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SienaHans Werner Henze: Requiem

Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Tue 7 Jul at 21:15

Henze: Requiem, 9 Sacred Concertos for piano solo trumpet concertante and large chamber orchestra

Orchestra della Toscana; Kai Röhrig; Jeroen Berwaerts; Emanuele Arciuli; Chigiana Percussion Ensemble

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The Butterfly Equation is successfully solved in Siena

The Butterfly Equation © Daniela Neri, courtesy of Accademia Chigiana

Lorenzo Fiorito, 24 Aug

Joy Pinkerton turns into the real protagonist of the opera, written to mark the Puccini centenary: who is he really?

****1

Sarah Connolly brings the best of British to Tuscany

Jonathan Sutherland, 05 Aug

Dame Sarah Connolly and Julius Drake savour the al fresco surrounds of the Villa Foce to produce a delightful evening of eclectic music in four languages. Delizioso!

***11

Bax's “Emperor” reigns in Siena

Charlotte Gardner, 30 Jul

The Incontri in terra di Siena festival's incoming artistic director, Alessio Bax, goes down a storm with Beethoven's "Emperor".

***11

Angels of history: Scarlatti meets Caravaggio in Yann Robin’s Medusa

Anastasia Fedorenko and Yonah Raupers in Medusa / La Giuditta © Wolf Silveri

Tim Rutherford-Johnson, 10 Jul

This year Chigiana International Festival presents Yann Robin’s new opera Medusa, inspired by Alessandro Scarlatti and Caravaggio – music poised between past and future.

Siena during the Palio © Antonio Cinotti

Mark Pullinger, 30 Jul

This summer marks the tenth anniversary of the Chigiana International Festival, but its origins go back a century to the founder of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Count Guido Chigi Saracini.

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