{"id":1137,"date":"2018-02-05T16:13:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2018\/02\/comunicato-stampa-welsh-national-2\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T16:13:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:13:30","slug":"comunicato-stampa-welsh-national-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2018\/02\/comunicato-stampa-welsh-national-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh National Opera (WNO) &#8211; Verdi Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday 2nd February, newly appointed Ambassador Trombetta and his wife Victoria paid their first UK visit outside of London to Cardiff to attend a performance of the Welsh National Opera\u2019s new production of <em>La forza del destino<\/em>, directed by WNO artistic Director David Pountney and conducted by WNO Conductor Laureate Carlo Rizzi at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. The Ambassador and <em>Signora<\/em> Trombetta attended the event alongside HRH The Prince of Wales, Mr. Ken Skates AM, Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport, Welsh Government and the WNO\u2019s Honorary president, Mathew Prichard CBE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Trombetta, Patron of the WNO\u2019s Verdi trilogy, has long standing ties to the UK having previously served as Deputy Consul General in London twenty years ago between 1990 and 1995. Thus, with great pride and joy he now returns as Ambassador to the UK with the intention of further strengthening Anglo-Italian ties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The season\u2019s new production of Verdi\u2019s <em>La forza del destino<\/em>, marks the start of a Verdi trilogy co-produced with Oper der Stadt Bonn which will run over the seasons of 2018, 2019 and 2020. The trilogy continues with <em>Un ballo in maschera<\/em> in Spring 2019 and <em>Les V\u00eapres siciliennes<\/em> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassador Trombetta himself, highlighted the importance of such musical events when he said, \u2018Opera itself, acts as a bridge between the United Kingdom and Italy by reminding us of our collective ideals and common history.\u2019 This has been facilitated by widely recognised UK-based music associations such as the WNO, which continue to preserve and promote classical music and its\u2019 heritage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The performance was also further supported by the Kobler Trust and the WNO Verdi Syndicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday 2nd February, newly appointed Ambassador Trombetta and his wife Victoria paid their first UK visit outside of London to Cardiff to attend a performance of the Welsh National Opera\u2019s new production of La forza del destino, directed by WNO artistic Director David Pountney and conducted by WNO Conductor Laureate Carlo Rizzi at the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}