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    Easter Concert

    Wednesday 16 April 2025
    Poggibonsi (SI), Teatro Politeama
    Wednesday 16 April 2025 h. 9:00 p.m.
    GEMMA NEW conductor
    ELEONORA BELLOCCI soprano
    FILIPPO MINECCIA countertenor
    Orchestra della Toscana
    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi / Stabat Mater
    Franz Joseph Haydn / Symphony No.104 'Salomon Symphony'
    Tickets
    Single seat
    Full price € 13,00
    Reduced € 10,00
    Students € 5,00
    Tickets soon on sale online at politeama.info and at the Theatre Box Office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 5:30-7:30 pm - during cinema hours - on show and concert days from 6:00 pm
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    “Sorrowful, weeping, the Mother stood near the Cross from which her Son hung.” Thus begins the Stabat Mater, a 13th-century liturgical sequence traditionally attributed to Jacopone da Todi. These verses, for Holy Week, have been set to music by composers of all ages. One of the most moving renditions is by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, the most prominent Neapolitan opera composer of his generation (though he was born in the Marche region). Commissioned by the Duke of Maddaloni for Holy Week celebrations, this work was an immediate success and remains a staple in the performance tradition to this day. This Baroque masterpiece for strings and two solo voices opens the ORT’s Easter concert. The soloists are two Florentines with impressive resumes: soprano Eleonora Bellocci, who began her career at the Accademia del Maggio, and countertenor Filippo Mineccia, noted for his recent debut at La Scala and collaboration with Riccardo Muti. On the podium is Gemma New, a 37-year-old New Zealander naturalized as a U.S. citizen, and current music director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, who gained international recognition in 2021 after winning the Sir George Solti Competition in Germany.
    The other composition in the program is Symphony No. 104 by Franz Joseph Haydn, the last of his symphonic catalog. Majestic yet affable, it was his farewell to the city of London, where he was brought by impresario Johann Peter Salomon (after whom this symphony is often named) following his retirement from the court of the Esterházy princes, the most distinguished dynasty of the Austrian Empire after the Habsburgs.


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