Un autunno di musica e cultura a Villa Tesoriera

The theme chosen this year by the Vita e Pace Cultural Centre – ‘People, Figures and Personalities’ – is enriched by new collaborations and opens up to new cultural horizons, extending to the prestigious Villa Tesoriera in Turin, home to the Andrea Della Corte Civic Music Library.

This has given rise to a comprehensive programme of events dedicated to Andrea Della Corte, a leading figure in Turin’s and Europe’s cultural life during the first half of the 20th century: lectures, concerts, debates, a photographic exhibition and a documentary film will offer the public the opportunity to rediscover the many facets of his personality: a man of letters, writer, journalist, musicologist and a driving force behind the intellectual scene of his time.

Highlights:

• 16 October, 3.00 pm: opening ceremony, lecture by Orlando Perera and a concert in collaboration with the ‘Luca Marenzio’ Conservatoire in Brescia

• 23 October, 5.00 pm: a talk on Andrea Della Corte and 18th-century comic opera

• 6 November, 5.00 pm: Two aspects of Andrea Della Corte’s work in Turin: his contributions to music journals and his interest in composers, with a focus on his journalistic work and his engagement with the music scene

• 16 November, 4.00 pm: Andrea Della Corte and his colleague from the Department of Performing Arts, Maria Cristina Riffero, present the figure of Adele Morozzo Della Rocca, a lecturer in Performing Arts at the newly established “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatoire of Music in Turin and a colleague of Della Corte, who held the chair in Music History; the talk will be accompanied by musical performances by pianist Laura Domenica Brunetta

• 20 November, 5.00 pm: In the wake of 18th-century opera

• 4 December, 5.00 pm: Andrea Della Corte and the great composers of his time, a lecture organised by Maria Cristina Riffero with Massimiliano Genot on the piano