Milan: Elina Garanča at La Scala and Dee Dee Bridgewater at Blue Note

The Printemps des Arts in Monte-Carlo has reached its 40th edition, allowing us to discover, in addition to well-chosen music, also numerous spaces for culture between the Principality and Nice. A famous voice, Cecilia Bartoli, paired with John Malkovich, concludes the festival; and a few days earlier she had sung with another star, the pianist Lang Lang. Great female voices also in Milan, between Elīna Garanča at La Scala and Dee Dee Bridgewater at Blue Note.
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From 13 March to 7 April the 40th edition of the Printemps des Arts festival, with 25 events, concentrated in four long weekends and distributed in nineteen spaces, including concert halls and unconventional places, in Monte-Carlo and the Côte d’Azur. The underlying theme this year is the earth, the relationship between man and nature. The program, as in past years, ranges from the Middle Ages to the contemporary, passing through the classical and pre-romantic style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven to the nineteenth century of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms to arrive at the twentieth century of Messiaen, Boulez, Rihm. To conclude a program that brings together the famous mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and John Malkovich, around the figure of the great eighteenth-century Nicola Porpora and his students, the singers Farinelli and Caffarelli. Outside the festival, but in the same period, on 23 March Cecilia Bartoli will give a recital at the Opéra, together with an exceptional pianist like Lang Lang.

On the 11th at La Scala the mezzo-soprano Elina Garanča, with the pianist Malcolm Martineau; In a recent interview you alluded that you might be thinking about ending your extraordinary career. A beautiful programme, including Albeniz, Brahms, Berlioz, Duparc, Gounod, Rachmaninov, then three composing composers of the famous singer who inaugurated the La Scala season in Verdi’s Don Carlo, in the role of Eboli. Brilliant finale with entertaining arias from two of Chapí’s zarzuelas. One is the famous “Carceleras”, recorded by the most famous Spanish voices; “Bendito sea/aquel picaronazo/que me tide”.

On March 15-16 at the Blue Note the voice of Dee Dee Bridgewater. Over the course of his multifaceted career spanning four decades, the Grammy and Tony Award-winning jazz legend has reached the highest musical levels, giving us his unique interpretation of standards, but also revisiting jazz classics. You have always built bridges between different musical genres. She gained her first professional experience as a member of the Thad Jones/Mel Louis Big Band; and then she sang with Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon and Dizzy Gillespie, also dedicating herself to pop, in the Eighties.