Events
All the events
December 8th 6.30 pm
Teatrino di Corte of the Royal Palace of Caserta
VOICES AND SOUNDS FOR CHRISTMAS 2008
Christmas concert by Roberto De Simone
December 8th 8.30 pm
Cappella Palatina / Royal Palace/ Piazza del Plebiscito
NEAPOLITAN CANTATAS
Cappella della Pietà de’ Turchini
Antonio Florio conductor
Giuseppe De Vittorio tenor
Household pages, for the few. Eccentric and absolutely remarkable cantatas, prepared with such a care regardless of the amusement intent of the operation: music jewels from the Neapolitan XVIII century for a privileged listening, today as in the past.
December 11th 9 pm
Salone da Ballo / Royal Palace of Capodimonte
MUSICALMENTE PER TELETHON
Association Maggio della Musica
with Michele Campanella- Quartetto Savinio - Malatheatre
This year too for “Musicalmente per Telethon”, at its sixth editino now, the association Maggio dei monumenti Maggio della musica organizes a memorable concert night in the dance hall of the Royal Palace of Capodimonte, with leading figures from the Neapolitan musical life.
December 12th 9 pm
“NapoliNataleCaféChantant”
SANNAZARO THEATRE PRODUCTION srl
Via Chiaia, 157 – 80121 Napoli – ITALY –
www.teatrosannazaro.it
December 12th 8.30 pm
Palazzo Zevallos di Stigliano / Via Toledo 185
IL FINTO PARIGGINO (The fake Parisian)
Accademia Mandolinistica Napoletana
Marinella Pennicchi soprano
Mara Galassi crochet harp
Marinella Pennicchi soprano
Mauro Squillante mandolino
Il Finto Pariggino is the portait of the musical practice of end XVIII century’s noble houses sitting rooms, to transcribe famous tunes on the most fashionable instruments.
December 13 8.30 pm
Sala degli Angeli / Sister Orsola Benincasa Institute/ Via Suor Orsola 10
NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL OF XVIII CENTURY
Orchestra e Coro Mysterium Vocis
Rosario Totaro conductor
Celebrity and the worth of Neapolitan music school of XVIII century originates from the artistic quality and the teaching skills of its maestros, among whom characters such as Francesco Durante, Pietrantonio Gallo, Niccolò Jommelli stand out. On occasion of the launch of the exhibition “The singing city – The sacred in Naples in XVIII century”.
December 14 11 am
“NapoliNataleCaféChantant”
SANNAZARO THEATRE PRODUCTION srl
Via Chiaia, 157 – 80121 Napoli – ITALY –
www.teatrosannazaro.it
December 14 12 pm
Sala degli Angeli / Sister Orsola Benincasa Institute /Via Suor Orsola 10
LAETATUS SUM di J.D.Zelenka
Association Scatola Sonora
Sonora Network Ensemble, Francesco De Mattia,
ASTRA Project e basso continuo
Eugenio Ottieri conductor
The results of the union between the most developed scientific research in the music field and the merely performing musicology. On occasion of the launch of the exhibition “The singing city – The sacred in Naples in XVIII century”.
December 15 8.30 pm
Quadreria del Pio Monte di Misericordia /Via dei Tribunali 253
STRAUSS CONCERT WITH TRIBUTE TO NAPLES
Franco Michele Napoletano Foundation
Raffaele De Sanio violin, Giuseppe Nese flute
Gianni Cuciniello cello, Pietro Pacillo double bass
Donato Della Vista piano
The show aims at renewing the splendour of the Caffè Concerto or Café Chantant, born in 1819 for want of Josef Lanner at Wien’s Caffè Rehbun.
December 16 8.30 pm
Donnaregina Nuova Church / Largo Donnaregina
THE EUROPEAN BAROQUE
Ensemble Zefiro
Alfredo Bernardini oboe and conductor
The Zefiro group in one exceptional night: Bach, Scarlatti, Purcell, Durante live again through the flutes and vintage instruments of the band from Mantua.
December 18 8.30 pm
Donnaregina Nuova Church / Largo Donnaregina
WOMEN IN MUSIC
Alma Mahler Orchestra
Stefania Rinaldi conductor
Chiara Albano mezzosoprano
Olga Zdorenko piano
Alma Mahler Sinfonietta, classical music wears pink. The “conspiracy of silence” against women musicians is now over, also thanks to the work and research made by these artists.
December 19 9 pm
“NapoliNataleCaféChantant”
SANNAZARO THEATRE PRODUCTION srl
Via Chiaia, 157 – 80121 Napoli – ITALY –
www.teatrosannazaro.it
December 19 6.30 pm
Sala Sisto V / Chiesa di San Lorenzo Maggiore /Via dei Tribunali 316
CHRISTMAS SYMPHONY
Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti
Francesco Solombrino first violin
Christmas with the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti: a calendar rich in lively colour, between Baroque and early Classicism.
December 20 5.30 pm
“NapoliNataleCaféChantant”
SANNAZARO THEATRE PRODUCTION srl
Via Chiaia, 157 – 80121 Napoli – ITALY –
www.teatrosannazaro.it
December 20 6.30 pm
Santa Caterina da Siena Church /Via Santa Caterina da Siena 38
A CEREMONY OF CAROL di B. Britten
Choir of treble voices from the San Carlo Theatre
Stefania Rinaldi conductor
The choir of joy: the tremble voices from the Neapolitan Massimo colour the feast days.
December 21 11 am
“NapoliNataleCaféChantant”
SANNAZARO THEATRE PRODUCTION srl
Via Chiaia, 157 – 80121 Napoli – ITALY –
www.teatrosannazaro.it
December 21 8 pm
Chiesa di S. Maria Maggiore della Pietrasanta /Piazza Pietrasanta 18
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Alessandro Scarlatti Association
Naples Ensemble Vocale
Ensemble Labirinto
Antonio Spagnolo conductor
After 200 years since his death, a tribute to the most secret part of Haydn’s vast production: sacred music.
December 22 6.30 pm
Sala Filangieri Archivio di Stato /Piazzetta del Grande Archivio 5
MOZART, HAYDN AND NAPLES
Caserta Chamber Orchestra
Antonino Cascio conductor
Bruno Canino piano
On occasion of the bicentenary of the Institution of the Reign’s General Archive
December 23 8.30 pm
Cappella Palatina / Royal Palace/ Piazza del Plebiscito
TRIUMPH AND TORMENT
Opera arias by Haendel and Vivaldi
Baroque Complex
Alan Curtis conductor
Mary Ellen Nesi mezzosoprano
Vito Priante bass
Cantatas, arias, duets and recitatives between Haendel and Vivaldi. The Baroque complex in an extraordinary music test.
December 25 8 pm
Dome of Naples / Via Duomo
CONCERT FOR CHRISTMAS
Orchestra and Cantors Choir from Posillipo
Ciro Visco conductor
Gaetano Raiola choral director
Unmissable appointment with Christmas tradition.
In the monumental setting of the Dome Vivaldi, Mozart, Mercadante’s music resonates.
December 26 6,30 pm
Rai Auditorium of Naples
VOICES AND SOUNDS FOR 2008 CHRISTMAS
Christmas Concert by Roberto De Simone
December 27 6.30 pm
Santa Caterina da Siena Church / Via Santa Caterina da Siena 38
MEDIEVAL NATIVITY LAUDES
Ensemble Micrologus
Patrizia Bovi singing, harp, buccina
Goffredo Degli Esposti flutes, cennamella, bagpipes
Gabriele Russo viola, lyre, buccina
Mauro Borgioni singing, cymbal
Enea Sorini hammer dulcimer, bells, castanets
Simone Sorini singing, lute
Italian medieval music gets to our days preserved in the most ancient and important manuscripts in Italy.
December 27 8.30 pm
Donnaregina Nuova Church / Largo Donnaregina
“DE DONDE NO SE PONE EL SOL”
LA NAVIDAD EN ESPAÑA Y EL NUEVO MUNDO (Christmas in Spain and the new world)
Madrid Royal Chapel
One of the most representative groups in the Spanish musical scene leads us in a trip through XVI century music between Mateo Flecha “el Viejo”’s leensaladas and Gaspar Fernández’s villancicos.
December 28 6.30 pm
S.M. delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco Church / Via dei Tribunali 39
SUITES di J. S.Bach
Luca Signorini solo cello
The suggestion of the solo cello in the hands of one of the most brilliant and successful Italian musicians and his precious instrument, a 1740 Carlo Tononi. .
December 29 8.30 pm
Santa Caterina da Siena Church / Via Santa Caterina da Siena 38
BAROQUE PLOT LINES
Ensemble “L’Amoroso Affetto”
Roberto Roggia violin
Angela Fiore violin
Raffaele Sorrentino cello
Pierfrancesco Borrelli cymbal
Fabio D’Onofrio baroque oboe
Concert dedicated to the German composer Johann A. Hasse (1699-1783), to his steady formal sense between baroque and classicism.
December 30 6.30 pm
Sala Capitolare / San Lorenzo Maggiore Church / Via dei Tribunali 316
INTERMEZZO by J.A. Hasse “LA SERVA SCALTRA”
Scatola Sonora Association
Ensemble Labirinto
Mariano Patti musical direction
Alessio Pizzech mise en space
Lilia Carpinelli, Giuseppe Nicodemo soloists
An astonishing variation on the theme of the Master Servant: between the Commedia dell’Arte and the Neapolitan musical theatre of the early XVIII century.
January 2 9 pm
“NapoliNataleCaféChantant”
SANNAZARO THEATRE PRODUCTION srl
Via Chiaia, 157 – 80121 Napoli – ITALY –
www.teatrosannazaro.it
January 2 8.30 pm
Donnaregina Nuova Church / Largo Donnaregina
IL ROMANTICISMO NAPOLETANO
Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana G. Verdi
Imra Shara direttore
Fabrizio Meloni clarinetto
Francesco Di Rosa oboe
Gabriele Screpis fagotto
Una grande orchestra diretta da una delle più brillanti rappresentanti della nuova generazione di direttori spagnoli.
January 3 5.30 pm
“NapoliNataleCaféChantant”
SANNAZARO THEATRE PRODUCTION srl
Via Chiaia, 157 – 80121 Napoli – ITALY –
www.teatrosannazaro.it
January 3 8 pm
Gesù Nuovo Church / Piazza del Gesù
NAPLES LONDON
Imaginary routes through the musical Europe of the early XVIII century
Campania Organ Academy
Emanuele Cardi organ
Stefano Vezzani baroque oboe
Refined musical pages proposed in the suggestive setting of one of the most loved churches in Naples .
January 4 11 am
“NapoliNataleCaféChantant”
SANNAZARO THEATRE PRODUCTION srl
Via Chiaia, 157 – 80121 Napoli – ITALY –
www.teatrosannazaro.it
January 4 6.30 pm
Santa Caterina da Siena Church / Via Santa Caterina da Siena 38
A LITTLE CHRISTMAS MUSIC
Exultate Deo Choir
Davide Troìa conductor
Christmas schedule for the young and lively “a cappella” group founded and conducted since 1990 by Maestro Davide Troìa.
January 5 6.30 pm
Pio Monte della Misericordia Church / Via dei Tribunali 253
QUARTETS AND QUINTETS
Savinio Quartet
Alberto Maria Ruta, Rossella Bertucci violins
Francesco Solombrino viola
Lorenzo Ceriani cello
Giovanni Bandini guitar
In order to convince, a Quartet needs to produce an artistic result in which the single parts are recognizable, although they cancel each other out during the shared path. Cohesion, unity of choices and goals live and are perceived in Savinio’s work.
January 5 8,30 pm
Assunta di Avellino Cathedral
VOICES AND SOUNDS FOR 2008 CHRISTMAS
Christmas concert by Roberto De Simone
January 6 5.30 pm
“NapoliNataleCaféChantant”
SANNAZARO THEATRE PRODUCTION srl
Via Chiaia, 157 – 80121 Napoli – ITALY –
www.teatrosannazaro.it
January 6 6.30 pm
Donnaregina Nuova Church / Largo Donnaregina
NATIVITAS by Gaetano Panariello
Campania Chamber orchestra, Mysterium Choir
Vocis, Treble voices choir of Salerno Teatro Verdi
Daniela Del Monaco counter tenor
Michele Arcangelo D'Abundo tenor
Giuseppe Naviglio baritone
Luigi Piovano conductor
The Neapolitan musical tradition of XVII-XVIII century is characterized by a wide repertoire connected to Christmas: Gaetano Panariello’s oratorio gets into this heritage, by presenting texts and music rich in suggestions.
