Punto Arte Festival 2023

Punto Arte Festival 2023
10 July - 14 July

Between the 10th and 14th of July The Netherlands Festival Orchestra comes together to realize the most surprising, varied, theatrical and delicious musical festival in and around medieval Volterra.

This was the praising reaction to the splendid and endless nights in the heart of Tuscany during former editions: ‘an unreal and fantastic experience’ or ‘it was dreamlike’.

Well, this inspired us to adjust the festival program. We wish the gardens of Villa Palagione be filled with melodies from Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and Purcell’s Fairy Queen, both based on Shakespeare’s masterwork. Will the fairy queen Titania this time again fall in love with a donkey?

The trombone is said to be the symbol of the human soul in the first operas. One of the first trombone concertos by Ferdinand David will be played by Jörgen van Rijen. The virtuose trombonist will also perform Arvo Pärt in an adaptation by himself, authorized by the composer. Also Jörgen is giving masterclasses for talented trombone students from all over the world, very interesting for the audience.

Mozart as well was inspired by the night and lets the timpani sound in his serenade Notturna. Did Beethoven have a sense of humor? Most probably yes, given the problems he had with his shoes, his mother and other everyday things. Only 80 kilometers from Volterra Boccherini was born. How fitting his Stabat Mater will sound in this surroundings…

Program Punto Arte Festival 2023


Monday 10 July 2023 -
7.30 pm
Villa Palagione - Volterra

A Midsummernightsdream - music by Felix Mendelssohn Mendelssohn and Henry Purcell
on a story by William Shakespeare
Conductor - Jan Willem de Vriend
Netherlands festival Orchestra
Concept and director - Eva Buchmann
Assistant-Ruth Becker
Renate Arends / Marina Zyatkova - soprano
Ralf Popken - altus
Pavel Zak - tenor
Maarten Koningsberger - baritone
Wojtek Dzwonkowski - baritone
Ben Hurkmans - dramaturge
Ruth Becker - assistant

Private event for Friends of Punto Arte / E-mail us for more information
* In case of bad weather conditions, the dinner will be served inside and the performance will be shortened.
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Tuesday 11 July 2023
11 am and 12.15 am
Palazzo Ricciarelli - Volterra

L. van Beethoven - Duet voor clarinet and bassoon no. 3 in B major WoO27
WA Mozart - Clarinet Quinet in A KV 851
Schumann/Busoni - Abendlied op.85 nr 12
Frank van de Brink - Clarinet
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Tuesday 11 July 2023
7 pm
Gardens of Villa Viti - Mazzolla

A. Vivaldi - concerto for 2 bassoons and strings in g minor rv 531
A. Part - Fratres
F. David - concertino for Trombone and orchestra
Fr. Schubert - Symphony no. 1 in D Major D82
Jos Lammerse and Frans Berkhout - bassoon
Jörgen van Rijen - trombone
Jan Willem de Vriend - conductor
Netherlands Festival Orchestra
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Wednesday 12 July 2023
10 am till 11.30 am
Teatro Persio Flacco - Volterra

public masterclass trombone Jörgen van Rijen
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Wednesday 12 July 2023
12.30 pm
Teatro Persio Flacco Volterra

L. Boccherini “Stabat Mater
Renate Arends Soprano
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Wednesday 12 July 2023
7 pm
Teatro Persio Flacco Volterra

G. Mahler symphony no. 1 “Titan” in the arrangement of Klaus Simon for chamber orchestra
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Thursday 13 July 2023
12. am
Pinacoteca Voterra

L. van Betthoven – duet “Nei giorni toui felici”
L. van Beethoven - "Soll ein Schuh mich drücken” WoO 91
L. van Beethoven - "No, non Turbati!" WoO 92a
L. van Beethoven - "Prüfung des Küssens"
L. van Beethoven - “mit Mädeln sich vertragen” WoO 90
W.A. Mozart Serenade "Notturna”
Renate Arends - Soprano
Marina Zyatkova Soprano
Maarten Koningsberger - Bariton
Netherlands Festival Orchestra
Jan Willem de Vriend
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Thursday 13 July 2023
7 pm
Villa Palagione - Volterra

“a Midsummernightsdream” music from Felix Mendelssohn Mendelssohn and Henry Purcell on a story by William Shakespeare
Conductor - Jan Willem de Vriend
Netherlands festival Orchestra
Concept and director - Eva Buchmann
Renate Arends / Marina Zyatkova - soprano
Ralf Popken - altus
Pavel Zak - tenor
Maarten Koningsberger - baritone
Wojtek Dzwonkowskz - baritone
Ben Hurkmans - dramaturge
Ruth Becker - assistant