The Foundation<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
Organigramma<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
Artistic directors<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
The Foundation<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
\nThe Teatro Donizetti Foundation is a newly established foundation founded in 2014 and based in Bergamo<\/strong>.
\nThe Foundation is non-profit and cannot distribute profits.<\/h4>\nThe Foundation pursues, on a nonprofit basis, the promotion of culture and art, taking care of the dissemination of musical and theatrical art<\/strong>, stimulating citizens, and in particular young people, to educational and growth experiences and cultural paths. The Foundation aims to promote, support and increase the cultural growth and activities of the Donizetti Theater, taking on in a prodromal way, the primary task of restoring the Theater to its functionality by taking care of the necessary structural adjustments. <\/h4>\n
The Foundation also aims to promote prose, dance, music, literature, culture and the arts, according to an integrated path of production, distribution, updating, training and hospitality.<\/strong> The Foundation intends to foster relations with national and international bodies<\/strong> in order to promote and disseminate the cultural heritage of the city of Bergamo and its Theater. <\/h4>\n
The Foundation supports the operation and management of the movable and immovable complex “Teatro Donizetti<\/strong>” and plans and implements its theater, opera and music seasons, also in cooperation with other theaters or institutions. The Foundation may also carry out other activities, including promotional and complementary activities. <\/h4>\n
Foundation members are divided into: Founding Promoters, Participating Members and Partners<\/strong>.<\/h4>\n
<\/div>\nView the Bylaws<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>Organigramma<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
\nPresident<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n
Dr. Giorgio Berta<\/p>\n
Board of Directors<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n
President Dr. Giorgio Berta
\nVice President Dr. Alfredo Gusmini
\nBoard Member Mr. Emilio Bellingardi
\nBoard Member Dr. Simona Bonaldi
\nBoard Member Dr. Enrico Fusi
\nBoard Member Dr. Giovanni Thiella
\nBoard Member Dr. Alessandro Valoti<\/p>\nDonor Council<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n
President Dr. Eleonora Doneda<\/div>\nVice president Dr. Anna Villari<\/div>\n\nA2A
\nALLIANZ
\nATB
\nFLOW METER
\nINTESA SANPAOLO
\nIRE OMBA
\nKPMG
\nNUOVA DEMI
\nOMB
\nRULMECA
\nSACBO
\nTRUSSARDI PETROLI
\nUNIACQUE<\/p>\nAuditor<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n
Marco Rescigno<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
General Manager<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Massimo Boffelli<\/h4>\n<\/div>
Artistic directors<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
\n<\/i><\/i><\/span>Francesco Micheli - Artistic Director of the Donizetti Opera Festival<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBorn in Bergamo in 1972, he graduated in Modern Literature from the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art in Milan. His professional career has developed over time according to a double track: on the one hand the path as artistic director of events of international relevance, closely connected to the conception of innovative projects always in the field of opera; on the other hand runs parallel the activity of director in Italy and abroad, without neglecting teaching. <\/p>\n
From 2012 to 2017 he was artistic director of the Macerata Opera Festival, a glorious event born in 1921 within the superlative setting of the Sferisterio: in four years Micheli relaunched the institution, bringing it back to its original international prestige with flattering feedback from critics and audiences. His is an unprecedented festival, a place of research and excellence, in the belief that opera is an invaluable common good. <\/p>\n
Since December 2014 he has been artistic director of the Donizetti Foundation, where he is carrying out a profound perspective revolution on the role and works of the Bergamasque composer, bringing to the Orobic city the values and ideas that substantiate his artistic project; he has founded two city festival moments: the Donizetti Night in June and the Donizetti Opera festival in the fall in which the composer’s rarest works are performed.<\/p>\n
Micheli’s creativity also finds shape in a series of projects, in collaboration with various theaters, designed to give the widest audience the opportunity to approach the world of opera. His popular activity has seen him author and presenter in the television field for the Sky Classica and Sky Arte networks in the conception and conduction of programs related to opera; he leads a weekly column on Rai 1. <\/p>\n
On the directing front, after the beginnings due to As.Li.Co., numerous national and international theaters and festivals for which Micheli has signed the direction of works that have often remained in the repertoire, at the Fenice in Venice, the Arena in Verona, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Comunale in Bologna and the NCPA in Beijing.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Riccardo Frizza - Music Director of the Donizetti Opera Festival<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nRiccardo Frizza (Brescia 1971), trained at the Milan Conservatory and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, is considered among the leading conductors of his generation, particularly devoted to the Italian opera repertoire of the 19th century.<\/p>\n
He is a regular guest at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Regio in Turin, La Fenice in Venice, Opera in Rome, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Festival Verdi in Parma, and Macerata Opera Festival. Abroad, he has conducted at the Op\u00e9ra National de Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera in New York, and Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, among others. <\/p>\n
In the symphonic field, he has served on the podium of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Sachsische Staatskapelle in Dresden, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano “Giuseppe Verdi,” the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. His engagements in recent years include Norma<\/em> at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Rigoletto<\/em> at the Liceu in Barcelona, Lucia di Lammermoor<\/em> at Teatro la Fenice and I Puritani in Budapest, Falstaff<\/em> at the Verdi Festival in Parma, Il pirata<\/em> at Teatro alla Scala, Anna Bolena<\/em> in Rome, and Falstaff<\/em> in Dallas. He was invited to give a Lectio Magistralis at Chicago University as well as at the Italian Cultural Institute. <\/p>\n
Since 2017 he has been music director of the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo, where he conducted Il castello di Kenilworth<\/em> in 2018 and Lucrezia Borgia<\/em> in 2019 for the first performance of the new critical edition of the score published by Ricordi and Fondazione Teatro Donizetti. His Donizetti repertoire includesLucia di Lammermoor, L’elisir d’amore, Linda di Chamounix, Maria Stuarda<\/em> (at the MET with Sondra Radvanovsky), La fille du r\u00e9giment, Lucrezia Borgia<\/em> (at San Francisco Opera with Ren\u00e9e Fleming), Roberto Devereux<\/em> (again in San Francisco), and Anna Bolena<\/em> (at Rome Opera). <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Paolo Fabbri - Scientific Director of the Centro Studi donizettiano<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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<\/span><\/div> <\/div> Emeritus Professor at the University of Ferrara, he is president of the National Edition of Donizetti’s Works. From 1992 to 2000, he represented Italy on the board of the International Musicological Society. Musical director of the Institute of Renaissance Studies in Ferrara, he is a member of the scientific committee of “Il Saggiatore musicale”. He directs the “ConNotazioni” series (Lucca, LIM) and the periodical “Musicalia” (Pisa, Fabrizio Serra). He is part of the scientific committees of the National Editions of the works of Andrea Gabrieli and Vincenzo Bellini. He is a consultant for the Deutsche Rossini Gesellschaft. In 1989, he received the Dent Medal, the annual international musicological award of the Royal Musical Association. Former visiting professor<\/em> at the University of Chicago (1992), in 2001 he was appointed honorary member of the American Musicological Society. In 2015, the Swiss Musicological Society awarded him the Glarean Prize. He published, among others, Monteverdi<\/em>, Turin, EDT 1985 (in Spanish: Madrid, Turner; in English: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press); The Singing Century. History of the opera libretto in the seventeenth century. <\/em>, Bologna, Il Mulino 1990 and Rome, Bulzoni 2003; Metro e canto nell’opera italiana<\/em>, Turin, EdT 2007; Rossini. The Man, the Artist, the Myth. <\/em>, Torino, UTET Grandi Opere 2018 (in tedesco: Rossini. K\u00fcnstler, Mensch und Mythos <\/em>, Leipzig, Leipziger Universit\u00e4tsverlag 2019). He edited the volumes Il madrigale tra Cinque e Seicento<\/em> (Bologna, Il Mulino 1988), Libretti d’opera italiani<\/em> (together with Giovanna Gronda: Milan, Mondadori 1997), Rossini nelle raccolte Piancastelli di Forl\u00ec <\/em>(Lucca, LIM 2001), and the critical edition of: Rossini, Sinfonie giovanili<\/em> (Pesaro, Fondazione Rossini 1998); Marenzio, Il nono libro di madrigali a cinque voci <\/em>(Milan, Suvini Zerboni 2000). In addition to numerous articles in specialized journals and conference proceedings, on Donizetti he has published: Donizetti ritratto in piedi<\/em>, Bergamo, Sestante 2016; the critical edition of Anna Bolena<\/em>, Milan-Bergamo, Ricordi – Fondazione Donizetti 2017; Gaetano Donizetti. Papers and Documents 1797-1830 <\/em>, Bergamo, Donizetti Foundation(National Edition of the Works of Gaetano Donizetti<\/em>), 2018.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i><\/i><\/span>Maria Grazia Panigada - Artistic Director of the Season of Prose and Altri Percorsi.<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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<\/span><\/div> <\/div> Maria Grazia Panigada graduated with highest honors in Modern Literature from the State University of Milan with a thesis on the educational value of theater. She began her career collaborating with Benvenuto Cuminetti and the University of Bergamo on research topics related to theater in educational settings. In 1999, she was called to coordinate the Teatro Scuola office of Teatro Donizetti. Since then, she has been continuously involved, at various institutions, in planning and implementing educational projects related to prose theater. She specializes in organizing cultural and performance events that involve local entities and communities. For the Municipality of Bergamo, she has conceived, among others, the Carnivals La piazza delle Meraviglie<\/em>, Sant’Alessandro: la virt\u00f9<\/em> (2014 Mercy<\/em>, 2015 Gratitude<\/em>, 2016 Courage<\/em>) and Bergamo City meeting place<\/em>, a project that involved more than 60 entities simultaneously. She was responsible for the theater section of Molte Fedi sotto lo Stesso Cielo<\/em>, while for the Bernareggi Foundation she created the cycle Le citt\u00e0 invisibili. Masters and cultures in dialogue. <\/em>Cycle of evening performances dedicated to the great texts of faith. Since 2016, she has been responsible for and curator of the Donizetti Theatre’s prose production choices: Ivan<\/em> co-production Atir Teatro Ringhiera, Del coraggio silenzioso<\/em> with Marco Baliani and original music by Mauro Montalbetti, Accabadora<\/em> co-production with Compagnia Veronica Cruciani and Cranpi. Shows that have been hosted in the best Italian theaters (Piccolo Teatro, Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan, Teatro Bellini in Naples, Teatro Stabile in Rome…). In particular, the production Per te<\/em> with the Compagnia Finzi Pasca of Lugano has taken the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, as a producing body, to several countries around the world from the Brisbane Festival in Australia to Mexico, from Canada to Spain. He edited the series Quaderni dello Spettacolo<\/em> published by the City of Bergamo – Assessorato alla Cultura from 2000 to 2009 (year of the last publication). Through a formative approach, he has been leading storytelling theater workshops aimed at students, teachers and adults for 20 years. In recent years, she has been experimenting and specializing on the application of this expertise in the artistic field, carrying out projects at the GAMeC in Bergamo and the Pinacoteca di Brera, among others. She is currently carrying out projects at the Sistema Museale del Valdarno Chianti and the Uffizi Galleries in Florence. Part of these experiences are recounted in the volume edited with Simona Bodo and Silvia Mascheroni A heritage of stories. Storytelling in museums <\/em>, a resource for <\/em>cultural citizenship<\/em> (Mimesis Editions, 2016). He has been a member of ICOM (International Council of Museums) since 2018.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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