Cantata " Enchanted Mountain"

[Roy Bland]

The creator of the cantata is Maestro Vittorio Antonellini, Artistic Director of the Abruzzo Symphony Orchestra. The underlying theme of the show, which is divided into four scenes: Scenarios, Alpini in the trenches, Atmospheric Changes, Party in the village. The original music is composed by maestro Luciano Di Giandomenico, a young and talented composer from Abruzzo. Francesco Zimei is from Abruzzo and oversaw the selection of the texts, with selected passages taken from significant works by Massimo Mila, Mario Rigoni Stern, Primo Levi, Salvator Gotta, Piero Jahier, Mario Luzi, Cesare Pavese, Dino Buzzati and Zimei himself . The narrator of Susanna Costaglione accompanies this journey through twentieth-century Italian Alpine literature. The L'Aquila Symphony Orchestra is joined by the Edelweiss Choir of the CAI of Turin, which has long been one of the most valid Italian male choral ensembles


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