“The concert,” Teresa Iervolino explains, ”is a symbol of our CD, and its particularity lies in the fact that it interprets roles both written for men and written for women who dress in men's shoes. 'Joan of Arc,' for example, is a figurative (and musical) representation of a woman who, in order to gain courage and fight, must dress in the shoes of a man.”

Iervolino, an artist always well-received by Maggio audiences, busy until Sept. 27 with performances of La Cenerentola in the Main hall, is a talented and virtuosic bel cantoist of our times and tackles in this concert - and on the CD - arias by Gioachino Rossini and Giuseppe Verdi written for male voice but interpreted by female voice. On the podium is Matteo Parmeggiani, who will return again to Maggio for a later singing recital this fall with baritone Nicola Alaimo (Nov. 3, 2024) in a concert featuring arias and symphonies by Gaetano Donizetti.

The pieces presented - in order of performance - are thus taken from Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide, Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi and then Rossini again with the cantata Giovanna D'Arco for voice and orchestra (orchestration by Luca Giovanni Logi).

During the concert, Maestro Parmeggiani will conduct the symphony from Rossini's Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra and Verdi's Luisa Miller.

Gioachino Rossini
Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra, symphony
From Semiramide: “Eccomi alfine in Babilonia”

Giuseppe Verdi
Luisa Miller, symphony
From Ernani: “Oh, de’ verd’anni miei”
Giovanna d’Arco, symphony

Gioachino Rossini
Giovanna d’Arco, cantata for voice and orchestra
(orchestration by Luca Giovanni Logi)