Isabella Ambrosini conducted the opera Cavalleria Rusticana by P. Mascagni, directed by Enrico Stinchelli, on 19 May 2016 at the Palladium.

With both musical formations, choir and orchestra, composed of young gifted professional players selected from the best graduates of Italian conservatories, in the last years Isabella Ambrosini has focused her activity on discovering and promoting talented  musicians with the objective of helping them to enter the complex world of the musical profession.

Cavalleria Rusticana, from its very first performance on 17 May 1890 at the Costanzi theatre in Rome, obtained an overwhelming success, still continuing to the present day, marking the entrance of verism – a tendency of literary origin – into the history of Italian melodrama.

The story, based on a novel by Giovanni Verga, takes place on Easter day in Sicily at the end of the 18th century and is portrayed by Mascagni’s music as a great lyrico fresco, symphonic and choral, fraught with the vivid voices, colours and moods of nature when it flourishes in spring.

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