BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:100@ilcircolo.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250916T181500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250916T194500 DTSTAMP:20250819T122643Z URL:https://www.ilcircolo.org.uk/events/beyond-art-an-evening-of-music-and -literature/ SUMMARY:Beyond Art: a Music and Literature event DESCRIPTION:Following our AGM\, Il Circolo\, in collaboration with the Brit ish Italian Society\, presents "Beyond Art: an evening of music and litera ture"\n\nMargherita Torretta\, piano and writer\nVictoria Armillotta\, sop rano\nGiorgia Scaturro\, moderator and journalist\n\nNadia Ostacchini\, ac tress\, voice over and artistic director of Tricolore Theatre Company.\n\n Pianist and writer Margherita Torretta will delight the audience with her performance of classical music pieces alongside the Italian-British sopra no Victoria Armillotta. She will also delve\, together with moderator an d journalist Giorgia Scaturro\, into poignant excerpts and themes from her literary debut\, Rimmel\, a novel published in 2024 by Pendragon. Nadia O stacchini will be reading selected passages from Rimmel.\nThis unique even ing promises to be an inspiring fusion of words and music\, a seamless dia logue of melodies and reflections designed to transport guests on a profou nd introspective and artistic journey.\nBeyond Art celebrates the transfor mative power of art and culture\, which not only offers a unique opportuni ty to appreciate cultural differences but also to connect with others and understand the value of diversity.\n\nMusic by W.A.Mozart\, F.Schubert\, G .Puccini\, G.Verdi\, F.Chopin\n\nMargherita Torretta is an Italian pianist and ex-classical dancer born in 1986. After she made her debut at the Car negie Hall in New York in 2016 with D. Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas (follo wing her first CD recording with Academy Productions label D.Scarlatti-20 Keyboard sonatas) she’s performed in over 20 countries around the globe —in Europe\, England\, the United States\, Asia and Australia—included concert halls as London’s St. Martin-in-the-Fields\, Vienna’s Ehrbar Saal\, Warsaw’s Fryderyk Chopin Institute\, the Conservatory Maurice Rav el in Paris\, the Steinway Hall in Dubai\, Sala Verdi in Milan and many ot hers. She graduated with honours from the Conservatory in Piacenza and fro m the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan. Supported by the Theo Lieven Foundat ion\, she entered the Performance &\; Interpretation Master Program at Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano\, and she was a student at the prestigious International Lake Como Academy directed by William Grant Naborè\, studying with Dmitri Bashkirov\, Fout's Ong and Stanislav Ioude tich. Margherita has released a second album with Baldassare Galuppi’s p iano sonatas. She's the first pianist to record the complete piano works c omposed by Italian-British composer Elisabetta De Gambarini\, and in March 2024\, she released her first novel\, Rimmel\, inspired by her personal s tory (2024\, edizioni Pendragon). Her Interviews and reviews have appeared in music magazines including Gramophone\, BBC Music Magazine\, Classics T oday\, The Art Desk\, Pianist Magazine and International Piano. She has pe rformed live concerts and given interviews over major broadcast networks i ncluding BBC Radio 3\, RAI Radio 3\, Rai Radio 2\, RSI Radiotelevisione Sv izzera\, France Musique\, Radio France\, Luxembourg 100.7\, ORF1 Austria a nd Radio Romania Muzical. She currently lives in London.\n\n \;\n\nBri tish-Italian soprano Victoria Armillotta lives in London and is currently supported by the International Opera Awards. A recent graduate of the Roya l Academy of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music\, she has recen tly been cast in several significant soprano roles. Some of the roles are Giorgetta (Il tabarro) with Opera Cameratina\, directed by Sir Tomlinson\, Female Chorus (The rape of Lucretia) with British Youth Opera\, Tatyana ( Eugene Onegin) cover with Hampstead Garden Opera\, Mimì (La bohème) with Cosmopolis Festival in Kavála\, Greece and with Devon Opera\, Liù (Tura ndot) with Instant Opera. Earlier this year\, she was a semi-finalist in t he fourth edition of the "Voci in Barcaccia" competition in Rome in collab oration with Rai Radio 3. Victoria has performed in concerts and operas at the Royal Albert Hall\, Royal Festival Hall\, Blenheim Palace\, Mancheste r and Exeter Cathedral\, internationally at Theatre im Delphi\, Berlin and Olavinlinna Castle with Savonlinna Opera Festival\, Finland\, alongside s tar soprano Lisette Oropesa. 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