at Strathmore
The legendary La Scala opera house in Milan has represented the pinnacle of performance for more than two centuries, and to study at La Scala is the dream of young virtuosos. This performance, at the close of the Year of Italian Culture in the U.S., brings the best of La Scala’s Academy to Strathmore in a program that includes classics by Verdi, and music by 20th century Italian composer Nino Rota.
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IN COLLABORATION WITH
Free pre-concert lecture with WETA’s David Ginder at 6:15PM in the Concert Hall
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Group Discount (10 or more peoople) – 30% off ticket price. For group discount contact Julia Allal at (301) 581-5199 and mention code “Italy in US”.
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LOCATION
Music Center at Strathmore
5301 Tuckerman Lane
North Bethesda, MD 20852-3385
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ACCADEMIA TEATRO ALLA SCALA
The Orchestra of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala was founded to give to the young musicians the training needed to gain entry into the most important orchestras in Italy and abroad. The class is held under the guidance of the First Sections of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and musicians of international fame; courses include individual lessons, chamber music, orchestral exercises and classes for orchestra section.
During previous editions of the course, musicians performed in Milan at Teatro alla Scala, Piccolo Teatro and Teatro Dal Verme, in Bergamo at the Teatro Donizetti, in Brindisi at the Teatro Verdi, in Brescia at the Teatro Grande, in Turin at the Conservatory of Music, in Pompei at the Greek Theatre and during the music events Festival MiTo (edition 2008;2009;2010), Ravello Festival (edition 2010), Campania Teatro Festival Italia (edition 2010) and on various tours, including the United Arab Emirates in 2008 (Al Ain and Abu Dhabi), Denmark in 2009 (Aalborg) and in 2010 in Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg).
Every year, the Accademia Orchestra performs in the “Academy Project” an opera realized by Accademia students, included in Scala playbill, as well as in various productions performed by Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company: some recent events include the ballet Il pipistrello, choreographed by Roland Petit, three Mozart’s works – Ascanio in Alba, Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, Serata Petit, A midsummer night’s dream, choreographed by George Balanchine, the Donizetti’s operas Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali and Don Pasquale, L’occasione fa il ladro and L’italiana in Algeri by Rossini.
During 2011, among the most important events, have to be mentioned the concert at Teatro alla Scala conducted by John Axelrod performed by Lang Lang, an Italian tour with L’occasione fa il ladro directed by Daniele Rustioni, Giselle at the recently opened Royal Opera House inMuscat (Oman), under the David Coleman’s direction with the Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company and, lastly, the Gala concert directed by Gustavo Dudamel to celebrate the Accademia first decennial, with Jaeheui Kwon, Anita Rachvelishvili, Vincenzo Taormina and Pretty Yende, former students now established. In 2012, the Orchestra has come back to Oman at the Royal Opera House for two concerts: the first one under the conduction of John Axelrod with the pianist Aexei Volodin and the second one led by Massimiliano Caldi with the voices of Leonardo Cortellazzi, Simone Kermes, Daniel Kotlinski and Pretty Yende. Later, it has performed for an Italian tournée, then at the well known Festival in Bad Kissingen, at Teatro alla Scala for Onegin with the Teatro alla Scala Corps de Ballet and for two concerts conducted by Yuri Temirkanov.
The 2013 has involved the musicians into The Barber of Seville, a production by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; in April, the orchestra accompanied the Corps de Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala in Giselle. In June, the young artists performed on the stage of the same Opera House for the traditional concert with the opera singers, which have received their graduation; the 2012/2013 ended with a return to Bad Kissingen, for the well-known Kissinger Sommer Festival.
After the concert in Kaliningrad, which opens the 2013/2014 season, the orchestra calendar provides important performances in Milan, Taurin and USA, under the conduction of Fabio Luisi, Gianandrea Noseda and Daniele Rustioni. In addition to the aforementioned, other Orchestra’s guess condutors are Antonello Allemandi, Giovanni Antonini, Ottavio Dantone, Christopher Franklin, Marco Guidarini, Nicola Luisotti, Enrique Mazzola, Pietro Mianiti, Stefano Ranzani.
DANIELE RUSTIONI, conductor
At the age of 30, Daniele Rustioni is one of the most exciting conductors of his generation as stated by the INTERNATIONAL OPERA AWARDS 2013 that has recently awarded him as the “Best Newcomer of the Year”.
In March 2011 he appeared for the first time conducting Aida at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, where he will return in the 2013/14 season. In October 2012 made his debut at Teatro alla Scala with La bohème and was immediately re-invited to celebrate Verdi and its anniversary conducting a new production of Un ballo in maschera directed by Damiano Michieletto. The critic of THE TIMES has affirmed: “Clearly another rising talent destined for big things”.
In June 2011 he was appointed as Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana, one of the well-known Italian symphonic orchestras. In February 2013 he became the Music Director of the Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari.
Daniele Rustioni studied at the Milan Conservatoire, where he graduated as organist, composer and pianist. He studied conducting with Gilberto Serembe and continued at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena under Gianluigi Gelmetti and the Royal Academy of Music in London. In In 2007 Gianandrea Noseda became his main mentor and gave him the chance to make his debut with the Teatro Regio Torino Orchestra. At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Daniele received Antonio Pappano’s personal guidance on operatic repertoire.
Daniele Rustioni regularly conducts the best Italian opera houses such as Teatro Regio Torino, La Fenice in Venice, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as well as festivals such as Rossini Opera Festival, where he made his debut in the summer of 2012. In the fall of 2012 he conducted for the first time at the Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari.
In the UK Daniele Rustioni has conducted at the Opera North and at the Welsh National Opera, where he will come back in the fall of 2013 for an important “belcanto” project including new productions of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena and Roberto Devereux. Daniele Rustioni made his debut in the US at the Glimmerglass Festival conducting Medea by Cherubini and returned for his debut with the Washington National Opera in March 2013 conducting raising star Angela Meade as “Norma” in March 2013.
Future opera engagements include debuts at the Opéra National de Lyon for a new production of Simone Boccanegra, at the Bayerisches Staatsoper for Madama Butterfly as well as at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam and at the Opernhaus in Zurich.
Daniele Rustioni has an intense symphonic activity: beside his strong collaboration with the Orchestra della Toscana that he will also lead in a concert at the KKL of Lucerne in May 2012, he has already conducted the best Italian orchestras such as the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI. He has also conducted the BBC Philharmonic, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and the Helsinki Philharmonic. He will make his debuts next season with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Orchestre Philhaermonique de Montecarlo.
Recording activities includes Erwin Schrott’s latest opera arias album for Sony Classical.
LUDMILLA BAUERFELDT, soprano
Began her voice and music studies in her native Rio de Janeiro at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music in 2004 in the class of Sergio Lavor; she was then accepted in the Bachelor of Music (voice) course at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) in the class of Prof. Carol McDavit in 2008. There she participated with great success in leading roles in productions of La Canterina (Gasparina) of Haydn and The Telephone (Lucy) of Menotti, both under the baton of Maestro Guilherme Bernstein.
She also obtained a diploma from the acting course at the Martins Pena School of Drama in 2005. She has participated in master classes given by Mitsuko Shirai, Maestro Martin Schmidt and Maria Venuti of the University of Karlsruhe and with the renowned pianist/coach Mark Markham.
In 2008, Ludmilla was chosen among dozens of candidates to participate in the television competition “Prelude”, TV Cultura, where she sang under the baton of Maestro Julio Medaglia and in the 8th International Singing Competition Bidu Sayão, she received the prize “Best Performer of Opera Arias”, performing as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of Minas Gerais.
In 2010, she was awarded the grand prize in the 1st Voice Competition (Vozes do Brasil) of the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro And in 2011 she returned to the Bidu Sayão International Vocal Competition (9th), this time winning the first prize for the Best Female Singer.
Ludmilla has presented many recitals of operatic and chamber music, including one in honour of Bidu Sayão at the Teatro Municipal de Niterói in 2007, where she also received special recognition for her artistic achievements from the Mayor of Niterói. In 2009, she participated in the national premiere of the opera Der Zwerg of Alexander Von Zemlinsky in Rio de Janeiro with the Petrobras Symphony Orchestra under the conducting of Isaac Karabtchevsky and the stage direction of André Heller. In November 2011, along with Symphonic Orchestra of São Paulo (OSESP), she was soloist in the 2nd Symphony of Gustav Mahler, under the baton of Maestra Alondra de La Parra.
And in the following month, she was soloist with the Brazilian Symphonic Orchestra (OSB) of Rio de Janeiro, in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and excerpts from Bizet’s opera Carmen (Micaela) conducted by Roberto Minczuk, at the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro.
Ludmilla integrates the highly competitive Academy for Opera Singers of the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan, Italy; as part of this program she has performed at the Opera Theatre of Avignon, France and at the Theocharakis Foundation in Athens, Greece; conducted by Bruno Casoni she was soloist of the Petite Messe Solenelle of Rossini. At La Scala (season 2012), she has had a debut as Norina in Don Pasquale´s Donizetti.
JAEYOON JUNG, tenor
Born in South Korea, he graduated in singing in 2009 at Yonsei University in Seoul. Later, he enrolled at the Conservatory “St. Cecilia” in Rome, where he had followed the master-classes held by Renato Bruson and Salvatore Fisichella. Between 2010 and 2011, he took part in the competitions “Ottavio Ziino” (Rome), “Rolando Nicolosi” (Rome) and “Città di Caserta”, always winning the special prize. He made his debut in the role of Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart, staged in 2006 at the Auditorium of the Korean Broadcasting System, and then as Einstein in Die Fledermaus by R. Strauss, staged in 2008 at the Aram Nuri-Goyang Cultural Foundation Art Center of Korea.
Between 2011 and 2013 studied at Academy for Opera Singers of the Teatro Alla Scala. At Teatro Filarmonico in Verona he debuted as Edoardo in Un giorno di Regno by Giuseppe Verdi (March 2013).
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