Children's chorus
The Youth Choir of the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova Foundation was founded in September 2006, as the focal point of an educational project specifically aimed at younger generations. One of the objectives of such a project was to further develop the role of cultural referent of the Theatre for the city by involving young people: from simple show goers, they could transform into the real protagonists of the activity of the artistic seasons.
Thanks to the choir’s activity, not only the young choristers but also their families have had the opportunity to approach and become familiar with an institution (the opera house) often perceived as distant, if not, at times, completely unknown, but which by its very nature holds the value of a privileged driver of not only cultural and artistic values but also social ones.
Growing up with music is therefore, for the singers of the Teatro Carlo Felice Youth Choir, a tangible reality: over the course of the artistic seasons from 2006 to today, hundreds of girls and boys of various ages (children from the age of eight up to girls up to eighteen are involved in the choir) have had the opportunity to develop their musical skills, to experience the process of staging an opera/symphonic production, and to perform alongside renowned performers, earning the interest and appreciation of both critics and audiences. Numerous performances involving the Youth Choir have been recorded and broadcast nationally by RadioRai.
REPERTOIRE
Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci (conductors: Bruno Bartoletti, Fabio Luisi, Paolo Arrivabeni, Andrij Yurkevych); Jules Massenet, Werther (conductors: Alain Guingal, Donato Renzetti); Giacomo Puccini, La bohème (conductors: Daniel Oren, Marco Guidarini, Giampaolo Bisanti, Giuseppe Acquaviva, Andrea Battistoni, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Donato Renzetti); Giacomo Puccini, Suor Angelica (conductor: Donato Renzetti); Giacomo Puccini, Tosca (conductors: Dimitri Yurovsky, Marco Boemi, Stefano Ranzani, Valerio Galli, Giuseppe Finzi); Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier (conductor: Fabio Luisi); Giacomo Puccini, Turandot (conductors: Donato Renzetti, Marco Zambelli, Valerio Galli, Giuseppe Acquaviva); Giacomo Puccini, Gianni Schicchi (conductor: Valerio Galli); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (conductors: Johannes Wildner, Giancarlo Andretta); Giuseppe Verdi, Macbeth (conductors: Andrea Battistoni, Sesto Quatrini); Giuseppe Verdi, Otello (conductor: Andrea Battistoni, recording conducted by Steven Mercurio); Georges Bizet, Carmen (conductors: Andrea Battistoni, Philippe Auguin, Donato Renzetti); Umberto Giordano, Fedora (conductor: Valerio Galli); Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd (conductor: Andrea Battistoni); Benjamin Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (conductor: Donato Renzetti, Teatro Carlo Felice and on tour in Oman at the Royal Opera House of Muscat).
SYMPHONIC-CHORAL REPERTOIRE
Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms (conductor: Joel Levi); Benjamin Britten, Saint Nicolas (conductor: Jonathan Webb); Arthur Honegger, Une Cantate de Noël (conductor: Jonathan Webb); Gabriel-Henri-Constant Pierné, Les Enfants à Bethléem (conductor: Christopher Franklin); Carl Orff, Carmina burana (conductors: Giampaolo Bisanti, Fabio Luisi, Tito Ceccherini).
MUSICAL THEATRE
Benjamin Britten, The Little Sweep (conductor: Giorgio Bruzzone); Andrea Liberovici, La trasparenza della parola, cantata for Primo Levi in nine stations (conductor: Lorraine Vaillancourt); Paolo Furlani, The Emperor’s New Clothes, chamber opera for children in five scenes (conductor: Federico Longo); Marco Taralli, Il Vascello Incantato, fable for three voices, orchestra and children’s choir (conductor: Michele Mariotti); Bruno Coli, Oz on the road (conductor: Bruno Coli).
SACRED MUSIC REPERTOIRE
Benjamin Britten, Missa brevis in D major, Op. 63; Bob Chilcott, A Little Jazz Mass; Giovanni Battista Campodonico, Missa Pueri Chorales, Op. 82; Nino Rota, Mysterium Catholicum, oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra (conductor: Marcello Rota).
BALLET
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker (conductors: Alessandro Ferrari, Aleksey Baklan, Arkady Shteynlukht, Farhads Stade, Arman Urazgaliyev, Abzal Mukhitdinov, Karen Durgaryan).
CHILDREN’S CHORUS CONCERT
2025/2026 SEASON
Ferdinando Andrianopoli
Angelica Arecco
Eldana Arecco
Carlotta Badano
Nicolò Bartolomei
Angelica Mariee Battarino
Camilla Bentivegna
Lucia Benza
Anna Campidoglio
Zoe Tara Carolfi
Isabella Cattapani
Nina De Gregorio
Sally Maria Stella De Micheli
Chiara Favella
Nora Galeazzo
Erica Giordano
Maria Giusto
Grilli Leonardo
Maria Guano
Sofia Kirivanta
Eleonora Lauricella
Anna Liguori
Isabella Dorcas Ludena Huancauqui
Rossella Keren Ludena Huancauqui
Anastasia Maggiolo
Alice Manara
Alessandra Chara Mantovani
Noemi Paola Anorve Manzano
Anna Marletta
Marra Alan
Federico Carlo Martinoli
Marta Martinoli
Alice Molaschi
Elisa Molaschi
Giulia Nastase
Negroni Riccardo
Zeno Nigido Gregorio
Sara Orsini
Beatrice Pantella
Agata Pachina
Virginia Pesce
Marco Pinazzi
Emiliano Pino
Viola Piromalli
Lydia Purpura
Aurora Rapuzzi
Simone Repetto
Francesca Risso Montemagno
Lucilla Romano
Giorgia Giacobbe Romero
Maria Runcini
Arianna Russo
Tabata Scannapieco
Emma Stagi
Ingrid Sudmeier Mascialino
Astrid Sudmeier Mascialino
Vittoria Trapasso
Eliana Uscidda
Nina Emma Vaccari
Lidia Valenziano
Emilia Venturoli
Camilla Zanchetta
Margherita Wrubl
Choirmaster
Gino Tanasini
Master collaborator
Enrico Grillotti