On the bill is a program aimed at the compositions of Gaetano Donizetti. The concert opens with an excerpt from Alahor in Granata, “Ombra del padre mio”: the opera was composed during 1825, during the period when Donizetti was busy in Palermo as “director of music and composer of new operas” and premiered to the public in January of the following year. The opening symphony of Parisina, also known by the title Parisina d'Este, also known as Parisina d'Este, set to music by Donizetti between February and March 1833, courtesy of the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, follows, with a libretto by Felice Romani, based on the tragedy Parisina by George Gordon Byron and first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence in March 1833. Also from Parisina is extracted the cavatina that follows, namely “Che mi rechi? Per veder su quel bel viso... Dall'Eridano si stende,” a part of Act I that focuses on the duplicity of the Duke of Ferrara Azzo, one of the protagonists of the story: he is very much in love with his young wife Parisina and worried about her heavy sadness, who, on the other hand, is bound to the other protagonist of the story, Ugo, by a tender and hopeless love.

The opening symphony of Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, first performed in February 1834-also at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence-anticipates the last part of the concert, namely Act III of Torquato Tasso, in the revision by the head of the Maggio Archives Luca Giovanni Logi.

Gaetano Donizetti
From Alahor in Granata: “Ombra del padre mio”
Parisina, symphony  (courtesy of Fondazione Teatro Donizetti Bergamo)
From Parisina: “Che mi rechi? Per veder su quel bel viso… Dall’Eridano si stende” 
Rosmonda d’Inghilterra, symphony
Torquato Tasso, act III (revision by Luca Giovanni Logi)