For the Opera&Concerts section of the Donizetti Theater Foundation’s Season of Theaters, Sunday, Dec. 21 at the Teatro Sociale (3:30 p.m.) is scheduled the usual Christmas Concert of the vocal ensemble I Piccoli Musici directed by Mario Mora. The concert has special significance this year, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the founding of the I Piccoli Musici Music School and Choir.

Founded forty years ago as an educational and musical reality dedicated to the youngest children, the School has been able to grow over time, becoming a point of reference in the Italian choral scene. After the first years of training and comparison with other children’s choirs, since the 1990s I Piccoli Musici have embarked on a path full of exciting experiences: participation in competitions, concerts, national and international festivals. To celebrate this important milestone, several commemorative events and concerts are planned. In particular, the Christmas Concert for the City of Bergamo will feature a choir composed of current treble voices and female voices: former choristers from the 1990s and 2000s, who, with enthusiasm and gratitude, will return to sing in the choir that made them grow, artistically and humanly. The choir will be accompanied by a string quintet and will perform the most beautiful Christmas melodies written for this ensemble. The concert will be enriched, moreover, by the presence of two talented pianists, Martina Mora and Elisa Arminio, graduates of the “Luca Marenzio” Conservatory of Brescia, who will perform a refined excerpt from the four-hand transcription for two pianos of Tchaikovsky’s famous Nutcracker . The famous ballet, set precisely on Christmas night, has over the years become one of the musical symbols of the holidays thanks to its fairy-tale atmosphere and enchanting melodies that evoke magic, wonder and Christmas spirit.