From May 30 to June 2, the international festival designed for the Reggia di Venaria dedicated to great music returns for its third edition, with four intense days of events that will transform the Reggia and its Gardens into an open-air stage, enriched by meetings and initiatives designed even for children.
The matinee-concerts and afternoon events will offer the public new creative paths, while The Sounds of the Evening will offer more extensive and articulated concerts.
The Late Spring Music Festival, conceived by the Consortium of Royal Sabaudian Residences in collaboration with Claudio Pasceri, among the most esteemed Italian cellists and former artistic director of prestigious festivals. This year, the festival aims to broaden and diversify audience involvement. Internationally renowned artists and amateur musicians, children and adults, enthusiasts and the curious, all together to share music in all its forms and facets.
Over the four days of the festival, children from local elementary schools will be featured in the Italian premiere performance of Luciano Berio’s Twice Upon. Concert pianist Gloria Campaner will lead a creativity workshop, accessible by reservation via email (servizialpubblico@lavenariareale.it). The TRT Philharmonic, in addition to its concert, will involve the children present at the Reggia along with their families, with the well-established format La Voce degli strumenti, a way to discover the orchestral universe.
On June 2, coinciding with Republic Day, the Reggia will resonate with music thanks to performances by amateur ensembles selected through the La Repubblica della Musica call, offering everyone the opportunity to experience live music in the context of the Late Spring Music Festival.
International artists will perform in the Reggia’s most famous spaces: from the striking Sala Diana to the Chapel of St. Hubert, from the majestic Gardens to the spectacular Galleria Grande.
Opening the festival will be Twice Upon - C’era due volte, a wordless theater for six groups of children by Luciano Berio created for the first time in Italy in collaboration with the Centro Studi Luciano Berio and directed by Francesco Bossaglia, a profound connoisseur of the twentieth-century repertoire. Joining him will be actor Matthias Martelli, accordionist Massimo Pitzianti, violinist Piergiorgio Rosso, trombonist Alessandro Pogliani, students from the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” of Turin and some classes from the elementary school “E. De Amicis” of Venaria and “R. Levi Montalcini” of Fiano. The musical instruments used by the children were purchased by A.V.T.A. - Associazione Venariese Tutela Ambiente | Amici Reggia di Venaria Reale and will remain with the schools. The colorful T-shirts, on the other hand, were offered by Vestil S.R.L.
The musical program includes a matinee devoted to the Suites for solo cello by J. S. Bach with Enrico Bronzi, one of Italy’s most sought-after musicians, and a recital by Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen with music by Schumann and Prokofiev. The evening of May 31 will feature the viola of Danusha Waskiewicz, formerly a first part of Claudio Abbado’s Berliner Philharmoniker, the concerto for cello and orchestra commissioned by the Reggia di Venaria for the Late Spring Music Festival 2025 from composer Matteo Franceschini, Silver Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, performed by the TRT Philharmonic and Claudio Pasceri, and finally one of the most talented transalpine cellists, Romain Garioud, together with Bulgarian virtuoso violinist Yana Deshkova.
The June 1 day will open with a “serenely evocative” musical program of surprise repertoire featuring pianist Gloria Campaner, viola by Danusha Waskiewicz and cellos by Enrico Bronzi and Claudio Pasceri. The Voice of the Instruments will involve children and families in discovering the orchestra, with a program entirely dedicated to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, designed for everyone. In the evening it will be the turn of two “solo” moments: Swiss saxophonist Marcus Weiss and German violinist Antje Weithaas will perform two performances framing quartets by the Finnish ensemble Meta4 Quartet.
On June 2, Marcus Weiss will perform Luciano Berio’s Sequenza IXb. Closing the festival will be the concert Tutte le Musiche del Mondo, featuring the unprecedented trio formed by Antje Weithaas, Danusha Waskiewicz and Enrico Bronzi, followed by Claudio Pasceri with Berio’s Sequenza XIV, and with Olli Mustonen starring as both performer and composer in his Quintet for Piano and Strings, together with the Meta4 Quartet.
The Festival’s guest of honor will be choreographer and dancer Virgilio Sieni, known for his profound knowledge of music and his ability to enhance musical repertoires from different eras and styles, from Bach to Salvatore Sciarrino.
The days of the festival will be enriched by the meetings Tales around Music, moments of in-depth discussion and dialogue with artists and scholars such as Finnish pianist and composer Olli Mustonen, conductor Marco Angius, among the most appreciated interpreters and advocates of the music of our days, Claudio Pasceri, François Lazarevitch, among the most fine performers of early and baroque music on the international scene, musicologists Talia Pecker Berio and Angela Ida De Benedictis, the honorary president and scientific director of the Centro Studi Luciano Berio, Cecilia Balestra, director of the important Milano Musica festival, the new artistic director of the Filarmonica Romana, Domenico Turi, and Vincenzo Casale, artistic director of ARTONOV, a multidisciplinary festival in Brussels; finally, composer and teacher Matteo Manzitti in dialogue with Daniele Luzzo, in the dual capacity of cultural anthropologist and clinical psychologist.
To create an even more convivial and sharing atmosphere, each day of the festival will end with an Aperitif with the artists, an opportunity to bring the audience closer to the protagonists of the event.
All concerts and events are included in admission tickets to the Reggia, subject to online seat reservations. Reggia, Everything in a Reggia and Reggia and Castello della Mandria tickets allow participation in all events, for those scheduled in the Gardens it is sufficient to be in possession of the Giardini ticket.
Late Spring Music Festival Special Subscription Ticket: at a cost of 45 euros, the subscription allows, for the four consecutive days of the festival, access to the Reggia and the Gardens and to attend all scheduled concerts, including the evening ones.
For all info: https://lavenaria.it/it/eventi/late-spring-music-festival
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