On the occasion of the Italian national holiday La Befana, the equivalent of our Epiphany, the Dante Alighieri association of Bordeaux wished to renew its partnership with the Jacques Thibaud conservatory of Bordeaux by offering a new lyrical concert. It will take place on Saturday January 18 at 6 p.m. at the auditorium of the Athénée municipal de Bordeaux.
For this new performance, the project was expanded thanks to a collaboration with the Giovanni Battista Martini Conservatory in Bologna. Present all week under the Bordeaux sky, the Italian students, accompanied by their teachers, work hard with their French colleagues around a baroque and bel canto repertoire.
Seriousness and friendliness
Numbering around fifty, the young singers will delight aficionados of Italian lyrical tunes with around fifteen pieces by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini…
In the conservatory’s rehearsal room, as soloists or in choir, the students, under the guidance of their Italian and French teachers, are active in an atmosphere of conviviality and seriousness where the two languages cross and refine each other, to the pleasure of all, and to better appreciate the subtleties of Italian singing.
-“I have often dreamed of a collective meeting of this type between two opera teaching institutions,” says Sharon Coste Poras, head of the opera singing department at the Bordeaux Conservatory and professor. “For us it’s an event. This is the first time that we have organized a meeting with foreign students. Even if the two institutions have different teaching statuses and degree levels, the mix of ages (from 15 to 30 years old) and the artistic level of each must bring to all the participants a mutual enrichment that is extremely valuable for their singing,” adds Sharon.
While the concert has not yet taken place, plans are coming and an event of this type is already scheduled for the coming months in the “musical city” of Bologna.
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