An event in the event: it is the concert scheduled for September 9, at 21, at the Teatro Verdi, as part of the first International Robotic Festival. On stage, as a special guest of the event, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Lucca, created and directed by Andrea Colombini (already artistic director and president of Puccini and his Lucca international festival).

 

It will in all respects be the prelude to the concert that will feature internationally acclaimed Andrea Bocelli with an orchestra directed by a robot, to which Colombini himself has provided the necessary gestures.

 

In the belly of the Pisa theater, as the great music that goes through an unbroken wire, from Mozart to Puccini, the audience will also assist with a first interaction with a robot. On stage, in conjunction with the Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra, flanked by the choir of the University of Pisa directed by Stefano Barandoni and the Celtic Harp Orchestra directed by Fabius Constable, will be recorded the extraordinary participation of the Androide robot 'Face' developed by the Center E. Piaggio of the University of Pisa, dressed in an eighteenth-century dress created specifically by the Cerratelli Foundation in Pisa.

 

Soloists Francesca Maionchi and Bianca Barsanti (sopranos), Domenico Menini and Simone Frediani (tenors) will be involved with a program that will open with Giuseppe Verdi ('Nabucco', but later also 'Il Trovatore' and 'La Traviata'), then to concede raids in the airs of J. Strauss Jr ('Die Fledermaus'), R. Wagner ('The Masters of Nuremberg') and J. Offenbach ('Les contes d'Hoffman'). The dominant motive of the evening will, of course, be the work of Giacomo Puccini, with tunes selected by Tosca, Gianni Schicchi, La Boheme, Manon Lescaut and Turandot. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will make his appearance with 'The Wedding of Figaro', while the epilogue will be all for Di 'Capua (with the dragon O' sole mio) and 'Mascagni' ('Cavalleria rusticana' - 'Intermezzo').

 

For the evening, which will be presented by Renato Raimo, there is a charity entrance, it is necessary to book and you can do this at this link.