(by Luciano Fioramonti) (ANSA) – ROME, 03 DEC – A journey of two centuries of history of music in the female soul, a hymn to the strength of women, a plurality of examples of sensitivity and heroism. It is the leitmotif of Heroines, the new album by the conductor Beatrice Venezi for the Warner Music Italia label. The album, recorded with the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, focuses on Preludes, Symphonies, Intermezzi and orchestral Suites taken from works that tell the extraordinary female characters of Verdi, Strauss, Shostakovich, Cherubini, but also of Piazzolla and Lloyd Webber with symphonic portraits of heroines par excellence such as Joan of Arc, Isolde or Evita, and of the figures considered negative models, more witches than women, from Medea, an infanticide of her own children, to Maria de Buenos Aires, born “one day in which God was drunk, “to Lady Macbeth, harassed and abused.
” This second work of mine – the musician from Lucca tells ANSA – represents a lot for me, especially at this moment, the satisfaction of being able to produce a symphonic record with very large ensembles, despite the pandemic that has hit theaters imposing the distancing of the orchestral players. We managed to perform a half miracle ”. But even more important, he points out, is the musical content. ” Women are narrated for what they are, bearers of values of energy and courage, the exact opposite of traditional fragile figures, to be protected because they cannot do it alone. They are heroines and anti-heroines capable of singing out of the chorus, making drastic and counter-current decisions and paying the consequences ”. The choice started with the characters to tell. ” The first is Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth – he says – a work considered subversive by the Soviet regime to the point of being prohibited, unsuitable because a woman who rebelled also represented a harsh criticism of that society and that regime. The composer was forced to change the title and some parts of the work. A woman who conquers her freedom through murder was scary at the time and is still scary today ”. The heroines she loves most are Lady Macbeth – ” I know Shostakovich well, I frequented a lot of Eastern countries and Russia and I absorbed their way of playing that specific music ” – and Evita Peron, “ because Argentina has given me great professional satisfaction, and then because the protagonist is a feminist against the tide far from Western feminism, who concretely fought for equality between men and women in her country and throughout South America ” .
Beatrice Venezi, who is Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana and the Milano Classica Orchestra, has been on the podium of Italian and international teams, from Japan to Belarus, Portugal, Lebanon, Canada to Argentina, from the United States to Armenia . In 2018 Forbes named her among the 100 young leaders of the future under 30.
The experience of the pandemic, a very hard test for the entire world of classical music, taught her that ” digital cannot replace the experience of a live concert. The experiments are all legitimate but the human data cannot be neglected. We have not won the challenge because at least in our field we have not been able to build a language of true appeal but we have simply transferred the experience of live music into digital. The theater, however, works when one physically attends the show ”. There is, then, another aspect to reflect on. ” I come from a concert in Cagliari, the first with a lot of public after the pandemic – he observes -. We need to understand how to live with this pandemic that we will carry on for a long time. I understand the fear of closing down but we will have to look for a way to keep life going. By plane, train or subway you travel crammed without leaving seats, while the orchestras must continue to play with the distancing. It almost seems that the world of culture and theaters is considered particularly dangerous ”. For her, however, the agenda is rich. Until Christmas he will hold concerts with the Italian Philharmonic in Milan, Turin and Modena and then with the Rossini Orchestra in Macerata and Città di Castello. Between 2022 and 2023 it will be engaged in France for a production of Vincenzo Bellini’s Sonnambula which will shoot in seven large theaters. (HANDLE).
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