FULL PURGATORIO (Tigran Mansurian) Ravenna 2021 Riccardo Muti, Gurgen Baveyan
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Purgatorio
- Composer: Mansurian Tigran
- Libretto: based on Dante
- Venue & Opera Company: Ravenna, Italy
- Recorded: September 17, 2021
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Gurgen Baveyan
- Conductor: Riccardo Muti
- Orchestra: Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini e musicisti della Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
- Chorus: Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
- Chorus Master: Lorenzo Fratini
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: RAI
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian’s Purgatorio – based on the eponymous second part of Dante’s Divine Comedy was played at theRavenna Festival in Italy on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the Italian poet’s death.
The concert was conducted by RiccardoMuti.
Speaking to ARMENPRESS, Mansurian praised the excellent performance. “What Riccardo Muti did with the orchestra, the choir, baritone Gurgen Baveyan and cellist Giovanni Sollima was dimply wonderful. I’ve rarely heard such good performance. There’ve been good performances, but very few like this. I am very happy. The audience was also happy and accepted Purgatorio very well. I think one of my best works was born on the 700th anniversary of death of Dante,” Mansurian said.
Venice’s Center of Armenian Culture Studies and Documentation Director Minas Luryan said that Muti wanted to cooperate with Mansurian and Sollima very much for the event. Sollima also wrote the music for Divine Comedy’s Hell, while the music for Heaven was written by Valentin Silvestrov.
“Muti decided that he’d conduct only Mansurian’s work, while the other works would be conducted by younger conductors,” Luryan said, adding that more concerts are planned in Italy soon.
Quoted from Armenpress