L'opera italiana dell'Ottocento in laboratorio: musicologia e prassi.

12-14 luglio 2019
Aula Magna, Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana

The Conservatorio's Research Division, in collaboration with the Ticino Musica Festival’s International Opera Studio “Silvio Varviso”, organizes a conference-workshop that explores the nineteenth-century operatic performance practice from two different perspectives, the historical and the practical.

The conference-workshop will bring together two different communities, music scholars and music practitioners, in order to raise questions and discuss issues that are relevant to both.

If music scholars are committed to investigating historical sources and preparing critical editions of operas from the past while the practitioners’ responsibility is to recreate those very operas and interpret them in a way that may be called historically informed, then a number of questions arises such as: To what extent do these two communities converge towards a common goal? What are the challenges that both communities have to face? In what ways do they participate in a common discussion?

The attempt to answer these questions will revolve around the production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (Paris, 1843); the conference-workshop will involve the musicians who participate in the International Opera Studio “Silvio Varviso” and a group of scholars specialized in nineteenth-century Italian operas.

Massimo Zicari
massimo.zicari@conservatorio.ch

The conference will be in Italian