The Barga opera festival is a very important international cultural event which takes place in the medieval town of Barga, livening up the summer of the entire Serchio valley. The artistic project at the base of the festival’s programming, aims to recover and research less known operas from the baroque period and present them alongside modern and even contemporary operas. Such an approach aims at evaluating the artistic patrimony of operatic music before and after the classical repertoires of the 1800’s. Therefore there have been many contemporary pieces included in the Barga Opera Festivals that have been performed for the very first time on stage both nationally or internationally. In addition the festival has also often featured first contemporary performances of rediscovered works.
Details:
OPERA BARGA 2014
XLVIII edizione
27 giugno – 20 luglio
4 secoli di storia in un unico festival:
Venerdì 27 giugno
Barga, Chiostro di S. Francesco
Ensemble Inaudita
Musica contemporanea – brani dei partecipanti alla Masterclass con Francesco Filidei e Yann Robin – concerto 1.
Sabato 28 giugno
Barga, Chiostro di S. Elisabetta
Ensemble Inaudita
Musica contemporanea – brani dei partecipanti alla Masterclass con Francesco Filidei e Yann Robin – concerto 2.
Sabato 5 luglio
Barga, Chiostro di S. Elisabetta
Ensemble Le Musiche
Musiche di J.B. Barrière, J.S. Bach, P. De Sarasate.
Domenica 6 luglio
Sommocolonia, Chiesa di San Rocco
Ensemble Le Musiche
Musiche di Schoenmberg e J. Sibelius.
Martedì 8 luglio
Fornaci di Barga, Aia del Beniamino
Ensemble Le Musiche
Musiche di F. Schubert e J. Brahms.
Mercoledì 9 luglio
Barga, Chiostro di S. Elisabetta
Ensemble Le Musiche
Musiche di G.B. Pergolesi e S. Prokofief.
Giovedì 10 luglio – Venerdì 11 luglio
Barga, Teatro dei Differenti
Auser Musici
Il Bajazet.
Mercoledì 16 luglio
Bagnone, Piazzetta del castello di Castiglione del Terziere
Ensemble Le Musiche
Musica da camera.
Giovedì 17 luglio
Vico, Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta
Ensemble Le Musiche
Musica da camera.
Sabato 19 luglio
Bagnone, Teatro Quartieri
Ensemble Le Musiche
Musica da camera.
Domenica 20 luglio
Bagnone, piazza Santa Maria
Ensemble Le Musiche
Musica da camera.
by car: From Lucca SS12 towards Abetone, then ss 445 road towards Castelnuovo Garfagnana, until Fornaci di Barga, there take the road to Barga.
busses from Lucca
email: operabarga@gmail.com
tel: +39 0583 711068
La realizzazione di questa 48esima edizione del festival è stata resa possibile grazie al contributo della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca e del Teatro del Giglio, con la compartecipazione della Fondazione Pisa per quanto riguarda l’allestimento del Bajazet.
Associazione Culturale Teatro e Musica Opera Barga
The festival came about in 1967 thanks to the initiative of the actor Peter Hunt and scenographer Gillian Armitage, both English, who moved to Barga sometime before. The married couple thought of using the structure of the “Teatro dei Differenti” in Barga to found an operatic school which would offer young singers, orchestra players, orchestra directors and scenographers the possibility of working on a show that would then be performed.
Over its thirty years of activity, the festival has undergone changes in management, institutional partners and even address due to the long closure of the theatre for restoration work, however, always maintaining its primary aims. The Barga Opera has recently started collaborating with the “Ensemble Modo Antico” to work on a three year project about Antonio Vivaldi.
As a testimony to the peculiarity and vitality of this artistic project of Barga Opera, between philology and experimentation , we only have to remember that in the 1991 programme, “Histoire de Babar” by Poulenc appeared together with “Il Paratajo”, an intermezzo by Niccolò Iomelli, never shown in Italy and found in the Biblioteque Nationale de Paris. In this same way, “Arsilda, Regina di Ponto”, Vivaldi’s third operatic composition which has never been performed in modern times, along with “Ritratto
Di Luciano Berio” were shown in 2001, and in 2002 Vivaldi’s “Orlando Furioso” and “Play it again, Nino”, a tribute to Nino Rota.
Concerti INAUDITA: € 8,00 intero € 5,00 ridotto | Ensemble Le Musiche: € 8,00 € intero € 5,00 ridotto. | Opera Il Bajazet: primi posti: € 40,00 intero € 32,00 ridotto; secondi posti: € 25,00 intero € 20,00 ridotto.