E uscita la Newsletter di luglio, con tante pagine ricche di Opera, Film e foto dei nostri eventi.

Potete scaricarla qui: www.dante.org.nz/newsletter.pdf

 Buona Lettura!

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra presents: Turandot

Tiziana Caruso

Puccini Turandot

Eckehard Stier CONDUCTOR

Tiziana Caruso PRINCESS TURANDOT

Nadja Stefanoff LIÙ

Thiago Arancam CALÀF

Runi Brattaberg TIMUR

Andrew Moran PING

Robert Macfarlane PANG

Richard Greager PONG
Warwick Fyfe MANDARIN

The Freemasons New Zealand Opera Chorus

Director John Rosser

Born in Lucca, Tuscany, Giacomo Puccini has become one of the greatest Italian composers since Verdi. His operas: Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La bohème and Turandot have become standard repertoire for opera around the world.

 

Thiago Arancam

 In July the APO brings to life one of the most popular operas of all time… Puccini’s, Turandot. Set in ancient Peking, the opera centres around the beautiful but vengeful Princess Turandot who has sworn against love and will only marry the man who can solve her three riddles. 

Those who fail are punished by death.
Prince Calàf, the deposed Prince of Tartary, answers the riddles, and Turandot, suddenly afraid, begs to be released. Calàf offers her a trial of his own: if she can find out his name by dawn, he will allow himself to be killed. 

With a talented cast whose eading roles are talented Italian’s Tiziana Caruso and Thiago Arancam, plus returning favourite Rúni Brattaberg (2013 Tristan und Isolde) this concert will be an outstanding performance of one of the most beautiful scores in opera, including one of the most popular of all tenor arias, ‘Nessun dorma’.

Will true love be enough to soften the vengeful princess' heart?

 

Find out at 7.30pm Friday 3 July, Auckland Town Hall

 

Book at apo.co.nz or call 09 623 1052

Group prices  19% off,  and a range of price reserves starting from just $38.

Embassy of Italy Film Series - La sedia della felicita'/The Chair of Happiness (Carlo Mazzacurati) (2014)

Embassy of Italy Film Series FREE!!!
12 June, 6 p.miUniversity of Auckland Arts 1 Building, Level 2, Room 220.
La sedia della felicita'/The Chair of Happiness (Carlo Mazzacurati) (2014)
(In Italian with English subtitles)
Come to see acclaimed filmmaker Carlo Mazzacurati's last film before his untimely death in 2014.

Festa della Repubblica concert with Maestro Christian Leotta

Christian Leotta is a native of Catania, Italy, and now lives in Como. He studied with Mario Patuzzi at Milan’s Conservatory, at the Theo Lieven International Piano Foundation on Lake Como and at the Tureck Bach Research Foundation of Oxford, England.

Appearing in Montreal in 2002, at the age of only 22, Leotta is the youngest pianist since the youthful Daniel Barenboim ever to undertake a recital series encompassing the entire corpus of Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas. Following the extraordinary success of his live performances, in 2007 Atma Classique signed him to record the entire corpus of the 32 Piano Sonatas in a collection of five two-CD sets, released between 2008 and 2014.

The international press hailed him as "one of the major Beethoven soloists of our time" (Pizzicato, Luxembourg). His affinity to Beethoven's music has been unanimously recognized thanks to "his prodigious technique used to better express the poetry of Beethoven’s music" (The Whole Note, Toronto).

Christian Leotta has worked with major orchestras such as the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Italian RAI National Television Orchestra, the Milan Symphony Orchestra “Giuseppe Verdi”, regularly performing in important theatres and concert halls world-wide.

Below some photos of the Italian reception after the concert, with Prosecco San Leo, Birra Peroni, Parmigiano Reggiano and Prosciutto di Parma. Thank you to the Italian Embassy and Ambassador Carmelo Barbarello for a wonderful evening.

GAPS ARTS Evenings --- DANTE and LA DIVINA COMMEDIA

http://www.gaps.net.nz/

2015 is the 750th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri.

GAPS ARTS is marking this by a free Course reading and studying the whole Divine Comedy, and by a free series of Extra Special Lectures in June, at the GAPS venue in Avondale.

Extra Special Lectures (Free):

Sun., 7 June, 7.00 pm:

A FORETASTE OF HEAVEN: CONCEPTIONS OF THE CITY IN MEDIEVAL IMAGINATION --- Prof MURRAY RAE, University of Otago.

Sun., 14 June, 7.00 pm:

VIRGIL IN THE DIVINE COMEDY --- WARREN PRESTIDGE

DANTE IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES --- CAROLYN KELLY

Sun., 21 June, 7.00 pm:

FROM HELL TO THE HEAVENLY CITY: DANTE'S POLITICAL THEOLOGY --- RYAN BROWN-HAYSOM

PORTRAYALS OF THE DIVINE COMEDY IN ART --- JOHN LEWIS

"Reading Dante's Commedia", Part 2, Purgatory.

This free on-going weekly course in English, is open for new enrolments for Part 2.  It begins Mon 22 June at 7.30 pm. (Part 1 has now closed).  The final session of Part 1, and first session of Part 2 are open to visitors as a taster. 

 http://www.gaps.net.nz/reading-dante#commedia

GAPS ARTS is a private group of enthusiasts, interested in "..... sharing the European heritage and culture, and seeing many strands as parts of a whole which has meaning ....... the focus here is on architecture, visual arts, literature, philosophy, theology, and the medieval period ....... the approach is theocentric rather than humanistic."

Regular GAPS lectures are usually monthly on Sunday starting at 7.00 pm. They have an interval, and finish by 9.00 pm, with further opportunity for informal discussion, and supper provided. Lectures and events are open to all, and are free. There are no subscriptions or membership requirements. Bookings are not required, unless requested in specific publicity. Enrolment may be requested for Courses.

Website:  http://www.gaps.net.nz/    Check website for all details.

The GAPS venue is at 17A Powell Street, Avondale, Auckland.  Enquiries: John Lewis, phone (09) 828 5579; email: jahlewis@clear.net.nz