LIGURIA MUSICA
JOHN KANDER
New York, New York
(from the original arrangement by Frank Sinatra)
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
West Side Story Suite: Jet Song, Maria, America, One Hand One Heart, Tonight, I Feel Pretty, Mambo
JOHN KANDER
Chicago: All That Jazz, When You’re Good to Mama, Cell Block Tango, We Both Reached for the Gun
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
The Best of Musical: Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Songs: Lady Be Good, The Man I love, Strike Up the Band, It Ain’t Necessarly So, Someone to Watch Over me, Embraceable You, Fascinatin’ Rhythm, Concerto in F
Arrangements by Marco Pierobon
Conductor and soloist
Marco Pierobon
Opera Carlo Felice Genova Orchestra
BIOGRAPHIES
First-prize winner at the international competitions of Passau (Germany), Imperia and Aqui Terme, Marco Pierobon has been first trumpet of the Orchestras of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (in 1999-2002 with M° Zubin Mehta) and of the Accademia di S. Cecilia (2003-2008 with M° Antonio Pappano) for almost ten years. As first trumpet, he has also collaborated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Daniel Barenboim) and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. He has performed as a soloist with the ensembles: Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, English Chamber Orchestra, Wiener Kammerkonzert, China Youth Orchestra, I virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala, Max-Plank-Philarmonie Műnchen, Junge Philarmonie Salzburg, Filarmonica Marchigiana, with the orchestras of Mar del Plata and Tucuman (Argentina), Mantova, Bolzano, Vicenza, Sanremo. He has performed in Japan, Russia, Argentina, China, Europe and the United States with conductors such as Mehta, Karabtchevsky, Siebens, Heider, Neuhold, Gothoni. Important composers such as Giancarlo Aquilanti, Angelo Sormani, Giuseppe Bonafine, Michele Mangani dedicated to him some compositions of theirs. In 2014, he performed in the world premiere of Giancarlo Aquilanti’s Concerto Doppio for Trumpet, Tuba e Orchestra Fiati with the Stanford Wind Ensemble, touring in the USA and in Europe. In 2014, he also debuted as a conductor, collaborating with the ensemble Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo and the Orchestra “Haydn” di Bolzano, although he had already conducted wind and brass groups in the past. In 2017, he conducted the Croatian National Theater Orchestra of Zagreb and the Orchestra da Camera di Perugia. Marco Pierobon has produced five solo records and an educational DVD on brass: SoLo (2011 – Marche Wind Orchestra, conducted by Michele Mangani); Nano Nano (2013 – New Project Funk Orchestra); The Golden Trumpet (2015 – Young Umbrian Winds, conducted by Filippo Salemmi); Made in Italy (2015 – Insubria Wind Orchestra, conducted by Angelo Sormani), which contains several world première recordings; The Maestro (2017 – Orchestra di Fiati dell’Istituto Vecchi Tonelli di Modena e Carpi, conducted by Massimo Bergamini). Pierobon has held various masterclasses in USA, Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Canada, England, Greece, Germany and Austria, and for several Italian festivals and academies. He recorded for Sony and Emi with the ensemble Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia conducted by Antonio Pappano. With the GomalanBrass quintet, of whom he is the arrangements curator, he has been performing all over the world, producing four records and two DVDs for Summit Records and Naxos. Since 2007, he has taught trumpet at the Bolzano Conservatory. Marco Pierobon is “Yamaha Performing Artist” and “Wedge Mouthpiece Endorsing Artist”. He exclusively plays Yamaha instruments and Wedge mouthpieces.
The history of the ensemble L’Orchestra dell’Opera Carlo Felice Genova begins in the early 1900s. Its symphonic and operatic activity has continued ever since, uninterrupted even throughout the bombings of 1943 with the destruction of the ancient Teatro Carlo Felice.
In 1965, the Orchestra took on an organic structure, and evolved by developing a repertoire that ranges from the XVII century to contemporary music, standing out in the national institutional scene and distinguishing itself for both its productivity and versatility. Since the 1950s, conductors of international importance have alternated on the podium of its orchestra, including Victor De Sabata, Tullio Serafin, Igor Stravinsky, Franco Capuana, Vittorio Gui, Sergiu Celibidache, Hermann Scherchen, Sir John Barbirolli, Claudio Abbado, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli , Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Muti, Georges Prêtre, Mstislav Rostropovič, Giuseppe Patanè, Vladimir Delman, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Spiros Argiris, Peter Maag, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Myung-Whun Chung, Yury Aronovič.
More recently, Daniel Oren (Principal conductor of the Orchestra in the second half of the 1980s and from 2007 to 2010), Antonio Pappano, Christian Thielemann, Daniele Gatti, Gary Bertini, Gennadij Roždestvenskij, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Rudolf Baršaj, Bruno Campanella , Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Nello Santi, Michel Plasson (Principal Guest Conductor of the ensemble in the early 2000s), Bruno Bartoletti, Sir Neville Marriner, Lu Jia, Juanjo Mena (Principal Guest Conductor of the ensemble from 2007 to 2010), Dmitrij Kitajenko, Manfred Honeck, Juraj Valčuha, Kyrill Petrenko, Hartmut Haenchen, Vladimir Fedoseev, Andrea Battistoni (Principal Guest Conductor from 2013 to 2016), Daniel Smith (Principal Guest Conductor from 2017 to 2019).
From the 2020-2021 season, Fabio Luisi (Honorary conductor since 2012) has been the protagonist of numerous concerts dedicated to the great European Romantic symphonic repertoire – with a specific focus to the composer Anton Bruckner – whose work has been intertwined by Luisi with a exploratory journey of Luciano Berio’s symphonic work since 2022 (considering the centennial birth anniversary of the composer from Oneglia, which will be celebrated in 2025). Donato Renzetti (since 2022, Conductor Emeritus), in 2021 conducted the first modern performance of Bianca e Fernando by Vincenzo Bellini in the version “Genova, 1828” as part of a larger project to rediscover the Civiltà musicale genovese promoted by the Theatre. He has been a regular guest of the Theater since the 2020-2021 season, and he has directed numerous concerts dedicated to the discovery of the European music heritage of the XX century.
In 2022, Riccardo Minasi was appointed Music Director.
The theatre of Opera Carlo Felice Genoa hosted many relevant recording sessions, in particular for opera productions and labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Sony, TDK, Rai-Trade, Nuova Era Records, Arthaus Musik, Dynamic, Bongiovanni, Denon/Nippon Columbia and BMG-Memories.
Such an high artistic level has been consolidated over the years, allowing the Theatre to take part in very prestigious events such as the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto (2013, 2020), the Ravello Festival (2014, 2019) and the Festival di musica sacra Anima Mundi di Pisa (2015), and to perform in important national and international venues such as the Parco della Musica in Rome (2015), the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan (2012), the Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome (2012), the Teatro dal Verme in Milan (2014, 2019, 2021) the Royal Opera House of Muscat (2015, 2017, 2019) the Astana Opera (2017), the Marinsky Concert Hall (2019), the Basilica di S. Francesco d’Assisi for the Christmas Concert of 2020, broadcast in Eurovision by RAI.
Tickets
€10
Under 18 tickets €5
Tickets on sale on Vivaticket, at the Opera Carlo Felice Genova ticket office and at the Theatre one hour before every concert.
Tickets can be reserved at the local Pro Loco office.
Ticket holders for the Nuovi Mondi concert scheduled for Saturday, July 30 in Monterosso will be able to access the concert conducted by Marco Pierobon with the same ticket.
Alternatively, they can convert their tickets and select a Symphonic Concert of the 2022/23 Season of the Opera Carlo Felice Genova of their choice. They can also request a refund by filling the official form available from Monday, July 25 at the theatre box office or on the theatre website and deliver it together with the ticket within Friday 5 August 2022 at the ticket office (open from Monday to Friday, from 10 am to 6 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm) or by e-mail to biglietteria@carlofelice.it.
Refund form Nuovi Mondi – Monterosso al Mare
