International PuntaClassic Festival
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The International PuntaClassic Festival is an opera festival in Punta del Este
, Uruguay
. It takes place every January (for three weeks starting in late December) with performances of both operas and concerts. The festival was founded by soprano Luz del Alba Rubio, who is also the Artistic Director
. The Music Director
and Chief Conductor is Matthias Manasi
, who will lead in 2011 the Punta Classic Festival Orchestra in a new production of Puccini's opera La bohème
and a Gala-concert "Latin sopranos".
Punta del Este
Punta del Este is a resort town on the Atlantic Coast in the Maldonado Department of southeastern Uruguay. It is located on the intersection of Route 10 with Route 39, directly southeast of the department capital Maldonado and about east of Montevideo...
, Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
. It takes place every January (for three weeks starting in late December) with performances of both operas and concerts. The festival was founded by soprano Luz del Alba Rubio, who is also the Artistic Director
Artistic director
An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...
. The Music Director
Music director
A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...
and Chief Conductor is Matthias Manasi
Matthias Manasi
Matthias Daniel Manasi is a German conductor and pianist. Manasi is currently Music Director of the International PuntaClassic Festival in Montevideo, Uruguay and Music Director and Artistic Director of Orchestra Camerata Italiana, based in Naples, Italy.-Musical Studies:Manasi began to study...
, who will lead in 2011 the Punta Classic Festival Orchestra in a new production of Puccini's opera La bohème
La bohème
La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto . by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger...
and a Gala-concert "Latin sopranos".