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Montepulciano Festival
The (International Art Workshop) is an annual international summer school and musical festival for young singers, actors, musicians, conductors and composers. It was set up in Montepulciano, Italy, in 1976 by Hans Werner Henze. Several works received their world premieres at the festival. History Hans Werner Henze founded the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano, Tuscany, in 1976. Productions of concerts and theatre are prepared in the summer school and then played at the festival. Participants do not receive fees, but food and accommodation. Among the venues is the historic . Since November 2005 the workshop has been organised by the Fondazione Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano, run by the town and by the Province of Siena. Roland Böer became musical director in 2009, and was artistic director from 2015 to 2020. Vincent Monteil Vincent Monteil (born 1964) is a French conductor. He was born in Angers. Education Monteil studied in several nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montepulciano
Montepulciano () is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and ''comune'' in the Italian province of Siena in southern Tuscany. It sits high on a limestone ridge, east of Pienza, southeast of Siena, southeast of Florence, and north of Rome by car. Montepulciano is a wine-producing region. The Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has Denominazione di origine controllata e garantita status and is, with the Brunello di Montalcino and Chianti Classico, one of the principal red wines of Tuscany. The Rosso di Montepulciano and Vin Santo di Montepulciano have Denominazione di origine controllata status. History According to legend, it was founded by the Etruscan King Lars Porsena of Clusium (modern Chiusi). Recent findings prove that a settlement was in existence in the 4th-3rd centuries BC. In Roman times it was the seat of a garrison guarding the main roads of the area. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it developed as a religious center under the Lombards. In the 12th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition. In particular, his stage works reflect "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life". Henze was also known for his political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his leftist politics and homosexuality. Late in life he lived in the village of Marino in the central Italian region of Lazio, and in his final years still travelled extensively, in particular to Britain and Germany, as part of his work. An avowed Marxist and member of the Italian Communist Party, Henze produced compositions honoring Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. At the 1968 Hamburg premiere of his requiem for Che Guevara, titled ''Das Floß der Medusa'' (' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Böer
Roland Böer (6 December 1970) is a German conductor with a focus on opera. He has worked at leading European opera houses, including the Oper Frankfurt where he began as répétiteur in 1996, was Kapellmeister from 2002 to 2008, and has often appeared as a guest. He was artistic director of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano from 2015 to 2020. Life and career Böer was born in Bad Homburg. He studied music at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, with a focus on conducting with Günther Wich. He was répétiteur at the Oper Frankfurt and musical director of the Kammeroper Frankfurt from 1996 to 1999. He then moved to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he also conducted. He was an assistant of Antonio Pappano in productions of the Bayreuth Festival, La Monnaie in Brussels and the Royal Opera House in London. From 2002 to 2008, he was Kapellmeister at the Oper Frankfurt. He worked as a guest at opera houses of Europe, including Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Monteil
Vincent Monteil (born 1964) is a French conductor. He was born in Angers. Education Monteil studied in several national conservatories in France before completing a degree in musicology at the Sorbonne University in Paris and beginning his conducting training with Maestros Gérard Devos and Pierre Dervaux. From 1991 to 1996, Vincent Monteil was assistant conductor at the Toulouse Capitole Opera, where he studied thoroughly French Music with Michel Plasson. This tenure gave him the opportunity to work with conductors such as Friedemann Layer, Maurizio Arena, Richard Bradshaw, Woldemar Nelsson and Donato Renzetti, and singers such as Roberto Alagna, José van Dam, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Leontina Vaduva, Nuccia Focile, Françoise Pollet, and Catherine Malfitano. In 1995, Nicolas Joel, director of the Toulouse Capitole Opera asked him to conduct Giacomo Puccini's ''La bohème''. Career In 1996, Vincent Monteil was appointed associate conductor of Nice Philharmonic Orchestra (France) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Festival
A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or holiday. Music festivals are generally organized by individuals or organizations within networks of music production, typically music scenes, the music industries, or institutions of music education. The music festival is the largest and one of the most important performance institutions in music life, a place for experiencing where the culture is at. Music festivals are commonly held outdoors, with tents or roofed temporary stages for the performers. Often music festivals host other attractions such as food and merchandise vending, dance, crafts, performance art, and social or cultural activities. Many festivals are annual, or repeat at some other interval, while some are held only once. Some festivals are organized as for-profit concerts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Siena
The province of Siena ( it, provincia di Siena, link=no, ) is a province in Tuscany, Italy. Its capital is the city of Siena. Geography The province is divided into seven historical areas: * Alta Val d'Elsa * Chianti senese * The urban area of (Monteriggioni and Siena) * Val di Merse * Crete senesi Val d'Arbia * Val di Chiana senese * Val d'Orcia and Amiata The area is a hilly one: in the north is Colline del Chianti; Monte Amiata is the highest point at ; and in the south is Monte Cetona. To the west are the Colline Metallifere (“Metalliferous Hills”), whilst the Val di Chiana lies to east. Historically, the province corresponds to the northeastern portion of the former Republic of Siena. The chief occupations are agricultural (wheat, grapes and fruit) and silk culture. The wine known as Chianti is produced here as well as in other parts of Tuscany: the Chianti Colli Senesi, however, is limited to this province. Apart from the city of Siena the principal towns are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detlev Glanert
Detlev Glanert (born 6 September 1960) is a German opera composer, who has also composed numerous works for chamber and full orchestra, including three symphonies. Life Detlev Glanert was born in Hamburg in 1960. He came to music late, learning his first instrument, the trumpet, at the age of eleven and not starting his formal composition studies until his twenties, when he studied under Diether de la Motte, Günther Friedrichs and Frank Michael Beyer, and then for four years under Hans Werner Henze in Cologne. Having seen his first operas in Hamburg in 1972, ''The Magic Flute'', and then ''Die Soldaten'', he has said that from the first moment he loved opera. It was at Henze's invitation that Glanert produced his first sizeable piece of music-theatre, the opera ''Leyla und Medjun'' which opened the first Munich Biennale, set up by Henze in 1988. Glanert then became involved in Henze's other festival, the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano, firstly as assistant co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oper Frankfurt
The Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt Opera) is a German opera company based in Frankfurt. Opera in Frankfurt am Main has a long tradition, with many world premieres such as Franz Shrek's ''Der ferne Klang'' in 1912, '' Fennimore und Gerda'' by Frederick Delius in 1919, and Carl Orff's ''Carmina Burana'' in 1937. Frankfurt's international recognition began in the Gielen Era, 1977 to 1987, when Michael Gielen and stage directors such as Ruth Berghaus collaborated. A historic opera house from 1880 was destroyed in World War II, and reconstructed as a concert hall, the Alte Oper. The present opera house, built in 1963, is under one roof with the stage for drama. The opera orchestra is called Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester. Today's venue for Baroque and contemporary opera is the Bockenheimer Depot, a former tram depot. Voted best 'Opera house of the year' by ''Opernwelt'' several times since 1996, including 2020, Oper Frankfurt is part of the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Festivals In Italy
Italian music festivals Below is a list of music festivals in Italy : Festivals *Agglutination Metal Festival in Sant'Arcangelo Founded in 1995, it is the oldest Metal Music Festival in Italy. *Arena di Verona Festival, Arena di Verona Opera during the summer months in the Roman amphitheater in Verona. *Arezzo Wave in Arezzo Pop and Rock music founded in 1987. *Dissonanze focused on electronic music, ran from 2000 to 2010. *Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the two Worlds) in Spoleto Held since 1957, it has a program of symphonic music, opera, dance and jazz. *Festival della canzone italiana or the San Remo Festival is a popular song contest held in Sanremo since 1951 *Festival di Napoli was a Neapolitan song contest which ran from (1952–1971, 1981, 1998–2004) *Festival Verdi, mainly in Parma, is dedicated to the music of Giuseppe Verdi, Verdi. *Folkest in Spilimbergo *Gods of Metal in Milan *Heineken Jammin Festival in Venice is a pop/rock festival founded in 1998. *Indep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Schools
Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn. At or centred on the summer solstice, the earliest sunrise and latest sunset occurs, daylight hours are longest and dark hours are shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice. The date of the beginning of summer varies according to climate, tradition, and culture. When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. Timing From an astronomical view, the equinoxes and solstices would be the middle of the respective seasons, but sometimes astronomical summer is defined as starting at the solstice, the time of maximal insolation, often identified with the 21st day of June or December. By solar reckoning, summer instead starts on May Day and the summer solstice is Midsummer. A variable seasonal lag means that the meteorological centre of the season, which is based on average temperature patterns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Establishments In Italy
Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union. * January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction (the West German extreme-left militant Baader–Meinhof Group) begins in Stuttgart. * January 18 ** Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. ** The Scottish Labour Party (1976), Scottish Labour Party is formed as a breakaway from the UK-wide party. ** Super Bowl X in American football: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 21–17, in Miami. * January 21 – First commercial Concorde flight, from London to Bahrain. * January 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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