In Spanish, the Atlantic Ocean is familiarly known as ‘El charco’ (the pond): an effective testimony of the long-lasting relationship between Europe and Latin America, which developed through the routes of commerce and migration and led also to significant contaminations in terms of culture and performing-arts production.
A musical conference, with prof. Matteo Paoletti (speaker), Amalia Avilán (soprano), Salvatore Sclafani (piano), retraces the routes of musicians and impresarios by the turn of the Twentieth century, leading to the fascinating discovery of the reception and hybridization of European music and theatre in Latin America.
Event organised in the framework of EULAT 4 Culture Belgium, a cultural festival with the aim of strengthening EU- Latin American relations and shared values through cooperative culture and creativity. The Festival was created by EUNIC Brussels as a response to the open call from EULAT 4 Culture, an innovative cultural diplomacy initiative by Ibero-American Cultural Network RIDCULT of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), the European External Action Service and the Spanish Presidency of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture).
EULAT 4 Culture Belgium presents a wide range of contemporary cultural and artistic activities across disciplines, from 1 to 14 June 2022.
Matteo Paoletti is a Senior assistant professor at the University of Bologna, where he teaches History of Theatre. He develops his research in the field of Theatre studies with a methodology that includes Economics, Musicology, and International Relations. In 2020 he published a monograph for Cambridge University Press focusing on the commerce of opera and drama between Europe and South America in the early Nineteenth-Century. His more recent studies focused on the entrepreneurial network that ruled the theatrical routes, conveyed the offer, and developed an effective attempt of cultural diplomacy in an age of deep transformations for opera and drama in South America.
He is the PI of the UNA Europa project Migrantheatre, which focuses on the role of migration flows in the contemporary performing arts production. He took part to several international research projects, the main one being Historia y patrimonio de la Argentina moderna. He served as a Cultural attaché at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for the Italian National Commission for UNESCO.
Amalia Avilán studied music pedagogy at the National Pedagogical University of Colombia, singing with the Cuban baritone Ramón Calzadilla before being accepted at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in the class of José van Dam. In 2016 she took part in the prestigious annual masterclass held by Joyce DiDonato’s at Carnegie Hall. She has incarnated several roles in Opera such as The Fox (The Cunning little Vixen) in 2019, The Governess (The Turn of the Screw/Britten) in 2018 and 2019, Euridice (Orphée, Gluck/Berlioz) in 2017, Mimì (La Bohème, Puccini).
In the last three years, she has also been developping an important experience in chamber music and art song repertory. She ha salso been invited to participate in the annual music Northern Lights Festival of Febrero in Mexico.
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Salvatore Sclafani, pianist, is a piano teaching assistant at Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (Belgium) and a piano professor at Conservatoire de Maubeuge (France). He has been awarded several prizes in international competitions.
He also conducts a PhD in Arts and Arts Sciences at Université libre de Bruxelles and Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, under the guidance of Valérie Dufour and Eliane Reyes. As an artist-researcher, he has participated in conferences and symposiums in Belgium, France, Italy, Serbia, Georgia and United Kingdom.
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Matteo Paoletti is a Senior assistant professor at the University of Bologna, where he teaches History of Theatre. He develops his research in the field of Theatre studies with a methodology that includes Economics, Musicology, and International Relations.
In 2020 he published a monograph for Cambridge University Press focusing on the commerce of opera and drama between Europe and South America in the early Nineteenth-Century. He was then invited by the University of Cambridge to give a lecture on the transatlantic theatrical commerce, and the “Revista Argentina de Musicologia” contracted him to write an essay on the circulation of European theatre in the Rìo de la Plata. His more recent studies focused on the entrepreneurial network that ruled the theatrical routes, conveyed the offer, and developed an effective attempt of cultural diplomacy in an age of deep transformations for opera and drama in South America.
He is the PI of the UNA Europa project Migrantheatre, which focuses on the role of migration flows in the contemporary performing arts production.
He took part to several international research projects, the main one being Historia y patrimonio de la Argentina moderna.
He served as a Cultural attaché at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for the Italian National Commission for UNESCO.
Since 2011 Paoletti published 5 monographs, 13 peer-reviewed articles (5 in ANVUR Class A journals), 13 chapters in books, 2 books as editor, 2 reviewed articles. He is editor in chief of Antropologia e Teatro: Rivista di Studi (ANVUR Class A journal).
Amalia Avilán studied music pedagogy at the National Pedagogical University of Colombia, singing with the Cuban baritone Ramón Calzadilla before being accepted at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in the class of José van Dam. In 2016 she took part in the prestigious annual masterclass held by Joyce DiDonato’s at Carnegie Hall.
She has incarnated several roles in Opera such as The Fox (The Cunning little Vixen) in 2019, The Governess (The Turn of the Screw/Britten) in 2018 and 2019, Euridice (Orphée, Gluck/Berlioz) in 2017, Mimì (La Bohème, Puccini).
In the last three years, she has also been developping an important experience in chamber music and art song repertory. She ha salso been invited to participate in the annual music Northern Lights Festival of Febrero in Mexico.
FB :https://www.facebook.com/amaliaavilan
INSTAGRAM : Amalia Avilán
Salvatore Sclafani, pianist, is a piano teaching assistant at Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (Belgium) and a piano professor at Conservatoire de Maubeuge (France). He has been awarded several prizes in international competitions.
He also conducts a PhD in Arts and Arts Sciences at Université libre de Bruxelles and Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, under the guidance of Valérie Dufour and Eliane Reyes. As an artist-researcher, he has participated in conferences and symposiums in Belgium, France, Italy, Serbia, Georgia and United Kingdom.