The Capitolare is taking part in the ‘Mozart in Verona’ event, now in its fifth edition, scheduled from 5 January to 2 February 2025.

For the occasion, we will host two meetings in our conference room, organised in collaboration with the University of Verona.

The first appointment, scheduled for Wednesday 8 January at 5:30 p.m., is entitled ‘Mozart and Salieri in the Russian context: from Pushkin's drama to Rimsky-Korsakov's opera’. The evening will explore the relationship between the literary source (A. S. Pushkin's microdrama) and Rimsky-Korsakov's opera, starting from the different contexts of genesis and fruition of the two texts - reading or acting, and stage singing - and in the light of the aesthetic and ‘philosophical’ thinking of the two authors. Dialogue between Anna Giust and Stefano Aloe, moderated by Vincenzo Borghetti.

The second meeting, on Friday 10 January, also at 5.30 p.m., will deal with the theme ‘Amadeus: between theatre and cinema’. Inspired by the legend of Mozart's assassination by Salieri, which was already the basis of Pushkin's opera, the English playwright Peter Shaffer composed the drama Amadeus, which was staged with great success in London and New York, and later in Paris, in a performance signed and interpreted by Roman Polansky. Even greater success came to the film based on it, the multi-award-winning Amadeus by Miloš Forman. Nicola Pasqualicchio and Alberto Scandola, lecturers at the University of Verona, will analyse and compare the two versions, theatre and film, of this disturbing reflection on genius and envy.

Free admission upon booking.

On Wednesday 15 and Wednesday 29 January at 5.30 p.m. two thematic visits dedicated to the musical heritage of the Biblioteca Capitolare will take place. The first event, curated by Valeria Nicolis, will be dedicated to the oldest specimens of the Capitolare Library's collection of musical texts, from the earliest evidence of notation to Gregorian chant. The focus will be on the splendid series of illuminated antiphonaries and graduals made for the choir of Verona Cathedral in the second half of the 14th century. The last appointment, entitled ‘Polyphonies of voices and symphonies of notes. The musical heritage of the Capitolare from the Renaissance to the 18th century', curated by Ilaria Ferrari, will start from Verona's first musical institution, the Scuola degli Accoliti with the Cathedral Chapel, to the blossoming of the 17th century with the composer Stefano Bernardi, up to the stages of the 18th century; between musicians and composers, manuscripts and ancient prints, staves and miniatures.

Admission by reservation, ticket €15