Like every year, the Symphony Orchestra of Tenerife actively participates in the Tenerife Opera Festival, which starts on 17 September and continues until 25 October.
At the Tenerife Auditorium, the OST will lend its sumptuous sound to Richard Strauss' fabulous drama Salome, with stage direction by the famous Italian reggista Pier Luigi Pizzi, a habitual participant at the Royal Theatre in Madrid and the major opera forums in the Western world. At the beginning of October, the OST will be in charge of a double bill featuring Francis Poulenc's great dramatic soliloquy La voix humaine, together with one of audiences' favourite classics, Ruggiero Leoncavallo's I pagliacci, with stage direction by another great international figure, Giancarlo del Monaco, artistic director of the Tenerife Opera Festival. The OST will also participate in another double bill, focused on opera of the Classical period, with titles by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn that masterfully and gracefully illustrate the ins and outs of the world of stage: "theatre within the theatre".
On 24 and 26 September, the Symphony Orchestra of Tenerife, conducted by Oleg Caetani, will co-star in a Lyric Gala dedicated to Rossini, where two of the greatest young performers of the master from Pesaro will offer arias and duets composed by him: tenor Maxim Mironov and mezzocontralto Marianna Pizzolato. Born in Tula, the Russian Mironov is one of the greatest prodigies in the canto di grazia, internationally famous thanks to the Pesaro Rossini Festival: his warm, light lyric tenor instrument exhibits a superb phrasing, perfect tuning and a capacity for chest and light agility that makes him an ideal reincarnation of the tenors admired by Rossini. The Italian Marianna Pizzolato is equally irresistible and unbeatable in the bel canto repertoire, thanks to her smooth vocal line and her velvety, homogeneous timbre that goes from deep to bright high tones.
