The Music Festival. Six evenings of art at Palazzo Gallio.
From Friday 25 July to Sunday 31 August
The third edition of the Como Lake Alto Lario Music Festival, the Gravedona ed Uniti event held inside Palazzo Gallio, one of the symbols of the Alto Lario, kicks off. The six-evening program, starting Friday, July 25th and running through Sunday, August 31st, all at 8:45 pm, will feature music, theater, and singing. The Festival will open on Friday, July 25th with the violin and piano duo Prodigi, who will perform pieces by Beethoven, Ysaye, Paganini, and others. The second event, on Thursday, July 31st, features the Apollon Quartet, a string quartet composed of Stepan Prazak and Radek Krizanovsky on violin, Pavel Ciprys on viola, and Pavel Verner on cello. The program includes works by Dvorak, Nelson, Gillespie, and Corea. The festival continues with the Oscar Movies Ensemble on Tuesday, August 5th, and Imprints of Music and Images from the History of Cinema: pieces from Limelight, Cinema Paradiso, The Mission, and other famous films whose soundtracks have written music history. Halfway through the festival, chamber music will give way to opera and song. The first event is Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto on Saturday, August 16th, followed by The Voice of the Water on Thursday, August 21st, featuring soprano Fiorenza Cedolins, alongside sopranos Elizaveta Shuvalova and Arpi Sinanyan, and pianists Luca Forlani and Svetlana Sayad. Their program includes music by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Bellini, Boito, and many others, including an Armenian folk song. Finally, on Sunday, August 31st, the Festival will conclude with Song and Silence: a journey through female souls, featuring soprano Jelena Stefanic and piano player Corrado Valvo. We begin with the great operatic repertoire and salon romances—Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, among others—and continue with Romances, Songs, and Zarzuelas, which feature compositions by Federico García Lorca and other selected authors from Iberian culture. Paola Pioppi
Il Giorno
