Pinacoteca di Como
Are you ready for the Autumn? Are you busy with the back to school, your job and all the daily tasks? You need a break. What about a wonderful concert in a special place?Do you remember the Lake Como festival? They have organised some wonderful concerts in June. Now they are come back with some other amazing concerts.
The first concert will be September, 6th.
Here all the details
6 September, 20.30Pinacoteca Civica, Como
+Dinner at Ristorante Caffé Teatro DUO ANDRE' NAVARRA
Camilla and Sergio Patria (cello) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): dalle Invenzioni a due voci (arr. Elena Ballario):
N. 1, BWV 772 in Do maggiore
N. 2, BWV 773 in Do minore
N. 7, BWV 778 in Mi minore
N. 8, BWV 779 in Fa maggiore
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755 - 1824): Duetto n. 1 op. 29 in Re maggiore (Allegro Vivace, Andante, Allegretto più tosto vivo)
Giovanni Battista Viotti: Duetto n. 3 op. 29 in Do minore (Moderato maestoso e con grande espressione, Adagio, Agitato assai)
David Popper (1843 - 1913): Suite op. 16 (Andante grazioso, Gavotte, Scherzo, Largo espressivo, Marcia finale)
Elena Ballario (1964):
GENERAL INFORMATION Ticket: 15 E
Free entrance fo:
- people up to 18 years
- to blind people. Tickets are on sale at concert's entrance. Box office opens 1 hour before the beginning of the concert.
About the location: PINACOTECA DI COMO The Pinacoteca hosted at Palazzo Volpi is the civic art gallery of Como. It is part of the Civic Museums of Como along with the Archaeological Museum "P. Giovio", the historical museum "Giuseppe Garibaldi" and Volta Temple. It houses an art gallery, an archive of architectural drawings of the twentieth century (including the archive Antonio Sant'Elia) and a library specialied in art. Palazzo Volpi was the former residence of the noble family Volpi. Volpiano Volpi (1559-1629), born in Como and later archbishop of Chieti, commissioned the drawings of the building to the Roman architect Sergio Venturi. The building was constructed between 1622 and 1633 under the supervision of Peter Paul Raimondi, grandson of Volpiano Volpi, and the direction of master builder Marco Dotti di Piazza. The planned "U"plant with the garden in the inner courtyard, was left unfinished in the northern part. The building is an expression of a mixture of two cultures and architectural buildings: the Roman and the Como area.
The building and grounds were owned by Volpi until the mid-eighteenth century, when it was left to Canarisi family. In 1839 the palace was sold to the state. In 1855, instead of the garden were built prisons, while the palace was used as the seat of the court until 1968.
Purchased by the city of Como in the seventies, the building was first restored with the elimination of the parts added in 19th century by the architect Gianfranco Caniggia and turned into museum (1989), and finally, in 2003, was cosen as the seat of the civic art collections and renovated in the exhibition space by Studio Pandakovic and Associates.
