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This year Incontri in Terra di Siena and Monteverdi Tuscany
commissioned Francesco Cilluffo (conductor and composer) to write a new
work to be premiered in the festival. The piece was inspired by the writings of
Iris Origo, an aristocratic Italian writer who dreamed of creating a new
society and best known for her diary,
War in
the Val D’Orcia
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which describes the Origo family’s courageous experiences during World War II.
Francesco Cilluffo
has created a song cycle entitled ‘The Land to Life Again’ for soprano,
cello and string orchestra, which will be performed by soprano Nuccia Focile,
cellist Antonio Lysy, the Borromeo String Quartet, and the UCLA
Camarades Ensemble, Los Angeles, for the concluding evening of the festival
on Sunday 29th July.
As Cilluffo explains, ‘The beauty of the landscape, the story of how Iris
kept her war diary and the strength of this literary woman who saw terrible
tragedies through the life of La Foce inspired me…Given the special relationship
between La Foce and music and since I better express myself as composer and
conductor, I started to think about a song cycle to write and perform in her
honour.’
Following the premiere of his opera, Il caso Mortara in New York at Di
Capo Theatre in 2010, New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini described
Cilluffo’s music: ‘The composer’s instinctive feeling for Italianate lyricism
is broken up intriguingly with jagged, melodic phrases.’ Cilluffo is also
much in demand as one of the most interesting conductors of his generation. In
May 2012 he conducted Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules at the Teatro
Massimo in Palermo. In December 2012, in the framework of his 3-years long
collaboration with the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra, he will conduct Duruflé’s
Requiem op. 9 and Puccini's Requiem.
For further information, visit:
http://www.francescocilluffo.com/
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La Foce
Cortile di fattoria
Chianciano Terme
29 Luglio 2012
ore 20.30
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