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Rendered in Masterly Fashion

An anthology of twentieth century music
impresses GIUSEPPE PENNISI

 

On 22 December 2017 I listened to a very interesting concert at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma — a break in the inevitable Christmas and New Year fare such as the always present Nutcracker. The concert was a well thought out anthology of twentieth century music with three different compositions in the first part and a short opera (or rather a lyric tragedy) after the interval. In the pit was Maxime Pascal, a young conductor who graduated from the Salzburg Competition, and whom we recently appreciated at La Scala in Salvatore Sciarrino's latest opera — The Triumph of Music, 19 November 2017. There was also a star in the second part of the concert: Anna Caterina Antonacci...

Copyright © 25 December 2017 Giuseppe Pennisi,
Rome, Italy

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TEATRO DELL'OPERA

ZOLTAN KODALY

THOMAS ADES

LUCIANO BERIO

FRANZ SCHUBERT

FRANCIS POULENC

ROME

ITALY

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