The programme for the 48th edition of the Festival della Valle d’Itria is the first by our new artistic director Sebastian F. Schwarz. The festival is held in Martina Franca in the usual summer period, from the 19th July to the 6th August 2022.
Five operas, for a journey through time spanning from the 17th century to present day: Le joueur (1929) by SergejProkof’ev, Beatrice di Tenda (1833) by VincenzoBellini, Il Xerse (1655) by FrancescoCavalli, La scuola de’ gelosi (1778) by AntonioSalieri and the world premiere Opera italiana(2010) by NicolaCampogrande.
The 47th edition of the Festivaldella Valled’Itria will take place in MartinaFranca during the customary summer period.
The programme sketches a clear historical and cultural itinerary starting from the NeapolitanBaroque of AlessandroScarlatti and NicolaPorpora, passing through Haydn’s VienneseClassicism, and finally reaching Schubert. But the proposedworks open up to interpretations, to connections and references to today’shuman and socialconditions, starting from the most obvious example: “Fiat lux” is a newbeginning, stemming from the pressing need for an authenticre-creation of the world…
«Since opera was invented in Italy in the late 1500s we continue to recitar cantando, to tell the tales of our today or to transform the myths, literature and history into librettos and scores to then entrust singer-actors and musicians with them, concentrating all the art forms – visual, figurative, performative – onto that big stage that means the world.
And yet, in Italy we see little of this. Despite the over 40.000 operas that have supposedly been written so far (no one has ever convincingly been able to count them), astonishingly, for years and years the same about 30 operas seem to be rehashed over and over again as if our audiences didn’t ask for more»…
The 46th edition of the Festival will take place in Martina Franca from July 14th to August 2nd 2020.
The operatic titles that will be staged in 2020 will be: Gli amanti sposi by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, La rappresaglia by Saverio Mercadante and Leonora by Ferdinando Paër. A choice in line with the decades-long artistic project of the Festival, between rarities and rediscoveries, with the return of twentieth-century historical title never seen again in the contemporary age, and two nineteenth-century rarities. These titles will also be accompanied by Niccolò Piccinni’s interlude Il perucchiere, destined for the successful “Opera in masseria” initiative.
Martina Franca has distinct connections with bel canto. An opportunity for opera-lovers, academics and critics to come together.
Lamberto Puggelli
Quotidiano
Here in Martina Franca, philology triumphs. And in the moonlight in the airy atrium of the Ducal Palace, music makes its presence firmly known.
Gino Negri
Panorama
Puglia is there to be explored a little more each time, thanks to the Martina Franca festival.
Derna Querel
La Feluca
For me this isn’t just a festival,
it’s a party too!
Luciana Serra
Quotidiano
The festival collaborates with the “Fondazione Paolo Grassi” for the Belcanto Academy “Rodolfo Celletti” and the realisation of issues, conventions and concerts.
