Armonie di Primavera (Spring Harmonies): Encounter between Italian Opera and Japanese Repertoire

On Sunday, May 31, 2026, the Takamori Association presents the concert Armonie di Primavera (Spring Harmonies): Encounter between Italian Opera and Japanese Repertoire at the International Museum and Library of Music in Bologna.

The concert will represent a meeting point between Japanese and Italian music. Performing will be Arimitsu Yasuko as soprano and Claudio Cirelli on piano.

Programme:

• Son bella pastorella - Gioachino Rossini (chamber canzonetta, 1835)
• Le Violette - Alessandro Scarlatti (chamber aria, ca. 1690)
• Ave Maria - attributed to Giulio Caccini (actually by Vladimir Vavilov, 1970)
• Karatachi No Hana - Yamada Kosaku, poem by Kitahara Hakushu (1925)
• Kono Michi - Yamada Kosaku, poem by Kitahara Hakushu (1927)
• Soshunfu - Nakada Akira, poem by Yoshimaru Kazumasa (1913)
• Nella fantasia – Ennio Morricone, from the film The Mission (1986)
• Chi il bel sogno di Doretta - Giacomo Puccini, from the opera La rondine (1917)

Piano solo

• Piano Variation on Tosca - Claudio Cirelli (ca. 2020)
• Vissi d'arte - Giacomo Puccini, from the opera Tosca (1900)
• La danza (Neapolitan tarantella) - Gioachino Rossini, from Soirées musicales (1835)