Unexpected Italy
A Celebration of Italian culture at the Kennedy Center
Washington National Opera Performances
Tosca
May 12, 14, 20 & 22
Washington National Opera
Puccini: Tosca
Speranza Scappucci, conductor
WNO presents one of the most famous of all Italian operas, Giacomo Puccini's Tosca . This story of love and politics set in 19th-century Rome will feature Keri Alkema and Latonia Moore in the title role of Tosca, Riccardo Massi and Robert Watson as Cavaradossi, and Alan Held as the villain Scarpia.
Colors (Family Theatre)
May 18 & 19
Ages 5+
National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
Enter a world where colors become a place of relationships and emotions. Italy’s Compagnia TPO and Teatro Metastasio explore children’s perceptive, emotional, and creative relationships to colors with a physical dance piece. Dancers maneuver a set brought to life with fabric, projections, and sensors for exciting movements and sounds. Performers will interact with audience members—and some may even have the chance to get up on the stage and
join in the colorful landscape! 5+.
The show will follow with an optional 25 minute interactive experience in which audience members can come on stage and dance with the responsive projections.
Rossini & Liszt
May 16 & 17
Maestro Noseda and the NSO will be joined by a quartet of celebrated singers in Gioachino Rossini's dramatic Stabat Mater . This program also features Franz Liszt's Dante Symphony , based on Dante Alighieri's journey through Hell and Purgatory, as depicted in The Divine Comedy .
Mario Biondi
May 21
Born in Catania, Italy, singer and composer Biondi has presented memorable collaborations with Chaka Kahn and Michael Bolton. His most-recent album, Brasil , was released in 2018.
Simona Molinari
May 26
Born in Naples, Italian singer/songwriter Simona Molinari started singing as a child, showing an early fondness for jazz and graduating from the Conservatory of L'Aquila. Her hits include In Search of You and Egocentrica.
Doctor 3
May 28
An Italian jazz trio formed by Danilo Rea on piano, Enzo Pietropaoli on double bass, and Fabrizio Sferra on drums, Doctor 3 has recorded several hits since 1997.
National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
May 30 & June 1
This program showcases Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances – Suite No.2 , Casella's Symphony No. 2 , and Rachmaninoff's best-known work, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini , featuring pianist Francesco Piemontesi.
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