Mozart - Don Giovanni Overture
Direction Juan Miranda
JUAN MIRANDA
AN ARGENTINE CONDUCTOR IN BOLOGNA
BIOGRAPHY
PROJECTS
The Rossini Symphony Orchestra has decided to open the Season with a benefit concert dedicated to families: on Saturday 9 December 2023, the Teatro Rossini will stage the Christmas Concert conducted by Juan Miranda in which the Rossini Symphony Orchestra and the Amadé Choir of Bologna will perform a selection from the famous ballet Sleeping Beauty by PI Čajkovskij and sacred and Christmas songs from traditions around the world.
In the Cathedral of San Pietro in Bologna a precious staging of the Passion according to Matthew by Johan Sebastian Bach. The Gioacchino Rossini Symphony Orchestra of Pesaro, conducted by maestro Juan Miranda will be accompanied by the choir of the Amade' Association and the Coro Voci Bianche of the Teatro Comunale. In the role of the evangelist the Croatian tenor Emanuel Timljenovic and in that of Jesus, the bass Alessandro Ravasio. The version will be the one edited by Felix Mendelssohn who in 1829 brought Bach's work back from oblivion, returning it to the heritage of musical culture.
A program in which two important works of the symphonic musical repertoire converge: the famous classical guitar concerto Aranjuez by the Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo and the Seventh Symphony by LV Beethoven. Juan Miranda, Argentine conductor and Carlos Rivero Campero, Mexican guitarist, together with the Rossini Orchestra of Pesaro. The concert was opened by a world premiere, Leviathan, by the composer from Ravenna Mario Quaggiotto.
MOZART RETURNS TO
SAN DOMENICO
Review based on the historical study, analysis and musical performance of the works of the Salzburg composer, especially those related to Bologna and Italy. Among the Mozartian works performed within the review stand out: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola K364, Exultate Jubilate K165, Sinfonia 11 K84, Messa Brevis in B flat major K275, Coronation Mass K317 in C major, Requiem Mass K626.
The Rossini Symphony Orchestra of Pesaro and the Choir of the Amade' Association perform in concert, conducted by Maestro Juan Miranda: WA Mozart's last composition, the Requiem Mass in D minor K626. Left unfinished due to the author's death on 5 December 1791, it was later completed by his friend and pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr.
Soprano Eliana Bayón, mezzo-soprano Francesca Sartorato
tenor Dave Monaco, bass Luca Gallo
The Coro San Tommaso was born in October 2017, bringing together musicians and enthusiasts, with the aim of spreading universal academic music.
The first concert “Eternal Day of the Earth and the Heavens” took place on December 20, 2017, two months after his birth, in the Basilica of San Domenico.
During the training course in Bologna, there were several concerts conducted by the students of the School of Orchestra Conducting, students of maestro Luciano Acocella with the SenzaSpine orchestra and the students of the lyrical laboratory of the Institute's singing schools.
During the training course in Bologna, there were several concerts conducted by students of the School of Orchestra Conducting , students of maestro Luciano Acocella with the SenzaSpine orchestra and students of the lyrical laboratory of the Institute's singing schools.
Every December, to prepare for Christmas, the Maria Ausiliatrice school in Bologna offers a choral concert starring the 300 children who make up the elementary school.
For 3 consecutive years since 2016, Juan has been the artistic and musical director of the project, taking care of his role as Director, the choice of the program, the rehearsals with the 300 children, the choice of musicians who play live for the occasion, the dress rehearsals, among other activities.
“Music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between them.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart