Saturday, 11 February 2017 21:00

Teatro Cucinelli, Solomeo (PG)

Great Performers – Music in Verse

Victor Hugo’s verse “Viens! Une flûte invisible soupire” set to music after half a century by André Caplet and Camille Saint-Saëns symbolically frames a highly refined, all-French program that is centered on the relationship between poetry and music, and is traversed by subtle, reciprocal cross-references. The sophisticated vocality of the mélodie – whose two “sister” collections by Verlaine, well-loved by both Fauré and Debussy, are admirable examples – stands side by side with the flute, “reinvented” as a twentieth-century instrument par excellence, which carries an ancient and mysterious message.

Marcello Nardis, tenor
Ginevra Petrucci, flute
Bruno Canino, piano

First performance of the “Chansons 15 Rubayat de Omar Khayyam” series by Jean Michel Damase

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