Edward Chaplin CMG, OBE HM Ambassador in Italy was in Barga this evening as guest of honour for the Closing Concert of Operabarga Festival 2007. The concert was dedicated to Peter and Gillan Hunt who started the Operbarga Festival 40 years ago. The Orchestra J Futura di Trento with their conductor Maurizio Dini Ciacci played a selection of music including works by Edward Elgar and Benjamin Britten
CONCERTO SINFONICO DI CHIUSURA dedicato ai fondatori del festival – che quest'anno celebra i suoi primi 40 anni di vita – gli inglesi Peter e Gillian Hunt, con l'Orchestra J Futura di Trento diretta da Maurizio Dini Ciacci e la partecipazione del pianista Marco Rapetti e del pianista Marco Nason, musiche di Benjamin Britten e Edward Elgar.
Click on the link below to hear the opening speeches at the 40th operabarga festival concert this evening [display_podcast]