FLAMENCO SEPHARDIT was a triumph Thursday night at Teatro Toniolo in Mestre, Venice.
The show's international premiere, produced by Melina Rosenberg, co-founder of Talking Arts, was presented for the first time in Italy for the Commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Venetian Jewish Ghetto.
The maestro Jeffrey Eckstein is both Director and Executive Producer of the performance, which was a unique and fascinating experience: music, voice and dance are woven suggestively amongst each other; while the gypsy flamenco and the Ladino of the Spanish Sephardic Jews are wonderfully combined and enhanced by classical music.
The idea came from Melina Rosenberg’s inspiration during a meeting with maestro Eckstein, who suggested taking the show to Venice for the 500th anniversary of its Ghetto. This particular production is in fact presented with the specific intent to meditate on the past and think about the future: a five hundred year old institution that was created to discriminate and to exclude can now become a catalyst engine of inclusion, of dialogue between cultures and religions, and for peace.
The Chief Rabbi of Venice, Scialom Bahbout, exceptionally participated in the performance among the singers.
The show's international premiere, produced by Melina Rosenberg, co-founder of Talking Arts, was presented for the first time in Italy for the Commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Venetian Jewish Ghetto.
The maestro Jeffrey Eckstein is both Director and Executive Producer of the performance, which was a unique and fascinating experience: music, voice and dance are woven suggestively amongst each other; while the gypsy flamenco and the Ladino of the Spanish Sephardic Jews are wonderfully combined and enhanced by classical music.
The idea came from Melina Rosenberg’s inspiration during a meeting with maestro Eckstein, who suggested taking the show to Venice for the 500th anniversary of its Ghetto. This particular production is in fact presented with the specific intent to meditate on the past and think about the future: a five hundred year old institution that was created to discriminate and to exclude can now become a catalyst engine of inclusion, of dialogue between cultures and religions, and for peace.
The Chief Rabbi of Venice, Scialom Bahbout, exceptionally participated in the performance among the singers.
Flamenco Sephardit:
Presented and produced by Talking Arts in association with Beit Venezia. A home for Jewish Culture and in partership with the Municipality of Venice, of Cultural Activities, Centro Culturale Candiani ~ Teatro Toniolo ~ Amici della Musica di Mestre ~ Venice Beyond The Ghetto ~ Fondazione Brusutti. Part of the program of the Festival "Fuori dal Ghetto, Arte e creatività ebraica" (Outside the Ghetto. Jewish Arts and Creativity) with the patronage of the Committee for the 500 years of the Venetian Ghetto.
The revenues will be donated to the Jewish Community of the city of Venice for the promotion of art and culture.
Special thanks to Venice Beyond The Ghetto whose cooperation has made this photo-shoot possible, exclusive for Evenice.it & Venezia360.com and under direct supervision of M. Jeffrey Eckstein.
Presented and produced by Talking Arts in association with Beit Venezia. A home for Jewish Culture and in partership with the Municipality of Venice, of Cultural Activities, Centro Culturale Candiani ~ Teatro Toniolo ~ Amici della Musica di Mestre ~ Venice Beyond The Ghetto ~ Fondazione Brusutti. Part of the program of the Festival "Fuori dal Ghetto, Arte e creatività ebraica" (Outside the Ghetto. Jewish Arts and Creativity) with the patronage of the Committee for the 500 years of the Venetian Ghetto.
The revenues will be donated to the Jewish Community of the city of Venice for the promotion of art and culture.
Special thanks to Venice Beyond The Ghetto whose cooperation has made this photo-shoot possible, exclusive for Evenice.it & Venezia360.com and under direct supervision of M. Jeffrey Eckstein.
FLAMENCO SEPHARDIT:
Direction: Jeffrey M. Eckstein
Singers: Audrey Babcock and Rabbi Marc Philippe, with the special participation of the Chief Rabbi of Venice Scialom Bahbout
Dancers: Celia Fonta and Jose Junco Guitarists: Paco Fonta and Michel Gonzalez
Percussions: Michael Font
Violin: Nathaniel Wolkstein
Cello: Alexa Ciciretti
Direction: Jeffrey M. Eckstein
Singers: Audrey Babcock and Rabbi Marc Philippe, with the special participation of the Chief Rabbi of Venice Scialom Bahbout
Dancers: Celia Fonta and Jose Junco Guitarists: Paco Fonta and Michel Gonzalez
Percussions: Michael Font
Violin: Nathaniel Wolkstein
Cello: Alexa Ciciretti
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