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Trpceski Joins Intl Crew at Tuscan Sun Festival |
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Friday, 05 August 2011 |
Most popular Macedonian pianist Simon Trpceski will perform Thursday
evening in a theatrical evening - part of the Tuscan Sun Festival
- called Seduction, Smoke and Music, along with a Hollywood superstar
Jeremy Irons.
Chronicling the love story of renowned composer
Frederic Chopin and infamous French writer and feminist
Amandine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, known as George Sand, the performance
explores the development of their unusual relationship over a decade.
Irish-born actress Sinead Cusack, as the unconventional and
controversial cigar smoking George Sand, and her British
colleague Irons, as the celebrated pianist and composer, read letters
exchanged between the lovers in an evening accompanied and illustrated
by the music of Chopin.
The performance, also including Russian
cellist Nina Kotova, as well as American Ballet Theatre principal
dancers Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky, will take place in
Teatro Signorelli within the 'Festival Del Sole'.
The story of
Festival del Sole, as its name suggests, starts in Italy in the 1990's,
where, IMG Artists Chairman Barrett Wissman and wife, cellist Nina
Kotova, had often discussed organizing an event somewhere in the world
where friends could make music together in a warm welcoming atmosphere
with their neighbour, Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun.
Mayes suggested that Cortona might be the very location for such a
gathering.
In 2003, the Tuscan Sun Festival was born, and has
matured into an annual event that continues to be artist-led while
simultaneously embracing the proud spirit of the local community.
Regularly presenting prominent musicians, the Tuscan Sun Festival became
the first event of its kind to provide such a platform and combine it
with a pure celebration of life so abundant in Tuscany. The festival
incorporates an array of events which include fine art exhibitions,
culinary events, wine tasting, lectures and other literary
manifestations, as well as outstanding musical concerts.
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