The Sagra Musicale Malatestiana dedicates an important project to contemporary music with the first Italian performance of Rivale, a chamber opera commissioned for the reopening of the Berlin Staatsoper to one of the most important Italian living composers, Lucia Ronchetti.
Based on a subject elaborated in French by Antoine Danchet in 1701 for Campra's Tancréde, Rivale is a chamber opera for female voice, cello, brass instuments and percussion, entirely focused on the figure of Clorinda, a Muslim princess prisoner and in love with her own enemy.
The Italian premiere at the Sala Pamphili (5 August) will involve young people from all over the world as part of the San Marino International Music Summer Courses project.
In the role of Clorinda, the mezzo-soprano Amira Elmafda.