Music Of Liberty And Independence !

A special year for the Festival of Nations in Citta di Castello, who is preparing to celebrate Italy and its great music for the Unity Anniversary - 150 years from the Independence Declaration.
Music that has caught on in Europe and worldwide, and that in the '800 lives a period of great fervor and energy.
The birth of opera in fact give voice to the aspirations of freedom and independence embodied by those social classes that will be the protagonists of the Risorgimento.
The closing concert of the Festival of Città di Castello will be dedicated to symphonies, arias and choral repertoire drawn from the '800 Italian and will conclude with Verdi's Hymn of the Nations, composed for the international expo in London in 1862, in which Italy participates as a nation at last.
Even to Verdi and Gioacchino Rossini, symbols of Italian music in the world, will be dedicated the opening concert of the Festival of Nations, a program run by the charming Italian Virtuosi together with soprano Cinzia Forte; at the end Rota's famous music written for the film Il Gattopardo di Luchino Visconti.
Many other surprises await you, such as concerts dedicated to two great schools of music in Italian, the Venetian and Neapolitan, as well as unreleased performances, like the little opera commissioned by the Festival of Nations at the young composer Cristina Carrara, inspired by one of the stories the novel Libro Cuore".
Children, but not limited to, the Festival of Nations dedicates the original reading of "Gian Burrasca", played by popular singer and exuberant Elio.
To make a stage to performing arts festival, suggestive places in Citta di Castello area, between the sacred and the profane.
Churches, courtyards, Renaissance palaces, piazzas and castles, lively melodies to be insurmountable, will offer audio and visual excitement to the viewer, a show where history and art blends harmoniously with the music, a particularly poignant to discover the beauty and artistic places Città di Castello and some of the most characteristic medieval villages of the Val Tiberina: Sansepolcro, San Giustino, Citerna and Morra.
The opening and closing concerts will be held at the monumental Gothic church of San Domenico, one of the historic places of the Festival.

For the full program visit www.festivalnazioni.com

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