Origami-Opera for children

In the section dedicated to Musica Capital, the Piccolo Opera Festival offers an open view of the many cultures that have marked the history of Gorizia, its ancient county, and a territory that has always been poised on a border. The concert pays tribute to the lively Jewish identity of the city of Gorizia through a program that runs on two tracks: on the one hand, the text of the Psalms, which has inspired several composers active in various historical and musical periods (as can be seen from the juxtaposition of Baroque pieces by Benedetto Marcello with those of Israeli composers of the 20th and 21st centuries); on the other, the subtle thread that links the undeniable Venetian cultural imprint on the territories ‘da Tera’ and ‘da Mar’, running along the Adriatic towards the east, to the mosaic of peoples that has always made up not only the Serenissima, but also the equally famous Mitteleuropa. Benedetto Marcello, with his poetic and harmonic genius (admired by artists such as Goethe, Rossini, and Verdi), set the first fifty psalms to music, leaving an important legacy to subsequent generations of musicians, while the other composers chosen for this fascinating journey through lost times and places but not forgotten, create a living map of these lands (Paul Ben-Haim was born in Frankfurt, Germany, Yehezkel Braun comes from Breslau in Poland, Alexander U. Boskovich from Cluj Napoca, when it was still Hungary, Antonín Dvořák from Bohemia), their sounds and traditions, transporting them to other shores.