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The Euro Mediterranean Festival, an event of music, opera, dance, theater, traditionally held in Rome on the Appian historic sites - and continues with performances of Greek and Roman theaters in the entire Mediterranean area - opened this year its eleventh edition of the enchanting scenery of Villa Nymphaeum Quintili, Tuesday, June 21 at 21.00, with a big "Concert for the Summer Solstice."

 

For 2011, the Euro Mediterranean Festival demonstrates the desire and ability to disseminate and promote the best music "Italian" of all time, celebrating the 150 th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy by performing rare and other popular music the period of the Italian Risorgimento, consisting of players like Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi and above.



The "Concert for the Summer Solstice," offered by the Chamber of the Euro Mediterranean Festival, will present at the opening of the Festival, June 21, the complete performance of The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi, organic in their original and with the help of an extraordinary historical harpsichord.



Also the Chamber Orchestra of the Festival Euro Mediterraneo, but with a different program, you will then also the protagonist of the next concert entitled "Brothers of Italy", which always takes place within the Park of Appia Antica, at this time the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella, June 22 at 20.30. This is the first of a series of concerts dedicated to the Italian musical tradition that, by Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer is up to the Risorgimento.


And it is Sunday, June 26, at 21.00, which will take place the great tribute to the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy with the concert "Viva Verdi!", Which, at the Villa Nymphaeum Quintili, offering pages of popular music Renaissance - as the overture to Bellini's Norma, and the "Symphony" from Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi - proposing pages by Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti: John Gava, choir director and Conductor, will conduct the Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum and Popular University of Rome Upter mandolin, with the participation of soprano Jessica Oldman and Gabriella France



The Euro Mediterranean Festival, founded in 2001 by director and designer Italian Enrico Castiglione, is sponsored by the Cultural Affairs and Historical Center of Rome capital, the Ministry of Heritage and Culture / Directorate General for the live show, from www.pandream.tv www.musicaliamagazine.it and, in collaboration with the Festival Opera Bellini in Catania.



For more information, complete schedule of concerts and special events that are taking place until September, is on the site www.festivaleuromediterraneo.eu, through which the world will be able to also listen to all the concerts of the Festival Euro Mediterranean, in collaboration with the portal www.pandream.tv.



Tickets at 16.00 euros, 12.00 euros reduced - Opening the box office on performance days: 19.30.