78° Festival MMF
Concert
Daniele Rustioni / Orchestra della Toscana
Rossini's Stabat Mater
Program
Gioachino Rossini
Stabat Mater, lyturgic sequence in music for soloists, choir and orchestra.
Artists
Ekaterina Sadovnikova
Mezzosoprano
Marina Comparato
Tenor
Edgardo Rocha
Bass
Gianluca Margheri
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Born in Pesaro February 29, 1792, the son of a trumpet player and a singer he began to study harpsichord and singing in Lugo, and then enrolled in 1806 to study the cello, piano and composition at the Liceo Musicale of Bologna. He made his debut in 1810 with La cambiale di matrimonio at the Teatro San Moise in Venice, but his first important successes come with La pietra del paragone (1812), Tancredi and L'italiana in Algieri (1813). Hired by the impresario Domenico Barbaja as director of the theaters San Carlo and Fondo in Naples and with the obligation to write two operas a year, composed Otello(1816), Mose in Egitto (1818), Ermione (1819), Maometto II(1820). In Rome, between 1816 and 1817 were staged Il Barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola. Again in 1817, La Gazza Ladra was produced at La Scala in Milan. WithGuillaume Tell (1829) he abandons lyric theater and dedicates himself to the Stabat Mater (1841) and thePetite Messe Solemnelle (1863). He died at Passy, near Paris on November 13, 1868.
ORCHESTRA DELLA TOSCANA
Founded in 1980 on the initiative of the Regione Toscana, the Province and the City of Florence, three years later, under the artistic direction of Luciano Berio, it received the ministerial recognition of the Istituzione Concertistica Orchestrale. Its home in Florence is the Teatro Verdi, and it has been invited to play at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Rossini Opera Festival, the Biennale di Venezia and the Ravenna Festival. The orchestra has collaborated with, among others, Martha Argerich, Bruno Bartoletti, Myung-Whun Chung, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Daniel Harding, Uto Ughi. Thomas Dausgaard is the Direttore Onorario, while Tan Dun covers the role of Direttore In Residence; in 2014 Daniele Rustioni was nominated Direttore Principale.