The American musicals of the forties and fifties
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
with
Soprano June Anderson
Baritone Paulo Szot
Director Wayne Marshall
assistant conductor Matthew Aucoin
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI
Thank you Rodgers & Hammerstein Concert Library and Boosey & Hawkes Hire Library
Spoleto57 Festival production of 2Mondi
we thank the company Angelo Fabbrini Piano - Pescara for their cooperation
syllabus
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
from OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma Overture
Oh, what a beautiful mornin '
People will say we're in love
from SOUTH PACIFIC
Some Enchanted Evening
A Wonderful Guy
This was nearly mine
by THE KING AND I
March of the Siamese children
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
from MY FAIR LADY
I could have danced all night
Richard Rodgers
ON YOUR TOES
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
by CAMELOT
If ever I would leave you
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
from THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Overture
The Sound of Music (Maria)
Edelweiss
My Favourite Things
Laendler
Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
by THE KING AND I
I have dreamed
The final concert, which traditionally concludes the Festival, this year brings on the stage in Piazza Duomo, the three major players on the international scene: the soprano June Anderson, baritone Paulo Szot and the Director Wayne Marshall, accompanied by the National Symphony RAI, in an evening dedicated to the most famous musicals of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein and Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, with excerpts from Oklahoma, South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Camelot .
JUNE ANDERSON
A native of Boston, soprano June Anderson is one of the most important opera singers on the operatic stage and concert internationally. She is an artist that stands out for its vocal qualities: a stamp that does not lose the shine of the high notes, considerable extension that makes it look easy and natural to the execution of steps sharp and fast, a voice that is constantly crystalline interpretation and a more intense and engaging.
He began to take singing lessons at age 11 and at 17 is the youngest finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions. He attended Yale University, specializing in French and graduated cum laude.
After his university studies began to seriously consider the idea of becoming a singer: "I decided to move to New York in two years thinking that if you had not become famous, I would have enrolled in the School of Law. After nine months I was not famous and I had finished all my money but it was at that moment that I decided that I had to become a singer, whatever the cost. was really a challenge, because there is nothing at that point was so easy. When I was a child, or a teenager, and studied singing privately, everything was easier, I always said that I was all fantastic. But suddenly no longer seemed to believe it. So I thought, 'Damn I will show everyone how good I am!' "
He studied singing with Robert Leonard and debuted at the New York City Opera in 1978 in the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute. In 1982, she was invited to sing Semiramide at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. That was the start of his career and has since shared the stage with almost all the major theaters of Europe and the United States. He sang with the orchestras of Vienna, Paris, Hamburg, Madrid, Florence, Geneva, La Scala, Covent Garden, Venice, Rome, Bologna, the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia and has worked with the most important directors of 'orchestra, among them Leonard Bernstein, James Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Daniele Gatti, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Michel Plasson, Georges Prêtre, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Michael Tilson Thomas. It 'singer was the first non-Italian to win the prestigious Bellini d'Oro prize.
And 'she sings the aria of the Queen of the Night in Milos Forman's film Amadeus.
He performs regularly at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, at the Pesaro Festival and the Festival of Aix en Provence.
Her vocal talent allows her to master a wide repertoire, ranging from the role of Giulietta (I Capuleti ei Montecchi), Norma, Violetta (La Traviata) to that of Tatiana (Eugene Onegin).
In 2012 she played Pat Nixon (Nixon in China) at the Théâtre du Chatelet, where he will sing again in April of 2014 in a recital.
PAULO SZOT
Today one of the most acclaimed and versatile baritones on the international stage, Paulo Szot returns to Spoleto, where he debuted in 2007 in the role of Donato Maria Golovin and where, in the last edition of the Festival, has paid tribute to a brilliant evening and eclectic, the music on the Broadway stage earned him the 2008 Tony Award as best musical actor for his portrayal of Emile de Becque in South Pacific, as well as other awards such as the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and the Theatre World Award.
In 2010, the Brazilian-born baritone made his acclaimed debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Kovalyov in a new production of Shostakovich's The Nose. Among his most popular representations: the role of Don Giovanni with the Opera de Bordeaux, the Michigan Opera and the Dallas Opera; Eugene Onegin, Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) in Marseille; Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) at the New York City Opera, the Boston Lyric Opera, De Vlaamse Opera and the Aix-en-Provence; Escamillo with the Metropolitan Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro; and Manon at the Metropolitan Opera. More recently premiered at the Opéra de Paris / Palais Garnier in Così fan tutte, Opera in Rome it's nose and La Scala in Milan in Heart of a Dog.
He has also performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops and Avery Fischer Hall with the New York Philharmonic, where he presented his show An Evening with Paulo Szot, acclaimed by critics and audiences and also presented as part of the American Songbook Series at the Jazz at Lincoln Center and the famous Cafe Carlyle in New York.
The 2013/2014 season sees him in two productions at the Metropolitan Opera, nose and Die Fledermaus, The Marriage of Figaro in Bahrain and with the Australian Opera Company in the title role of Eugene Onegin. Will return to the Metropolitan Opera in 2014/2015 for The Death of Klinghoffer.
WAYNE MARSHALL
Conductor, pianist and organist, Wayne Marshall is one of the most versatile musicians and whimsical today.
It's just been appointed Principal Conductor of the WDR in Cologne Rundfunkorchestre and continues to be principal guest conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi.
Born near Manchester, where he began his studies and then continue them in London and Vienna, he was appreciated especially early in his career as an organist, and began his career as a director after having worked at a famous staging of Porgy and Bess at Glyndebourne with Simon Rattle; In 2004 he received an honorary degree from the University of Bornemouth and has recently been appointed as an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Music in London.
In 1998 he made his debut as a director in Italy at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and in recent years its presence in Italy has intensified considerably, leading him to be a regular guest of our major orchestras: the RAI in Turin, at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Massimo of Palermo, the Cherubini Orchestra, the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome to the post of guest conductor of the Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi in Milan.
In 2001 he made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
In recent seasons he has participated in new productions of opera Porgy and Bess, Candide and Dear Man Walking in 2014 and will direct a new production of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.
Recently in the near future and will direct world-famous orchestras in Brussels, London, Strasbourg, Dresden, Leipzig, Stockholm, Monte Carlo, Dallas, Toulouse, Moscow.
Holder Marcussen organ of the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester since 1996, Marshall continues to perform as organist in 2004 and unveiled the instrument of the new Disney Hall in Los Angeles with a new composition by James MacMillan for organ and orchestra, A Scotch Bestiary, song who also played at the BBC Promenade Concerts in 2005.
He has recorded for Virgin / EMI, winning major awards in Europe. Wayne Marshall lives in Malta with his wife, pianist Jennifer Micallef, and their two children.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF RAI
The Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai was born in 1994 from the unification of the entity public radio orchestras of Turin, Rome, Milan and Naples, becoming one of the most prestigious teams in Italy. The first concerts were directed by Georges Prêtre and Giuseppe Sinopoli, followed by Jeffrey Tate, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Eliahu Inbal and Gianandrea Noseda.
Since November 2009, is the principal conductor Juraj Valčuha.
Among other significant presence on the podium: Carlo Maria Giulini, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Mstislav Rostropovich, Myung-Whun Chung, Riccardo Chailly, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Yuri Ahronovitch, Marek Janowski, Semyon Bychkov, Dmitry Kitaenko, Alexander Lazarev, Valery Gergiev, Gerd Albrecht, Yutaka Sado, Mikko Franck, James Conlon, Roberto Abbado and Kirill Petrenko.
Thanks to the presence of his concerts in the schedules radio (Radio 3) and television (RAI 1, RAI-3 and Rai5), the OSN Rai has contributed to the spread of the great symphonic repertoire and the pages of the historical and contemporary art, thanks to commissions and first performances who have obtained artistic awards, publishing and recording. Exemplary in 2004, the festival of contemporary music Rai NuovaMusica.
The Orchestra held in Turin regular concert seasons and special cycles, and is a frequent guest of major festivals such MYTH SettembreMusica Biennale di Venezia, Ravenna Festival and Festival Maletestiana of Rimini. Among the institutional commitments include Christmas concerts in Assisi broadcast worldwide and celebrations for the Republic Day.
In 2006 she was invited to the Salzburg Festival and at the Philharmonie in Berlin to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Hans Werner Henze.
Among the recent commitments: Abu Dhabi Classics, a concert tour in Germany, Austria and Slovakia, concerts at the Festival RadiRO and the Enescu Festival in Bucharest.
Important debut at the Musikverein in Vienna and the return at the Philharmonie in Berlin. He participated in the film-opera Rigoletto in Mantua, under the direction of Mehta and directed by Bellocchio, and Cinderella, a fairy tale in a direct broadcast worldwide on RAI 1. The orchestra also deals with the recordings of jingles and soundtracks of television programs Rai. From his live concerts are often made CDs and DVDs.
