A long and impressive list of musicians and singers would perform at the much bigger and better Al Ain Classical Music Festival that takes place from March 6 to March 16 in both Al Ain and Abu Dhabi.
The main organisers - Abu Dhabi Concert Committee, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage and Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority - have joined forces to bring to the audiences of the two cities some of the world’s greatest orchestras, including Milan’s La Scala Theatre Academy, whose production manager Massimo Nebuloni is also the director of the Al Ain Festival this year.
Established in 2001, as part of the prestigious La Scala Foundation, the academy has grown over the years to become a prestigious European university of the performing arts, training over 400 new students each year. The courses, which are mostly free of charge, are taught by the qualified professionals of the Teatro alla Scala, both for the musical and the technical subjects, varying from music, ballet and theatre to stage lighting and sound systems.
For the past month, Nebuloni has been working tirelessly to put together a heavy and varied programme of classical music. La Scala Academy will perform three concerts in Al Ain and one in Abu Dhabi.
On March 13, the 30 musicians from the Scala Academy String Orchestra will perform a diverse selection of works, from the romantic Serenade by Tchaikovsky to the Mozart’s light-hearted Divertimenti in K and the Ancient Dances for lute by the Italian composer Respighi, from 8 pm in the beautiful Al Jahili Fort under the open sky.
“This will be followed by a lyric concert on the next day, with four singers performing from an Italian repertoire, which include Rossini, Verdi and Puccini,” said Nebuloni. The concert will also take place at Al Jahili Fort, from 8 pm.
Sopranos Teresa Romano and Francesca Ruospo, tenor Thiago Arancam, baritone Massimo Cavalletti and the Scala Academy Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pietro Mianiti will perform well-known arias not only by the Italian composers, but also by Mozart.
On March 15, at the same venue and time, the same orchestra will perform a mixture of two very different works: Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Peter and the Wolf is a children’s story, written by Prokofiev in 1936 for his son, told by a narrator and an orchestra. “In the La Scala Academy Symphony Orchestra’s adaptation, the story will be told in Arabic by the actor Adel Bakri, while all the other characters from the story are done by instruments,” said Nebuloni.
In Abu Dhabi, it will be La Scala Academy’s Orchestra and singers who will perform on March 16, at the National Theatre - a special concert, which will include Tchaikovsky’s Serenade and arias from an Italian repertoire.
“All in all, the entire programme covers over 300 years of music, from string to symphonic and from instrumental suites to lyrical arias,” said Nebuloni. He is convinced that, despite the fact that Arab and Western classical music are very different, the European composers’ music is already growing roots in the sands of Abu Dhabi emirate and beyond.
“People might not understand the western music at first, but sitting down and listening to it, the music will eventually win them over. It happened to me too. So many times I went to a concert which I thought I didn’t like at first, but the more I listened, the more I started to enjoy it,” pointed out Nebuloni. Source
The main organisers - Abu Dhabi Concert Committee, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage and Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority - have joined forces to bring to the audiences of the two cities some of the world’s greatest orchestras, including Milan’s La Scala Theatre Academy, whose production manager Massimo Nebuloni is also the director of the Al Ain Festival this year.
Established in 2001, as part of the prestigious La Scala Foundation, the academy has grown over the years to become a prestigious European university of the performing arts, training over 400 new students each year. The courses, which are mostly free of charge, are taught by the qualified professionals of the Teatro alla Scala, both for the musical and the technical subjects, varying from music, ballet and theatre to stage lighting and sound systems.
For the past month, Nebuloni has been working tirelessly to put together a heavy and varied programme of classical music. La Scala Academy will perform three concerts in Al Ain and one in Abu Dhabi.
On March 13, the 30 musicians from the Scala Academy String Orchestra will perform a diverse selection of works, from the romantic Serenade by Tchaikovsky to the Mozart’s light-hearted Divertimenti in K and the Ancient Dances for lute by the Italian composer Respighi, from 8 pm in the beautiful Al Jahili Fort under the open sky.
“This will be followed by a lyric concert on the next day, with four singers performing from an Italian repertoire, which include Rossini, Verdi and Puccini,” said Nebuloni. The concert will also take place at Al Jahili Fort, from 8 pm.
Sopranos Teresa Romano and Francesca Ruospo, tenor Thiago Arancam, baritone Massimo Cavalletti and the Scala Academy Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pietro Mianiti will perform well-known arias not only by the Italian composers, but also by Mozart.
On March 15, at the same venue and time, the same orchestra will perform a mixture of two very different works: Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Peter and the Wolf is a children’s story, written by Prokofiev in 1936 for his son, told by a narrator and an orchestra. “In the La Scala Academy Symphony Orchestra’s adaptation, the story will be told in Arabic by the actor Adel Bakri, while all the other characters from the story are done by instruments,” said Nebuloni.
In Abu Dhabi, it will be La Scala Academy’s Orchestra and singers who will perform on March 16, at the National Theatre - a special concert, which will include Tchaikovsky’s Serenade and arias from an Italian repertoire.
“All in all, the entire programme covers over 300 years of music, from string to symphonic and from instrumental suites to lyrical arias,” said Nebuloni. He is convinced that, despite the fact that Arab and Western classical music are very different, the European composers’ music is already growing roots in the sands of Abu Dhabi emirate and beyond.
“People might not understand the western music at first, but sitting down and listening to it, the music will eventually win them over. It happened to me too. So many times I went to a concert which I thought I didn’t like at first, but the more I listened, the more I started to enjoy it,” pointed out Nebuloni. Source
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