{"id":40005,"date":"2026-05-18T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/the-fifth-edition-of-the-center-of-music-opens-saturday-with-costanza-principe\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:23:10","slug":"the-fifth-edition-of-the-center-of-music-opens-saturday-with-costanza-principe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/en\/the-fifth-edition-of-the-center-of-music-opens-saturday-with-costanza-principe\/","title":{"rendered":"The fifth edition of THE CENTER OF MUSIC opens Saturday with COSTANZA PRINCIPE"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE CENTER OF MUSIC
\n<\/strong>Concerts in the Ridotto Gavazzeni
\n<\/strong>5th edition<\/strong><\/h4>\n

<\/strong>Inaugural concert
\n<\/strong>Saturday, May 23, 2026 with Constance Prince<\/strong><\/h1>\n

 <\/p>\n

On Saturday, May 23 (6 p.m.), it will be pianist Costanza Principe<\/strong> who will inaugurate the fifth edition of Il Centro della Musica<\/em>, a series of eight concerts promoted by the Donizetti Theater Foundation in collaboration with the Bergamo City Council’s Department of Social Policies and scheduled for Saturday afternoon in the Ridotto Gavazzeni of the Donizetti Theater. The concert, produced in collaboration with the Vittorio Polli and AnnaMaria Stoppani Foundation and<\/em> Biblioteca Musicale Victor de Sabata and Aldo Ceccato, will feature performances of some of Robert Schumann<\/strong>‘s most emblematic pages, the Kinderszenen<\/em>, op. 15 and the Three Fantastic Pieces<\/em>, op. 111, two collections that, despite their seemingly fragmentary dimensions, draw a coherent path between memory, imagination and restlessness. In the Childish Scenes<\/em>, the composer’s gaze rests on a childhood filtered through memory, suspended between simplicity and melancholy, while in the Fantastic Pieces<\/em>, the writing becomes freer and more visionary, shot through with contrasts and emotional tensions. Schumann does not construct linear narratives, but suggests images, moods, flashes of thought. It is music that moves by allusion, asking the performer to become a sensitive medium rather than a protagonist. In this space fits the research of Costanza Principe, a pianist capable of combining rigor and imagination, attention to detail and poetic breath. The concert is also included in the cycle of events dedicated to Maestro Gianandrea Gavazzen, on the 30th anniversary of his death. <\/p>\n

Born into a family of musicians, Costanza Principe began performing in public when she was only seven years old, graduating in 2010 from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan under Vincenzo Balzani. In 2015 she received her Bachelor of Music degree with honors and in 2017 her Master of Music degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she has studied since 2011 with Christopher Elton. In 2020 she graduated with honors from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, where she has studied since 2017 with Benedetto Lupo. Winner of prizes in international piano competitions, including the Lilian Davies Prize from the Royal Academy of Music in London, second prize at the Beethoven Society of Europe Intercollegiate Senior Competition (UK), the Concours International de Piano in Lagny-sur- Marne (France) and the International Competition “Premio Pecar” in Gorizia, Costanza Principe has performed as a soloist and in chamber ensembles in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America.
\nAfter debuting as a soloist with orchestra at the age of fifteen with three Mozart concertos under the direction of Aldo Ceccato, Costanza Principe later collaborated with numerous orchestras including Filarmonica “A. Toscanini” of Parma, Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto e Solisti Veneti, Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica Provincial de Santa Fe, Orquesta Classica da Madeira, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra, Turkish National Youth Orchestra, Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra.
\nIn 2016 she made her debut at the prestigious Wigmore Hall in London, presented by the Kirckman Concert Society, and the same year she also performed in S. Rachmaninov’s Concerto No. 3 with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana conducted by Gy\u00f6rgy Gy\u0151riv\u00e1nyi R\u00e1th; with the same concerto, together with Cem Mansur and the Turkish National Youth Orchestra, she then opened the Settembre dell’Accademia season at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona in September 2017. Costanza Principe also subsequently performed in Yerevan (Armenia) with Sergey Smbatyan for the Contemporary Classics Composers festival (2019), in Katowice (Poland) with Massimiliano Caldi and the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (2020), and in Dubai with the Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ilya Norstein (2021). In September 2024, he presented the complete Catalogue d’Oiseaux by Olivier Messiaen in Milan as a guest of the Mito – Settembre Musica festival. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE CENTER OF MUSIC Concerts in the Ridotto Gavazzeni 5th edition Inaugural concert Saturday, May 23, 2026 with Constance Prince   On Saturday, May 23 (6 p.m.), it will be pianist Costanza Principe who will inaugurate the fifth edition of Il Centro della Musica, a series of eight concerts promoted by the Donizetti Theater Foundation in collaboration with the Bergamo City Council’s Department of Social Policies and scheduled for Saturday afternoon in the Ridotto Gavazzeni of the Donizetti Theater. The concert, produced in collaboration with the Vittorio Polli and AnnaMaria Stoppani Foundation and Biblioteca Musicale Victor de Sabata and Aldo Ceccato, will feature performances of some of Robert Schumann‘s most emblematic pages, the Kinderszenen, op. 15 and the Three Fantastic Pieces, op. 111, two collections that, despite their seemingly fragmentary dimensions, draw a coherent path between memory, imagination and restlessness. In the Childish Scenes, the composer’s gaze rests on a childhood filtered through memory, suspended between simplicity and melancholy, while in the Fantastic Pieces, the writing becomes freer and more visionary, shot through with contrasts and emotional tensions. Schumann does not construct linear narratives, but suggests images, moods, flashes of thought. It is music that moves by allusion, asking the performer to become a sensitive medium rather than a protagonist. In this space fits the research of Costanza Principe, a pianist capable of combining rigor and imagination, attention to detail and poetic breath. The concert is also included in the cycle of events dedicated to Maestro Gianandrea Gavazzen, on the 30th anniversary of his death. Born into a family of musicians, Costanza Principe began performing in public when she was only seven years old, graduating in 2010 from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan under Vincenzo Balzani. In 2015 she received her Bachelor of Music degree with honors and in 2017 her Master of Music degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she has studied since 2011 with Christopher Elton. In 2020 she graduated with honors from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, where she has studied since 2017 with Benedetto Lupo. Winner of prizes in international piano competitions, including the Lilian Davies Prize from the Royal Academy of Music in London, second prize at the Beethoven Society of Europe Intercollegiate Senior Competition (UK), the Concours International de Piano in Lagny-sur- Marne (France) and the International Competition “Premio Pecar” in Gorizia, Costanza Principe has performed as a soloist and in chamber ensembles in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America. After debuting as a soloist with orchestra at the age of fifteen with three Mozart concertos under the direction of Aldo Ceccato, Costanza Principe later collaborated with numerous orchestras including Filarmonica “A. Toscanini” of Parma, Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto e Solisti Veneti, Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica Provincial de Santa Fe, Orquesta Classica da Madeira, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra, Turkish National Youth Orchestra, Royal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":40004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1036],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-40005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40005"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatrodonizetti.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=40005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}