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26  and November 27
matinee for schools

THE SOUL or THE VIOLIN

musical theater show

The soul or the violin  it is a story that takes place in the intertwining of music and storytelling.
Through the story of a soldier who sells his violin to the devil in exchange for his soul, the concept of duality between good and evil is expressed. The soldier, that is the man, can choose to have easy money, money, but this well-being can hide dangers, it can have consequences including losing happiness and the things that really matter in life: affections, friendship. , being real people.

The soldier will remain a victim of his own riches, but I will have an opportunity to redeem himself, he will have a second chance and, if he knows how to grasp it, he will finally have rediscovered the meaning of life.

ORCHESTRA DEL BARACCANO

director Giambattista Giocoli
 

narrator  Angela Malfitano

Roberto Noferini violin | Fabio Quaranta double bass Giovanni Picciati clarinet | Luca Reverberi bassoon Fabio Codeluppi trumpet | Valentino Spaggiari trombone Nunzio Dicorato percussion

 

illustrations Michele Cerone

dramaturg Gianluca Cheli

THE ORCHESTRA
The Baraccano Orchestra was born within the activities of
  Theater of  They baraccano  of Bologna, where a production and research project on the theater is carried out  chamber music.

IS  was founded in 2013 and is directed by its artistic director  Giambattista  Juggles .
The Orchestra has produced numerous musical theater performances both
  independently both in co-production and collaboration with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, BSMT productions and the University of Bologna.

 

Among the productions we remember: the musicals  A Little Night Music  And  Sweeney Todd  by Stephen  Sondheim, the show  Histoire du Soldat  by Igor stravinskij, the projects  At the Opera! , symphonies,  interludes and overtures of the Italian opera e  4th Gustav Mahler , the fourth  Symphony by Mahler, arranged for chamber orchestra.

In 2017 he carried out the following projects:  Popular songs , with soloist  Cristina Zavalloni,  a new  Histoire du soldat  with the reciting voice of  Ivano Marescotti  and  The Barber in Comics , "The Barber of Seville"  for music, animations and Manga comics, designed by Tsukishiro Yuko, in international co-production with the  Japan.

 

The goal of the Orchestra  is to play, with formations for  chamber orchestra,  musical works originally composed for large orchestras, producing new scores played "in real parts".

THE DIRECTOR

GIAMBATTISTA GIOCOLI

At first  clarinetist , born in 1976 in Matera, he studied clarinet in his hometown and then graduated from  Conservatory of Bologna.

As an instrumentalist he studied with Perrone, Quarenghi, Tirincanti, Pay and Carbonare, immediately starting an intense concert activity in Italy and abroad.

Carry out  registrations  for Italian and foreign radios, recording several classical and contemporary music CDs.

For 10 years he collaborated with the opera and symphonic seasons of the Municipal Theater Orchestra  from Bologna  with which he performs many tours in Italy and abroad.

He has collaborated with contemporary music ensembles  FontanaMIX  from Bologna  and with the ensemble  Wild Trails  of Milan, with a concert activity in Europe and Asia.

 

In 2013 he made his debut as  conductor  in the production of American musicals and in the same year he founded the Baraccano Orchestra ,  with which he produces chamber musical theater projects and symphonic projects that he still carries on tour.

Since 2015 he has been collaborating as guest conductor with the Orchestra of the Toscanini Foundation  of Parma , and from 2017 with the Rossini Symphony Orchestra  of Pesaro . In 2018 he also began collaborating with  Lucana Orchestra Foundation  and  Virtuosi of the Italian Opera.

 

AND'  artistic director  of the  Baraccano Theater  of Bologna and the research and production project of Teatro Musicale  SOUND ACTS  from Bologna.

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