Last week, Italy played a leading role in the cultural life of the Georgian capital: from music to theatre, from a concert dedicated to Venetian Baroque to a play with Italian direction. The opening concert of the Tbilisi Baroque Music Festival, organised with the support of the Italian Embassy in Georgia, which was attended by Davide Amadio, a talented Italian cellist, performing the true jewels of Italian Baroque music, was a great success with the public, while theatre enthusiasts had a great opportunity to enjoy ‘Cyrano must die’ by Leonardo Manzan and Rocco Placidi, a show-concert between romantic poetry and rap, a rewriting for three voices of Edmond Rostand’s ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’.
Also reserved for this month are other surprises with Italian participation: two concerts with Italian musicians (Sergio Azzolini, considered to be one of the greatest contemporary bassoon players, Diego Cantalupi (theorist) and two excellent opera singers Cristina Fanelli and Benedetta Mazzucato) and the renowned GIFT Festival, which this year will launch a new programme for young artists, the ‘GIFT Biennale college’ competition, in analogy with the Venice Biennale initiative, and will host a masterclass by Gianni Forte, Italian playwright and author, and Michele Panella, director and international director of the GIFT Festival.
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