Arie per Enea

Arie per Enea
per mezzosoprano e orchestra

Composed: 2020
Published: 2020, Panastudio/Casa Ricordi (Universal Music)
Orchestra: 2,1/1,2,1; 2,1,0,0; 2perc; celesta, harp; str
Duration: 14 min.

World Premiere

16 December 2026
I Musici di Parma; Salvatore Di Vittorio, conductor; Palazzo delle Terme Berzieri, Salsomaggiore Terme Music Festival

U.S. Premiere
To Be Announced
Chamber Orchestra of New York; Salvatore Di Vittorio, conductor; Carnegie Hall

For other premieres, visit: Performances

Dedicated to the contralto Alessandra Visentin, and I Musici di Parma. 

Program Notes/Il Programma

Arie per Enea is a song cycle of four arias composed for the contralto/mezzosoprano Alessandra Visentin, for an upcoming world premiere in Italy. The poems of Dido’s laments are excerpts derived from Virgil’s Aeneid. This is one of several works that Di Vittorio is completing in connection to the Aeneid.