Orchestra Sinfonica Rossini | Enrico Lombardi - Bologna Festival

17 May 2025

Music and dance

Bologna

Stanislao Mattei ‘La passione di Gesù Cristo signor nostro’ oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra. A project and a critical edition of the music by Elisabetta Pasquini first integral performance of the second version of the Oratorio in the Chain that links the masters and students of the so-called ‘Bolognese school’ where Father Stanislao Mattei constitutes a central link.

His catalogue of works includes music for liturgical and devotional purposes, a theatre work and twenty-seven symphonies. On the occasion of the bicentenary of his death, Officina San Francesco Bologna is promoting a study day as well as the first complete revival of the second version of the Oratorio della Passione, composed in 1792 to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio.

A project by Officina San Francesco Bologna in collaboration with Dipartimento delle Arti dell'Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, La Soffitta and DAMSLab | Provincia Italiana di S. Antonio di Padova dei Frati Minori Conventuali | Basilica e Convento S. Francesco di Bologna.