On November 14, as part of the celebrations to inaugurate the reopening of Teatro Zandonai in Rovereto, the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, under the direction of Giacomo Sagripanti, will perform the world premiere of a new piece commissioned from Matteo Franceschini: Ritratto di scena, a homage to the composer’s fellow Trentino citizen Riccardo Zandonai, of whom Franceschini says:

“In Zandonai, the melodic line of the singing must no longer be sought ‘amongst the voices’ but within the orchestra, in the ‘uninterrupted continuity’ of the musical discourse.  I also consider the voice as the theatrical instrument par excellence; the moment you put a voice on stage that speaks, sings or whispers, you produce theatre.”

Franceschini thus identifies as a central element of Ritratto di scena “a melodic flow, protagonist of a smooth passage of transformation. I was interested in working on the process of becoming, on the tension and the need to arrive at the decisive focal point: to make the orchestra sing. …Following Zandonai’s principle of ‘symphonic opera’, …the ‘voice’ of the orchestra travels through Zandonai’s compositional texture, touches the many facets of his poetics, and paints a ‘portrait of a scene.’”