Monastic Musical Salon between Rome and Naples in the Age of Revolutions

The "Monastic Musical Salon between Rome and Naples in the Age of Revolutions" is the twelfth and last meeting with the cycle "... where music meets its time ..." on Sunday, April 21, at 7 p.m., in the church of San Donato in Caserta. Performing will be Laura Di Giugno (soprano), Raffaele Bove (guitar) and Pietro Di Lorenzo (harpsichord). The concert benefits from the logistical collaboration of the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament and the Holy Rosary in Sala di Caserta. A brief guided tour of the church, a significant example of architecture contemporary to the music on the program, will be held at the beginning of the concert. The concert offers a pleasant and light yet rigorous journey (in terms of musicological attention) through a possible musical salon between 1780 and 1820 in Rome and Naples, thus from the Ancien Régime, through the revolutions and the Napoleonic era to the Restoration. The perspective will be halfway, at Montecassino located in the Kingdom of Naples but an abbey directly subject to the pope. At Montecassino, were collected and are still preserved today part of the music proposed. Many are the unpublished works, fully capable of representing the era, although they refer to composers who are little known or completely unknown (De Ferraris, Millico, Signorile, Moretti, Terziani, Naumann) with some celebrities (Paisiello, Cimarosa). The view of all the pieces is on the melodrama but with an aware eye of the expressive possibilities of the salon compared to the theater. The 22nd edition of the cycle "... where music meets its time" was conceived and organized by the cultural association "Ave Gratia Plena" and the cultural association "Francesco Durante".