Concert by Marina Comparato, mezzo-soprano, and Gianni Fabbrini, piano. "On the Banks of the Arno - Luigi Gordigiani, the Italian Schubert"

Luigi Gordigiani, Franz Schubert: lyrics and Lieder for voice and piano

Programme

Luigi Gordigiani
Il Fior della speranza
Ohimè
Il lago e il fanciullo

Franz Schubert
Der Tod und das Mädchen (La morte e la fanciulla)
Gretchen am Spinnrade (Margherita all’arcolaio)

Luigi Gordigiani
Il sogno di Cenerentola
Desiderio – Pesciolino

Franz Schubert
Die Forelle (Il pesciolino)

Luigi Gordigiani
L’araba

Franz Schubert
Erlkönig (Il re della foresta)

Luigi Gordigiani
Ah non lasciarmi

Franz Schubert
Des Mädchens Klage (Il pianto della Giovinetta)

Luigi Gordigiani
La tempesta
Rococò

Marina Comparato
Perugian by birth and Florentine by adoption. After graduating in Political Science in Florence, she also graduated in singing at the Conservatory of the same city. Immediately after graduation, she made her debut in London as Rosina in The Barber of Seville and in the same year she won first prize at the “V. Bucchi” competition in Rome, dedicated to 20th-century music. She also won the competition at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “A. Belli” in Spoleto, in whose opera season she made her debut as Sesto in Clemenza di Tito. Since then, she has embarked on an international career that has led her to perform in the major Italian and European theaters. Among the roles that have most marked the early years of her career is that of Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, performed among others at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, at the San Carlo in Naples, at the Fenice in Venice, at the Carlo Felice in Genoa, at the Comunale in Bologna, at the Teatro Real in Madrid, in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Leipzig and at the Glyndebourne Festival; and the role of Rosina in Barbiere di Siviglia She has performed at the Rome Opera, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Venice, Florence, Trieste, the Paris Opera, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville. Specializing in the great Mozart roles, she also dedicates herself passionately to the Baroque repertoire (Monteverdi, Handel, Pergolesi, Vivaldi), the bel canto and Romantic repertoire (Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Gounod, Berlioz, Weber, and early Verdi), and even to 20th-century music (Ravel, Poulenc, Berg, De Falla). In 2017, she expanded her repertoire with her debut as Carmen at La Fenice in Venice, under the direction of Myung-Whun Chung. She has reprised the role several times at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Tokyo Opera City Hall, and Suntory Hall, and as Charlotte in Werther at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Very active in the concert field, she has performed in various halls including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican Center in London, the NHK Concert Hall in Tokyo, the Théâtre des Champs Êlysées and the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Theater and der Wien. He has collaborated with important conductors including: Claudio Abbado, Roberto Abbado, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir Andrew Davis, Ottavio Dantone, Renè Jacobs, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Daniel Oren, Christophe Rousset, Jeffrey Tate. He has numerous recordings to his credit: Aroldo by Verdi (ed. Philips), Juditha Triumphans, Orlando finto pazzo and Armida by Vivaldi (ed. Opus 111), Giustino by Vivaldi (ed. Virgin Classics), Oberon by Weber (ed. Decca), Artaserse by Terradellas (ed. Harmonia Mundi-RCOC), Fedora and La Finta semplice on DVD (ed. Deutsche Grammophon), Le Nozze di Figaro on DVD (ed. TDK), Zelmira by Rossini (ed. Naxos). As solo albums, she has recorded “Cantate” by Crescentini (ed. Tactus), “Melodie” by P. Viardot (ed. Brilliant), and “Hommage à Garcia Lorca – Preludios y canciones” (ed. Musica Novantiqua). Always curious and multifaceted, she is passionate about compelling archival research that has led her to discover unexplored musical treasures, which have led to the creation of some of her solo albums, with many more in the pipeline.

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Gianni Fabbrini
pianist, he was born in Florence and trained at the Conservatory of his city where he graduated in piano and then specialized in harpsichord, undertaking musicological studies at the University of Florence and at the same time obtaining diplomas in Singing and Vocal Chamber Music. He has worked for prestigious foreign concert and opera institutions such as the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Opéra National de Paris, the Theatre Royale de La Monnaie in Brussels, the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia, the Glyndebourne and Wexford Festivals, the Osterfestspiele in Salzburg, the Theater an der Wien, the Rossini Festival in Wildbad, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Bremen Festival, the Semper Oper in Dresden, the National Opera Theatre in Seoul, the Bunkamura Orchid Hall in Tokyo, the Biwako Hall in Kyoto, the Shanghai Symphony, the Baxter Theater in Capetown and for important Italian institutions such as the Rossini Opera Festival, the Società Aquilana dei Concerti, the Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto, the Pergolesi Festival in Iesi, the Estate Fiesolana, the Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, the Maggio Musicale and the Amici della Musica in Florence, alongside as a performer or He has collaborated with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Donato Renzetti, Carlo Rizzi, Claudio Scimone, Alberto Zedda, Renè Jacobs, Marc Minkowski, Jeffrey Tate, Lu Ja, and Emanuelle Haim. In the opera field, he has also worked with internationally renowned directors such as Peter Brook, Peter Stein, Jean Louis Martinoty, Moshe Leiser, and Patrice Caurier, as well as with Italians Pierluigi Pizzi, Mario Martone, Damiano Michieletto, and Davide Livermore.