Monday 27 March, 6.30pm
Young Music Italy #3 The fusion of music and poetry – Opera, a quintessentially Italian genre
(Last in the series Young Music Italy)
Micaela Tiozzo at the piano and mezzo-soprano Francesca Sartorato will perform some of the best known operatic arias, with music by G.F. Handel, W.A. Mozart, G. Donizetti, G. Verdi, F.P.Tosti.
To follow, Alfredo Conte at the piano will perform music by F. Liszt from Les Années de pélerinage, second volume Swisse, Vallée d’Obermann and by F.Chopin: Polonaise op.53, Heroic.
A celebration of the multifaceted nature of opera, which blends together different arts, especially music and poetry. While Liszt’s piece emblematically combines literature, poetry and music: it is an example of “program” music, namely a type of music that attempts to render an extra-musical narrative, in this case E. Senancour’s epistolary novel Obermann and a poem by L. Byron.
Alfredo Conte (Nice, 2002) began studying the piano when he was seven, later studying at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice, the Conservatorio Giuseppe Tartini in Trieste and the Conservatorio S.Cecilia in Rome, where he is currently attending his last year. While studying at the conservatorio, he is also a student at the music department of King’s College London and he is completing a course in advanced piano performance at the Royal Academy of Music. Conte has attended several masterclasses with the likes of Maestro Bogini and Maestro Pérez de Gùzman and has performed at several prime Italian venues like Ateneo Veneto (VE), Palazzo Albrizzi (VE), Teatro Miela (TS), Teatro Ristori (UD), Auditorium S.Domenico (PG).
Micaela Tiozzo has studied piano, harpsichord, music and instrument teaching and chamber music. She has worked as stage manager in important Italian theatres such as the ones in Savona, Trento, Rovigo, Padova, Bolzano, Salerno e Foggia where she has nurtured her passion for opera and the arts. She has collaborated with several opera singers and chamber music ensembles. She is part of the ”Tango Ensemble”, specialized on Astor Piazzolla’s muisic and plays the musical accompaniment for the theatre company “Tres Bien” from Chioggia. She has taken part to many musical events, including representing the Venetian Artists in the World in Sidney, a concert in Chioggia with renowned violinist Domenico Nordio, two concerts on Mascagni’s opera in Palazzo Contarini in Venice. Last year she played at the presentation of the Vatican’s communications department director Andrea Tornielli’s book. She regularly plays during the musical season at the Palazzo delle Prigioni in Venice, and she teaches music in a secondary school.
Francesca Sartorato has been studying piano and singing since she was 11 years old, she has also attended the opera singing school CUBEC under Mirella Freni and sicne 2012 she has been studying under M° Fernando Cordeiro Opa. She has performed in several roles en-travesti including Cherubino (Nozze di Figaro), Ottone (Incoronazione di Poppea), Dardano (Amadigi), Mascagni’s Zanetto , Medoro e Astolfo (Orfeo). Her repertoire includes ancient and baroque music, both sacred and operatic, from Vivaldi to Handel, Monteverde and Palestria, as well as contemporary opera such as “Notte per me Luminosa”(M. Betta), le Imperdonabili (S. Colasanti), “Miseria e Nobiltà” (M. Tutino).
She has recently performed “La Wally” at the Stadttheater in Bolzano and Durante’s “Requiem” di Durante at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Next, she will be Emilia in Rossini’s Otello at the Teatro Manoel in Malta. She is a representative of the Luciano Pavarotti Foundation in Modena.