Events in Taormina and surroundings: detail
From November 08 2009 to November 22 2010
SINOPOLI FESTIVAL TAORMINA 2009
Concerts, cinema and lectures from October 7 to 10 at the Palazzo Corvaia and other locations.
The 5th edition of the Sinopoli Festival, dedicated to the conductor and composer Giuseppe Sinopoli, who died from a heart attack in the year of 2001 while conducting Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The Giuseppe Sinopoli Festival does not only celebrate Sinopoli as a musician and as a conductor but also as a composer, a doctor, an archaeologist and intellectual. There will be a variety of events from music and literature, theatre and art to conferences, exhibitions, publications and, of course, concerts. Every year the Festival welcomes the most important orchestras of the country. On the occasion of the first edition of the Giuseppe Sinopoli Festival the Sinopoli Chamber Orchestra was formed, in collaboration with the Conservatorio "Arcangelo Corelli" of Messina. The Orchestra, young talented musicians, both pupils and teachers of the Conservatorio, mostly performs works by Giuseppe Sinopoli.
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
DETAILED PROGRAMM OF THE FESTIVAL:
October 7 (18.30 h)
Palazzo Corvaia - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Opening of the exhibition "Le sonagliere di Benares" photographies by Ferdinando Scianna
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 7 (21.00 h)
Chiesa di San Francesco - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Omage to Karlheinz Stockhausen. Harlekin, musical pantomime for a dancing clarinettist and actor. With Michele Marelli
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 8 (11.00)
Palazzo Corvaia - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Vederesentirepensare...la belezzza (seeing, feeling, thinking...beauty) Meeting of high school students with Ferdinando Scianna.
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 8 (15.30 to 18.30 h)
Palazzo Corvaia, Sala B - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Spazio Cinema "Vedere la musica". Screening of the TV project Cè musica e musica for the Italian RAI TV by Luciano Berio
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 8 (18.45 h)
Palazzo Corvaia - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Presentation of Le vie del comporre, domani, title of the convention held at the Spopoli Festival 2008 by Michele dall'Ongaro e Matteo D'Amico. With Federica Di Gasbarro
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 8 (19.30 h)
Palazzo Corvaia - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Marco Betta. Introduction to the concert dedicated to him.
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 8 (21.00 h)
Chiesa di San Francesco - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Carta Bianca ti Marco Betta. Concerto with images by Ferdinando Scianna and the Fratelli Mancuso. With the Sinopoli Chamber Orchestra of Taormina Arte, conducted by Pietro Mianiti. In cooperation with the Conservatorio A. Corelli Messina
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 9 (11.00 h)
Palazzo Corvaia - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Vederesentirepensare...la belezzza (seeing, feeling, thinking...beauty) Meeting of high school students with Giuseppe Andaloro
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 9 (15.30 to 18.30 h)
Palazzo Corvaia, Sala B - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Spazio Cinema "Vedere la musica". Screening of the TV project Cè musica e musica for the Italian RAI TV by Luciano Berio
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 9 (17.00 h)
Palazzo Corvaia - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Riccardo Panfili presents "Danzario" winning project of the international composition contest of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia.
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 9 (18.30 h)
Teatro Antico - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, conducted by Carlos Izcaray (finalist of the Premio speciale dell'Orchestra of the Toscanini - Sinopoli Contest 2008)
works: Riccardo Panfili, Danzarlo, Franz Joseph Haydn, Sinfony n. 90 in C major and
Maurice Ravel, Shéhérazade (with the mezzosoprano Elena Belfiore)
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 10 (11.00 h)
Palazzo Corvaia - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Vederesentirepensare...la belezzza (seeing, feeling, thinking...beauty) Meeting of high school students with Sergio Givone
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 10 (15.30 to 18.30 h)
Palazzo Corvaia, Sala B - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Spazio Cinema "Vedere la musica". Screening of the TV project Cè musica e musica for the Italian RAI TV by Luciano Berio
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
October 10 (18.30 h)
Teatro Antico - Taormina
Sinopoli Festival. Awarding Gala of the "Premio Sinopoli per la cultura"
(Jury: Azio Corghi, Sergio Givone, Paolo Matthiae, Luca Ronconi) followed up by a concert with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai-Radiotelevisione Italiana, conducted by John Axelrod. Richard Wagner, Lohengrin, prelude of the 3rd act, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Drei Stücke aus "Souvenirs à la mémoire", Richard Strauss, Don Quixote and Richard Strauss, Don Juan
Info: www.sinopolifestival.it
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