The Italian Operatic Experience

Tonight I’ve discovered a very interesting opportunity for all those singers and collaborative pianists wishing to live a really rare experience of international study in the beautiful Tuscany: the Italian Operatic Experience.

It is a summer international school located in Montecatini Terme offering 5 weeks programs specially adressed to singers and collaborative pianists, with daily classes for refining all aspects of the critical skills needed to expand educational development, “bridging-the-gap” from young amateur singer/pianists to young professional artists in opera.

All singers and accompanists receive individual instruction in vocal technique, Italian language, and culture, lyric diction for the stage, styles and performance practice, movement and character development.

I will let you know more about this school because I really think that studying music and the opera is a very deep, lively way of knowing one of the best sides of Italy and its culture..

The Italian Operatic Experience

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Don Giovanni, Opera at San Galgano, Chiusdino (Siena)

Since many years, in the summer, the Abbey of San Galgano is the location of concerts in collaboration with the renomate siennese Chigiana Academy. In the scenic open air Cathedral of San Galgano, under a blanket of stars, take place every summerlays, operas, concerts, musicals and ballets.

Inside the Abbey, 800 seats to accommodate the public.

Performances at the Abbey of San Galgano start at 9.00 p.m.

Bookings/tickets: Ph. 0039 055 5978308/ 0039 055 5978309

For more informations and the programme:

Opera Festival

Multipromo Opera festival

via San Francesco, 3

50014 Fiesole (Fi)

info@festivalopera.it

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Lajatico (Pisa), Tuscany

“This is my land

It ‘a land that, like me, loves the silence

And if, with my voice, I break this silence

I do it to pay homage to these places and to my people.

The music penetrates the earth and travels

and fly far away

It ‘a message of love. ”

Andrea Bocelli

original words:

“Questa è la mia terra

E’ una terra che, come me, ama il silenzio

E se, con la mia voce, rompo questo silenzio

lo faccio per rendere omaggio a questi luoghi e alla mia gente.

La musica penetra la terra e la percorre

e vola lontanissimo

E’ un messaggio d’amore”.

Andrea Bocelli

I have to tell the truth: the first time I saw the new spot of Tuscany, I din’t like it because you couldn’t see many landscapes nor natural or architectural beauties.. but now I find it genial because effectively there are so many wonderful things to see, do, eat, appreciate, etc… that it would be almost impossible to fill everything in a spot of few seconds! so this spot manages to give all these suggestions.. of wonderful landscapes, art, food and wines, fashion, products, sea, hills, historical and artistical towns, villages, etc.

What I simply find wonderful is the music: this is an italian song which my grandmother used to sing when she was a child.. so it is part of the italian tradition and it’s not only that: it’s evocative, it reminds beautiful afternoons playing, beautiful sensations, time spent cycling, laughing, all this..

The singer, Opera Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini,  is particularly effective in this song.

I wish you to enjoy the vision!