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February 2010

E, Concerto per flauto e orchestra (2009)

Commission: Kansas City Symphony

February 19, 2010, KansasCity, Missouri

World première

Soloist: Emmanuel Pahud

Kansas City Symphony, Conductor: Michael Stern

 

For further information:

Kansas City Symphony

KCMetropolis.org

Kansascity.com

 


 

December 2009 

Storia di Giona

for bass-baritone, flute, guitar and percussion

Text: Luca Lombardi (based on the Bible)

December 8, 2009, Hallein (Austria)

World première

El Cimarrón Ensemble

 

For further information:

Kultuforum Hallein

 

December 15, 2009, Rome, Festival Nuova Consonanza

Italian première

 

Text of the work (in Italian)

Program notes

 

Einführungstext

 


 

November 2009

Echo de Syrinx

for flute

November 2009, 14

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

 

Links:

Rossijskaja Gazeta, I (Video), II (Interview), III (Review)

 

Reviews, La Stampa, Il Corriere della Sera, Opernwelt, Classic Voice

Interviews, www.elioelestorietese.it intervista a Elio e Luca Lombardi, VIVAVERDI, Musica

Links to Youtube "Prima della Prima", Raitre (21-04-2009). Part I, Part II

 

 

La7 News (20-03-2009)

 

Incontri contemporanei: Luca Lombardi.

Friday 19 June 2009, h. 9.40 pm, Classica TV (SKY - channel 728).

Reruns:

Sunday 21 June h. 20.10, tuesday 23 June h. 9.00, monday 29 June h.13.20, thursday 2 July h.19.40,
saturday 4 July h. 1.00, wednesday 15 July h.16.40

 

RadioRai3 Suite - Il Festival dei Festival (05-07-2009)

 

Basta con i re nudi di Gianluigi Mattietti

 

 

 


 

January 2009

World Premiere in La Scala, Milano

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.

Elio (delle Storie Tese), narrator
Fabrizio Meloni, clarinet
Klaidi Sahatci, violin
Alfredo Persichilli, violoncello
Roberto Prosseda, piano

More information: La Scala

 


 

July 2008

Member of Akademie der Künste Berlin

Luca Lombardi was elected a member of the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) Berlin.

More information: Akademie der Künste Berlin

 


 

June 2008

Luca Lombardi in Munich

 

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

 


 

 

(Archive News Lombardi)

 

 

 

 

Among the next commitments of Luca Lombardi:

 

Composition (title to be specified)

for trumpet and organ

In memory of the nazi massacre of August 12, 1944 in Sant'Anna di Stazzema

 

August, 29, 2010, Sant'Anna di Stazzema

World première

Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet

Eriko Tazekawa, organ

 

For more information:

Amici dell'Organo della Pace.

 


 

Italia mia (provisional title)

for narrator, mezzosoprano, bass-baritone and orchestra

Commission: Teatro alla Scala

World première: Milan, October 8, 2011

Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Conductor: Zubin Mehta