Mercoledì 8 maggio 2024 ore 18.30 – Whyte Recital Hall – RIAM Royal Irish Academy of Music 36-38 Westland Row Dublin
Dopo un concerto emozionante tenutosi lo scorso 12 aprile, l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura è lieto di presentare il terzo e ultimo concerto di questa serie di prestigiosi eventi musicali, mercoledì 8 maggio 2024 alle ore 18.30, in collaborazione con Wexford Festival Opera.
Il terzo concerto gratuito avrà luogo nuovamente nel meraviglioso e prestigioso nuovo auditorium della Whyte Recital Hall presso la RIAM – Royal Irish Academy of Music a Dublino.
La talentuosa soprano Ami Hewitt (già ospite del nostro Istituto a marzo del 2023)) e il tenore irlandese Andrew Gavin, accompagnati dalla pianista Rebecca Warren, presenteranno un ricco programma di arie d’opera in lingua italiana da componimenti di Mozart, Handel, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lehár.
Con una durata di circa un’ora, questo concerto è pronto ad incantare e catturare sia gli appassionati d’opera esperti che i novizi.
PROGRAMMA:
- Al destin che la minaccia – Mitridate Re di Ponto (Mozart)
- Un momento di contento – Alcina (Handel)
- Regnava nel Silenzio – Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
- Si ritrovarla, io giuro – La Cenerentola (Rossini)
- Prendi, per me sei libero… Il mio rigor dimentica – l’Elisir d’Amore (Donizetti)
- O figli, o figli miei – Macbeth (Verdi)
- Parigi, o cara – La Traviata (Verdi)
- What’s the Use in Wond’rin – Carousel (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
- Dein ist mein ganzes Herz – Das Land des Lächelns (Lehár)
- O soave fanciulla – La Boheme (Puccini)
Partecipazione gratuita con prenotazione obbligatoria su Eventbrite.
Unisciti a noi per una serata di ineguagliabile maestria artistica e splendore musicale, mentre celebriamo l’eterna bellezza dell’opera italiana nel cuore di Dublino.
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BIO
Ami Hewitt is a soprano from Dublin, Ireland. Her recent roles include Elvira in ‘L’Italiana in Algeri’ (Rossini) and Lauretta in ‘Gianni Schicchi’ (Puccini) at Wexford Festival Opera, The Controller in ‘Flight’ (Dove) with Opera Collective Ireland, Sophie in Lyric Opera Ireland’s production of ‘Werther’, and Kitty in retrospect opera’s recording of Stanford’s ‘Shamus O’Brien’ with the orchestra of Scottish opera conducted by David Parry.
Ami was a top prize winner in the most recent ‘Veronica Dunne bursary for young Irish singers’ and an Irish representative in the final rounds of the Belvedere international singing competition. She was a finalist in inaugural Dutch televised competition ‘Aria’ – The Competition was in association with Dutch National Opera with the National youth Orchestra conducted by Leonard Evers.
After attaining her BMusEd degree from Trinity College Dublin and a Master’s degree in vocal and opera studies from Conservatorium Maastricht, was a studio member with INO, a young artist with Wexford festival opera, and a member of the young singer’s collective with Le Foyer des Artistes.
Andrew Gavin completed his Masters in Music Performance at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 2016, achieving First Class Honours under the tuition of Mary Brennan. He is also graduate of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where he attained First Class Honours in English Literature. He also holds an M. Phil in Children’s Literature from Trinity College, Dublin. In 2016 he was awarded the PwC/Wexford Festival Opera Emerging Young Artist Bursary and is a former member of INO’s ABL Aviation Opera Studio.
He is currently undertaking his doctoral studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Trinity College Dublin. Operatic highlights include Tebaldo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff, Jupiter in Handel’s Semele, Pedrillo in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Tamino and Monostatos in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Arbace in Mozart’s Idomeneo, Acis and Damon in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Mr McCarthy in the world premiere of Andrew Synnott’s The 47th Saturday, Junger Diener in Strauss’s Elektra, Don Curzio in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, M. Vogelsang in Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor, Telemachus in Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses, Ormindo in Cavalli’s L’Ormindo, Andrés, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio and Franz in Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, and the roles of Bob Doran, Mr Alleyne and O’Halloran in the world premiere of Andrew Synnott’s Dubliners.
Pianist Rebecca Warren is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (MMus Repetiteurship) and has worked extensively as a pianist and répétiteur throughout Ireland and the UK. Opera credits include La ciociara and Lalla Roukh (Wexford Festival Opera), The Land of Might-Have-Been (Buxton International Festival and Norwich Theatre), Aida, Madama Butterfly, The Deadly World of Opera and Die Zauberflöte (Irish National Opera), Dream Catchr (RIAM), Le nozze di Figaro (Saluzzo Opera Academy), Les enfants terribles, L’étoile, A Feast in Time of Plague, Mozart e Salieri and Four Sisters (RCS), La Cambiale di Matrimonio and Cavalleria Rusticana (Spazio Musica).
Rebecca was a member of the 2022/2023 WFO Wexford Factory and made her debut as a Musical Director at Wexford Festival Opera in 2023, directing a condensed version of the Donizetti favourite La fille du régiment from the piano. She was répétiteur with the inaugural Irish National Opera Studio 2018/2019, in 2020 was awarded the prestigious Next Generation Artist Award by the Arts Council and was recently awarded the James H Geddes Award for Répétiteurs.
Rebecca maintains an active concert and recital diary as both collaborative pianist and soloist. She is also passionate about the promotion and performance of contemporary music by Irish and Ireland-based composers and enjoys working with composers to workshop and promote their new compositions. This summer she looks forward to working at Buxton International Festival as répétiteur for Verdi’s Ernani and as Musical Director of The Boatswain’s Mate by Ethel Smyth.
