8TH EDITION.

Lerici
Music
Festival

July 26-Aug. 11, 2024

MEMORY AND HOPE

Maestro Gianluca Marcianò, Artistic Director

THE BILLBOARD OF THE VIII EDITION

26/7

Abyss The End of Time

Music by Olivier Messiaen

Alexander Bedenko, clarinet
Alberto Bologni, violin
Alexey Zhilin, cello
Massimo Spada, piano

July 26 – 9:15 p.m.
Villa Marigola, Lerici

My Time

George Gershwin & Leonard Bernstein

Melinda Hughes, soprano
Rodney Earl Clarke, baritone
LMF Quartet

July 27 – 9:15 p.m.
Lerici Castle 9:15 p.m.

27/7

28/7

Memory and Hope

Music by Boldachev, Weinberg, Berliner

Alexander Boldachev, harp
Miriam Prandi, cello
Boris Andrianov, cello

Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Strings
Gianluca Marcianò, director

July 28 – 9:15 p.m.
Firmafede Fortress, Sarzana

Beyond borders

Music by Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Prokofiev, Ravel

Vitaly Pisarenko, piano

July 29 – 9:15 p.m.
Villa Marigola, Lerici

29/7

30/7

Symphonies in the Citadel
Byron 200

Music by Doré, Bruch, Schumann, Brahms/Berio

Andrea Cicalese, violin
Alexander Bedenko, clarinet

Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini
Jaume Santonja, director

July 30 – 9:15 p.m.

Firmafede Fortress, Sarzana

The irony of the story

Music by Shostakovich

Elly Suh, Sumina Studer, violins
Eivind Ringstad, viola
Adrian Brendel, cello
Vitaly Pisarenko, piano

July 31 – 9:15 p.m.
Villa Marigola, Lerici

31/7

01/8

Solomone Rossi 400

The Song of Solomon
Music by Rossi

Immersive Dinner 

Vache Baroque

August 1 – 6:30 p.m.

Villa Marigola, Lerici

Baroque from Wroclaw

Music by Förster Jr., Carissimi

Wrocław Baroque Ensemble
Andrzej Kosendiak, director

Aug. 2 – 9:15 p.m.
Church of St. Francis, Lerici

02/8

03/8

The Emperor of Atlantis
Der Kaiser von Atlantis

Work of Viktor Ullmann (1898 - 1944)

Claudia Belluomini, Bubikopf
Enrica Rouby, Der Trommler
Lulama Taifasi, Harlekin
Fengxun Cai, Ein Soldat
Jorge Nelson Martínez González, Kaiser Overall Huigang Liu, Der Tod
Zhang Shuai, Der Lautsprecher

Stefania Panighini, director
Joseph Bruno, director

in co-production with the Teatro dell’Opera Giocosa in Savona, Italy, the “G. Puccini” Conservatory of La Spezia and Opera for Peace

Aug. 03 – 9:15 p.m.
Opificio Vaccari, Santo Stefano di Magra

German Elegies

Music by Schulhoff, Schumann, Brahms

Alexander Bedenko, clarinet

Ariel String Quartet

August 04 – 9:15 p.m.
Villa Marigola, Lerici

04/8

05/8

Weimar and back

Melinda Hughes, soprano
 

Jeremy Limb, piano

August 05 – 9:15 p.m.

Villa Marigola, Lerici

Romantic serenades

Music by Schubert, Liszt, Chopin

Anna Kravchenko, piano

August 06 – 9:15 p.m.
Villa Marigola, Lerici

06/8

07/8

On Jewish Themes

Music by Prokofiev, Bruch, Bloch, Shostakovich

Elly Suh, violin
Alberto Bologni, viola
Miriam Prandi, cello
Alexander Bedenko, clarinet
Vitaly Pisarenko, piano

August 07 – 9:15 p.m.
Villa Marigola, Lerici

Notes of hope

Surprise program

Brass of the Lerici Music Festival

August 08 – 9:15 p.m.
Rotonda Vassallo, Lerici

08/8

09/8

Gustav and Nimrod

Music by Borenstein, Mahler

Alexey Zhilin, cello
Melinda Hughes, soprano
Youth Orchestra of Magna Graecia
Nimrod Borenstein, director

August 09 – 9:15 p.m.

Villa Marigola, Lerici

Not(t)e of Stars

Music by Mendelssohn

Elly Suh, violin
Youth Orchestra of Magna Graecia
Marina Quasha – Giuseppe Stillitano, director

August 10 – 9:15 p.m.
Villa Marigola, Lerici

10/8

11/8

Grand Finale
Golda in Concert

Rotonda Vassallo - 9:15 p.m.

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Festival venues

Discover the enchanting places of art, nature and music: Villa Marigola, Rotonda Vassallo, Church of San Francesco in Lerici, Ex-Opificio Vaccari in Santo Stefano Magra, Firmafede Fortress in Sarzana, Church of San Pietro in Portovenere