On the occasion of the Italian National Day, 2nd June, Festa della Repubblica, the Consulate General of Italy for Scotland and Northern Ireland organises a reception on Tuesday, 30th May at 7:00 pm at the Playfair Hall, Surgeons Quarter (Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DW).
The Ambassador of Italy to the United Kingdom, H.E. Inigo Lambertini will be in attendance.
The Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh is delighted to host a music performance by soprano Carmela Remigio and pianist Corrado Valvo to mark the event.
BY INVITATION ONLY.
Soprano Carmela Remigio was awarded the “Premio Abbiati” a prize conferred for her expertise in “technique, musicality and stage effects” by the Italian Music Critics Association. She started her musical studies at the age of 5 years old and in 1992 she won the “Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition” in Philadelphia; she was only 19 when she interpreted the main role of Alice by Giampaolo Testoni at Teatro Massimo, Palermo.
As heir to the best Italian vocal music tradition, she sang with Luciano Pavarotti in more than seventy concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York as well as in Paris, Miami, Dublin, Beirut, Seoul, Bucarest, Hochland. She has collaborated with conductors – Antonio Pappano, Fabio Luisi, Gustavo Dudamel, Riccardo Chailly, Gianandrea Noseda, Roberto Abbado – and directors among whom Luca Ronconi.
She sings both in opera and in chamber music – sacred and profane – in the main theatres, music festivals and concert halls in Italy and abroad. In 2022 she was awarded the “40° Premio Piccinni” prize.
Corrado Valvo is an Italian pianist and conductor. He has specialised in chamber music with a Master at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, Milan and as an orchestra leader with Richard Bonynge at the Georg Solti Academy.
He has collaborated with several operatic organisations in the world and has recently conducted the orchestra of the Puccini Festival in a Gala dedicated to Maria Callas with the soprano Angela Gheorghiu.
His work has taken him in prestigious opera houses and concert halls from the Carnegie Hall in New York to national theatres in Russia, Japan, China. He is guest conductor in symphony orchestras and opera foundations such as Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra and in Italy the orchestra of Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, Spoleto and many other.