Biography

The Coro Lirico d’Abruzzo was founded by a group of bel canto professionals and was formed into a Cultural Musical Association in 2012. It is composed of opera singers, many of whom have proven artistic activity over ten years, choral and solo, both concert and operatic.

The Choir presented itself to the public on March 16, 2013, at the Teatro F.P.Tosti di Ortona, under the direction of Maestro Pasquale Veleno, with a concert dedicated entirely to the vast operatic repertoire of Giuseppe Verdi, to honor his memory on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth.

Verdi’s repertoire wants to be a significant starting point of the Coro Lirico d’Abruzzo, and wants to be a celebratory moment of one of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century, who represented the Italian musical world and still represents it in the world.

In the following years he performed in productions of choral symphonic repertoire in numerous theaters.

After the success of the presentation concert, the Coro Lirico d’Abruzzo has re-proposed itself to the public with charity concerts, at the Auditorium S. Francesco Caracciolo in Chieti and at the Teatro F. Fenaroli of Lanciano, with concerts in support of the “Thirty Hours for Life Campaign 2013”, aimed at raising funds for the purchase of defibrillators to be donated to state schools or public sports facilities.

The Coro Lirico d’Abruzzo, after the concerts held in several cities of Abruzzo, in March 2015, debuts in opera, with La Traviata by G. Verdi, with two performances held at the auditorium of S. Benedetto del Tronto and the Teatro Comunale di Teramo; later, he participated in the operas Tosca by Puccini and La Traviata by Verdi for the summer season 2015 in Teramo; the opera Madama Butterfly for the 2015 summer season in Casalbordino; to the operas La Bohème by Puccini, La Traviata by G. Verdi, for the 2016 winter season of the Fenaroli Theatre in Lanciano, as well as Donizetti’s Elisir d’amore.

The Choir, always in 2015 and until September 2016, starts a collaboration with the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, for the realization of the “Gala Tostiano”, concerts to commemorate the centenary of the death of the Ortonese composer F.P. Tough. The concerts, under the direction of Maestro Pasquale Veleno, and with the participation of mezzo-soprano Monica Bacelli, Tenor Aldo Di Toro and Soprano Valentina Coladonato, were held at the Teatro F.P.Tosti di Ortona, at the Ridotto of the Teatro Comunale de L’Aquila, at the Teatro F. Fenaroli of Lanciano and the Teatro Marrucino of Chieti.

In May 2017, the Coro Lirico d’Abruzzo collaborates with the “Francesco Tamagno” Opera Agency in Turin for the production of Verdi’s La Traviata, at the Teatro Massimo in Pescara, under the direction of Maestro Jacopo Sipari di Pescasseroli.

In August 2017 he participated in the prestigious International Midsummer Festival in Tagliacozzo (AQ) under the Artistic Direction of Maestro Jacopo Sipari of Pescasseroli in the Carmina Burana of C. Orff and in the Barber of Seville by G. Rossini.

In February 2018 the Coro Lirico d’Abruzzo holds a concert entitled: “From Brahms to G. Verdi a Chilcott: two centuries of female chorality” at the Parish of S. Anna in Chieti, finding considerable success. In July 2018 he was engaged in a Cinderella of G. Rossini in the Rosburgo Festival in Roseto (TE) and in August 2018 he took part in the XXXIV edition of the International Midsummer Festival in Tagliacozzo (AQ) under the Artistic Direction of Maestro Jacopo Sipari di Pescasseroli in Beethoven’s IX of L.V. Beethoven, in Suor Angelica by G. Puccini and in Madama Butterfly by G. Puccini. In September 2018, on the occasion of September Lancianese 2018, Festivals in Honor of the Madonna del Ponte di Lanciano (CH), the Coro Lirico d’ABRUZZO was invited to participate in the celebrations with an Extraordinary Concert that was held at the Teatro Comunale F. Fenaroli of Lanciano (CH).