Thursday 28 November, 6.30pm
Concert – event
Bellini Bacalov: Norma, an immense love-story
Fantasy and variations for Piano and Orchestra
Rossana Tomassi Golkar will perform Bellini’s Norma in the form of Concert for Piano and Orchestra (in the PIano solo version) re-written in 2009 by Academy Award winner Luis Bacalov exclusively for her.
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Programme:
-Introduction
-Pollione e Adalgisa
-Norma Viene-
-Casta Diva
-Guerra
-Reminiscenze da Casta Diva
-Va Crudele
-Confessione di Adalgisa a Norma
-Rogo
-In mia Man Alfin tu sei
-Norma piange accanto ai suoi figli
-Scena Ultima
-Deh non Volerli Vittime
-Qual Cor Perdesti, qual Cor Tradisti
-La piu Santo incomincia Eterno Amor
Rossana Tomassi Golkar, Roman pianist, graduated at a very young age with honours at the Conservatory of S. Cecilia in Rome and L’Aquila, where she studied Piano, Composition and Conducting. She is Professor of Principal Piano at the U. Giordano Conservatory in Foggia. Currently Artistic Director of the United Europe Symphony Orchestra, she is engaged in numerous productions, recital performances and concerts for Piano and Orchestra in Europe and overseas. As Artistic Director of the United Europe Symphony Orchestra, she started in 2006 the original Pontiff Event Concert, an event that took place annually between Rome and Castel Gandolfo.
Since 1988 she has played all over the world, at traditional institutions and theatres. She has performed in Japan, in Tokyo; in Australia, from the Sydney Opera House to the University of Canberra, then in Wollongog, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth; in Tasmania in the cities of Hobart and Lanceston. On the same continent, in 1989, she participated in the Italian Arts Festivals. In Argentina she has performed over fifty concerts in Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Paranà, Santa Fé, Neuquen, Viedma, Mendoza, Rosario. She toured Mexico with the Chamber Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. She performed the Concerto in A minor by E. Grieg at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, accompanied by the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Pedro Ignacio Calderon.
Since 1990 she has performed many concerts in Mexico as a soloist, accompanied by Orchestras such as the Symphony and the Philharmonic of Mexico City. She has toured several times in the United States and Canada playing for some prestigious Universities and Musical Institutions in the cities of Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston (at the MIT Auditorium), Detroit, New York (New York University), Pittsburg (Duquesne University); in Canada in the cities of Toronto, Windsor and Edmonthon. She has permormed all over Europe, especially in France and Spain. In 1997 he held important Piano Recitals dedicated to contemporary Italian music: at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and at the National Railway Museum in Pietrarsa. She held a Recital for the Musical Evenings in Milan at the Sala Verdi of the Conservatory: “Milan remembers Chopin in the 150th anniversary of his death”.
She was the first Western woman to reopen the boundaries of Classical Music in Tehran on the occasion of Christmas 2000 where she gave a Recital for the Royal Theatre of Niavaran, and a second Concert for our Embassy. She performed a Recital for the Philharmonic Academy of Rome interpreting music by Maestro Franco Mannino. She has given Concerts for Piano and Orchestra all over the world.
She has played with: the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia conducted by G Noseda, the Symphony Orchestra of Rome and Lazio conducted by Lu Ja, the Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan conducted by Massimiliano Caldi, the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan conducted by P. Rizzo, the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra conducted by F. Carminati, the Symphony Orchestra of Bari conducted by Walter Proost, the Symphony Orchestra of Lecce conducted by G. Paganini, the Symphony Orchestra of the State of Mexico where she collaborated with Maestro Enrique Batiz as Guest Soloist and has been conducted by him several times.
He performed the E. Grieg Concerto in Mexico City at the Ollin Yolintzy Auditorium conducted by Luis Herrera de la Fuente. She was invited by the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo where she held a Recital for the 41st Edition in homage to Maestro Franco Mannino, present together with Maestro Agostino Orizio.
The Oscar winner L. Bacalov has rewritten exclusively for her the Norma “Libera Fantasia e Variazioni for Piano and Orchestra”, performed by Rossana in world premiere in 2009, conducted by Luis Bacalov, at the Sala S. Cecilia of the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome in front of about three thousand spectators.
Rossana Tomassi Golkar was also the artistic director of the American tour for the official celebrations dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, an artistic project organised by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers – Technical Mission Unit, as a particularly deserving event with regard to the internationalisation of these celebrations. “Italy, an Immense Love Story”, as part of the “Tricolor Night”, represented an artistic path, inaugurated in Rome on March 16, 2011 at the Auditorium della Conciliazione. The tour then continued, successfully in the United States, with two concerts, in Boston at the Symphony Hall in collaboration with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and in New York at the NYU Skirball Center.
The extraordinary reinterpretation then arrived in Venice, in collaboration with the Superintendence of the Teatro La Fenice and in Catania at the Teatro Massimo – Bellini, then in 2020 at Palazzo Montecitorio, Camera Dei Deputati, Sala della Regina.
Rossana Tomassi Golkar has been awarded the “Important Women for the Economy of Lazio” Award by the Lazio Region.