A LOOK AT THE FUTURE

This season’s last events and some information on next season’s upcoming events: Gilberto Gil, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mariangela Melato, Gabriele Lavia...

The theatre season is coming to an end, but Le Muse Theatre has still some more surprises in store for all kinds of theatre-goers, from the Canto for Peace performed by Placido Domingo to Gianluca Cascioli’s concert, from Brad Mehldau’s to Keith Jarrett’s piano, from Giorgio Panariello’s Molière to Fiorella Mannoia.

Le Muse Theatre’s second year of life will no doubt live up to expectations too. The art directors of the various seasons are already providing some inviting advance information.

The Spaziomusica association has announced three important jazz events. Gilberto Gil, the Brazilian musician who last January was appointed Minister of Culture in Lula’s Government, is likely to perform in Ancona on 2 and/or 3 October. A representative of Tropicalism and fusion music from the Eighties, Minister Gilberto Gil gives no more than twenty concerts every year and prefers to hold at least two performances in every place, together with his group of around 100 people, most of them musicians who are happy to organise music workshops. This would be a complex event, half-way between art and politics. Moreover, Gilberto Gil at Le Muse Theatre would open up the way for a project aiming, in the future, at hosting the Brazilian movement including Caetano Veloso and the great Joao Gilberto.

Another option exercised by Spaziomusica is the one on Dee Dee Bridgewater, a national premier, to be held probably between 6 and 9 November, at the end of the Ancona Jazz festival. Every year Dee Dee Bridgewater comes up with a different project; last year’s was dedicated to Kurt Weill

Finally, in cooperation with Umbria Jazz, a Gospel “imported” directly from Perugia will probably be performed on 26 December, although details still have to be defined.

During concerts, the Amici della Musica noticed that Le Muse Theatre has excellent acoustics for chamber music, an impression shared by Salvatore Accardo, Giuranna, Filippini, Petracchi and the great Mintz. Encouraged by such favourable conditions for classical music, for next season they decided to increase the number of concerts held at Le Muse Theatre to four or five, including the opening concert which will be performed on 15 October - when the great Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos will play with Camerata Salzburg, the famous Austrian orchestra -; a recital by one of the greatest pianists in the world, Krjstian Zimerman; and the final concert, in May, with the Prague Philarmonia conducted by Pier Carlo Trizio. On that occasion, today’s best flautist, Sir James Galway, will perform a concert by Mozart and Cimarosa’s concert for two flutes with his wife, Jeanne.

The season will also include 5 or 6 concerts held at the Sperimentale Theatre.

Three or four productions by the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana will make their debut at Le Muse Theatre, including the concert conducted by Gustav Kuhn, Bela Bartok for orchestra in the first part, and Mussorskj in the second part, as well as Schumann’s third symphony.

As regards drama, the season will be organised by the “La Città dei Teatri” Foundation - Teatro Stabile delle Marche. Its director, Tommaso Paolucci disclosed the presence of actors like Mariangela Melato, Giorgio Albertazzi, Gabriele Lavia, Marco Columbro, and the new production of a play by Pirandello featuring Carlo Cecchi, who directed and acted in Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore (Six characters in search of an author).

Although the opera season, organised by Claudio Orazi (who is also the Arena of Verona’s new art director), has already been presented, it is nonetheless worth mentioning its main titles and dates: in October, Le Muse, an opera on commission entrusted to nine young Italian composers; in November, Mozart’s The Shepherd King (new production); in December, Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball); at Christmas, Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ) (new production); in January 2004, Puccini’s Tosca (production to be defined).