80 reasons to listen to Cremona: a rich program of concerts, shows and events dedicated to music

80 good reasons to listen to Cremona! In fact, concerts, shows and festivals dedicated to music are scheduled until December so that everyone can find in the city the show that best suits their tastes.

Ongoing until October 23 is the tenth edition of StradivariFestival, which takes place in theGiovanni Arvedi Auditorium of the Violin Museum: on October 22 at 9 p.m. is the Tango Barocco show in which virtuosos Andrés Gabetta and Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi and the Quintet of the Royal Academy of London will range from the Baroque of Henry Purcell to the voluptuous tangos of Astor Piazzolla, passing through pieces by Antonio Vivaldi. On Oct. 23 at 6 p.m., STRADIVARIfestival will feature the debut performance of one of the world’s most famous and acclaimed violinists, American Joshua Bell, who in a duo with pianist Peter Dugan will play historic nineteenth- and twentieth-century pieces such as Beethoven’s Sonata No. 2 in A major, Robert Schumann’s D minor Grosse Sonata and Claude Debussy’s Sonata No. 3 in G minor. More info can be found at http://www.stradivarifestival.it/

Not to be outdone is Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli’s program: the new season, which includes the last opera title in January 2023, has been titled The Theater, The Future and features performances of opera, dance, music and theater. Five popular opera titles, including Amilcare Ponchielli’s La Gioconda, absent from this stage for nearly 30 years. Teatro Ponchielli pays tribute to the composer after whom it is named, offering a title absent from the city stage since 1996. La Gioconda is the Ponchielli opera always awaited by melomaniacs as a special event. Arrigo Boito’s libretto based on Victor Hugo’s drama Angelo tyran de Padoue presents a dark and mysterious Venice, the scene of passionate and criminal excesses, perfectly mirrored by the composer’s generous and captivating melodic vein. A historical fresco with a scapigliata imprint that calls for six leading performers, one for each vocal register. It is conducted by Giampaolo Bisanti, while sets and direction bear the refined signature of Filippo Tonon. Five appointments of Dance, with the precious opening with NDT II, Nederlands Dans Theater, among the world’s most famous contemporary dance companies, and a proposal of Italian choreographers among the most powerful and innovative: Jacopo Jenna, Cristiana Morganti and Damiano Bigi with Lukazs Przytarsky, dancers of Dimitri Papaioannou’s company.
Completing the billboard are Music and Theater, with four appointments, in anticipation of Billboard 2023.

Unmissable La Traviata, which features a new staging: this new staging sees the musical direction of the young and acclaimed Enrico Lombardi, while the direction is by Luca Baracchini, who with his very young creative team was the winner of the Call for Proposals under 35 for a project to direct La Traviata for the OperaLombardia 2022/23 Circuit; then there will be concerts by the Cremona Conservatory and a tribute to Ponchielli with a review of chamber music full of prestigious names, with the support of Ecomembrane. For info visit https://www.teatroponchielli.it/

From Oct. 26, 2022 to Jan. 29, 2023, the exhibition Giuseppe Mainardi (1922-2010) can also be visited at the “Ala Ponzone” Civic Museum in Cremona. Educator, philologist, collector: the museum will set up on the occasion of the donation received an exhibition space with the donated works to offer at the same time a portrait of the figure of Giuseppe Mainardi not only as a collector but also as an educator and philologist. The donation includes paintings, drawings and some memoirs by Alfeo Argentieri, a family friend, that Mainardi kept in his house on Via Buoso da Dovara, most of which were acquired over the years during exhibitions or in specialized galleries. To these works will be added archival material from the Cremona State Archives documenting the pedagogical thinking of Mainardi, who was a longtime teacher at the Virgilio Middle Schools and at the Liceo Aselli, and the results of his philological research carried out in the context of early Cremonese Humanism. For info: https://musei.comune.cremona.it/it/mostre-ed-eventi/giuseppe-mainardi-1922-2010

At the Violin Museum it is then possible, as part of The Sound of Stradivari, to hear the magnificent instruments of Stradivari, Amati, Guarneri entrusted to skilled soloists. Here all the appointments until December 31, 2022.

The full program of 80 Reasons to Listen to Cremona can be downloaded at this link .

80 reasons to listen to Cremona: a rich program of concerts, shows and events dedicated to music

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