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The Culture, Innovation & Excellence of Venice The Great Concert with Lorin Maazel at La Fenice Theater
La Fenice Theater The La Fenice Theater, a glorious theater founded in 1792, is still one of the main Italian and European theaters. It is first of all a repertory theater, which finds its roots in the great heritage of Italian 19th century opera: for La Fenice, Rossini wrote Tancredi and Semiramide, Bellini I Capuleti e I Montecchi, Verdi wrote five operas, among which La Traviata and Rigoletto. During the 20th century, La Fenice was an international reference point, with world premieres of works such as Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, and Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel and Nono’s Intolerance, and attention to contemporary creativity continues to be one of the highlights of its programme, as recent premieres of works by Kagel, Guarnieri, Mosca and Ambrosini have shown. The summer festival “Lo spirito della musica di Venezia” - the spirit of Venetian music
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- will be one of the strong points of the summer schedule and will touch, aside from the La Fenice Theater, also the Malibran Theatre and the Palazzo Ducale, along with many churches and historical palaces in the city, where operas, ballets and concerts will take place. The annual concert season of the La Fenice Theater Orchestra is also particularly rich, featuring renowned maestros among which the young main conductor Diego Matheuz, and will include, during the course of 2013, an extraordinary prestigious symphonic concert during the fall, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the reopening of the La Fenice Theater after the 1996 fire which completely destroyed the theater. Great expectations also surround the inauguration of the 2013-2014 season in November with Meyerbeer’s L’africaine, on the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death.
The Serenissima around the world An interview with mayor Giorgio Orsoni who tells us about the Venetian “system� between Culture, Beauty and Technology.
Mr. Mayor, the aim of this mission of the city of Venice in New York seems to be that of presenting a unified and organized system, but how can a complex industrial reality and a city of culture and beauty coexist?
It’s exactly that twist that represents the charm of Venice. Venice is a unique city: the industrial part of Porto Marghera, the various manufacturing districts of the land area, the port, the Mose, which, incidentally, is the largest public work in the world. But Venice is also the home of charming grand buildings along the Canal Grande, bridges, music and art, which permeates every narrow Venetian alley. Both aspects make of Venice a unified system which is not only organized but also able to rise to the challenges of modernity and carry the burdens of a glorious past.
What called for a mission in New York?
First of all, because of the interest shown by the State and the City of New York. As for any city that lives on water, in fact, New York must also try to resolve the issues generated by a giant such as the Hudson river. The focal point of this visit is the “tale” of that extraordinary environmental engineering creation represented by the Mose. Therefore, if it’s true that the Mose is a great engineering feat, it is also true that it is our duty to sustain our fundamental industrial system, which is able to compete effectively on the market. We cannot, however, forget that in a few weeks, we will celebrate the anniversary of one of the greatest European theaters, the La Fenice Theater, and its reconstruction, to which a large part of the world has contributed, and, if we needed to rate the main benefactors, we could certainly not forget the many New-Yorkers who supported us with great enthusiasm. Alongside these themes of fundamental importance for the interaction with the most important city of the United States, the entire Venetian cultural system - Civic Museums, The Biennale, State Museums, the connective tissue made of the enogastronomic culture, the culture of hospitality – constitutes the essential foundation on which the international success of Venice rests.
Great cities, as mentioned above, requiring solutions to great issues…. Of course, presiding over Venice means managing the most complex city in the world. Proof of that is the extremely vital debate that has begun: the balance between sustainable tourism and great ships with the city. No one possesses miraculous solutions. We all know that tourism is one of the riches of Venice,
and as such, we do not want nor can we do without it. But I do guarantee that Venice will not suffocate because of the slightly chaotic stream of visitors form all over the world. We will also surely find a solution that will not sacrifice one of the greatest Italian ports, while at the same time we will be able to guarantee Venetians an the world the safeguard of this splendid and lively jewel of a city for future generations.
La Fenice Theater November 23 / 26 / 27 / 29 – 6:00pm November 30th, 2013 – 3:30pm December 1st, 2013 – 3:30pm
L’africaine
Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer
Characters and Main actors Inés Jessica Pratt Vasco de Gama Gregory Kunde Sélika Veronica Simeoni
L’africaine
L’africaine is the last posthumous masterpiece by Giacomo Meyerbeer and will inaugurate the lyrical season of 2013 - 2014 of the La Fenice Theater, on Saturday, November 23rd, 2013 at 6:00pm. The new installation by staging director Emmanuel Villaume, is directed by Leo Muscato and the scenes of Massimo Cecchetto.
Staging director Emmanuel Villaume Director Leo Muscato Scenes Massimo Checchetto Costumes Carlos Tieppo Orchestra and Choir of the La Fenice Theater Choirmaster Claudio Marino Moretti
New Installation La Fenice Theater Foundation The 150th anniversary of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s death
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Magnificent Maazel Lorin Varencove Maazel was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on March 6th, 1930. At the tender age of 8 he made his debut with the Pittsburgh University Orchestra. At the age of 9 he conducted the Interlochen Orchestra in New York and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, at 11 the NBC Orchestra and at 12 the New York Philharmonic. He has been the youngest and the first amongst Americans to have conducted the Orchestra of the Wagnerian Temple in Bayreuth in 1960. He has been the
artistic director and head director of the Deutsche Opera Berlin, musical director of the Cleveland Orchestra, of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, of the New York Philharmonic and in 2006 he became the lifetime musical director of the Toscanini Symphonica. He will conduct the orchestra and the choir of the La Fenice Theater during the concert at December 14th, 2013 for the celebration of the theater’s tenth anniversary. Since 2012, Maazel has been music director of the Munich Philharmonic.
Happy Anniversary On the 14th of December, 2003, The La Fenice Theater Foundation in Venice has organized a grand concert conducted by the maestro Riccardo Muti to celebrate the reopening of the theater. On occasion of the tenth anniversary, La Fenice has organized this year a concert conducted by the grand Maestro Lorin Maazel, who will present Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
La Fenice Theater December 14th – 8:00pm
Concert for the tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the reconstructed La Fenice
10th Anniversary Rebuilding Symphony n. 9 in re minor op. 125 for solo, choir and orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven Allegro ma non troppo e un poco maestoso Molto vivace Adagio molto e cantabile Presto - Allegro assai Conductor Lorin Maazel Ekaterina Metlova soprano Kate Allen mezzosoprano Jonathan Burton tenor Luca Tittoto bass Orchestra and Choir of the La Fenice Theater Choirmaster Claudio Marino Moretti
Tickets can be purchased at all branches of the Banca Popolare di Vicenza and at the Hellovenezia counters: • La Fenice Theater: open every day from
10.00am to 5.00pm • One hour before the show at the La Fenice Theater ticket counter Phone ticket purchase (+39) 041 2424 (10% service charge)
Every day until the day preceding the show. On-line tickets www.teatrolafenice.it (10% service charge)
La Fenice Theater December 29th / 30th, 2013 – 5:00pm December 31st, 2013 – 4:00pm January 1st, 2014 – 11.15am
New year’s Concert
Conductor Diego Matheuz
Lawrence Brownlee
Carmen Giannattasio
One of the most wanted interpreters in the light lyrical repertoire, famous for his agility and sensational coloraturas. He’s considered an excellent belcantista for Rossini, Donizetti and Mozart. He has won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Aria Award, the Richard Tucker Award 2006 and the Marian Anderson Award 2006.
Her scenic presence has been compared by The Daily Telegraph to the Italian actress’, Anna Magnani, neorealist phase. She has won the first prize of the public in Paris and has sung in theaters all over the world, amongst which the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and the Metropolitan Opera.
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Diego Matheuz, Director of the La Fenice Theater since 2011, main guest conductor of the Mozart Orchestra since 2009 and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 2013, conducts the eleventh edition of La Fenice’s New year’s concert.
New year’s Concert The 29 year old Venezuelan Maestro, Diego Matheuz, main director of the La Fenice Theater Foundation since July 2011, will conduct the eleventh edition of the New year’s concert of the La Fenice Theater. The 1st of January concerto’s second part will be broadcasted live by Rai1, Arte, ZDF, WDR, Radio France and various Eastern European broadcasters. The Concert will be published on DVD by ArtHaus Musik (international distribution).
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Tickets can be purchased at all branches of the Banca Popolare di Vicenza and at the Hellovenezia counters: • La Fenice Theater: open every day from 10.00am to 5.00pm • One hour before the show at the La Fenice Theater ticket counter. Phone ticket purchase (+39) 041 2424 (10% service charge). Every day until the day preceding the show. On-line tickets www.teatrolafenice.it (10% service charge)
La Fenice in New York
On the 17th of October at 6:00pm at the Westing Hotel in Times Square, a great homage to Wagner and Verdi
Programme & Cast
Richard Wagner
Giuseppe Verdi
from “Sieben Kompositionen zu Goethes Faust” 2 Lieder des Mephistopheles • Es war einmal ein König • Was machst du mir vor Liebchens Tür
6 Romanze (1838) • Non t’accostare all’urna • More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta • In solitaria stanza • Nell’orror di notte oscura • Perduta ho la pace • Deh, pietoso, oh Addolorata
(1813-1883)
Wesendonck Lieder “Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme mit Pianoforte-Begleitung” • Der Engel • Stehe Still! • Im Treibhaus • Schmerzen • Träume
Alessandra Althoff
Luka Brajnik
Silvia Regazzo
Has attended the Opera Studio dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and has debuted in 2010 at the Reate Festival of Rieti in Le Nozze di Figaro. He has been a finalist and winner of numerous national and international prizes.
Has debuted in the Falstaff of Verdi at the Social Theater of Rovigo, to later win various international contests: Toti Dal Monte in 2001, Città Lirica OperaStudio in 2003 and in 2006, Città di Bologna in the youth section in 2009 and Giulio neri in 2010.
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Has played in all of the European capitals with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She teaches at the Frankfurt Opera and the Sommerakademie Universitaet Mozarteum in Salzburg, and has founded the Richard Wagner Association in Venice and has organized the international contest for Wagnerian Voices.
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• Stornello
Wagner e Verdi Lieder e Ariette da camera
Tickets can be purchased at all branches of the Banca Popolare di Vicenza and at the Hellovenezia counters: • La Fenice Theater: open every day from 10.00am to 5.00pm • One hour before the show at the La Fenice Theater ticket counter. Phone ticket purchase (+39) 041 2424 (10% service charge). Every day until the day preceding the show. On-line tickets www.teatrolafenice.it (10% service charge)
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Venezia
a winning system
Matteo Zoppas, President of the confederation of Italian industries, talks about the Venetian Excellence
For Europe, Venice is the portal to the Mediterranean. Since the days of the Serenissima, it has been the capital of both culture and commerce and craftsmanship, a city so important that it became one of the favoured stages for Shakespeare’s plays. This fascinating heritage attracts yearly more than 600 thousand American citizens, who come to visit the Venetian cities of art, amongst which Venice is undoubtedly the most sought after. Venice is not only a city to photograph, but is also a territory that prides itself for production of the highest level such as artistic glass, exquisite fabrics, luxurious shoes and shipbuilding. An area with great potential to express and in which to invest.
The Venice Confederation of Italian industries, on occasion of the next international Expo, has chosen to focus on key “Made in Venice” sectors like design, agriculture and luxury hospitality, so as to feature the potential of the Venetian industrial excellence, which, every year, exports products valued at aroung 4 billion euros, of which more than 230 million euros are destined to the American market.
Mose. Recent milestones and next steps How Mose works
Mose is the last and most important element in a far-ranging plan of measures to protect the lagoon area implemented by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport - Venice Water Authority through the Consorzio Venezia Nuova, in accordance with the Special Law for Venice. The heart of Mose consists of a series of mobile barriers made up of gates located in the Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia inlets. When inactive, the gates are full of water and completely invisible, resting in housing structures in the seabed. When there is a risk of particularly high tides, compressed air is emitted into the gates, emptying them of water. As the water is expelled, the gates rotate around the axis of the hinges and rise up until they emerge and block the tidal flow entering the lagoon. When the tide drops and the sea and lagoon return to the same level, the gates are filled with water again and return to the housing structures.
Mose - work progress, costs and jobs
• Construction of Mose was authorised by the “Comitatone” (Committee for Policy, Coordination and Control) in April 2003 and work began in May the same year; • About 80% of the work has been completed. In 2012, installation of the barriers themselves began, starting from the North Lido barrier. The first four gates have already been installed in the Lido Treporti inlet. On the 12th of October 2013 the four Mose gates in the Lido inlet were operated for the first time; • The barriers are expected to be completed and in operation by 2016/2017.
Venice
Events 2013 / 2014 from September to January, 6th 2014 Peggy Guggenheim Collection
wednesday, 13th – 11 am Ca’ Foscari
CFIL: Marianne Fay
tuesday, 26th Ca’ Foscari
Career Day a Ca’ Foscari. L’Università apre le porte alle aziende
December 2013 from sunday, 1st to monday, 6th January
Inverno Veneziano Winter in Venice
www.invernoveneziano.it
The Avant-gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Signac, Bonnard, Redon, and their Contemporaries Curated by Vivien Greene
wednesday, 13th – 2.30 pm sunday, 1st Ca’ Foscari Teatro La Fenice
November 2013
wednesday, 13th saturday, 16th Ca’ Foscari
friday, 8th – 8.00 pm sunday, 10th – 5.00 pm Teatro La Fenice
Concerto diretto da Diego Matheuz friday, 8th Ca’ Foscari
Incontro con lo scrittore Mauro Covacich friday, 8th – 2.30 pm Ca’ Foscari
Lecture prof. Aron Shai saturday, 9th – 2.30 pm Ca’ Foscari
Giorno della Laurea: sessione autunnale
Ca’ Foscari Ambassador’s Lecture: David Ritchie, Ambasciatore d’Australia
Ruskino
friday, 14th – 10.00 am Ca’ Foscari
Giorno della Laurea saturday, 23th – 6.30 pm Ca’ Foscari
Ca’ Foscari Forward saturday, 23th sunday, 24th Ca’ Foscari
Salone della cultura saturday, 23 tuesday, 26th wednesday, 27th friday, 29th saturday, 30th Teatro La Fenice th
L’africaine
sunday, 29th – 5.00 pm monday, 30th – 5.00 pm tuesday, 31st – 4.00 pm Teatro La Fenice
Concerto di Capodanno
friday, 31st Teatro La Fenice
tuesday, 30th Teatro La Fenice
sunday, 2nd – 5.00 pm Teatro La Fenice
friday, 31st Ca’ Foscari
friday, 7th – 8.00 pm saturday, 8th – 5.00 pm Teatro Malibran
La clemenza di Tito International Welcome Days
Capodanno a Venezia friday, 31st – 8.00 pm from December to April 2014 Ca’ Rezzonico XVIII Century Venice Museum
Teatro La Fenice
Stagione Sinfonica
February 2014
L’africaine
Pietro Bellotti un altro from February 1st Canaletto to April, 14th
monday, 2nd – 3.00 pm Ca’ Foscari
tuesday, 31st Piazza San Marco
Presentazione dei risultati del concorso sui cambiamenti climatici thursday, 5th Ca’ Foscari
Nobels Colloquia 2013 friday, 6th – 8.00 pm saturday 7th – 5.00 pm Teatro La Fenice
Concerto diretto da John Eliot Gardiner
wednesday, 18th – 8.00 pm thursday, 19th – 8.00 pm Basilica di San Marco
Concerto di Natale wednesday, 18th thursday, 19th friday, 20th saturday, 21st sunday, 22nd Teatro La Fenice
Onegin balletto
New Year’s Eve in Venice
www.capodannovenezia.it
January 2014 friday, 1st – 11.15 am Teatro La Fenice
Concerto di Capodanno
friday, 10th – 8.00 pm sunday, 12th – 5.00 pm Teatro La Fenice
Stagione Sinfonica friday, 17th sunday, 19th thursday, 21th tuesday, 23th saturday, 25th Teatro Malibran
La scala di seta friday, 24th sunday, 26th thursday, 28th
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Themes&Variations. The Empire of Light. Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero from February to April Ca’ Foscari
Mostra di opere di V. E. Popkov from February to May Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art
Stagione Sinfonica
John Axelrod friday, 14th
San Valentino a Venezia
saturday, 15th sunday, 16th wednesday, 19th friday, 21st sunday, 23rd thursday, 25th tuesday, 27th Teatro Malibran
La traviata
from saturday, 15th to tuesday 4th march
Carnevale di Venezia
www.carnevale.venezia.it
tuesday, 20th saturday, 22nd wednesday, 26th Teatro La Fenice
Il barbiere di Siviglia
The Panza Collection
friday, 28th Teatro Malibran
from February to May Museo Correr
March 2014
Immagine della Città from February to June Museo Correr
Fernand Leger and the modern City saturday, 1st Teatro La Fenice
La clemenza di Tito
Il campiello
from March to July
Museo Fortuny
Primavera a Palazzo Fortuny Dora Mar. AnneKaren Fuornes Livia Tivoli Cadorin Barbara Paganin Ritsue Mishima
saturday, 1st wednesday, 5th friday, 7th thursday, 11th Teatro Malibran
Il campiello
thursday, 4th tuesday, 6th saturday, 8th Teatro Malibran
La traviata
sunday, 2nd wednesday, 5th friday, 7th sunday, 9th Teatro La Fenice
April 2014 wednesday, 2nd friday, 4th sunday, 6th Teatro Malibran
Elegy for Young Lovers wednesday, 2nd saturday, 5th Ca’ Foscari
Incroci di civiltà
saturday, 19th thursday, 22nd 24th Il barbiere di Siviglia tuesday, sunday, 27th thursday, 29th monday, 3rd Teatro La Fenice Ca’ Foscari
La bohème
CFIL: John Ikenberry
wednesday, 12 – 8 pm Teatro La Fenice Yuri Bashmet th
friday, 26th wednesday, 30th Teatro La Fenice
Madama Butterfly
friday, 14th – 8.00 pm sunday, 16th – 5.00 pm Teatro La Fenice
friday 11th – 8.00 pm sunday 13th – 5.00 pm Teatro Malibran
wednesday, 19 saturday, 22nd Ca’ Foscari
April 25th – May 4, 2014 Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Stagione Sinfonica th
Stagione Sinfonica
Ca’ Foscari Short Film Kids Creative Lab Festival
sunday, 23rd – 8.00 pm Teatro La Fenice
Stagione Sinfonica tuesday, 27th saturday, 29th Teatro Malibran
Elegy for Young Lovers
May 2014
May 17 August 31st, 2014 Peggy Guggenheim Collection th
For Your Eyes Only. A Private Collection, from Mannerism to
Surrealism. Curated by Andreas Beyer friday, 2nd sunday, 4th friday, 9th wednesday, 21st saturday, 24th tuesday, 29th Teatro La Fenice
Madama Butterfly saturday, 3rd saturday, 10th sunday, 25th tuesday, 27th friday, 30th Teatro La Fenice
La bohème
friday, 16th saturday, 17th sunday, 18th thursday, 20th tuesday, 22nd friday, 23rd wednesday, 28th saturday, 31st Teatro La Fenice
Tosca
saturday, 31st Ca’ Foscari
TEDX Cafoscari 2 May – September Ca’ Foscari
Mostra su Roginskij
June 2014
sunday, 1st Teatro La Fenice
Madama Butterfly sunday, 1
th
Festa della Sensa
www.sensavenezia.it
friday, 6th – 8.00 pm saturday, 7th – 8.00 pm Teatro Malibran
Fortuny La Marchesa Casati Sarah Moon
friday, 13th – 8.00 pm saturday, 14th – 8.00 pm Teatro Malibran
September 13th to January 12nd Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Stagione Sinfonica
Stagione Sinfonica
sunday, 15th – 8.00 pm Teatro La Fenice
Stagione Sinfonica saturday, 21st Ca’ Foscari
AZIMUT/H. Continuity a nd the New Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero
Artnight
sunday, 7 Ca’ Foscari
friday, 27th sunday, 29th Teatro La Fenice
sunday, 7th
The Rake’s Progress
July 2014 thursday, 1st tuesday, 3rd saturday, 5th Teatro La Fenice
The Rake’s Progress saturday, 19th sunday, 20th
Festa del Redentore
www.redentorevenezia.it
August 2014 friday, 29 saturday, 30th sunday, 31st Teatro La Fenice th
La traviata
September 2014 Museo Fortuny
Autunno a Palazzo
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Palio delle Università Regata Storica
www.regatastoricavenezia.it
thursday, 2nd wednesday, 3rd sunday, 7th saturday, 13th friday, 19th tuesday, 25th Teatro La Fenice
La traviata
friday, 12th sunday, 14th wednesday, 17th saturday, 20th wednesday, 24th friday, 26th sunday, 28th Teatro La Fenice
Il trovatore
tuesday, 18th sunday, 21nd thursday, 23rd saturday, 27th Teatro La Fenice
L’inganno felice
October 2014 friday, 10th saturday, 11th sunday, 12th thursday, 14th wednesday, 15th tuesday, 16th friday, 17th saturday, 18th sunday, 19th Teatro La Fenice
Don Giovanni
December 2014 from 1st december to january, 6th
Inverno Veneziano
www.invernoveneziano.it
Museo Correr
Disegni veneziani dalle collezioni della National Gallery di Washington wednesday, 31st December Piazza San Marco
New Year’s Eve in Venice
www.capodannovenezia.it Tickets can be purchased at all branches of the Banca Popolare di Vicenza and at the Hellovenezia counters:
• La Fenice Theater: open every day from 10.00 to 17.00 • One hour before the show at the La Fenice Theater ticket counter Phone ticket purchase (+39) 041 2424 (10% service charge)
Every day until the day preceding the show.
On-line tickets
www.teatrolafenice.it
(10% service charge)
For more information visit
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Water Lagoon / most soil Recoveries / spa / parks Springs / territories / routes Culture / crops Innovation / economy
Venice Expo Committee was set up to coordinate and manage multiple activities necessary to ensure the presence of the metropolitan area of Venice, in Shanghai in 2010 and to have an active role and governance for projects related to Expo Milan 2015, to be developed in the metropolitan area of Venice. Working as control room, it will coordinate by the creation of a Master and an Action Plan, the initiatives in the area of reference: the basin of waters. VENICE / broad area, is DOOR of EXPO 2015 and CO-LOCATION: an ARCIPELAGO of culture, ideas, experiences of transformations, productive capacity and hospitality.
Big ecosystems In which can coexist Environment Agri-food activities Settlements and regeneration Nature / health / tourism
Venice to Expo 2015 1° may – 31° october 2015 Routes of crops and culture The Venice to Expo Committee coordinates projects, events, exhibitions, itineraries in the metropolitan area during the six months of the Expo
www.expo.venezia.it