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FULL CONCERTO per San Giovanni a Torino 2025 Justina Gringytė
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: CONCERTO per San Giovanni
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Auditorium "Arturo Toscanini" di Torino, Italy
- Recorded: June 24, 2025
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Justina Gringytė
- Conductor: Robert Treviño
- Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: RAI
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The concert opens with the Overture from I vespri siciliani and Cuniza’s aria from the second act of Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio , accompanied by Azucena’s aria from Il trovatore “Condotta ell’era in catene”, both by Verdi. The concert continues with The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Paul Dukas, a symphonic poem inspired by the ballad of the same name by Goethe and chosen, in 1940, to accompany the short film starring Mickey Mouse included in the film Fantasia . We return to Verdi with the aria of the Princess of Eboli from Don Carlo “O don fatale”. The evening will close with two symphonic works: Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky, performed in the version reworked and orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov, and the suite from the ballet Belkis, Queen of Sheba by Ottorino Respighi. The first is a symphonic poem that musically describes a witches’ sabbath on Bald Mountain during the night of San Giovanni. The second is a suite that Respighi took from the ballet of the same name for which he composed the music in 1931, and which staged the journey made in the desert by the biblical figure of the Queen of Sheba, eager to test the wisdom of King Solomon.
PROGRAMME
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Sicilian Vespers. Overture
Duration: 9′ approx.
Giuseppe Verdi
Oberto, Count of San Bonifacio. O who returns the burning thought (1839)
Duration: 9′ approx.
Giuseppe Verdi
The Troubadour. She was led in chains (1852)
Duration: 5′ approx.
Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1897)
Duration: 12′ approx.
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlo. O Don fatale (1867)
Duration: 5′ approx.
Modest Musorgsky (1839-1881).
Night on Bald Mountain (1867)
Duration: 13′ approx.
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Belkis, Queen of Sheba . Suite (1931)
Duration: 20′ approx.