Buona Pasqua, Happy Easter, Frohe Ostern, Feliz Semana Santa
08 April – DINNER WITH ABIGAILLE, at Villa Pellegrini Cipolla
An evening that promises to be full of charm with the presence of artists of great ability.
FRIDAY 08.04.2011
Ore 8.15 pm
Villa Pellegrini Cipolla
Castion di Costermano – Verona
Three talented artists will cheer the first part. In the kitchen Chef Massimo Mezzari
An event not to be missed!
Watch the video “Nessun dorma”l last year at Villa Pellegrini Cipolla
PROGRAM
8.30: Musical Conversation dedicated opera “Nabucco” by G. Rossi
Matteo Salvemini, Maestro Pianist
Sonia Peruzzo, soprano
9.15 pm: Meeting with the Spanish cuisine
Massimo Mezzari Chef
11.00: End the evening and greetings
COST
€ 50,00; € 35,00 under 12 y.o.
INFO E BOOKING
info@villapellegrinicipolla.com | Tel. 045 7200375 | Mob. 335 6317228
March 11 – DINNER WITH ROSINA at Villa Pellegrini Cipolla
An evening that promises to be full of charm with the presence of artists of great ability.
FRIDAY 11.03.2011
Ore 8.15 pm
Villa Pellegrini Cipolla
Castion di Costermano – Verona
During the “Musical Conversation” guests will be guided to understand the Opera by listening to music performed on piano and vocals, interspersed with explanations and summaries of the various acts and interesting anecdotes.
Three talented artists will cheer the first part. In the kitchen Chef Massimo Mezzari
An event not to be missed!
Watch the video “Nessun dorma”l last year at Villa Pellegrini Cipolla
PROGRAM
8.30: Musical Conversation dedicated opera “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” by G. Rossinii
Matteo Salvemini, Maestro Pianist
Sonia Peruzzo, soprano
9.15 pm: Meeting with the Spanish cuisine
Massimo Mezzari Chef
11.00: End the evening and greetings
COST
€ 50,00; € 35,00 under 12 y.o.
INFO E BOOKING
info@villapellegrinicipolla.com | Tel. 045 7200375 | Mob. 335 6317228
14 January – DINNER WITH AIDA at Villa Pellegrini Cipolla
An evening that promises to be full of charm with the presence of artists of great ability.
FRIDAY 14.01.2011
Ore 8.15 pm
Villa Pellegrini Cipolla
Castion di Costermano – Verona
During the “Musical Conversation” guests will be guided to understand the Opera by listening to music performed on piano and vocals, interspersed with explanations and summaries of the various acts and interesting anecdotes.
Three talented artists will cheer the first part: the soprano Francesca Rossi del Monte and Mezzo-soprano Claudia Marchi, guide by master pianist Matteo Salvemini.
In the kitchen Chef Massimo Mezzari
An event not to be missed!
Watch the video “Nessun dorma”l last year at Villa Pellegrini Cipolla
PROGRAM
8.30: Musical Conversation dedicated opera “Aida” by G. Verdi
Matteo Salvemini, Maestro Pianist
Mezzo-soprano Claudia Marchi
9.15 pm: Meeting with the kitchen “Egyptian”
Massimo Mezzari Chef
11.00: End the evening and greetings
MENU
Wines selected by the Consorzio Tutela Vino Bardolino
Red sorrel (served cold in glass jar)
Brik white meat and eggplant with mint cream of milk on saffron
Harira soup (chicken soup with lentils and chickpeas)
Tagine of mutton marinated with ginger on small vegetable cous cous with saffron
Chocolate Pyramid with crunchy hazelnut heart and coconut cream
COST
€ 50,00; € 35,00 under 12 y.o.
INFO E BOOKING
info@villapellegrinicipolla.com | Tel. 045 7200375 | Mob. 335 6317228
Opened the ticket issue for 2011 Arena Festival
Opened the ticket issue for 2011 Opera Festival at the Arena di Verona. At the 89th Opera Festival, 49 evenings will be dedicated to 6 works: La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini, Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi, La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini and Romeo et Juliette by Charles Gounod.
The 2011 season will start on June 17th 2011 and will close on September 3rd.
In addition to programming the Arena back in 2011 the event Anteprima OPERA – Opera meetings with the wines and flavors – in preparation for the vision of the Arena show.
The meetings are open to the public every day of Arena show from Tuesday to Friday. Private meetings are available seven days a week instead upon request.
Soon all the news.
Information and tickets online on our Blog
or visit www.anteprimaopera.it
AIDA! What happend in the first act
Saturday 3th July. Aida is here!
Big room in the building of the Menfis king to. To the sides, monumental statues and bushes in flower; on the background there are buildings, temples and pyramids. Ramfis, head of the priests, shares with Radamès, brave captain of the army faraonico, the fears of a new invasion of the Ethiopians. Already Iside has named the commander of the real troops, and soon the king will reveal the name of it. Radamès dreams to be the chosen person, to return from the enterprise surrounded of laurels and to give back throne and country to the woman that he loves: Aida, daughter of the Ethiopias King, fall in Egyptian hands (“If that guerriers I was!. Celestial Aida”). But also Amneris, the daughter of the king of Egypt, is in love with Radamès. Amneris, suspects in the slave a humiliating rival and she tries to discover, through skilled surveys, the truth: with Aida she turns deceitful words of affection (“you Come, or dear”), to Radamès in love but at the same time inquiring looks. A messenger brings meanwhile the news that hordes Ethiopians, driven by their monarch Amonasro, have crossed the boundarys and they march on Tebe. There is the war. In the presence of captains, of ministers and of priests, the king announces the name of the designate hero: Radamès. The presents exulted but not Aida that, fought among the love for her father and the insane passion for the most dangerous of the enemies, she asks to help the numis (” Returns vincitor. Numi, pity of my suffering”), observed to distance by the aware Amneris. Second scene. Inside of the temple of Volcano. Among mystical dances and invocations to the dèis (“Mighty Fthà”), in an escape of columns that loses him in the darkness, Radamès, the veiled head of silver, receives from Ramfis the sword that consecrates him the head of Egyptian army…
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Anteprima Opera: Guestbook
…. If you are an opera enthusiast but, like me, a bit of a duffer at plots, then there’s a useful pre-show lecture called Anteprima Opera, a talk by an opera expert and conductor, held in the gorgeous Palazzo Verità Poeta, a stone’s thorw from the Arena.
It’s a great way to start the evening. The talk (in italian with English and German translation through headphones) is geared to the opera being performed in the Arena that night.
Sitting in the wonderful trompe l’oeil hall, 40 or so of us watched Maestro Fabio fapanni talking us through Aida while floor-shaking accompainiment fron the bass-baritone Victor Garcia Sierra… If this useful pre-amble doesn’t get the juices flowing, then there’s always the buffet afterwards. It’s a feast of local treats – including some superb cheeses and nearby Soave or Valpolicella wines.
Robert Gore-Langton
Daily Mail (UK)
Thank you, I’m very well. Hoping you are well too. The days in Verona I’ll never forget. It was wonderful. The Anteprima Opera was a great idea to join in the opera Aida. And the opera was an experience, wonderful singers and acoustics.
Thank you so much / mille mille grazie
Best regards
Edith Spitzer
Online-Redaktion 55PLUS-magazin (Wien – A)
I am coming back 2 hours before to my “computer” in Budapest und would like to say you once more a lot of thanks for the nice hotel and all the extra invitation to opera, Anteprima Opera and gastronomic enjoyments.
We have seen a lot, not only the well known tourist attractions, but a lot of finer details too in Verona and around….
My best wishes to Verona
Katalin von Reviczky
Uj Ember cultural journal (H)
Eine gelengene, libendige Eifuhrung in die Opere Carmen mit …
H. Kaufmann (D)
Very interesting and informative
(UK)
“Grazie mille” an die Organisation
Die Kultur runde Regensburg (D)
What a wonderful time we’ve had so few. Can the opera itself be as good? (Yes!)
H. Helen (Nottingham, UK)
A wonderful experience
Beverley e Ared B. (Sidney, Australia)
What a incredible wonderful evening
(UK)
Die Gruppe Kulturfahrten Stuttgart bedankt sich fur die Atmosphaere und lukulische und musikalische Genusse.
Danke
Kulturfahrten Stuttgart (D)
Anteprima Opera is coming…
Anteprima OPERA 2010 (Introduction to the Opera) presents 48 exclusive afternoon events in the glorious setting of the Palazzo Verità Poeta and Palazzo Castellani di Sermeti, during which our expert Artists (Maestro at the piano and Singer) will provide an introduction to the Opera that will be performed that same evening in the Arena. Guests will thus benefit from an essential overview of this Opera and of the Arena performance.
This first part will be followed by a Wine tasting with one of the best of Verona’s Doc wines, presented by the wine producer himself. Those wishing to remain can attend the Cocktail buffet with some of Verona’s best food, served in the historical setting. Every afternoon just in time to be ready for the start of the Arena Performance.
Info, booking, menù, video on www.anteprimaopera.it
Carmen a free women
Carmen appairs in Arena on the 10th of July with Her irresistible charm.
Carmen has always been painted as a frivolous character, a woman of easy customs that in the Paris of end Eight hundred, would not have had to tread the stage of the Opéra-Comique.
Her irresistible charm, her ardent sensuality of “habanera” gipsy, are always been the cause of a missed moral dignity. Carmen loves when she decides to love, and it stops loving when the love stops. Carmen makes to fall in love mens with that, that half century later the poet Federico García Lorca will define as “duende.”
Is a power and not an act, is a fight and not a think..the duende rise up internally from the plant of foods..it is not a matter of faculty, but rather an authentic alive style; or of blood; that is, of ancient culture, of creation in action.” Carmen doesn’t even stop in front of the death, rather, she dare it in order not to lose her Liberty. When Carmen throws on the engagement ring to Josè, she is not a capricious young girl that rebels to her man.
She is a woman that affirms her inflexible wish to be herself, also at the cost to pay with the life the price of her Liberty.
This weekend, in the rooms of “Palazzo Verità Poeta”, will take place the story of the Carmen in anarrative key, brought in scene by the Maestro Matteo Salvemini, with the voices of Victor Garcìa Sierra and Liliana Ruggero.
The wine that will accompany the representation will be the Lugana d.o.c. of the wine cellar “The pearl of Garda”.
Talk to you soon!