FESTIVAL DUNI
From 29 September 2023 to 19 November 2023/ Italy / Matera
DUNI FESTIVAL 2023 | Matera, Italy
September - November 2023
XXIV EDITION - Southern Singing
29 September, Matera, Cathedral
Donato Ricchezza (Matera 1651-Naples 1731)
II Nabucco, oratorio – Il Cigno di Polonia, cantata
Angela Luglio-Giulia Lepore sopranos, Cristina D'Alessandro contralto, Leopoldo Punziano tenor, Giuseppe Naviglio bass
Neapolitan Chapel – Director Antonio Florio
* In collaboration with Biblioteca e Complesso Oratorio dei Girolamini, Naples
30 September, Matera, Church of San Giovanni Battista
“The garden of Giulio Caccini”. Arias and pieces for archlute from the early Italian seventeenth century
Ester Facchini soprano – Franco Pavan archlute
1st October Matera, Palazzo Viceconte
“Bello tiempo passato” music in the Kingdom of Naples from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Ensemble Micrologus – Patrizia Bovi
* in collaborazion with Consolato di Spagna and 'Istituto Cervantes di Napoli
12 October Matera, Palazzo Viceconte
“Silva de Sirenas: a stringed instrument for a prince”
Music by Enríquez de Valderrábano
John Griffiths vihuela
13 October Matera, Palazzo Viceconte
Madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo and Claudio Monteverdi
Les Arts Florissants– director Paul Agnew
* As part of the international conference in collaboration with Romagna Music
“Carlo Gesualdo and the southern musicians of his time”
20 October Matera, Palazzo Viceconte
Sonatas for flute and continuous bass by Georg Friedrich Händel
Tommaso Rossi flute Enrico Baiano harpsichord
Sunday 22 October Matera Palazzo Viceconte
“Mediterrania. A sea of music”
Neapolitan villanllas and Renaissance dances
Èlia Casanova and Pino De Vittorio voices – Capella de Ministrers – Carles Magraner
29 October Matera, Palazzo Viceconte
“Imaginary: from a book of music forand vihuela”
Music by sixteenth-century Spanish authors
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María Cristina Kiehr voice – Ariel Abramovich vihuela
1 November, Matera, Palazzo Viceconte
“Neapolitan Baroque Concert”
Music by Alessandro Scarlatti and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Duni Festival Baroque Orchestra - Conductor and solo violin Francesco D'Orazio – Conductor and violin soloist Francesco D'Orazio
5 November
Matera, Guerrieri Municipal Theatre
“Molière Marathon”
morning
11.00 am
“Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Lully and Molière” suite of dances from the original performance in 1670
introduction to the scene: Cosimo Frascella dancers: Cecilia Manicone, Miriam Onorati, Miriana Simone, Fabio Vicenti, Francesca Vinci, principal dancer: Anna Moscatelli
choreography: Marco Magrino, Rossella Iacovone direction: Vania Cauzillo
Festival Duni Baroque Orchestra - Conductor Francesco D'Orazio
afternoon
5.00 pm Matera, Guerrieri Municipal Theatre
Screening of the film Molière by Ariane Mnouchkine (1978)
introduced and illustrated by Nanni Coppola
evening
8.30pm
Matera, Conservatory Auditorium
Richard Strauss The Bourgeois Gentleman
Flavio Insinna narrator
Matera, Symphony Orchestra-Conductor Rino Marrone
11 November, Pomarico (MT) Palazzo Marchesale
“Arias, symphonies and concerts by Antonio Vivaldi”
Nicolò Balducci countertenor
Matera Symphony Orchestra with baroque first parts - Conductor Francesco D'Orazio
Musicological Study Day “Performing Antonio Vivaldi today”
Project in collaboration with the Municipality of Pomarico
17 November Matera, Palazzo Viceconte
“Concert for Cardinal Montalto (Rome ca. 1620)”
Music by Ippolito Macchiavelli, Cesare Marotta and others
Furio Zanasi voice - Ensemble La Chimera – Lute and direction Eduardo Egüez
18 November Matera, Church of San Giovanni Battista
“To the distant beloved” – Love letters in music from Monteverdi to Beethoven
Carlotta Colombo voice – Chiara Granata baroque harp – Readings by Dinko Fabris
19 November Matera, Teatro Comunale Guerrieri
Frederic Rzewski, 36 variations on the song “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido”
Emanuele Arciuli piano
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