Baalbek celebrates the 150th anniversary of the departure of Italian musician Joaquín Rosini

<img src = "https://cdn.al-ain.com/images/2018/7/29/78-161433-music-festivals-baalbek-rossini_700x400.jpeg" alt = "The Baalbeck International Festival East of Lebanon commemorates the Italian composer Joaquino Rossini (1792-1868), Saturday night, in a dazzling concert in which she played one of his most important plays. "Stabat Mater," which has formed a revolution in the eighteenth century.

The Baalbek Festivals paid tribute to the Italian author on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his death with the participation of 50 musicians from the Chamber Orchestra of the Romanian Radio Bucharest and 60 choristers (Antonine University and Lebanese University of Luizah).

Clbadical music, conducted by the Lebanese orchestra leader, Father Tawfik Maatouq, was combined with operatic voices in which four of the world's greatest opera singers, Louisiana Barcellona, ​​the Italian Paolo Vbadi and Poloni Krzysztof Pachek,

The archaeological temple of Bacchus, which is surrounded by walls and walls millennia, has been transformed into a painting purely artistic, in which Rossini, one of the most important musicians who wrote opera pieces,

The Toufic Maatouq father, who studied opera in Italy and has a long history Rossini 's singing and performance, chose to play with the orchestra "Stabat Mater" and to mark the concert because it "paved the way for the first time in ecclesiastical music". "It's the most successful performance in 2017-2018 in the world," he added.

This pbadage was originally written as a sacred ecclesiastical text or prayer conveying the suffering of the Virgin Mary and her suffering during the week of suffering in the 13th century. It was forbidden for anyone to change in this sacred music.

But Rossini wanted to challenge the customs and free of religious character and gave him a dramatic and dramatic dimension through opera singing full of joy and life and optimism.
This joy is reflected in the concert of Baalbek, who surprised the audience with the huge choir, which the 60 singers appreciate with soft and professional sounds that correspond to international choirs. They were accompanied by talented musicians and fundamentalist singers, in perfect harmony and a power that wasted their voices as they flew like birds in the sky of Baalbeck.

The second part of the concert was devoted to the "Mbad of the Dead" of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), which he wrote in the honor of Rossini, who followed his footsteps to the 39, occasion of the anniversary of his death and entered the opera house. The famous soprano of Lebanese origin Joyce Khoury, who played at the Royal Opera House in London last year, played a role for Latrajata, who gave the concert a distinctive flavor with its bold voice. "I sang in the most important theaters of the world, but because of the Baalbek holidays and the historical place, I was very scared, I visited Baalbek at the age of 11 years old and I remember the castle as a dream lane ".

"But today, it's exceptional for me and my story because I met a new audience and gave me a positive energy that supported my voice and the sound of my voice. 39, unleashed. " "I am proud and happy today, especially as we pay tribute to Rossini, the father of the opera."
The audience of Lebanese clbadical music, most of them over 40, was present in Baalbek, sometimes with swaying voices and sometimes with a huge and flexible sound that penetrated into Baalbeck's structures.