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Sicily: “Opera Festival of the Stone Theaters” in the fourth edition is about to start
After the success of the public and critics of the previous editions, the Sicilian Lyric Choir, directed by Francesco Costa and chaired by Alberto Munafò Siragusa, launches the fourth edition of the “Opera Festival of the Stone Theaters.”
It is a traveling event that involves the spectator through music in a real journey through the splendid theaters of Sicily where the charm of history and legend come together in an ever-present embrace.
The Opera Festival of the Stone Theaters, recognized as an initiative of high cultural and artistic importance, takes place under the High Patronage of the European Parliament and the most important Italian and international institutional offices.
From 2022 the Opera Festival of the Stone Theaters also becomes a Mediterranean Theater Festival with the aim of transforming the stone from history to “musical meeting.“
Along the shores of the Mediterranean, the ancient Roman and Greek theaters continue to be testimony of a past that is striking for modernity with which he was able to express the desire of the human being to have fun and learn, through the representation ofeternal struggle between good and evil.
Constructed in stone, marble or carved into the rock, the theaters of the “Mare Nostrum” are places to be revived through symphonic and operatic music.
This will be the “mission“ 2022 of the acclaimed artistic and concert festival than leaving from Greek and Roman Sicily will land in archaeological sites of Calabria (Locri, Soriano Calabro and the ancient Kaulon) and will conclude the fourth edition inRoman amphitheater of El Jem in Tunisia.
Here are some of the celebrations of the 2022 edition of the Opera Festival of the Stone Theaters.
For the opera section the title chosen will be Carmen by G. Bizet which will be staged, in a new and monumental staging, in Ancient theaters of Syracuse (August 6), Taormina (August 9) e Tindari (August 12).
There will be a real celebration of classical ballet and of the woman who was certainly one of the greatest dancers of the twentieth century, Carla Fracci Memorial on 23 July.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Verga, the great Sicilian writer will be celebrated with one of the pages of strong emotional impact and steeped in spiritual mysticism composed by Pietro Mascagnicomposer inextricably linked to the Etnean author: Rustic cavalrythrough the first national performance of the critical edition.
The 2022 edition also celebrate the rediscovery and promotion of authentic open-air theaters as the Capo Milazzo Marine Reservethe Andromeda Theater of Santo Stefano Quisquina (10 August), the Roman mausoleum of Centuripe (13 August), la Hellenistic necropolis of Abakainon in Tripi (22 and 25 August), theArchaeological area of Gioiosa Guardia (3 August), theagora of Megara Hyblaea (September 16), thearchaeological area of Caucana which will be transformed, for the first time, into real ones natural stageswhere the immortal melodies of the classical and lyrical world for a real “trade union“Between beauty, art and spirit.
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