Barley Arts e laVerdi present for the first time in Italy, at the Auditorium in Milan from 2 July to 2 September, the BBC Earth Concerts. A unique and involving experience that through the extraordinary images of the best nature documentaries of the BBC accompanied by the Unpublished music performed live by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, will tell of the wonderful and wild nature of our Planet Earth.
The WWF has chosen to sponsor this innovative artistic initiative that uses the emotional power of music and extraordinary images of nature to raise public awareness of the need for ever greater protection of our planet's biodiversity by focusing on the campaign 'Amazon Oasis of the World, the Planet's Largest Tropical Forest. The initiative was created to raise public awareness about the dangers of destroying or seriously damaging the Amazon rainforest, a real kingdom of biodiversity, fresh water, with a very rich cultural and socio?economic area where many indigenous and rural communities live that WWF involves in conservation projects.
"1.5 million hectares of Amazon rainforest, the world's oasis, disappear every year as we have renamed it to emphasise its importance for the balance of the entire planet, and this because of the Growing global demand for soy, biofuels and meat is driving farmers and ranchers to convert forest first to timber and then to farmland and pasture. We are therefore very happy to sponsor the concert series organised by Barley Arts and the orchestra laVerdi combined with beautiful images from the BBC that give us the opportunity to raise public awareness of the importance of protecting the Amazon," states Isabella Pratesi International Conservation Director WWF Italy.
Through the extraordinary images of the best nature documentaries of the BBC, projected on the big screen and accompanied in the theatre by engaging Unpublished music performed strictly live by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, conducted by Danilo Grassi, i BBC EARTH Concerts are a total experience in a unique communion of sounds and images.
The BBC Concerts are developed through three different performances: Planet Earth, The Blue Planet e Frozen Planet and will be presented at the Milan Auditorium over a series of appointments for a total of nine evenings in July, August and September 2014.
I BBC Concerts are the perfect bridge between the world ofedutainment and music: a choice in perfect coincidence with what has always been Barley Arts' aims and intentions.
A line-up of 58 musicians between strings, woodwinds, keyboards, percussion and harp, coordinated by the director of laVerdi Danilo Grassiwill perform live in thematic evenings the music created by the composer English George Fenton - winner of Ivor Novello, BAFTA and Emmy awards for the music of The Blue Planet - to accompany the spectacular BBC nature images.
Each appointment will be dedicated to one of the British broadcaster's three documentaries about life on our planet: Planet Earthwhich investigates the evolution of environments - from the peaks of Nepal to the lush vegetation of the Amazon rainforest, to the sculpted dunes of the Sahara - through marvellous slow-motion sequences; The Blue Planetwhich explores the seabed teeming with life to unexplored depths; finally Frozen Planetwhich captures all the fragile, awe-inspiring beauty and magnificent power of the elements in the vastest ice deserts on earth.
The shows The Blue Planet, Planet Earth e Frozen Planet in Concertconceived under the supervision of the composer of the original music George Fentonhave been accompanied by the world's leading orchestras since 2010 and performed in some of the biggest venue in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia, collecting a series of sold out and received rave reviews from critics.
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The complete calendar of events:
THE BBC EARTH CONCERTS
Milan Auditorium - Largo Mahler, Milan - tel. 02 83389.401/2/3
Planet Earth
Wednesday 2 July 2014 - 8.30 p.m.
Monday 14 July 2014 - 8.30 p.m.
Thursday 28 August 2014 - 8.30 p.m.
The Blue Planet
Thursday 10 July 2014 - 8.30 p.m.
Wednesday 16 July 2014 - 8.30 p.m.
Sunday 31 August 2014 at 18.00
Frozen Planet
Saturday 12 July 2014 at 18.00
Thursday 24 July 2014 - 8.30 p.m.
Tuesday 2 September 2014 - 8.30 p.m.
Tickets:
SECTOR AStalls from row 4 to 25: € 50.00 + p.p.
SECTOR BBalcony from row 4 to 15: 40,00 € + p.p.
SECTOR CFirst 3 rows Balcony and loggias: 33 € + p.p.
SECTOR DFirst 3 rows of stalls: 13 €
Tickets on sale from Monday 31 March:
Ticketone (www.ticketone.it) and Vivaticket (www.vivaticket.it)
Milan Auditorium Fondazione Cariplo
Largo Gustav Mahler
Tuesday/Sunday 14.30/19.00 - tel. 02.83389.401/402/403
Dedicated space at the MY LINK POINT CADORNA counter
Piazzale Cadorna ,14
Monday/Saturday 10.00/18.00 - Sunday 10.00/ 16.00
tel. 02/85114865
Milan, 12 June 2014
http://www.planetearthinconcert.com/
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laVerdi Press Office: Massimo Colombo
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WWF Press Office: Sara Bragonzi
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