The second weekend of the Mozart Festival opens tomorrow, Friday 5th October, with a work that in many ways sums up the attitude of the Festival towards what are all too often two opposite extremes: classical music and contemporary art.

Written and directed by musicologist Danilo Faravelli, "Don Giovanni at the Crossroads" (at 8 p.m. at the Rosmini Theatre in Rovereto) is a work for the theatre loosely based on "La bottega del caffè” and "La locandiera” by Carlo Goldoni, and is staged by students from the "Antonio Rosmini” High School in Rovereto”.

It is "played” on a number of different levels.
The development of the theme of "Don Giovanni”, which is the thread running through the entire Festival, also takes us back to "Don Giovanni Tenorio”, written by the great Venetian dramatist in 1736.
In Faravelli’s view, the students are placed "in a position of potential aesthetic equality with the performances of all the other artists taking part in the Festival”.
Lastly, it is a way of bringing younger people closer to a world – that of serious music – which most of them perceive as being fossilized in history.

The director’s work starts from the following premise: "We are living in a huge gap: we go to a concert, listen to a performance of music that is two hundred years old, and we think that this music can satisfy our need for structured sound simply by virtue of the excellent quality of the performance. But that’s not enough, because all historical periods and all places have always had their own music”.

Even an outstanding musician like Mozart, Faravelli explains "cannot satisfy all the needs of the present, least of all those of the very young”. So here is a work which draws on noble traditional models to create a modern piece with which people can identify.

The music, by Mattia Culmone, is a free arrangement for flute, clarinet, violin, ‘cello and piano of Johann Sebastian Bach’s "Coffee Cantata".

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