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Breana Stilman is pleased to invite you to OperAffinity Festival 2025
A Celebration of Artistic Excellence, Cultural Diplomacy, and Youth Engagement
🗓️ 8 – 14 September 2025 📍Todi (Umbria)

The 2025 festival programme reflects OperAffinity’s core mission:
• To provide high-level training and artistic exchange across continents.
• To empower marginalised and underrepresented communities, including Kenyan artists through its Kenya Opera Program.
• To build international dialogue through culture, working with embassies, conservatories, and renowned musical institutions.

➡️ Download Programme (PDF)

Exclusive Offer for BCCI Members
As a valued member of The British Chamber of Commerce for Italy, you are invited to enjoy exclusive access to the OperAffinity Festival, including special discounts on concert tickets and events.

To take advantage of this offer and receive more information, please contact us at info@operaffinity.com

We look forward to welcoming you!

Concerts & Events
Opera Aperitivo
🗓️Mercoledì 10 settembre | 18:00 📍Cantina Todini, Todi
Presented by OperAffinity Festival and the Cantina Todini, Opera Aperitivo invites you to enjoy a unique evening of music, wine, and aperitivo in the stunning setting of Cantina Todini, with panoramic views over the Umbrian hills and the historic town of Todi.
Join us for a relaxed and atmospheric concert featuring arias and duets from some of opera’s best-loved works performed by a selection of this year’s
exceptional emerging artists. This special event offers a fresh and inviting way to experience opera—bringing new audiences to the art form through a perfect
pairing of live music, excellent wine, and delicious local food.

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Concerto di apertura
🗓️Giovedì, 11 settembre | 18:00 📍Teatro Nido dell’Aquila, Todi
PRESENTATO IN COLLABORAZIONE CON IL CONSERVATORIO DI PERUGIA
• Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Am Ströme, D. 539 (1817)
Eseguito da Luca Rondini, tenore; Stefano Brizzi, pianoforte
• Carl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798–1859)
Des Deutschen Schiffers Heimweh per tenore, corno e pianoforte (ca. 1835)
Eseguito da Luca Rondini, tenore; Marco Alberti, corno; Stefano Brizzi, pianoforte
• Giuseppe Scelsi (1905–1988)
Krishna e Rhada per flauto e pianoforte (metà XX secolo)
Eseguito da Angelica Pagliaccia, flauto; Fabio Afrune, pianoforte
• Fabrizio De Rossi Re (n. 1960)
An Optical Illusion Too (2010)
Eseguito da Angelica Pagliaccia, flauto; Fabio Afrune, pianoforte
• Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Ma mère l’Oye (Suite La Bella Addormentata) per pianoforte a
quattro mani (1908–1910)
Eseguito da Fabio Afrune e Letizia Moretti, pianoforte
• Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Mélodies de Venise per soprano e pianoforte (1891)
Eseguito da Giulia Calin, soprano; Benedetta Bufali, pianoforte
• Alexander Zemlinsky (1871–1942)
Trio in D minor, Op. 3 (1896)
Performed by Luis Insulza Diaz, clarinet; Agnese Menna, cello; Fabio Afrune, piano

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Concerto dell’Accademia Musicale Chigiana
Prima esecuzione di un’opera di Alan Fletcher
🗓️Venerdì, 12 settembre | 20:30 📍Teatro Nido dell’Aquila, Todi
• Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) / Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962)
Fantasie slava per violino e pianoforte (arrangiamento primi del ‘900)
Esecuzione: Giulia Rimonda, violino; Laetitia Ruccolo, pianoforte
• Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Tzigane per violino e pianoforte (1924)
Esecuzione: Giulia Rimonda, violino; Laetitia Ruccolo, pianoforte
• Alan Fletcher (n. 1956)
When You Are Old and Grey per baritono e pianoforte (2016)
Esecuzione: Johannes Moore, baritono; Laetitia Ruccolo, pianoforte
• Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931)
Sonata per violino solo n. 4 in mi minore, Op. 27 n. 4 (1923)
Esecuzione: Giulia Rimonda, violino
• Alan Fletcher (n. 1956)
Study: Music, Pink and Blue No. 2 per violino e pianoforte (2015)
Esecuzione: Giulia Rimonda, violino; Laetitia Ruccolo, pianoforte
• Jules Massenet (1842–1912)
Vision fugitive da Hérodiade (1881)
Esecuzione: Johannes Moore, baritono; Laetitia Ruccolo, pianoforte

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Sestetto Stradivari dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
🗓️Sabato, 13 settembre | 19:00 📍Teatro Comunale, Todi
ESECUZIONE:
SESTETTO STRADIVARI DELL’ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DI SANTA CECILIA
David Romano, Ruggiero Sfregola violini
Raffaele Mallozzi, David Bursack viole
Diego Romano, Sara Gentile violoncelli
• Ernst von Dohnányi (1877–1960)
Sestetto per archi in si bemolle maggiore, W080
I. Allegro ma tranquillo
II. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
III. Adagio quasi andante
IV. Finale: Animato
• Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
Sestetto per archi in la maggiore, Op. 48
I. Allegro moderato
II. Dumka (Energie): Poco allegretto
III. Furiant: Presto
IV. Finale: Theme with variations – Allegretto buono, quasi andantino

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Gala d’Opera
🗓️Domenica, 14 settembre | 19:00 📍Teatro Comunale, Todi
Presented by OperAffinity Festival, a celebratory evening showcasing the next generation of opera talent. Following a week of intensive training, 14 emerging singers from around the world will perform a staged programme of arias, duets, and ensemble scenes from the operatic repertoire, featuring works by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Bizet, and more.
Head of the Vocal Program: Marie McLaughlin
Musical Direction: Laetitia Ruccolo

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For further information please visit https://www.operaffinity.com/

Andrew Foan & International Da Ponte Festival – MusicaLink Ltd are pleased to invite you to

DON GIOVANNI
Comic Opera in 2 acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Text by Lorenzo Da Ponte

• WEDNESDAY, 10TH SEPTEMBER 2025 | 20:00
• FRIDAY, 11TH SEPTEMBER 2025 | 11:00 and 19:00
• SUNDAY, 14TH SEPTEMBER 2025 | 19:00

📍Teatro Lorenzo da Ponte | Vittorio Veneto (TV)

Don Giovanni, knight and dissolute seducer, spends his last day on earth. A day where time is marked by his conquests and his power games against the servant Leporello and the women and men who cross his path. Will he be able to redeem himself?

Orchestra – Da Ponte Festival

INFO & TICKETS

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Numbered seats: full ticket euro 35 to euro 55, reduced ticket for Vittorio Veneto residents euro 28 to euro 44, reduced ticket for under 18 euro 10

For further information please contact info@dapontefestival.com – Associazione Culturale Da Ponte or visit https://www.dapontefestival.com/

For sponsorship opportunities please contact:
Maria Rosa Allegra, BCCI Business Development Manager
Mob. 335 1847337 – mariarosa.allegra@britishchamber.it

For further information please contact:
Maria Luisa Fantoni, BCCI Marketing & Event Manager
Mob. 377 7063348 – marialuisa.fantoni@britishchamber.it

INFO & REGISTRATION

Participation fee: €30 to be paid on the day.
Please confirm your attendance at
https://britishchamber.it/booking-bcci-welcome-back-networking-aperitif-15-september-2025/