The Paris Romantica Pop Festival in Venice
Riccardo Muti with the Cherubini Orchestra in Como, Reggio Emilia and Venice; in London a highly successful musical The Producers, by Mel Brooks
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In Venice, the Centre de musique romantique française presents a festival with a focus on the music of Hervé, Offenbach's rival in the Paris of the Second Empire. Short but intense Italian tour by Riccardo Muti with the Cherubini Orchestra, touching down in Como, Reggio Emilia and Venice. In London, meanwhile, a good chance to see the entertaining musical 'The Producers', by Mel Brooks.
Venezia
From the lagoon, we are transported to the Paris Romantica Pop, the title of the Festival taking place from the Palazzetto Bru Zane until 28 October. The focus is on the music of Hervé, Offenbach's rival in the Paris of the Second Empire; for the Festival, he is at the centre of an artistic movement that, from the 1850s to the 1920s, relied on absurdity and madness to entertain the public. Away then with operettas, chansons, tendres valses...
Como
On the 5th at the Teatro Sociale, an excellent opportunity to hear Riccardo Muti with the Cherubini Orchestra (which he founded), in a programme featuring Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 and Coriolanus Overture, together with Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra No. 2.
Other dates: 7 at Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia and 9 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
