For the first time, Naples will host the International Festival of Ancient Music, a prestigious international festival with many surprises and news!
Music, art, literature, cinema, theater and culture: these are the special ingredients of the 1 ° International Festival of Ancient Music.
"Soave is the wind. Naples in the European musical itineraries between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries" it is a prestigious review that began last year 22 November 2014 at the Gallerie d'Italia-Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano and ending the 14 February 2015.
The kermesse, by the Pietà de'Turchini Foundation of Naples and financed by the Campania Region, provides eight weekends with more than 35 initiatives.
Concerts, screenings, debates, international study days, theatrical shows, thematic itineraries, spaces dedicated to children and much more, a complete mix that embraces the entire Neapolitan cultural landscape.
The main objective of the event is the promotion and dissemination of the ancient music of 600 and 700, golden seasons for Naples and its gulf considered the fulcrum of the main artistic stages of Europe and major pole of attraction for Italian and foreign tourists.
Therefore, it will be important to highlight the charm and the beauty of the luoghwhich will host the festival from time to time, such as Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, the Church of Santa Caterina da Siena, the Church of San Rocco in Chiaia, the Maschio Angioino, the Villa Pignatelli Cortes Museum and the Niemeyer Auditorium of Ravello.
The program of initiatives, therefore, can only be rich and varied, for which the participants will also have the possibility to organize an individualized itinerary, studied ad hoc according to their own interests.
Program of the 1st International Festival of Ancient Music
Friday 28 November
21.00 Hours: Church of St. Catherine of Siena - Niccolò Jommelli "Sieben kleine KirchenKompositionen" for chorus and bcRequiem in Mib magg. for soloists, choir, strings and b.
Saturday December 6
21.00 pm - Gallerie d'Italia | Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano - Jommelli and his Music Masters by Niccolò Jommelli, Francesco Durante, Leonardo Leo, Nicola Fago Revision and transcription of the scores by Giacomo Sances. Dolce & Tempesta ensemble directed by Stefano Demicheli and the voices of Francesca Aspromonte and Sonia Tedla Chebreab.
Sunday December 7
18.00 hours: in the church of San Rocco there will be one of the events of the Piano city Napoli review.
Saturday December 20
18.00 pm: Church of Santa Caterina da Siena - I cantieri della voce by Sara Mingardo, a special occasion to participate in a day of study and in-depth study under the guidance of one of the most important voices on the international scene.
Friday January 2
21.00 pm: Gallerie d'Italia | Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano -The Neapolitan amorous musician Music by Giulio Caccini, Vincenzo Fontana, Andrea Falconieri, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Girolamo Kaspberger, Giuseppe Tricarico, Alessandro Scarlatti, Nicola Matteis
Sunday January 4
19: 00: Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer of Ravello the concert "The happiness of the peoples" Serenades, arias and songs in the comedy pe 'mmuseca Musicological advice by Paologiovanni MaioneMusic of Niccolò Piccinni, Rinaldo Di Capua, Domenico Cimarosa, Domenico Gaudioso, Vicente Martín y Soler, Giovanni Paisiello
Friday January 9
20.30 hours:- Neoclassical Veranda Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes Museum - Baroque madness from Naples to Dresden Music by Arcangelo Califano, Georg Friedrich Händel, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Francesco Ricupero, Johann Friedrich Fasch
Sunday January 11
19.00: Neoclassical Veranda Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes Museum - La suave melody Music by Andrea Falconiero, Dario Castello, Francesco Mancini, Domenico Scarlatti, Georg Friederich Händel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philip Emanuel Bach
Friday January 30
21.00 pm: Church of Santa Caterina da Siena False Alphabet When letters hide something Music by Hieronimus Kapsberger, Giovanni Paolo Foscarini, Santiago de Murcia, Francesco Corbetta, Angelo Michele Bartolotti, Francesco Corbetta, Santiago de Murcia, Alessandro Piccinini, Gaspar Sanz.
Saturday February 14
21.00 pm: - Gallerie d'Italia | Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano - A fashionable virtuoso: Nicola Grimaldi known as Nicolini Music by Nicola Antonio Porpora, Alessandro Scarlatti, Georg Friedrich Händel, Domenico Sarro, Giovanni Bononcini, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Information on the 1 ° International Festival of Ancient Music
When: from Saturday 22 November 2014 to Saturday 14 February 2015
Where: churches and palaces of Naples
Schedule: between the 19 and the 21.00
Ticket price:
- For the 10 € concerts
- For Over 60 and Under 30 7 €
- Artecard, FAI members and Feltrinelli Card €7
