Polish Institute of Rome, "Ballads and Romances", Romantic Lieder around the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz

On stage the baritone Robert Gierlach and the pianist Marina Cesarale, on the program vocal pieces by Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko and Carl Loewe alongside the Lieder by Schubert and Schumann

Polish Institute of Rome

It was held on 10 November '22
At 20:30

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‘Europe in Music 2022

Thursday 10 November 2022 (8.30 pm) atPolish Institute of Rome is scheduled "Ballads and romances”, A refined and evocative concert dedicated to Lieder of Romanticism which features the bass baritone Robert Gierlach is Marina Cesarale at the piano.

The two artists will propose a collection of vocal pieces composed by Fryderyk Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko is Carl Loewe, set to music of poems and ballads by Adam Mickiewicz (1798 - 1855), considered the greatest Polish-speaking poet. A choice of Lieder di Franz Schubert is Robert Schumann.

The concert was born from the recurrence of 200 years from the publication of the collection of ballads of Mickiewicz (Ballady i romanse, Vilnius 1822), including a lyric emblematically titled 'Romance', a true poetic manifesto of the poet, which marks the beginning of the romantic movement in Polish culture.

The concert is organized byPolish Institute of Rome in collaboration with theNational Institute of Music and Dance NIMiT in Warsaw and the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Rome, and falls within the Project ''44 x Mickiewicz " ofAdam Mickiewicz Institute.
* (Robert Gierlach, photocredit Arkadiusz Michał Witkowski; below, Walenty Wańkowicz, portrait of Adam Mickiewicz 1827-28)

Robert Gierlach he has performed in major opera houses and concert halls in Europe, North America and Japan; in Italy he trod the stages of the La Fenice Theater in Venice, the Verona Philharmonic Theater, the Municipal Theater of Bologna, the Rome Opera House, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theater, the Verdi Theater in Trieste, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

He has been a guest of the most important festivals, including BBC Proms, Berliner Festwoche, Salzburg Festival, Warsaw Mozart Festival. He has collaborated with prestigious conductors, including Simon Rattle, Yehudi Menuhin, Vladimir Jurowski, Valery Gergiev, Christian Thielemann, Christopher Hogwood, Frans Brüggen, Jacek Kaspszyk and with leading orchestras. For over a decade he has taken part in the Festival of Songs by Polish Composers and Festival of European Song, both organized by the Romuald Traugutt Philharmonic.

Marina Cesarale, a very active chamber musician, has performed in various ensembles for important Italian institutions, including the State Discotheque in Rome, the European Music Society of Milan, the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa, the International Music Festival of the Republic of San Marino, the Rossetti Theater in Vasto, Sibelius Festival, Santa Margherita Ligure, IBIMUS, ISMEO and V. Bucchi Foundation in Rome. Abroad he has played in the Theaters of Taegu and Ulsan in South Korea, Sophia University, Italian Cultural Institutes in Tokyo and Kawasaky, Lieder Galerie in Hamburg, Enescu Foundation and National Theater of Bacau in Romania and more.

Specialized in vocal chamber music of which she possesses a vast repertoire, she collaborates in this field with the IBIMUS and the ISMEO for research projects, also with the performance of unpublished pieces.

Since 2008 he has been regularly playing duo with the baritone David Greiner, also dedicating himself to the diffusion of composers of the twentieth century belonging to the "Entartete Musik"

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