love story

Once upon a time there was love ...

Love - a word so simple yet so powerful, reflects life bathed in the essence of happiness.

Love, whatever the times, has always been considered the main purpose of life. Nevertheless, romantic love acquires a philosophical flavor throughout the themes and topics of music, literature and art.

Love in the nineteenth century seemed uplifting and magical but sometimes it caused despair. Then it turned into a destructive force that brought depression, causing emotional collapse.

The subject of our presentation is the way romantic music adresses this phenomenon.

Composed of two musicians: a pianist Magdalena Hirsz and a cellist Danila Ivanov as well as a couple of ballet dancers Julie Lamby and Giuliano Cardone, our project is to provide a moment of musical expression, evoking the flow of these feelings without boundaries that Romantic Love encompasses./feelings, encompassing Romantic Love, without boundaries.

By means of music, explored by the great composers of the Romantic era: Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and many others, we want to present the mystical paradox of dance and literature, finding our inspiration in passages from Goethe, Byron and Pushkin read by the actress Geraldine Chaplin.

The creators of the nineteenth century espoused through their art a philosophy convincing us that Love is an inaccessible suffering, often too confusing and even incomprehensible to us.

Music and ballet choreography selected for the project reveal how emotionally refined artistic expression was in the Romantic era, while posingthe question whether romantic love still exists today.

This interactive concert titled "Love Story" will remind some of the audience of the most beautiful romantic repertoire for cello and piano, for others, it will be a delightful journey and perhaps an escape into the dream of love sublime, mysterious, passionate and melancholic.

Let?s take a moment to explore the theme that reflects one of the greatest mysteries of mankind ...