“Tutta qui la cantoria!” is the first Festival celebrating the art of Children's Voices Choirs performing singing within Italian opera houses and involving young singers in a unique musical journey and is promoted by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Academy. The title of the Festival, taken from Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, echoes the famous speech of the Sacristan who, upon the false news of the victory of the Austrian troops over Napoleon, invites the lively chancel of children to prepare for the Te Deum of thanksgiving.

Seven musical institutions, including theaters and academies, have joined this first opportunity to share choral music for children's voices: the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Teatro alla Scala Academy, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, the Teatro Regio di Torino and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Academy. For the first time in Italy, the Children's Choirs of the major opera houses will have the opportunity to meet, to present to the public their repertoire, heritage and musical tradition of their theater and city.  A real celebration, dedicated to choral singing and the spread of musical culture among the very young, with a rich musical program, drawn from the great opera repertoire with compositions - for example, among many - by Mozart, Verdi, Purcell, Rossini, Puccini, Donizetti, Bernstein, up to the best-known contemporary popular music.

28 settembre 2024

Giulio Caccini
Ave Maria

Bob Chilcott
A little jazz Mass

Giacomo Puccini
From Gianni Schicchi: “O mio babbino caro”

Georges Bizet 
Extracts from Carmen

Giacomo Puccini
From Turandot: “Nessun dorma”

Children choir of the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli
Stefania Rinaldi, children choir master and conductor
Luigi del Prete, piano

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
From Stabat Mater: “Stabat Mater dolorosa”, “Fac, ut árdeat cor meum”,  “Inflammatus et accensus”, “Quando corpus moriétur”, “Amen”

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Veni Domine, Op. 39 No.1

Benjamin Britten
A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28

Children choir of the Teatro Regio di Torino
Claudio Fenoglio, children choir master, conductor and piano

Mauro Zuccante
Il giovane Trittico (from Giacomo Puccini)

Children choir of the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Regio di Torino and Maggio Academy
Sara Matteucci, children choir master and conductor
Claudio Fenoglio, piano

29 settembre 2024

Carl Orff
From Carmina Burana: “O Fortuna”

Gaetano Donizetti
From Anna Bolena: “Chi può vederla a ciglio asciutto”

Gioachino Rossini
From Armida: “Canzoni amorose”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
From Così fan tutte: “Soave sia il vento”

Gaetano Donizetti
From La favorita: “Dolce zeffiro, il seconda”

Giuseppe Verdi
From Macbeth: “Che faceste, dite su…le sorelle vagabonde”

Arrigo Boito
From Mefistofele: “Siam nimbi volanti”

Jacques Offenbach
From Les Contes d’Hoffmann: “Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour”

Giacomo Puccini
From Madama Butterfly: Coro a bocca chiusa

Children choir of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Alhambra Superchi, children choir master and conductor
Raffaele Cortesi, piano

Bruno Coulais
From Les choristes: “Cerf-volant”, “La nuit”

Ennio Morricone
From Nuovo Cinema Paradiso: “Love theme”
From The Mission: “Nella fantasia”

Richard Rodgers
From The sound of music: “Edelweiss”

Harold Arlen
From The wizard of Oz: “Somewhere over the rainbow”

Johnny Mercer/Henry Mancini 
From Breakfast at Tiffany: “Moon River”

J. W. Stole/Del Roma
"I will follow him"

Children choir of the Teatro alla Scala Academy
Bruno Casoni, children choir master and conductor
Marco De Gaspari, piano

Mauro Zuccante
Il giovane Trittico (from Giacomo Puccini)

Children choir of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro alla Scala Academy and the Maggio Academy
Sara Matteucci, children choir master and conductor
Marco De Gaspari, piano

5 ottobre 2024

Leonard Bernstein
From Mass: “Warm-up”

Georg Friedrich Händel
From Rinaldo: “Lascia ch’io pianga”

Stephen Hatfield 
Las Amarillas

Henry Purcell
From Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary: “Strike the viol”

Giacomo Puccini
From Gianni Schicchi: “O mio babbino caro”
From Le Villi: “Gira, balza”

Virgilio Savona/Luigi Cichellero/Giovanni Giacobetti
Però mi vuole bene

Leonard Bernstein
From West Side Story: “America”

Freddie Mercury
“Bohemian Rhapsody”

Children choir of the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova
Gino Tanasini, children choir master and conductor
Enrico Grillotti, piano

Adriano Banchieri
From Festino nella sera del giovedì grasso avanti cena: “Capricciata e Contrappunto bestiale alla mente”

Gioachino Rossini
La Fede, La Speranza, La Carità

Robert Ray
Gospel Magnificat

Children choir of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Alberto de Sanctis, children choir master and conductor
Alessia Capoccia, piano

Mauro Zuccante
Il giovane Trittico (from Giacomo Puccini)

Children choir fo the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and the Maggio Academy
Sara Matteucci, children choir master and conductor
Alessia Capoccia, piano