Rossini at the RBSO
The Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra will pay a tribute to Italian composer Gioachino Rossini with a performance of his operatic masterpieces during the “Rossini 150 Years” concert at Thailand Cultural Centre, Ratchadaphisek Road, tomorrow at 8pm.
The programme will highlight his best known opera buffa, Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (The Barber Of Seville), and its most loved arias — Temporale, Dunque Io Son, and Una Voce Poco Fa. His contrasting operatic dramma giocoso L’Italiana In Algeri (An Italian Girl In Algiers) will be represented by the contralto cavatina Cruda Sorte, whilst opera semiseria La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) will reveal his slightly more serious side.
The concert will also explore Rossini through some of the composers that influenced him and the composers he, in turn, influenced, namely Mozart, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini and Mascagni.
Michel Tilkin will return to conduct the RBSO after having made a very successful start in his exciting new role as music director in recent concerts. Set to explore Rossini’s charming wit and inspired memorable melodic invention with the orchestra will be three vocal soloists with wide operatic experience.
Soprano Lucia Conte has won numerous competitions, including the 2014 Opera-Studio Competition for Il Barbiere Di Siviglia and Giglio in Lucca, Goldoni in Livorno, Coccia in Novara and Verdi in Pisa. In 2013, she won the International Competition “Voce all’opera” in the Theater Rosetum in Milan for the roles of Adina ( L’Elisir D’Amore) and Musetta ( La Boheme).
Mezzo-soprano Paola Cacciatori has performed as a soloist in many concerts in Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, and Hanoi. Her bel canto technique has been showcased in Copenhagen, Rome, Potenza, and Brescia. She performed with the RBSO in 2014 and 2015.
A well-known Thai actor and singer with the 2005 movie The King Maker being a standout highlight of his career, baritone Korawij Devahastin na Ayudhya possesses a respected classical operatic voice and has also found fame in musicals, notably Les Miserables with the Silpagum Symphony Orchestra in 2014.
Tickets cost 300, 700, 900, 1,200 and 1,500 (half price for students) and can be purchased from Thai Ticket Major booths (visit thaiticketmajor.com or call 02-262-3456) and the BSO Office (call 02-255-6617/8).