A
concert of the most popular film composer in the world, 80-year-old
Italian Ennio Morricone, will open Sunday the 49th Ohrid Summer
Festival at the Antique Theatre in Ohrid.
Morricone is coming to Macedonia with about 100
orchestra musicians of the Budapest Symphonic Orchestra - Gyor that
will perform his best film themes together with the Macedonian Opera
Choir.
Under the baton of Morricone, the orchestra will
perform widely known sounds from legendary films authored by the
Italian composer, such as “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “Once Upon
a Time in the West,” “Once Upon a Time in America,” “The Untouchable,”
“Cinema Paradiso,” Bugsy,” “Lolita,” and others.
The festival will be officially opened by its patron President Gjorge Ivanov.
Besides famous composer Ennio Morricone, this year’s
Ohrid Summer Festival will include four other stars in the sphere of
classical music.
Pianists Boris Berezovsky from Russia and Teo
Gheorghiu from Switzerland, violinist Midori from Japan and cellist
Monika Leskovar from Croatia will take the stage on August 11-18.
Berezovsky is a pianist that newspaper “Times”
described in 1988 as “an exceptionally promising artist with thrilling
virtuosity and exceptional power”.
Young pianist Gheorghiu (1992) has already performed
with renowned symphonic orchestras and held a number of recitals in
Berne, Zurich, Istanbul, London etc.
Violinist Midori completed her studies at the
“Julliard” school in New York. She had her debut with the New York
Philharmonic at the age of 11, under the baton of Zubin Mehta.
Cellist Leskovar graduated in Berlin, where she is
currently teaching. She has had a rich international career, winning
numerous awards.
Guitarist/lutist Edin Karamazov will close Ohrid Summer Festival on August 20.
Since 1994, the Festival is a member of the European
Festival Association. During the last 48 years, many national and
international music and theatre artists and ensembles have performed at
the festival. Among the most eminent ones we can name: Zubin Mehta,
Jose Carreras, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jessye Norman, Victoria de Los
Angeles, Gideon Kremer, Maxim Wengerov, Vadim Repin, Julian Rachlin,
Henryk Szeryng, Elena Obrascova, Katia Ricciarelli and others.
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