From Baroque music to jazz, from Bach to Charlie Parker via Mozart and Donizetti: a kaleidoscope of sounds, rhythms and colors characterizes the fourth edition of Il Centro della Musica, six concerts scheduled on Saturday afternoons between May 31 and July 7, now a traditional event organized by the Donizetti Theater Foundation in collaboration with the Bergamo City Council’s Social Policies Department. A valuable opportunity to enter the city’s main theater and its Ridotto named after a great conductor, on an unusual day and time. An original way to experience the city center by combining the magic of music with being together in the theater.

“In its fourth edition, The Music Center confirms itself as a review that aims to offer moments of musical sharing with varied content, on a weekday and at a time that allows both the Donizetti Theater and the adjacent Piacentiniano Center to come alive,” specifies Massimo Boffelli, General Director of the Donizetti Theater Foundation, “The usual collaboration of the Bergamo City Council’s Social Policies Department testifies to an institutional synergy that aims to make the most of an initiative with an inclusive character, intended for audiences of all ages.” “This year the partnerships with the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana and Ensemble Locatelli, already present in previous editions ofIl Centro della Musica and in other festivals promoted by our Foundation, are also further consolidated, while we welcome the return of CDpM Europe – Centro Didattico Produzione Musica and the new entry Musica Aperta. Collaboration with all these realities is fundamental for the realization and success of the review,” Massimo Boffelli concludes.

The fourth edition of The Center for Music begins May 31 with theItalian Philharmonic Orchestra Ensemble and a journey into the ever-impressive world of Argentine tango. Soloists: Andrea Coruzzi, bandoneon and accordion; Cesare Carretta, violin; Nicola Ziliani, double bass. Music by Carlos Gardel, Astor Piazzolla and Richard Galliano, among others.

This will be followed on June 7 by a concert by theLocatelli Ensemble conducted by Thomas Chigioni titled Bach from Organ to Bow., entirely dedicated to the Master of Leipzig: one of the most ambitious programs offered by Ensemble Locatelli over the years, the concept of which is to transfer some of Bach’s greatest pages of organ music to the other great medium of expression available to the composer, the string orchestra.

The following week, Saturday, June 14, theItalian Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jacopo Rivani, will present The Diary of Adam and Eve, a concert-show based on Mark Twain’s brilliant text and adapted by Silvia Rossetti. The Diary of Adam and Eve brings to the stage the brilliant and contrasting voices of the two biblical characters, played by Marco Montanari and Rendy Anoh, respectively. Original music by Danilo Comitini.

On June 21, it will then be the turn of the Gruppo Fiati Musica Aperta to offer. Così fan tutte (or maybe not?), a semi-serious journey through the loves of melodrama (Mozart, Cherubini, Donizetti) with the participation of well-known comedian Enrico Beruschi. Direction by Pieralberto Cattaneo.

On Saturday, June 28, the fourth edition of The Center for Music will then give significant space to jazz with the quartet of saxophonist Gabriele Comeglio and his project Bird Lives, a tribute to the genius of Charlie Parker, one of the originators in the 1940s of the modern jazz revolution. Joining the leader on alto sax will be Claudio Angeleri on piano, Marco Esposito on bass and Federico Monti on drums.

Finally, on July 5, the spotlight will once again be onEnsemble Locatelli, with a musical program mainly centered on Alessandro Scarlatti, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of his death. The focus of the concert, entitled Amore al Chiaro di Luna, will be the serenade Diana and Endymion, one of the hidden gems of the Baroque repertoire.

All concerts will start at 5 p.m.