NEW INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR THE TRIESTINA FOUNDATION

SUPPORTED BY ALLIANZ AS A TOURNÉE PARTNER 

THE ANNOUNCEMENT IN THE PRESS CONFERENCE OF THIS MORNING AT THE GREEN THEATER

The Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi of Trieste will be engaged in a very prestigious three-week tour in Japan with a new production by Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata which will touch the main Japanese cities between October / November 2019. The sponsor of the tour will be Allianz, an international insurance group strongly rooted in Italy and in Trieste.

The important announcement was made this morning during the Press Conference held at the Teatro Verdi, which was attended by Superintendent Stefano Pace, the President of Concert Doors Co.Ltd. Masayuki Kobayashi, the Director General Antonio Tasca and the Artistic Director Paolo Rodda of the Triestina Foundation; also present were Maestro Fabrizio Maria Carminati, who will conduct the Teatro Verdi Orchestra and Chorus in this long tour, and Yumi Anna Yaginuma, Artistic Director of the Concert Doors Co.Ltd.

The tour, which will take place between October and November 2019, will visit the most important cities in Japan, including - to name a few - Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sendai, Omiya, Yokosuka. In Tokyo, the Foundation will be welcomed in the famous "Bunka Kaikan Tokyo", the most important and famous theater in the city, whose main hall has about 2300 seats.

La traviata is a work symbol of the Italian repertoire and is a title that enjoys immense fortune in the so-called global Opera market. The organization of the trip and production will be an impressive organizational effort, which will see the participation of around 110 professionals, including Orchestra, Choir and technicians. The conductor of the production will be Maestro Fabrizio Maria Carminati, reference point for the Theater, who regularly collaborates in all the Verdi seasons, of which he has directed the last two openings, Rigoletto (November 2016) and Evgenij Onegin (November 2017 ).

Superintendent Stefano Pace explains: “This project definitely consolidates Verdi among the international projections of Italian culture. This is one of the most prestigious and important commitments that the Foundation has ever faced. The Teatro Verdi Foundation reaffirms its role as ambassador in the world for the City of Trieste and the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. "

The Chief Executive Officer of Allianz SpA Giacomo Campora underlines: "I thank the Superintendent of the Teatro Verdi of Trieste Stefano Pace for the appreciation expressed to us and for having remembered Allianz's commitment, supported by important investments, in favor of the city of Giuliana and the country. Besides being the cradle of the origins of our company, Trieste is now a strategic hub for Allianz's activities in our country. Trieste is synonymous with state-of-the-art scientific centers and a top-level educational and university system. These are the reasons that led Allianz to maintain a strong presence in this city over time and to invest in the future of the company and, with it, of the economic system of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region ”

The General Director of Allianz SpA Maurizio Devescovi states: "I, in turn, would like to thank the Superintendent of the Teatro Verdi Stefano Pace and the Mayor of Trieste and President of the Roberto Dipiazza Theater Foundation. For Allianz, it is a pleasure and an honor to support the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, a symbol of excellence in Italian culture. We believe that large institutions and private investors should contribute to maintaining and developing the cultural heritage of Italy, to which the whole world looks with admiration. Allianz is a group that feels the responsibility of its social role, which creates work and development, which offers protection and conditions for a better future, operating in the sign of fairness and a broader social responsibility ”.

Concert Doors Co.Ltd. among the most active cultural operators in Japan, the protagonist for decades of a movement for spreading the Opera in the East. Concert Doors Co.Ltd. he regularly collaborates with the main opera foundations in Italy: since 1996 the company has completed fifty tours in Japan, in collaboration with Italian and European theaters. After the great success of the Teatro Massimo tour in Palermo in 2017, Concert Doors will collaborate in June this year with the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari and in June 2019 with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

Today's announcement marks the new relationship with the Teatro Verdi in Trieste; as President Masayuki Kobayashi explains: “In addition to the representations of the works, the tour represents for Trieste the occasion for appointments on the Japanese territory in order to offer new opportunities for contact with institutional, commercial and tourist realities and to show and to make discover in Japan the wonders of the history and culture of Trieste. We are very proud of this new artistic and cultural opportunity. "