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BOARD OF DIRECTORS President:William:
Graziosi (williamgraziosi@gasparespontini.com) |
| The Centro Studi Gaspare Spontini is an association between the Municipality of Maiolati Spontini and the Province of Ancona set up by the Municipality itself. It was founded in 1989 and was to carry on the work of a preceding cultural institution, active since 1977, called Comitato Comunale Permanente di Studi Spontiniani (Permanent Municipal Research Committee on Gaspare Spontini). The Centro Studi maintained the aims of the latter, i.e. promoting the works and figure of Gaspare Spontini from a musical, historical and cultural perspective. As well as being active in the research, study and preservation of all of Spontini's musical inspiration sources, documents and material of various kind, the Centro Studi also supports projects aimed at promoting the knowledge of music and opera in general and Spontini's works in particular among wider sections of the population. Special attention is paid to schools. The Centro Studi also co-operates with Italian and European theatres and festivals in the staging of Spontini's operas. In 1993 La Vestale, conducted by Riccardo Muti, opened the Lyrical Season at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan thanks to the contacts established between the Chairman of the Centro Studi, Maestro Alberto Zedda, and the Artistic Direction of La Scala. On this occasion, the Centro Studi Gaspare Spontini issued the critical edition of La Vestale. Federico Agostinelli and Gabriele Gravagna from Accademia Lirica at Osimo carried out the musicological revision. The critical revision of this opera belongs to the Centro Studi's wider project of publishing the critical edition of all Spontini's works. Bearing this in mind, the Centro Studi has already sponsored the critical editions of Teseo Riconosciuto and Li puntigli delle donne. These operas, conducted by Alberto Zedda, were staged at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi in 1995, at the Teatro Spontini in Maiolati and at the Teatro Gentile at Fabriano in 1997 respectively. Next opera to be revised will be La finta filosofa. The Centro Studi also promoted a Cd-Rom on Gaspare Spontini's figure, works and places under the title Gaspare Spontini: L'artista, la musica, il territorio (Gaspare Spontini: The artist, the music, the territory) which was officially presented at the Teatro Spontini in Maiolati on 15th November 1998. The cooperation with the famous Neapolitan musicologist and director Maestro Roberto de Simone, Director of the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples, is the latest project launched by the Centro Studi's; this allowed the revision of L'eroismo ridicolo prior to its staging on 30th December 1998. This project, which could also avail itself of the co-operation with the Teatro dell'Aquila in Fermo and its artistic director Maestro Eugenio Ottieri, will be continued in the form of new and remarkable initiatives. Other objectives for the near future include the publication of a Thematic Catalogue of all Spontini's works, made possible thanks to the long work started by the Comitato Comunale Permanente di Studi Spontiniani (Permanent Municipal Research Committee on Gaspare Spontini). In 1984 they set up for this purpose an International Scientific Committee including seven famous Italian and foreign scholars. The Committee was to look for and catalogue all Spontini's works and to find the relevant librettos and documents. In 1996 the Centro Studi was registered in the Regional Register of important Boards, Institutes, Foundations and Associations in conformity with Regional Law no.7/93. The Centro Studi, in its seat in Via Celeste Erard no.2, has a fair collection of musical, bibliographic and other documents related to Spontini's life and artistic activity. Committed administrators, scholars and enthusiasts have collected this material over time. The final aim is the setting up of a Spontini's library and information centre (collecting copies, microfilms, computer images and the like of all documents related to Spontini's life and works) open to scholars and enthusiasts, to offer them directly on spot the completest collection and information possible. Texts by Marta Paraventi, journalist specialized in history of art |