HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT
SOUND ACTS
March 29, 9 pm
at the Duse Theater
music by Igor Stravinskij, text by CF Ramuz
ACTI SONORI stages the “poor” Opera that Igor Stranvinsky composed in 1918, against the sumptuous canons of traditional opera.
The story is taken from the Russian fairytale tradition and has as its protagonist a soldier, an emblematic victim of the world conflict of the Great War.
The soldier's story it concerns humanity as a whole and, in particular, the issue of the impossibility of man to escape his own destiny.
Histoire du Soldat | by Gianluca Cheli
This work was initially conceived as a work for puppets: a simple and immediate artistic product, with a strong symbolic component. Here the graphic gesture is chosen as a marionette sign to reveal the dark aftertaste of the ironic atmospheres, musically outlined by Stravinskij in his chamber work.
Elements that return in the expressive sign of the most submerged plane of the Histoire du Soldat: the melancholy, and all in all a bit funny, feeling of predetermination, combined with the creative madness of Russian fairy tales, from which the work takes its cue.
ORCHESTRA DEL BARACCANO
director Giambattista Giocoli
Roberto Noferini violin | Fabio Quaranta double bass
Giovanni Picciati clarinet | Paolo Rosetti bassoon
Fabio Codeluppi trumpet | Valentino Spaggiari trombone
Simone Beneventi percussion
narrator Ivano Marescotti
illustrations Michele Cerone
dramaturg Gianluca Cheli
Ticket € 32 (full), € 24 (reduced)
THE ORCHESTRA
The Baraccano Orchestra was born within the activities of the Piccolo Teatro del Baraccano di Bologna, where the theater production and research project is carried out musical SOUND ACTS .
The Orchestra was founded in 2013 and is directed by its artistic director Giambattista Juggles .
Within ATTI SONORI he has produced various musical theater projects both independently both in co-production and collaboration with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna e BSMT productions of Bologna.
In 2013 he made the musical A Little Night Music ; in 2014 Stephen's Sweeney Todd Sondheim and Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinskij. In 2015 At the Opera! , symphonies, interludes and overtures of the Italian opera. In 2016 the 4th Gustav Mahler, the fourth Symphony by Mahler, arranged for chamber orchestra.
In 2017, the planned projects are: Popular songs , with soloist Cristina Zavalloni And a new Histoire du soldat with the reciting voice of Ivano Marescotti .
The orchestra's vocation is to specialize in the production of musical theater and chamber opera.
GIAMBATTISTA GIOCOLI
Clarinetist and conductor , born in 1976, he began his clarinet studies with Vincenzo Perrone at the Matera Conservatory, then graduating from the Bologna Conservatory with Maestro Enrico Quarenghi.
He performs as a soloist accompanied by orchestras, including the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Copland concert, 1998).
He has made recordings for Radio Emilia-Romagna, Lucania and for the national RAI-Radio Tre, for RAISAT and on the Internet, for the CLASSICA pay TV channel and for the Japanese television Fuji Television network. Among the CD recordings we remember a monograph on Giacinto Scelsi, several historical works of the twentieth century and world premieres by contemporary authors, and an engraving for the Deutsche Grammophon with Placido Domingo.
He had an eclectic training that allowed him to perform using all the members of the clarinet family, from the piccolo in Eb to the bass clarinet, to the basset horn in Mozart's Requiem , broadcast worldwide and on Italian RAI TRE in 2000.
He studied with Gaspare Tirincanti, specializing in the contemporary repertoire for solo clarinets. He has collaborated, as bass clarinet, small solo clarinet and clarinet in a row, in the lyrical and symphonic seasons of various orchestras including the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna with which he has collaborated regularly for 10 years.
He collaborated with the FontanaMIX Contemporary Music Ensemble, with whom he held contemporary music workshops at the DAMS of the University of Bologna, and with the Sentieri Selvaggi ensemble of Milan, with whom he performed in Belgrade and Uzbechistan. .
He studied in Siena at the Accademia Chigiana with Antony Pay and with Alessandro Carbonare at the Academy of Emilia-Romagna AFOS.
Among the most important international festivals in which he participated we remember Bologna Festival, Nuove Consonanze di Roma, Angelica Festival, Milano Musica and the Rovereto Mozart Festival.
In June 2002 and 2006 he made a tour in Japan with the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, conducted by the masters Daniele Gatti and Friederich Haider.
In duo with piano he is awarded in various musical competitions among which we remember the one in Viareggio 2003 and the Festival delle Arti 2003 in Bologna.
He is the artistic director of various musical reviews in the Bologna area, including the musical theater review ATTI SONORI .
In 2013 he made his debut as conductor in the production of the S. Sondheim musical A Little Night Music , receiving critical and public acclaim. In the same year he founded the Baraccano Orchestra .
In 2014 he directed L ' Histoire du Soldat by I. Stravinskij and the most famous and demanding musical by Sondheim Sweeney Todd .
In 2015 he produced the project on opera interludes and symphonies All'Opera! . In December 2015 he made his debut at the helm of the Toscanini Orchestra of Parma .
In 2016, in addition to touring the projects produced so far, he made his debut with the 4th Gustav Mahler project and in the Popular songs program, a concert of popular cultured songs, with the voice of Cristina Zavalloni and the harp of Davide Burani.
In 2017 he will continue his collaboration with the Toscanini of Parma and will make his debut at the direction of the Rossini Symphonic Orchestra of Pesaro in a small tour in Italy.
IVANO MARESCOTTI
Actor from Romagna, he ranges from cinema (with over 50 films) to theater, where he undertook, among other things, a recovery of his Romagna dialect, taking up the texts of Raffaello Baldini, to reread and rewrite Dante's Divine Comedy in his own way and the Orlando Furioso de ll'Ariosto.