral ensemble, under the direction of Riccardo Doni, a well-known expert in the Baroque repertoire and attentive to the education of new generations.
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo is a Serenata for three voices for soprano, alto and bass, composed by G.F.Händel during his stay in Naples in 1708, with a libretto by Neapolitan abbot Nicola Giuvo. The work was commissioned by Donna Cecilia Capece, Princess of Squinzano, for the wedding of the Duke of Alvito to Beatrice Sanseverino and is intended to sing the praises of marital fidelity.
Stylistically, the serenade is set in the very particular expressive context of the Academy of Arcadia, founded in Rome after the death of Christina of Sweden by a circle of literati with the aim of creating a new poetic style in antithesis to the artifices of the seventeenth century and aimed rather at exalting the simple life of shepherds, in the name of an ideal of classicism and rationalism.
From a vocal point of view, the opera requires special technical and performance skills and especially tests the voice of the bass, for whom Händel wrote one of the most difficult and challenging arias in the Baroque repertoire (“Fra l’ombre e gli orrori”), the melody of which involves a vocal range of two and a half octaves and unfolds in dizzying leaps. The female voices must also demonstrate particular gifts in coloratura embroidery and expressive intensity, in a constant search for melodic beauty and ornamental refinements.
Performers
Aci – Maddalena De Biasi
Galatea – Emma Alessi Innocenti
Polifemo – Yuri Guerra
Mimes – Andrea Maddalozzo, Leandro Bertolo, Marta Lucchese
direction by Cesare Scarton
conducting Riccardo Doni
conception Donatella Busetto
Cenacolo Musicale Orchestra
Tommaso Luison – first violin
Alessandro Mele, Massimiliano Tieppo, Matteo Rozzi, Ludovica Lanaro, Elisa Franzini – violins
Alessia Turri, Michele Sguotti – violas
Giancarlo Trimboli, Cristina Vidoni – cellos
Mauro Zavagno – violone
Davide Giacuzzo, Andrea Bracco – trumpets
Gregorio Carraro – oboe/recorder
Fabiano Merlante – theorbo
Donatella Busetto – organ
Date event and location
19th November, 5:00 pm. | Teatro Arrigoni in San Vito al Tagliamento

Aci, Galatea e Polifemo - G.F. Händel | Teatro Miela, Trieste
2023-11-17 21:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Miela, Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi, 3, Trieste, TS, 34132, Italy
The performance of Aci, Galatea e Polifemo is part of the 2023 playbill of the MusicAntica Festival BAROQUE STORIES Reflections, incroci, rivisitazioni, produced by the BAROCCO EUROPEO Association of Sacile (www.barocco-europeo.org) in collaboration with Epicantica and the Wunderkammer-Trieste Festival.
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo HWV 72 by G. F. Händel is the opera chosen this year as the project for the LABORATORIO PER L’OPERA BAROCCA, in order to create a new professional opportunity for young artists. Such Serenata has been revived at the theaters of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region.
In the roles of the protagonists will be the young winners of the Vocal Competition held precisely for the staging of the performance. The young students of NABA – New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan – have contributed their fresh inventiveness to the realization of the set design, under the banner of a modern and appealing reading of the Baroque repertoire. Musical support will be provided by the Cenacolo Musicale orchestral ensemble, under the direction of Riccardo Doni, a well-known expert in the Baroque repertoire and attentive to the education of new generations.
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo is a Serenata for three voices for soprano, alto and bass, composed by G.F.Händel during his stay in Naples in 1708, with a libretto by Neapolitan abbot Nicola Giuvo. The work was commissioned by Donna Cecilia Capece, Princess of Squinzano, for the wedding of the Duke of Alvito to Beatrice Sanseverino and is intended to sing the praises of marital fidelity.
Stylistically, the serenade is set in the very particular expressive context of the Academy of Arcadia, founded in Rome after the death of Christina of Sweden by a circle of literati with the aim of creating a new poetic style in antithesis to the artifices of the seventeenth century and aimed rather at exalting the simple life of shepherds, in the name of an ideal of classicism and rationalism.
From a vocal point of view, the opera requires special technical and performance skills and especially tests the voice of the bass, for whom Händel wrote one of the most difficult and challenging arias in the Baroque repertoire (“Fra l’ombre e gli orrori”), the melody of which involves a vocal range of two and a half octaves and unfolds in dizzying leaps. The female voices must also demonstrate particular gifts in coloratura embroidery and expressive intensity, in a constant search for melodic beauty and ornamental refinements.
Performers
Aci – Maddalena De Biasi
Galatea – Emma Alessi Innocenti
Polifemo – Yuri Guerra
Mimes – Andrea Maddalozzo, Leandro Bertolo, Marta Lucchese
direction by Cesare Scarton
conducting Riccardo Doni
conception Donatella Busetto
Cenacolo Musicale Orchestra
Tommaso Luison – first violin
Alessandro Mele, Massimiliano Tieppo, Matteo Rozzi, Ludovica Lanaro, Elisa Franzini – violins
Alessia Turri, Michele Sguotti – violas
Giancarlo Trimboli, Cristina Vidoni – cellos
Mauro Zavagno – violone
Davide Giacuzzo, Andrea Bracco – trumpets
Gregorio Carraro – oboe/recorder
Fabiano Merlante – theorbo
Donatella Busetto – organ
Date event and location
17th November, 9:00 pm | Teatro Miela of Trieste

Aci, Galatea e Polifemo - G.F. Händel | Teatro Verdi, Gorizia
2023-11-12 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Verdi of Gorizia, Via Garibaldi, 2/A, Gorizia, GO, 34170, Italy
The performance of Aci, Galatea e Polifemo is part of the 2023 playbill of the MusicAntica Festival BAROQUE STORIES Reflections, incroci, rivisitazioni, produced by the BAROCCO EUROPEO Association of Sacile (www.barocco-europeo.org) in collaboration with Epicantica and the Wunderkammer-Trieste Festival.
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo HWV 72 by G. F. Händel is the opera chosen this year as the project for the LABORATORIO PER L’OPERA BAROCCA, in order to create a new professional opportunity for young artists. Such Serenata has been revived at the theaters of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region.
In the roles of the protagonists will be the young winners of the Vocal Competition held precisely for the staging of the performance. The young students of NABA – New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan – have contributed their fresh inventiveness to the realization of the set design, under the banner of a modern and appealing reading of the Baroque repertoire. Musical support will be provided by the Cenacolo Musicale orchestral ensemble, under the direction of Riccardo Doni, a well-known expert in the Baroque repertoire and attentive to the education of new generations.
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo is a Serenata for three voices for soprano, alto and bass, composed by G.F.Händel during his stay in Naples in 1708, with a libretto by Neapolitan abbot Nicola Giuvo. The work was commissioned by Donna Cecilia Capece, Princess of Squinzano, for the wedding of the Duke of Alvito to Beatrice Sanseverino and is intended to sing the praises of marital fidelity.
Stylistically, the serenade is set in the very particular expressive context of the Academy of Arcadia, founded in Rome after the death of Christina of Sweden by a circle of literati with the aim of creating a new poetic style in antithesis to the artifices of the seventeenth century and aimed rather at exalting the simple life of shepherds, in the name of an ideal of classicism and rationalism.
From a vocal point of view, the opera requires special technical and performance skills and especially tests the voice of the bass, for whom Händel wrote one of the most difficult and challenging arias in the Baroque repertoire (“Fra l’ombre e gli orrori”), the melody of which involves a vocal range of two and a half octaves and unfolds in dizzying leaps. The female voices must also demonstrate particular gifts in coloratura embroidery and expressive intensity, in a constant search for melodic beauty and ornamental refinements.
Performers
Aci – Maddalena De Biasi
Galatea – Emma Alessi Innocenti
Polifemo – Yuri Guerra
Mimes – Andrea Maddalozzo, Leandro Bertolo, Marta Lucchese
direction by Cesare Scarton
conducting Riccardo Doni
conception Donatella Busetto
Cenacolo Musicale Orchestra
Tommaso Luison – first violin
Alessandro Mele, Massimiliano Tieppo, Matteo Rozzi, Ludovica Lanaro, Elisa Franzini – violins
Alessia Turri, Michele Sguotti – violas
Giancarlo Trimboli, Cristina Vidoni – cellos
Mauro Zavagno – violone
Davide Giacuzzo, Andrea Bracco – trumpets
Gregorio Carraro – oboe/recorder
Fabiano Merlante – theorbo
Donatella Busetto – organ
Date event and location
12th November, 5:00 pm | Teatro Verdi of Gorizia

Monteverdi, "L'Orfeo" (concert form) | San Biagio Temple (Montepulciano)
2023-09-16 21:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Rome) | San Biagio Temple, Via di San Biagio, 20, Montepulciano, SI, 53045, Italy
Between 1479 and 1480 the poet Agnolo Poliziano (1454-1494) wrote the play La Fabula di Orfeo; this composition was taken up over a century later by Claudio Monteverdi to compose L’Orfeo, now recognized as the first masterpiece in the history of melodrama.
On Saturday, Sept. 16, in the Renaissance setting of the Temple of San Biagio, L’Orfeo by Monteverdi will be performed in concert form in order to celebrate the figure of Poliziano, a native of Montepulciano. In fact, this event is part of the three-year celebration of the poet, whose 570th anniversary of his birth and 530th anniversary of his death will fall in 2024.
Protagonist of L’Orfeo will be the Etruria Barocca Ensemble led by Dimitri Betti, concertmaster, with the participation of the Gruppo Chiarine del Magistrato delle Contrade di Montepulciano.
The event, organized by Fondazione Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, for an initiative by the Municipality of Montepulciano, as well as the Municipal Library and Historical Archives “Piero Calamandrei” Montepulciano.
Event Date and Location
Saturday 16th September 2023, 9:00 pm. | San Biagio Temple, Montepulciano
FREE ENTRANCE

Concert "Sonar di tasti e cantar di musica" | Istituto degli Innocenti (Florence)
2023-05-25 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/Rome) | Istituto degli Innocenti, Piazza SS. Annunziata, 13, Florence, FI, 50122, Italy
We are pleased to announce a series of five concerts-two of which will be held at the Galleria dell’Accademia, the other three at the Istituto degli Innocenti– with the aim of enhancing and promoting the cultural heritage of the two prestigious institutions in Florence’s historic center.
The series, titled ‘Sonar di tasti e cantar di musica,’ is part of the three-year collaboration agreement signed in March by the Istituto degli Innocenti and the Galleria dell’Accademia. This twinning will include the organization of meetings, concerts, exhibitions, educational activities, promotional initiatives and other forms of joint planning.
Five concerts for the cicle ‘Sonar di tasti e cantar di musica’
The concert program ‘Sonar di tasti e cantar di musica’ takes its cue from the discovery of how closely the Accademia Gallery and the Istituto degli Innocenti are linked in the name of music. In fact, hitherto unpublished documents in the Historical Archives of the Innocenti have revealed that in the late Renaissance/early Baroque period, children received at the Hospital studied and played instruments of the time such as the flute, trombone, cornetto and lute. Rare examples of some of these ancient instruments are now kept and displayed at the Accademia Gallery in Florence. From this connection came the idea for the cycle of five concerts, the first of which will be May 25 at 7 p.m.
Free guided tours of the collection of instruments on display at the Accademia Gallery will be offered during these events. The tours will be held on the same dates as the concerts, at 4:30 p.m.
The events taking place in the Innocenti spaces will be free admission subject to availability. For information write to office@inyourevent.it
The Concert Programme of the 25th May | Istituto degli Innocenti
Emma Alessi Innocenti (mezzo-soprano) and Patrizio La Placa (baritone) together with I Musici del Gran Principe Ensemble, will perfom some Cantatas and instrumental pieces of composers like Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Bononcini, Alessandro Scarlatti, Agostino Steffani and Arcangelo Corelli, some of the most representative authors of the Italian Baroque.
Date event and location
25th May 2023, 7:00 pm. | Istituto degli Innocenti, Women’s courtyard

Easter Concert - "Requiem" by W.A. Mozart | Florence
2023-04-16 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/Rome) | Church of St. John the Baptist on the highway, Via Limite, 82, Campi Bisenzio, FI, 50013, Italy
Programme and Performers
W. A. Mozart, Requiem in D minor K. 626
Soprano Adina Vilichi
Mezzo-soprano Emma Alessi Innocenti
Tenor Alfonso Zambuto
Bass Bruno Filiberto
Accademia del Diletto Choir (Choirmaster: Valentino Alfredo Zangara)
Florence Vocal Ensemble Choir (Choirmaster: Valentino Alfredo Zangara)
Grassina Community Choir (Choirmaster: Francesco Romano)
Orchestra “I concertisti” of Umbertide
Organist Natalia Van
Texts read by Silvia Budri
Conductor Valentino Alfredo Zangara
Date event and location
April 16, 2023, 7:30 p.m. | Church of St. John the Baptist at the Highway, Campi Bisenzio (FI)

Concert "Easter with Mozart and Boccherini" | Umbertide
2023-04-15 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/Rome) | Church of the Risen Christ, Viale Repubblica, 2, Umbertide, PG, 06019, Italy
Programme and Performers
W. A. Mozart, Requiem in D minor K. 626
Soprano Adina Vilichi
Mezzo-soprano Emma Alessi Innocenti
Tenor Alfonso Zambuto
Bass Bruno Filiberto
Accademia del Diletto Choir (Choirmaster: Valentino Alfredo Zangara)
Florence Vocal Ensemble Choir (Choirmaster: Valentino Alfredo Zangara)
Grassina Community Choir (Choirmaster: Francesco Romano)
Orchestra “I concertisti” of Umbertide
Conductor Valentino Alfredo Zangara
L. Boccherini, Concert in G major for cello and strings
Stefano Coco, cello
Orchestra “I concertisti” of Umbertide
Conductor Gianfranco Contadini
Date event and location
15th April 2023, 7:00 pm | Church of the risen Christ, Umbertide

Lullian Concert | Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
2023-02-05 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Piazza Vittorio Gui, 1, Florence, FI, 50144, Italy
On Feb. 5, 2023, on the podium of the Mehta Hall of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino we will find maestro Federico Maria Sardelli, who will conduct a rich program all focused on the figure of Giovanni Battista Lulli/Jean Baptiste Lully, a great Florentine-born composer who was one of the leading exponents of French Baroque music.
Music Programme

F.M. Sardelli, Suite composée à la mémoire immortelle de l’incomparable M.r De Lully (2009) | world premiere recording
G.B. Lulli, Passacaille d’Armide, LWV 71: “Les Plaisirs ont choisi pour asile” for soloists, choir and orchestra;
G.B. Lulli, Omnes gentes LWV 77/10, petit motet per 2 soprani, basso e basso continuo
G.B. Lulli, Te Deum LWV 55, grand motet for soloists, small choir, big choir and orchestra

Performers
Conductor: Federico Maria Sardelli
Soloists
Elena Bertuzzi, Dessus
Rui Hoshina, Dessus
Emma Alessi Innocenti, Bas-dessus
Aco Bišćević, Haute-contre
Alessio Tosi, Taille
Mauro Borgioni, Basse
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra
Ricercare Ensemble Choir (Choir Master: Rocco Adami)
The concert has been organized featuring the new Giovanni Battista Lulli Institute, founded the last 28th November on the occasion of the 390th anniversary of the great composer’s birth and directed by Federico Maria Sardelli himself.
Date event and location
5th February 2023, 5:00 pm | Mehta Hall of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence
