Friday night, March 19th 2021, there was staged at the Teatro Mercadante of Naples a concert of the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini conducted by Riccardo Muti who inaugurated the 14th edition of the Campania Teatro Festival, directed by Ruggero Cappuccio.
The concert will be also available in free streaming from the 26th of March onwards for a whole month on the following websites: https://cultura.regione.campania.it, cultura.regione.campania.it, ansa.it e ravennafestival.live.
The Orchestra played I Due Figaro, the Spanish symphony composed by Saverio Mercadante, and the symphony no.9 in D Major D 944 by Franz Schubert, also known as The Great (La Grande).
Both concert pieces share a lot in common.
The manuscript of I Due Figaro, a continuation of Mozart's The Wedding and Rossini's Barber of Seville, was discovered in 2009 by Turinese Paolo Cascio while he was researching in Madrid's library. This funny melodrama was composed in 1826 to a libretto by Felice Romani, but it was censored and therefore it was staged only in 1835. Even La Grande composed by Schubert between 1825 and 1826 was presented for the first time to the audience many years later. It was indeed Robert Schumann who found it again among the documents belonging to Schubert and immediately presented it to Felix Mendelssohn.
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