Three free event concerts at the Royal Palace to make Francisco Goya’s art dialogue with classical music, on the occasion of the exhibition Goya. The rebellion of reason.

At the end of November at Palazzo Reale the works of the great artist, exhibited in the exhibition halls, will give continuous inspiration to the musicians of LaFil - Filarmonica di Milano, in a continuous dialogue of references between the art of Goya and music.

 

November 29, 2023 at 7.30pm | Royal Palace, Eight Columns Hall

CONCERT GOYA AND BOCCHERINI

The first concert is dedicated to the composer Luigi Boccherini, famous also for having founded the first quartet in history and for having lived most of his life in Spain, sharing a lasting and deep friendship with the painter Francisco Goya.

The program of the evening, directed by Marco Seco, solo cello Enrico Graziani, includes the performance of the Concerto for cello and orchestra in G major G480 and the Symphony in D minor The Devil’s House compositions that tell the period in which the two had met.

The concert will be preceded by an introduction on the link between the artists and the musical production of the Italian composer.

 

Free access while seats are available. Reservations are required and can be made at the following link.

The entire program is available on the website www.mostragoya.it and on the website of LaFil www.lafil.com

More information: 02 54917.



November 30, 2023 at 7.30pm | Royal Palace, Eight Columns Hall

CONCERT PAINTINGS IN MUSIC

The Eos Quartet (violin Elia Chiesa, violin Giacomo del Papa, viola Alessandro Acqui, cello Silvia Ancarani) in residence at the orchestra for this project, performs a program divided into three parts, all inspired by the themes of the poetics of Goya treated in the path of the exhibition.

In the first part, taking up the section of the exhibition Il popolo si diverte, the famous Quintetto n.6 op.30 by Boccherini Night music in the streets of Madrid will be performed.

In the second part of the concert, inspired by the section Vigilare e denunciare, the audience will hear the String Quartet n.11 in F minor, op.95 "Serioso" by Ludwig van Beethoven, composer linked by significant affinities to contemporary Goya.

In the third and last part, linked to the section Critical freedom and the enlargement of imagination, will be performed the World Premiere of a composition for quartet and electronics, dedicated to Goya by Gabriel Prokofiev, written specifically for the event at the Royal Palace. The composer, grandson of the famous Sergei Prokofiev, is among the most established musicians of his generation internationally.

 

Free access while seats are available. Reservations are required and can be made at the following link.

The entire program is available on the website www.mostragoya.it and on the website of LaFil www.lafil.com

More information: 02 54917.

 

 December 1, 2023 at 7.30 pm | Royal Palace, Eight Columns Hall

CONCERT WORKS OF WAR AND TRANSFIGURATION

The residence of LaFil at Palazzo Reale will end with a third and final concert again dedicated to Luigi Boccherini with the performance of the Stabat Mater, which will ideally dialogue with the works that Goya dedicates to the memories and impressions of the War of Independence.
 
 

Free access while seats are available. Reservations are required and can be made at the following link. 

The entire program is available on the website www.mostragoya.it and on the website of LaFil www.lafil.com

More information: 02 54917.