January & February 2020

An American in Paris with Orchestra

Revive the classic and brilliant musical with the live soundtrack performed

Repertoire

An American in Paris of George Gershwin

Performers

Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae
Anthony Gabriele, conductor

Programme notes

Unlike other films that adapted Broadway musicals for the cinema, An American in Paris starts from an original idea inspired by George Gershwin’s famous piece of music with the same title. This musical composition is used brilliantly in the final 17-minute ballet, filmed in glorious Technicolor by Vincente Minelli and with multiple references in the sets to French impressionist painters such as Renoir or Tolouse-Lautrec, in a dazzling visual spectacle.

The romantic story of Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly), an American painter in Paris, who falls in love with Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron), the fiancé of his good friend Henri Baurel (George Guétari) is the plot for a charming film, with a brilliant choreography of Gene Kelly and the music of George Gershwin.

The film includes many of George Gershwin’s most popular songs such as I got rhythm, ‘S Wonderful, Love is here to stay or Nice work if you can get it. These songs can be heard with the original voices of the actors but with the sensational orchestral arrangements performed live by the Camera Musicae Symphony Orchestra, with more than 60 musicians on stage, directed by maestro Anthony Gabrielle. VOSE projection.

BIOGRAPHY ANTHONY GABRIELE

Anthony Gabriele has established an international reputation for conducting with tremendous passion born of a profound knowledge and understanding of the repertoire. He was awarded 2nd Prize in the 2011 biennial Blue Danube Musik Impresario (Vienna) International Opera Conducting Competition, hosted by the Bulgarian State Opera (Burgas).

Anthony studied conducting, composition, piano and voice at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and since 1993 has amassed a prodigious variety of operatic and musical theatre credits as a Music Director, Conductor, Chorus Master, Language Coach, Vocal Coach and Accompanist.

He works extensively as a freelance conductor, arranger and orchestrator. He made his debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 2011 and conducted the British Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert of popular classical works, as part of the 2009 London Tower Music Festival. Anthony conducted at the National Theatre of Opera & Ballet Sarajevo and the Bulgarian State Opera Ruse during the 2011/2012 season. In January 2012 he conducted an Opera Gala at the Opera House in Almaty (Kazakhstan) with the internationally renowned Italian tenor, Fabio Armiliato.

His operatic repertoire includes La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Bohème, La Cenerentola, The Magic Flute, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Little Mermaid, The Moonrakers Opera and The Happy Prince.

As Music Director, he has conducted South Pacific, Blood Brothers, Ken Hill’s Phantom of the Opera, A Grand Night For Singing, Chess, CATS, Grease, The Wizard of Oz, Bye Bye Birdie, The Lion King (London’s West End, Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai) and the West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.