Teatro del Maggio

Lo specchio magico è il misterioso strumento attraverso cui un ragazzino può mostrare a quattro feroci tiranni il drammatico futuro che attente il pianeta. Ma è anche un viaggio che attraversa epoche diverse e unisce paesi distanti tra loro migliaia di chilometri, una riflessione sulla bellezza delle storie che raccontano la vita e un’emozionante parabola di speranza. Con il suo linguaggio che fonde musica classica, riferimenti etnici e rap, la nuova opera di Fabio Vacchi viene presentata in prima esecuzione assoluta al 79° Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Lo Specchio Magico
Urban Art Dance Opera
Music by Fabio Vacchi
Libretto by Aldo Nove

World premiere

FABIO VACCHI
Fabio Vacchi was born in Bologna in 1949. In 1974 he took part in the Berkshire Music Center courses in Tanglewood (USA), where he won the Koussewitzky Prize for composition. In 1976 he won first prize at the Gaudeamus competition in Holland for his Les soupirs de Geneviève for 11 solo strings. In 1979 and 1981 the Venice Biennale devoted two concerts exclusively to his work. He has written a number of operas including: Girotondo, after Schnitzler (1982, Maggio Musicale, Florence); Il Viaggio (1990, Teatro Comunale, Bologna); La Station thermale, commissioned by the Opéra de Lyon (1993, with revivals in 1994 and 1995) and later staged at La Scala in Milan (1995) and at the Opéra Comique in Paris; Les oiseaux de passage, produced at the Opéra de Lyon in 1998 and revived in October 2001 at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Il letto della storia, an opera co-produced by the Maggio Musicale, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and the Nuovo Auditorium in Rome, staged in Florence in 2003 and subsequently awarded the 2004 Abbiati prize for best new work; the three-act opera Teneke, staged by Ermanno Olmi at La Scala in Milan (2007), with scenes and costumes by Arnaldo Pomodoro; and Lo stesso mare (The Same Sea), based on a novel of the same name by Amos Oz and performed at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari in 2011. Lo specchio magico, new opera commissioned by Maggio Musicale, will have its world premiere on June 5, 2015 at Teatro della Pergola (Florence).

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JOHN AXELROD
Born in Houston in 1966, at sixteen he was accepted to follow Leonard Bernstein during the production of his final opera, A Quiet Place. After graduating cum laude from St. John’s School, in 1988 he completed a Bachelor's Degree in Music from Harvard University and later studied conducting with Ilya Musin at the State Conservatory of St. Petersburg. In 1996 he founded the Orchestra X in Houston, and three years later became the assistant to Christoph Eschenbach. Chief Conductor of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester (2004-2009) and Musical Director of the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire (2009-2013), in 2011 he was invited first as Principal Conductor and then as Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano. Since 2014 he is the Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Real Orquestra Sinfónica of Seville.

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