MICHELE MARIOTTI AND THE CELLIST ETTORE PAGANO

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by Opera Charm Team

January 27, 2024

Auditorium Rai “A. Toscanini”, Torino
Thursday, January 11 2024, 20.30
Friday, January 12 2024, 20.00

MICHELE MARIOTTI direttore
ETTORE PAGANO violoncello
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA NAZIONALE DELLA RAI

Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij (1840-1893)
Overture Fantasy in B Minor Romeo and Juliet

Aram Il'ič Chačaturjan (1903-1978)
Concert-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra

Igor Stravinskij (1882-1971)
Jeu de Cartes,
Ballet for three hands (1936)

The very young cellist Ettore Pagano, born in 2003, makes his debut in the season of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai. He will play the Concert-Rhapsody by Chačaturjan, with which he won the XVIII International Competition dedicated to the Russian composer of Armenian origin. The evening, which will see Michele Mariotti return to the podium, is scheduled for Thursday 11 January at 8.30 pm at the Auditorium Rai “Arturo Toscanini” in Turin, with a live broadcast on Radio3 and live streaming on the raicultura.it portal. Repeat performance on Friday 12 January at 20.00.

Music Director of the Rome Opera since 2022 and winner of the 36th Abbiati Prize for Best Conductor, Mariotti is a regular guest at the world’s most important opera and symphony seasons, from La Scala in Milan to the Paris Opéra, from the Bavarian State Opera to the Leipzig Gewandhaus, from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to the Royal Opera in London. He has appeared several times with OSN Rai, both in season and on tour, at the Verdi Festival in Parma, where he sang the Messa da Requiem, and at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, where he will also appear next summer in a new production of the opera Ermione with the Rai company.

Mariotti opens the concert with Pyotr Il’ič Tchaikovsky’s Overture Fantasy in B Minor Romeo and Juliet, inspired by Shakespeare’s tragedy of the same name and performed in its final version in 1880. This will be followed by the Concert-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra, written by Aram Il’ič Chačaturjan in the early 1960s for the famous cellist Mstislav Rostropovič, to whom it is dedicated. It will be performed by cellist Ettore Pagano, who at the age of 20 has already won international competitions such as the Johannes Brahms International Competition and the Chačaturjan International Competition.
The evening will conclude with music from Jeu de Cartes, the ‘ballet for three hands’ commissioned from Igor Stravinsky by the American Ballet, which premiered it in 1937 at the Metropolitan in New York, choreographed by Georges Balanchine.

Tickets for the concert, ranging from 9 to 30 euros, are available online at the OSN Rai website and at the box office of the Auditorium Rai in Turin.

Information: 011.8104653 – biglietteria.osn@rai.it – www.osn.rai.it.

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Alice Lechner

Alice Lechner comes from a music-loving family. Her first encounter with the opera universe was at the tender age of six. The grandeur of the stage productions and costumes, the backstage chatter, and last, but definitely not least, the music left her in awe, beginning with Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The overall feeling that opera awakens in anyone who gets a glimpse into this part of artistic eternity, that each and every day passes the test of time, was what drew her to stay and be a part of this world. The Opera House of Brașov became her second home, and the people who worked there were her second family.

Since then, Alice has devoted her spare time to maximising her musical knowledge through instrumental studies, studying both piano and violin for a short time. In the following years, her number one passion stepped out of the limelight and graciously gave way to Law Studies.
Since 2018 she has been studying Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.

Her passion for opera, even if it is no longer her top professional priority in terms of career, it has most definitely become her priority during her free time. Wanting to experience the best of both worlds and extend her musical horizons, she regularly attends opera performances throughout Romania and abroad.
With OPERA Charm Magazine, Alice aims to nurture her creative side to help it flourish and bloom and to discover, alongside the magazine’s readers, the fascinatingly complex world of opera.

Currently, she is an LL.M. in Business Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.

Oana Zamfir

Oana Zamfir is a second year MA student at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts, at the Department of Musicology.

She studied violin for 12 years at the “Stefan Luchian” High School of Art in Botosani, later focusing on the theoretical aspects of music. In 2019 she completed her bachelor studies in Musicology as a student of the National Academy of Music “Gheorghe Dima” in Cluj-Napoca. Her research during 2018-2019 brought to the forefront elements of the archaic ritual within works of composers who activated during the communist period, giving her the opportunity to start a research internship at the “Carl von Ossietzky” University in Germany. In this context, she recorded conversations with members of the Sophie Drinker Institute in Bremen, and had access to documents directly from the Myriam Marbé archive.

Since 2019 she has been a teacher of Music Education and Theoretical Music Studies, making full use of interactive methods in the musical training of students and working, at the same time, with the children’s choir founded in the first year of her activity.

Her interests include pursuing a degree in interior design in 2020.

Alexandru Suciu

Alexandru Suciu inherited his passion for art growing up in a family of several generations of musicians. He began his musical studies at the “Augustin Bena” School of Music in Cluj, where he studied piano and guitar. Even though his main study direction was philological, his passion for music prevailed. He began his academical journey at the Faculty of Letters of the “Babeș-Bolyai” University, studying Comparative literature and English. He continued by studying Opera Singing at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy. He also graduated the Musical Education section, followed by Artistic Directing at the Musical Performing Arts department.

His multidisciplinary education opened the doors towards research, which is seen both through his participation in national and international conferences and symposia, such as the Salzburg Easter School PhD-forum, organized by the Salzburg Universität or the Silesian Meeting of Young Scholars, organized by the Institute of English at the University of Silesia, as well as the collaboration with Opera Charm Magazine.

During his student years, he won several prizes, including the Grand Prize at the “Paul Constantinescu” National Musical Interpretation Competition, the Romanian Composers and Musicologists’ Union Prize at the same competition, the First Prize and the Schubert Prize at the “Ada Ulubeanu” Competition.

He further developed his artistic skills by specializing in courses and masterclasses held by personalities such as Vittorio Terranova, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Marian Pop, Ines Salazar, Riccardo Zanellato, Paolo Bosisio, Valentina Farcaș and Manuel Lange in contexts such as the Internationale Sommerakademie für Operngesang Deutschlandsberg, Corso Internazionale di Canto Lirico I.M.C. Licata or the Europäische Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst Montepulciano. Besides his activity on-stage, he currently teaches Opera Singing Didactics, and Pedagogical Practice within the Department for Teacher Education and Training at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy.

Cristina Fieraru

Cristina is a 24 year-old Romanian soprano & a student at the National University of Music Bucharest, where she pursues the MA program in Vocal Performance.

She made her debut in Pamina from “Die Zauberflöte” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at only 19 years old at the Bucharest National Opera House, as a member of the Ludovic Spiess Experimental Opera Studio. Over the years she made her debut in roles such as Contessa d’Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Mimì & Musetta (La Bohème), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte) in her university’s opera productions.
Her passion and experience extends in the field of choral music, too.

She has been part of our dream team since the fall of 2021. For a good period of time she took care of OPERA Charm’s social media and took you on the monthly journey through the history of opera through our Legends rubric – and a few times through the Theaters around the World rubric.

Her little soul rubric – from 2021 to present – is definitely the Conductors of the Future, where, every month, she gives you the chance to meet a young star of the world of conducting and, of course, to find out what’s the most charming feature of opera in these artists’ views.

BIANCA L. NICA

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