Children's chorus
The Children’s Chorus of Opera Carlo Felice di Genova was born in September 2006 as the fulcrum of an educational project specifically dedicated to 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 activity of the chorus, not only the choristers but also their families have had the opportunity to approach and become familiar with an institution such as the opera house, often seen as distant if not completely unknown at times. On the contrary, opera naturally preserves the value of a privileged propulsor of cultural, artistic and social values.
Therefore, the singers of the Children’s chorus of Opera Carlo Felice di Genova grow through a first-person experience of music itself: during thirteen artistic seasons, over a hundred girls and boys of various ages (the chorus includes children from the age of eight up to seventeen-years-old boys and girls), they have had the opportunity to strengthen their musical skills, to live the experience of set up a lyrical/symphonic staging, to perform alongside renowned interpreters, arousing the interest from both critics and audiences in various occasions (about 100 performances), of which some have been recorded and broadcast on the Italian national radio RadioRai.
REPERTOIRE
Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci, (conductor Bruno Bartoletti. Alternative staging directed by Fabio Luisi) Jules Massenet, Werther (conductor Alain Guingal) Giacomo Puccini, La bohème (conductor Daniel Oren) Giacomo Puccini, Tosca (conductor Marco Boemi) Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier (conductor Fabio Luisi) Giacomo Puccini, Turandot (conductor Marco Zambelli) Giacomo Puccini, Gianni Schicchi (conductor Valerio Galli) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (conductor Johannes Wildner) Giuseppe Verdi, Macbeth (conductor Andrea Battistoni) Giuseppe Verdi, Otello (conductor Andrea Battistoni) Georges Bizet, Carmen (conductor Andrea Battistoni) Umberto Giordano, Fedora (conductor Valerio Galli) Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd (conductor Andrea Battistoni) Georges Bizet, Carmen (conductor Philippe Auguin).
Britten ‘A Midsummer night’s dream M° Donato Renzetti, (Teatro Carlo Felice and on tour in Oman at the Royal Opera House in Muscat)
SYMPHONIC-CHORAL REPERTOIRE
Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms (conductor Joel Levi) Benjamin Britten, Saint Nicolas, for tenor, chorus and Children’s voices chorus op. 42 (conductor Johnatan 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 (director Giampaolo Bisanti and Fabio Luisi).
MUSICAL THEATRE
Benjamin Britten, Il Piccolo Spazzacamino (conductor Giorgio Bruzzone) Andrea Liberovici, La trasparenza della parola cantata per Primo Levi, in nove stazioni (conductor Lorraine Vaillancourt) Paolo Furlani, Il vestito nuovo dell’imperatore opera da camera per ragazzi in cinque quadri (conductor Federico Longo); Marco Taralli, Il vascello incantato favola per tre voci, orchestra e coro di bambini (conductor Michele Mariotti); Bruno Coli, Oz on the road (conductor Bruno Coli).
SACRED MUSIC REPERTOIRE
Giovanni Battista Campodonico, Missa Pueri Chorales Nino Rota, cantata Mysterium Catholicum (conductor Marcello Rota) .
The Children’s Chorus of Opera Carlo Felice di Genova was born in September 2006 as the fulcrum of an educational project specifically dedicated to 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 activity of the chorus, not only the choristers but also their families have had the opportunity to approach and become familiar with an institution such as the opera house, often seen as distant if not completely unknown at times. On the contrary, opera naturally preserves the value of a privileged propulsor of cultural, artistic and social values.
Therefore, the singers of the Children’s chorus of Opera Carlo Felice di Genova grow through a first-person experience of music itself: during thirteen artistic seasons, over a hundred girls and boys of various ages (the chorus includes children from the age of eight up to seventeen-years-old boys and girls), they have had the opportunity to strengthen their musical skills, to live the experience of set up a lyrical/symphonic staging, to perform alongside renowned interpreters, arousing the interest from both critics and audiences in various occasions (about 100 performances), of which some have been recorded and broadcast on the Italian national radio RadioRai.
CHILDREN’S CHORUS CONCERT
SEASON 2023/2024
Angelica Arecco
Eldana Arecco
Carlotta Badano
Angelica Battarino
Samuele Battarino
Camilla Bentivegna
Filippo Bottaro
Anna Campidoglio
Giovanni Cazzulli
Alessandra Mantovani Chara
Denise Colla
Eleonora Cosso
Valentina Cosso
Nina De Gregorio
Nora Galeazzo
Erica Giordano
Michela Gorini
Zeno Gregorio Nigido
Maria Guano
Eleonora Lauricella
Anna Liguori
Leonardo Loi
Sofia Diletta Macciò
Alice Manara
Arianna Russo
Anna Marletta
Sofia Mazzari
Giulia Nastase
Riccardo Negroni
Sara Orsini
Beatrice Pantella
Margherita Papa
Virginia Pesce
Giovanni Piromalli
Viola Piromalli
Aurora Rapuzzi
Simone Repetto
Francesca Risso Montemagno
Lucilla Romano
Tabata Scannapieco
Nicoletta Storace
Ingrid Mascialino Sudmeier
Vittoria Trapasso
Eliana Uscidda
Nina Emma Vaccari
Viola Zaccaria
Camilla Zanchetta
chorusmaster
Gino Tanasini
Maestro collaboratore
Enrico Grillotti
