Michela Gerosa

Donizetti Opera, an international festival dedicated to the Bergamasque composer, reaches the milestone in 2024 of tenth edition that will run from November 14 to December 1, 2024. It will be the last one signed by artistic director Francesco Micheli who has led it since its founding in 2015. "I proudly greet my city and Teatro Donizetti," Francesco Micheli said during today's press conference, "knowing that I leave as a legacy a Festival that in two lustrums has become an international reference point. Four "Abbiati Awards" from the National Association of Music Critics, Best European Festival in 2019 according to German critics for the monthly magazine "Oper!" and many other satisfactions that I have experienced with many of you. Thanks to our work today Gaetano lives and struggles with us from Bergamo in the world." "For Bergamo it has been ten years of change," comments Culture Councillor Sergio Gandi, "lived with the usual spirit of initiative that distinguishes the city. The Donizetti Theater has played a very important role beyond these walls-which we strongly wanted to rebuild and modernize-and today the city's awareness with respect to the legacy handed down to us by Gaetano Donizetti is no longer a matter for melomaniacs or a few connoisseurs but is an integral part of our identity, thanks to the work of the festival and a long journey that culminated in Bergamo-Brescia being the Italian capital of culture. For this musical phenomenon, which has seen in Francesco Micheli its most exposed standard bearer, credit must also be given to the administration that has supported its initiatives and to the many sponsors and private partners that have flanked it. The relationship between what we now affectionately call Gaetano and the city cannot go backwards and must always be at the center of our cultural policies." "To accompany a "revolution" such as the one we have seen in these ten years," stressed Donizetti Theatre Foundation President Giorgio Berta, "required a solid organizational structure that had grown over the years, such as that of the Donizetti Theatre Foundation, which I have chaired since 2016. The challenges posed to us by Francesco Micheli in recent years, as well as that of restructuring and pandemic, have been considerable. However, we have faced them, respecting time and costs both in the happiest moments of performance, such as the rediscovery of the Ange de Nisida, and when facing moments of uncertainty and health and social emergency. Years in which we did not give up, but invented or identified new tools and new methods of audience engagement, such as WebTV in 2020 with 11 thousand viewers. Donizetti Opera, in the vision of Francesco Micheli and the growing commitment of all the Foundation's workers, has succeeded in making all Bergamasks, starting with young people, understand the value of the composer Donizetti and the universal message of his theater. We are grateful to Francesco also because he leaves us a further gift: the programming set for the next two years, with an international

PROJECT YOUNG 2024/2025 Actor selection SELECTED CANDIDATES In alphabetical order: Agazzi Maria Baldin Francesco Bolchi Sofia Cianciola Matteo Citroni Martina Di Caro Martina Galasso Sonia Gervasoni Leila Ghirardello Ilaria Gotti Beatrice Grossi Carolina Invernici Paolo Marchesi Clara Masolini Matteo Mercurio Elisa Pizzaballa Giulia Salvi Marta Sanchioni Letizia Sardo Andrea Scotti Leonardo Spertini Valeria Tasca Daniela The second round of selection will take place on Wednesday, October 2 and Thursday, October 3, 2024 from 5 pm.00 to 8 p.m. at the Cuminetti Hall of the Donizetti Theater in Bergamo, located at Piazza Cavour, 15 with entrance through the Galleries door. Punctuality is required. To be eligible for the final selection, participation is mandatory to both selection days.  

With the imminent start of a new Season of Prose and Other Paths of the Donizetti Theater Foundation, the educational projects connected to it are also getting underway, an important point of connection between the offer of shows and moments of reflection and in-depth study of the issues addressed by the shows themselves. Five projects will take place within numerous educational institutions, to which are added Progetto Young, intended for aspiring actors, two courses for stage technicians, a series of meetings around the show Re Lear è morto a Mosca and meetings for students subscribing to Altri Percorsi. More than 3,000 (from 17 schools in Bergamo and its province) overall are the requests from students to attend the Prosa and Altri Percorsi shows: an important sign of great attention to proposals that are articulated between classic texts and the more experimental languages of contemporary theatrical expressiveness. "The Municipality of Bergamo strongly supports all the activities of the Donizetti Theater Foundation, even more so if these activities are aimed at the growth of the new generations," comments Sergio Gandi, Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Bergamo, "A praise, therefore, goes to the Foundation and to the Artistic Director of the Prose Season and Altri Percorsi Maria Grazia Panigada for the commitment put into bringing them closer, with multiple initiatives, to the multifaceted, fascinating world of theater." "In our activities we pay special attention to the involvement of the new generations, through initiatives that encourage participation in the performances and that take place in the same schools," says Giorgio Berta, President of the Donizetti Theatre Foundation, "Education is one of the primary objectives of the Foundation: it is an indispensable tool to make young people aware of reality also through art and to create an increasingly aware audience of tomorrow." Massimo Boffelli, General Director of the Donizetti Theatre Foundation, adds, "Our institutional task is to promote a series of performing arts activities that are not, however, an end in themselves: the training projects promoted by the Foundation are therefore an invitation to a mature and conscious enjoyment of performing arts events that are in no way unrelated to the reality that surrounds us. The Donizetti Theater, and with it the Teatro Sociale, is the home of the people of Bergamo and must be even more so for the new generations." For Maria Grazia Panigada, Artistic Director of the Prose Season and Other Paths, "The educational projects are the heart of the activity of our season, a suspended time in which to question our own and collective reality: they load the programming with meaning and open up avenues of reflection for the new generations who, through them, approach theater in its truest sense. Themes such as the generational relationship or the dimension of identity in relation to others will be addressed starting from the experiences of the children and then traversed through the words of dramaturgy and staging. In particular, the in-depth project will be dedicated to environmental issues, which, as

PROGETTO YOUNG 2024/2025 - Actors Course FINAL SELECTION In alphabetical order: Baldin Francesco Bolchi Sofia Citroni Martina Di Caro Martina Galasso Sonia Gervasoni Leila Gotti Beatrice Grossi Carolina Invernici Paolo Marchesi Clara Masolini Matteo Mercurio Elisa Pizzaballa Giulia Salvi Marta Sanchioni Letizia Sardo Andrea Spertini Valeria Tasca Daniela   The course will kick off on Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 5 p.m. at Spazio Polaresco.  

Great success for the renewal campaign: 95% over last Season Ninety-five percent of the subscribers for the 2023/2024 Prose Season have renewed their membership for the 2024/2025 Season as well.Building on this impressive figure, the Donizetti Theatre Foundation announces the start of the sale of new subscriptions from Tuesday, October 15. From Tuesday, October 22, new subscriptions to the Other Paths review and for the Operetta Season will then be available. From Tuesday, November 5, tickets for individual performances for all seasons will then go on sale. Tickets for the opera Rigoletto are already available, while those for the Dec. 31 performance, A Christmas Carol, and the concerts at the Teatro Sociale will go on sale as early as Oct. 15, along with subscriptions to the Prose Season. All programs can be found on the Foundation's website www.teatrodonizetti.it. Online sales at www.vivaticket.com."Once again we cannot fail to express great satisfaction with the results of the renewals of subscriptions to the Prose Season," comments Massimo Boffelli, General Manager of the Donizetti Theater Foundation, "The increase to eight performances for the seven titles is therefore already meeting the desired audience consensus. The imminent start of the sale of new subscriptions and then tickets can therefore only take place under the best auspices." "I have always thought of our audience as a large community, and it is a joy to see that it continues to expand," adds Maria Grazia Panigada, Artistic Director of the Prose Season and Other Paths, "The audience of the Donizetti Theater and the Sociale is a community that is constantly growing and becoming more inclusive and welcoming. The companies we host tell us that in Bergamo they breathe the skills of the workers, of those who make a complex theater machine work, but most of all they are amazed by the warmth of our audience." Specifically, here is a summary of the 2024/2025 Theater Season. Drama Season The Prose Season 2024|2025 at the Donizetti Theater opens from December 7 to 15, 2024 with The Irresistible Boys, a text by American Neil Simon brought to the stage by two great protagonists of Italian theater, Umberto Orsini and Franco Branciaroli, directed by Massimo Popolizio. From Jan. 25 to Feb. 2, 2025, it will be the turn of another outstanding actor, Alessandro Haber, the main performer in La Conscience of Zeno, based on the famous novel by Italo Svevo, directed by Paolo Valerio, while from Feb. 8 to 16 will be staged The Miser by Molière, with the surprising performance of Ugo Dighero. Silvio Orlando will return to Bergamo from Feb. 22 to March 2 with the latest show produced by his company, Charlatans, a story whose characters are linked to the worlds of film and theater, written and directed by Spaniard Pablo Rémon. Plus: from March 8 to 16, Fausto Russo Alesi will offer, also in the directorial role, Eduardo De Filippo's most Pirandellian text, The Art of Comedy, a choral work that captivates between disquiet and farce; from April 5

“Andy Warhol e la cultura pop”: è il titolo del quinto e ultimo appuntamento con le Lezioni di Storia, nuova iniziativa della Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, organizzata in collaborazione con Editori Laterza e con il sostegno di Cassa Lombarda, che sta facendo registrare un’ampia partecipazione di pubblico. Sabato 24 febbraio al Teatro Donizetti (ore 11), lo storico dell’arte Costantino D’Orazio, si soffermerà su una delle figure centrali dell’arte del Novecento, il cui pensiero ha influenzato in modo tangibile anche diversi altri mondi, dalla musica al cinema e alla moda. L’incontro verrà introdotto da Max Pavan, responsabile dell’informazione di Bergamo TV. Biglietti 10 Euro, con riduzione per le scuole. Andy Warhol ha letteralmente distrutto il principio cardine dell'arte, quello dell’irriproducibilità, attraverso la ripetizione in serie dello stesso soggetto. Svuotarne di ogni significato tradizionale la rappresentazione passando disinvoltamente dalle bottiglie di Coca-Cola ai barattoli di minestra in scatola, dagli incidenti stradali e alle sedie elettriche: quella di Andy Warhol è un'arte concepita come provocazione, un'arte "consumata" come un qualsiasi prodotto commerciale, all'insegna di un inedito concetto di icona e di nuova democrazia sociale.  Costantino D’Orazio è stato Curatore del MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, dal 2014 al 2017, e dal gennaio di quest’anno ricopre la carica di direttore della Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria di Perugia. Collabora, inoltre, con l’Università LUISS e l’Università LINK Campus. Conduce la rubrica AR-Frammenti d’Arte su RaiNews24 e partecipa al programma Wikiradio su Radio 3. Oltre a numerosi cataloghi di mostre, ha pubblicato: Andare per ville e palazzi (2015) per il Mulino; Caravaggio segreto (2013), Leonardo segreto (2014), Raffaello segreto (2015),  Michelangelo. Io sono fuoco (2016), Leonardo svelato (2019) e Il mistero van Gogh (2019) per Sperling & Kupfer; Bacon e Freud. Il lato oscuro di Londra (2019) per Skira. Per Laterza è autore di L’arte in sei emozioni (2018) e di Vite di artiste eccellenti (2021).

Dopo Davide Enia con il suo Italia Brasile 3 a 2, è ancora il mondo del calcio ad essere protagonista della sezione Storia, Teatro e Società della Stagione di Prosa 2023/2024 della Fondazione Teatro Donizetti: venerdì 23 febbraio (ore 20.30) è infatti in programma al Teatro Donizetti La milonga del fútbol, spettacolo che vedrà in scena Federico Buffa, giornalista, cronista sportivo, e scrittore, noto volto televisivo che racconterà le storie potenti, intrise di romanticismo e italianità, di tre grandi mancini del calcio argentino, Renato Cesarini, Omar Sivori e Diego Armando Maradona.  Regia di Pierluigi Iorio. Musiche originali di Alessandro Nidi eseguite dal vivo da Alessandro Nidi (pianoforte) e da Mascia Foschi (voce). Disegno luci di Francesco Adinolfi. Produzione International Music and Arts. Durata: 90 minuti senza intervallo. Prezzi biglietti: posto unico 19 Euro, ridotto 15 Euro. «La Milonga del Fútbol è un racconto di cento anni di storia argentina, dal glorioso passato al più brillante futuro, intriso di romanticismo e passione, con radici profonde nella sto­ria moderna d’Italia; una summa di sport e musica, universalmente riconosciuti come grandi propagatori di emozioni», racconta il regista Pierluigi Iorio, «L’immagi­ne rarefatta del porto di Genova, dal quale partiva il piroscafo Mendoza e con il quale comincia lo spettacolo, ci immerge, ipso facto, nel turbinío di sentimenti contrastanti scatenato dal fenomeno dell’emigrazione italiana dei primi del Novecento. Con uno sguardo ai “conquistadores” dei secoli pre­cedenti e alle aspirazioni autoctone, via via, prendono vita sul palcoscenico eroi religio­si e divinità pagane; sacro e profano, nella terra in cui la rappresentazione teatrale è ancora oggi chiamata Función. Tra conti­nui rimandi e asimmetrie temporali, con le curve dinamiche delle vite dei protagonisti che, ineludibilmente, a un certo punto, si collegano, assistiamo alle gesta sportive di campioni senza età, incastonate nella mera­vigliosa diversità di quell’emporio mondiale chiamato Argentina, un melting pot di culture e tradizioni. Non poteva che essere il Tan­go, a volte il miglior stato d’animo per osser­vare l’arte, a tenere il ritmo, cadenzando il racconto come un respiro dell’anima». «Per questo progetto ambizioso abbiamo lavorato affinché la narrazione fosse dinamica, epica, improvvisa, gioiosa, drammatica, in una tri­dimensione relazionale e scenica, provando a non perdere mai il contatto con il tempo (cristallizzandolo, anzi, nell’esaltazione del­la memoria); amando visceralmente tutti i personaggi raccontati, dai protagonisti che vivono di pallone e sogni ai deuteragonisti che, con le loro azioni, determinano desti­ni politici e sociali; armonizzando la parola che, con la sua potenza evocativa, trasmette spunti vitali allo spettatore per alimentarne la fantasia. La Milonga del Fútbol diventa an­che uno strumento per analizzare fenomeni sociali, che parte da una ricerca qualitativa sui tre metodi di comunicazione scelti. Ascol­tiamo, dunque, il canto potente e, allo stesso tempo, suadente di Mascia Foschi; le note di velluto (che accarezzano e alimentano il rac­conto) di Alessandro Nidi, decisamente più che un pianista; le parole di Federico Buffa, interprete sopraffino della narrazione moder­na, che nel pizzicare le corde dell’anima e del cuore, ci racconta la vita che, con la sua maestria, diventa letteratura», conclude il