ALL'OPERA!
symphonies and interludes taken from the most famous Operas of the Italian tradition
The concert includes the performance, with original arrangements for Chamber Orchestra, of symphonies, preludes and interludes taken from the most famous Operas of the Italian tradition.
From Bellini's Norma to Verdi's Forza del Destino, passing from Puccini's Manon Lescaut to the famous opening symphony of Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia and again to the interludes of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, and other popular interludes and symphonies of the Italian tradition.
The Baraccano Orchestra will be involved in this project in a chamber formation with 8 orchestral players with real parts.
The orchestral arrangements are by Lorenzo Meo.
BARACCANO ORCHESTRA
conductor Giambattista Giocoli
piano
accordion
flûte and piccolo
bassoon
trumpet
cello
double bass
horn
arrangement by Lorenzo Meo
organizational direction Nella Belfiore
ALL'OPERA!
Sinfonia dalla Norma by Vincenzo Bellini
Preludio da La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
Preludio da Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
Ouverture dal Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti
Intermezzo da L'Amico Fritz by Pietro Mascagni
Intermezzo dalla Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Sinfonia da Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Gioacchino Rossini
Intermezzo da I Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Intermezzo dalla Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini
Sinfonia da La Forza del Destino by Giuseppe Verdi
BARACCANO ORCHESTRA
The Baraccano Orchestra was born within the activities of the Theater of Baraccano in Bologna, where a production and research project on chamber music theater is carried out.
It was founded in 2013 and is directed by its artistic director Giambattista Giocoli.
The Orchestra has produced numerous musical theater shows, both independently and in co-production and collaboration with the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, BSMT productions and the University of Bologna.
Productions include: musicals A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim, the show Histoire du soldat by Igor Stravinskij, the projects All'Opera!, symphonies, intermezzos and overtures of the Italian Opera, and 4th Gustav Mahler, the Mahler's fourth symphony, arranged for chamber orchestra.
In 2017 the Orchestra realized the following project: Popular Songs, with soloist Cristina Zavalloni, a new Histoire du soldat with the voice of Ivano Marescotti and The Barber in comics, the Rossini's Barber of Sevilla with music, animation and Manga drawings of Tsukishiro Yuko, an internation coproduction with Japan.
In 2021 it will be the center of events of the Respighi project, a project on the musician and composer Ottorino Respighi and of Progetto Kafka. In 2022 it was the fulcrum of the PON VoltONE project on AIDA, a reduction of G. Verdi's Opera for ensemble and speaking voice. In 2022, with the RESPIGHI suite program, it toured the Czech Republic and Poland, in 2023 in Hungary and in 2024 in Croatia for the 70th edition of the Split Summer Festival.
GIAMBATTISTA GIOCOLI
Born in 1976 in Matera, initially a clarinetist, he studied clarinet in his hometown and later graduated from the Bologna Conservatory. As an instrumentalist he studies with Perrone, Quarenghi, Tirincanti, Pay and Carbonare, immediately starting an intense concert activity in Italy and abroad.
Performs recordings for Italian and foreign radio stations, recording various CDs of classical and contemporary music. For 10 years he collaborates with the lyrical and symphonic seasons of the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna with which he performs multiple tours in Italy and abroad.
He has collaborated with the FontanaMIX Contemporary Music Ensemble of Bologna and with the Sentieri Selvaggi of Milan ensemble, with a concert activity in Europe and Asia.
In 2013 he made his debut as a conductor in the production of American Musicals and in the same year he founded the Orchestra of the Baraccano, with which he produced chamber music theater projects and symphonic projects that he still toured. Since 2015 he has worked as a guest conductor with the Orchestra of the Toscanini Foundation in Parma and since 2017 with the Rossini Symphony Orchestra of Pesaro. In 2018 he also began working with the Lucana Orchestra Foundation and the Virtuosi of the Italian Opera.In 2022, with his Orchestra he toured Poland and the Czech Republic, in 2023 in Hungary and in 2024 in Croatia.He is the art director of the Teatro del Baraccano in Bologna and of the research and production project of musical theater ATTI SONORI in Bologna.
