RENAISSANCE TITANES. DANTE (1265-1321) 6+ Automatic translate

Beginning at 19 o’clock.

Author’s program of Alexei Emelyanov for the anniversary of the poet.

“If the halls of the Hermitage suddenly went crazy, if the paintings of all schools and masters suddenly fell off the nails, entered each other, mixed and filled the room air with a futuristic roar and violent colorful excitement, something like Dante’s Comedy would have turned out.”

Osip Mandelstam. From "Conversations about Dante"

At the end of May 2020, 755 years ago, the greatest poet of the Renaissance Dante Alighieri was born in Florence. It is with him that the countdown begins when the common European culture, science, social life of people began to move and received a giant impetus in their development. Dante’s name is considered to be the origin of such a concept as Humanism.

A reformer of the Italian language and speech, Dante has influenced and continues to influence all European cultures, including Russian.

Composers, artists, philosophers of all nations turned to Dante’s work. Not understood during his life in his homeland in Florence, as is often the case with prophets and poets of all times, Dante ended his life in exile and is buried in Ravenna. Next year, 2021, we will celebrate the 700th anniversary of his death.

The concert of St. Petersburg State Budgetary Educational Institution “Petersburg-Concert”, which will take place on the new stage of the oldest concert organization in our city in the building of “Catherine’s Assembly” on the emb. K. Griboyedov, 88-90 October 30 at (specify time).

It will be attended by:

Chamber Orchestra "Divertissement"
artistic director and conductor - Honored Artist of Russia Ilya Ioff;
international laureate Olga Kotlyarova (organ, harpsichord);
the author of the composition and the reader is the Honored Artist of Russia Alexey Emelyanov.

The concert program will include fragments of Dante’s Divine Comedy, his sonnets, canzons, excerpts from prose; sonnets by Michelangelo and other Italian poets dedicated to Dante; fragments of the biography of Dante Giovanni Boccaccio, as well as fragments of O. Mandelstam’s essay "Conversations about Dante"

The musical part of the program will include works by Italian Baroque composers (Corelli, Vivaldi, etc.) and Russian composers (Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky); works for organ and harpsichord.

During the performance, a rich multimedia material (paintings, prints, etc.) dedicated to Dante and his time will be shown on the screen.