56th International Festival 18 July – 8 September 2017 Artistic Director Gianandrea Noseda Member of the European Festivals Association press@stresafestival.eu | 0323.31095 | www.stresafestival.eu PRESS RELEASE Stresa, 28 March 2017 Music joins hands with the theater, dance, literature and the visual arts From 18 July to 8 September This year’s 56th edition of the Stresa Festival offers no less than 26 appointments, all linked by a single main theme, so exciting you won’t want to miss them! The most important festival on the shores of Lake Maggiore, while focused as always on music, opens up to new forms of expression each year and this year it blends various disciplines – theater, dance, and multimedial effects, projecting the originals of old films. A completely fresh new item in 2017 offers encounters with well-known Italian writers. This is all gathered under the magic banner of music – always the main feature of the Festival – presented in stunning historic settings that will arouse the thrill and emotion of entertainment in exclusive sites opened specially for the Festival. Music, dance, live and visual theater are all site-specific events in the Stresa Festival’s novel artistic program for 2017. More than 400 artistes will perform this summer, not just in the music, though music is the thread leading through the whole ample program. It is divided as usual into three parts: the Midsummer Jazz Concerts, Meditations in Music, and the main schedule, which Gianandrea Noseda has called ‘Encounters’. This is his 18th year as Artistic Director of the Festival. Encounters and Meditation in Music Three of the 20 Encounters are projects commissioned directly by the Festival, and these world premières are going to attract wide attention. The very first is the inaugural concert on 23 August at the Stresa Congress Palace, when the Sanpapié dance and theater company, which performed last year too, will put on its latest production, representing Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat in dance, with the voice of Valter Malosti, a producer, actor and visual artist, who studies the ‘transversality’ of the arts. The Stresa Festival Ensemble that first evening will be conducted by Duncan Ward. This concert will start with songs by De Falla and Berio, with the soprano Alda Caiello. On 26 August at the Maggiore in Verbania, we shift to the shadow theater: Hamlet op. 32a (incidental music by Shostakovich) presented by alTREtracce, a Turin company that focuses on the fusion of various theatrical techniques with shadow theater. This evocative ‘dream language’ is backed by the voice of Olivia Manescalchi with Monica Luccisano’s drammaturgy and the Stresa Festival Orchestra conducted by Daniele Rustioni. In another theatrical encounter in Stresa on 31 August Francesco Frongia and Ferdinando Bruni, both wellknown producers on the contemporary theater scene, present Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, against spectacular new scenography. The pianist Alexander Romanovsky will introduce the evening with music by Schumann. Then, of course, the big orchestras will be back on stage at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Stresa. A new arrival is the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich which on 27 August, with the pianist Francesco Piemontesi, offers a program of music by Brahms, Grieg and Elgar under the baton of Lionel Bringuier. Gianandrea Noseda will be back at the Festival in the first week of September, conducting two famous symphony orchestras. The London Symphony Orchestra, where he has been Guest Conductor since 2016, is here for the second year running, in response to widespread enthusiasm, with a program centered on Russian composers, Prokofiev...
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