Support
Join our Nozze. Spira mirabilis seeks your support for the orchestra’s 100th project: staging Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro.
Our dream project is about to happen. Ever since starting Spira mirabilis in 2007, its players have had a long-cherished aspiration to perform a staged projection of Mozart’s exquisitely funny opera Le Nozze di Figaro. We will be performing on period instruments from Mozart’s time (or copies of them) to recreate the vivid sounds of the 18th century, creating a new listening experience full of emotions for us players, singers and the audience. For this project we are delighted to be partnering with a lovely group of emerging vocal soloists from England. And we have found tow fairy-tale locations in the beautiful medieval village of Montecastelli (26 July) and the castle in Formigine (28 & 29 July) - our dear home - as the perfect backdrop for each of the four acts of our Nozze.
So we’ve got 35 musicians, nine singers, a director, a georgeous performance venue, and music stands sorted. Aside from the savings we’re putting towards this project, we’re also lucky enough to have received a significant contribution from a cherished private patron. Now all we need is your help to raise a further €5000 towards the cost of travelling, a harpsichord hire, score rental, a bowl of pasta, a bed, a hat and even a pair of gloves. Can you help bring this project to life?
Who will benefit from your support?
Spira mirabilis is a group of passionate and committed professional musicians who live and work across Europe. A couple of times a year the collective reunites to study a score extensively and perform as a group. The time spend together studying and experimenting is the raison d'être of Spira mirabilis. Musicians are not remunerated for this project, but merely participate for the benefit of their own musical advancement.
A slow, and therefore expensive way of music making.
Please help us to reach our goal in support of a deep love for music.
Become part of the production, even if you’re not able to come to our performances in person! Find out how you can support by participating in our Nozze.
We warmly invite YOU to join our Nozze.
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Spira's strength lies in the musicians' collective belief in joining together, several times each year, to study extensively and perform as a group.
So theoretically all that Spira needs to exist is this self-belief.
Without money Spira would exist anyway: but our project is nevertheless an expensive dream.
We are aware that a workshop dedicated only to intense study and rehearsal is quite a luxury in today's musical world: but we would like to have the means to grant this luxury to the largest number of musicians sharing our own vision.
That is why Spira is an expensive project and why we welcome any kind of external support, whether financial or simply practical. There are different ways to support us: providing hospitality, rehearsal facilities, cooking for us or helping us with our travelling.
Above all we welcome donation, however large or small.
Best of all, come to see us at work in Formigine. Join us in our rehearsals and, we hope, be inspired by the Spira experience! It is through your generosity that we are able to thrive.
The association "Amici della Spira mirabilis" (Friends of Spira mirabilis) was set up with the aim of co-ordinating all these different kinds of help.
* L’associazione di Promozione Sociale Spira mirabilis ha beneficiato del ‘Contributo a sostegno di progetti di Promozione culturale’ della Regione Emilia Romagna pari a 28.000,00 euro per il progetto ‘Spira mirabilis 2018’ . Riferimento (art. 5, L.R 37/94 e succ. mod.) anno 2018 contributo di cui alla determina n. 15514 del 27/09/2018.
