The Opera Barga festival hosts a local and International audience since 50 years and is now an important cultural event with the medieval town of Barga in its center, also if animating summer in the entire valley of the Serchio river side by side side with a festival of chamber music organized with dedication by famous musicians.
The festival has been created in 1967 on the initiative of Peter Hunt and Gillian Armitage, an actor and a British production designer who moved to Barga some time ago. The couple had the idea of using the Teatro dei Differenti of Barga to found an opera school that could give the opportunity to young singers, orchestras, conductors and stage designers to realize performances put on stage.
The program of the concerts of tonight, Sunday, July 30, is:
h 18:30 – Barga, Cloister S. Elisabetta – W. A. Mozart, 2 quartets for flute and strings; P. I. Tchaikovsky, "Souvenir de Florence" Sextet; Ensemble Le Musiche with Simone Bernardini .
h 21:30 – Barga, Teatro dei Differenti – Pianobarga 2017 : Mendelssohn: Roberto Prosseda, piano,
3 Fantaisies ou Caprices op. 16; 6 Lieder ohne Worte; Rondò Capriccioso op. 14 in mi maggiore ; Fantasia op. 15 in mi minore su “The Last Rose of Summer”; Walzer in re maggiore MWV U 39 ; Eine Kleine Fugue MWV U 96 (prima esecuzione assoluta); Barcarola veneziana op. 30 n. 6 in fa diesis minore; Fantasia op. 28 in fa diesis minore.
The complete program of the festival is available on the oficial website www.operabarga.it
FESTIVAL OPERA BARGA
Barga, various locations
2017, July 27 / August 5
Admission € 5,00, some concerts are free