Sound 2009, North East Scotland
Festival of New Music
Tarland, Migvie Church
Roberto Fabbriciani, flute
World première
November
2009, 28
Trieste 2009, Trieste Prima
Roberto Fabbriciani, flute
Italian première
March 2009
World Premiere
of Il re nudo in Rome
Il re
nudo
is the first opera by Luca Lombardi to be performed in
Italy. Lombardi is at his fourth
experience in the opera field, after the recent success of his Prospero in Nürnberg.
Stage director will be Dmitri Bertman, Russian, among the most
significant in contemporary theatre, founder and artistic director of
Moscow Helikon Opera, at his Roman debut.
Main character is not a
typical opera singer, but the popular singer Elio of "Elio e le
Storie Tese", together with a cast of outstanding performers.
The subject of this
chamber opera, commissioned by the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, is
freely inspired by a 1934 play by Evgeny Shvarts, in its turn based
upon three famous fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen:
The Emperor’s New Clothes,
The Princess and The Pea
and The Swineheard.
Il re nudo
Divertimento in due atti
Music by Luca Lombardi
Libretto by Sandro
Cappelletto
Enrique Mazzola,
conductor
Dmitri Bertman, director
Andrea Giorgi,
choirmaster
Lena Lukjanova, set
design and costumes
Elio, Sonia Visentin/Lucia
Vaccari (31), Danilo Formaggia/Marco Frusoni (31), Paolo Coni,
Nicholas Isherwood/Simone Desaunio (31), Alessandro Svab, Antonio
Franceschetto, Margherita Settimo, Sabrina Testa, Marta Calcaterra,
Manuela Boni, Antonella Trevisan, performes
Orchestra and Choir of
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Rome, Teatro Nazionale
Friday 20 March 2009, 8.30 pm
Sunday 22 March, 4.30 pm
Wednesday 25 March, 5.00 pm
Friday 27 March, 8.00 pm
Sunday 29 March, 4.30 pm
Tuesday 31 March, 8.30 pm
The opera will be broadcasted by
RAI-Radio3Suite at a later date
Luca Lombardi´s ensemble work
Memoria for narrator and four instruments (2008) is premiered
on January 12, 4 pm, in La Scala, Milano. Memoria is based
on texts by Luciano Violante.
Chamber music by Luca Lombardi will be
presented in Munich on June 2 (8 pm) in the occasion of the Italian
Republic Day and of the 60th anniversary of the Italian Constitution.
Nel vento, con Ariel for solo flute (2005) 8 Saluti for piano (2001-2003) Essay 3 ('Steiner') for solo cello (2003) Einstein-Dialog for flute and cello (2006) Bremer Trio for flute, cello and piano (2007)
Roberto Fabbriciani, flute
Leonard Elschenbroich, cello
Alessandra Ammara, piano
Gasteig, Black Box, Rosenheimer Str. 5, Munich
May 2008
Luca Lombardi
at the Turin International Book Fair
Lombardi will discuss his new work
Terra for orchestra with the musicologist Enrico Fubini.
By entitling this composition
Terra (Earth, but also Soil, Ground or Land) I thought about the
different meanings of the Italian term. The planet we live on, the
solid part of the earth´s surface, the land as a nation, and last
but not least one of the four elements. The initinal stimulus came
from the second meaning and its material implications (underground
telluric mouvements).
Part of this composition was
written in Israel, a "land" I particularly love. There I considered
naming the piece "Eretz", in Hebrew, which in the combination "eretz
Israel" means "Land of Israel". For this reason I included two
quotations of Israel melodies: The first one from the song live in
this land, the second one taken from Hatikva (Hope), the state of
Israel´s anthem. My hope is, that this state will keep existing, for
its own good as well as for the good of the neighbours and of
ourselves.
Luca Lombardi
Turin, International Book Fair
Sunday, May 11, 8 pm
Spazio RAI
Monographic
concert in Bari, Italy
Chamber music by Luca Lombardi is
presented in the frame of a portrait concert in Bari on May 6. Works
created after 2000 are performed by Arcadio Baracchi (flute),
Antonella Costantino (cello) and Giancarlo Cardini (piano).
Nel vento, con Ariel for flute
(2005) Essay 3 ('Steiner') for cello (2003) Commiato dall'anno vecchio - Saluto dell'anno nuovo
Saluto a Juergen Thym (from 8 Saluti for piano,
2001-2003) Einstein-Dialog for flute and cello (2006)
Fondazione "N. Piccinni", Bari
6 May 2008, 9 pm
Sala Giuseppina del Kursaal Santa Lucia
