With a tribute to the cinema, the musical and work on July 24, the ninth edition of the Lerici Music Festival kicks off, which until August 4 fills the territory of the pearl of the Riviera di Levante, an enchanting village overlooking an inlet of the Gulf of Poets.
“Music, image, movement” is the title chosen by the artistic director and conductor Gianluca Marcianò (in the photo while directing) For the 2025 edition of the Festival, a tribute to the indissoluble bond that the visual arts woven with music before and after the invention of cinema. “The program of this edition”, explains Marcianò, “is even richer and will contact us with incredible artists, many of whom will arrive in Lerici for the first time. The idea is to propose great songs of the classic repertoire, and beyond, which have enriched and made many masterpieces of the big screen famous. A program for any type of audience, rich in rarity and rediscovered, waiting for further surprises Festival in 2026 “.
The inaugural evening of the 24th, in the elegant Villa Marigola built on top of a promontory, includes a Hollywood themed evening: the baritone Rodney Earl Clarke and the British soprano Melinda Hughes, a opera voice specialized also in the Cabaret of the 1920s -30, will perform in music of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota.
On July 27, one of the most anticipated events is scheduled: at the Sarzana signifede fortress Pinchas Zokermanamong the greatest violinists of our times, rises to the podium of the Toscanini Philharmonic in the double guise of a soloist and director by performing the Mozart concert n. 5 K 219 and directing Symphony n. 7 by Beethoven, the soundtrack of the film The King’s speech. Zokerman also performs on July 28 in Villa Marigola with the cellor Amanda Forsyth and the Cremona quartet in the Ciaikovsky sextet “Souvenir de Florence”. The Cremona quartet will then be engaged in Mozart’s K 465 quartet, called “dissonances”. On 29 July in the church of San Francesco L ‘Ensemble Mare Nostrum (20 years of activities celebrated precisely in 2025) and the voices of the vaco baroque sits directed by Andrea De Carlo They perform music by Alessandro Stradella and Henry Purcell. On July 30, the suggestive and traditional concert at dawn, this year tuned to the music of Bach, Debussy, Piazzolla, Elgar and Schnittke, with the violin of Andrea Cicalese and the accordion of Antonio del Castillo.
Other goodies from the program. On 1 August “Candide” by Leonard Bernstein an adaptation of Francesco Bolo Rossini for reciting voice and fourth quartet. On the evening of August 2, the Russian director and Russian director Dmitry Krimov, self -seventeen from Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, brings “La tragedie de Carmen”, chamber adaptation of Carmen of Bizet. The execution, designed for an ensemble of 16 elements, retains the dramatic heart of the Mérimée affair, and in this production it will make use of the voices of Carmen Giannattasio (international soprano already applauded at the Scala, at the Covent Garden and the Metropolitan, here at the debut in the role), Leonardo Caimi (tenor who also made his cinema debut in the cinema in the film “Ferrari” by Michael Mann), Enrico di Geronimo. and Melinda Hughes. The Lerici Music Festival Orchestra will be directed by Gianluca Marcianò, which in March brought the same title to the Beirut Al-Bust Festival.
On August 3 in Villa Marigola, the dinner-concert with the young talents of Opera for Peacethe high improvement academy that allows every year to a selected group of singers (coming mainly from countries traditionally excluded from large lyrical circuits) to approach international careers. Gianluca Marcianò will accompany them to the piano and Alesander Boldchev, among the largest arpists worldwide.
Grand finale on August 4th: in Villa Marigola, at 20.30, with the evening Les chemins de l’amour (from the title of Francis Poulenc’s most famous romance) the soprano Carmen Giannattasio will see again, accompanied on the piano by Gianluca Marcianò in a florilege of lyrics taken from Poulenc, Debussy, Tosti, Bellini, Donizetti and Di Capua, a tribute to France and Italy.
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