“Debuttare nella Sala Verdi del Conservatorio di Milano è per l’Orchestra Bottesini un’emozione speciale,” said Enrico Fagone, conductor of the Orchestra Bottesini.
The Orchestra Bottesini will make its Milan debut on Sunday, November 15, at 6 p.m. in the Sala Verdi of the Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano for a charity concert supporting Doctors with Africa CUAMM. The Rotary Club Milano Est is organizing the event, with backing from the Risa Group and Banca Patrimoni Sella & C., to raise funds for medical work in Ethiopia.
The concert brings together cultural performance and humanitarian aid to back CUAMM, Italy’s first recognized health NGO founded in 1950. Giuseppe Romaniello, president of the Rotary Club Milano Est, said that the project connects different skills to generate community value.
“Questa iniziativa rappresenta pienamente lo spirito del Rotary e del Milano Est: mettere in relazione persone, competenze e realtà diverse per realizzare progetti capaci di generare valore per la comunità,” Romaniello told ilnuovotorrazzo.it.
Francesco Daniel Donati, director of the Associazione Bottesini, expressed enthusiasm for the collaboration. Luca Maddeo, president of the Associazione Musicale Giovanni Bottesini, and honorary president Riccardo Chini also highlighted how the partnership utilizes music as a shared tool for community service. Conductor Fagone added that Giovanni Bottesini studied in Milan, giving the orchestra’s return a strong symbolic weight.
The musical program opens with Giovanni Bottesini’s overture from Il diavolo della notte. Pianist Alessandro Marangoni will then perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467. The evening concludes with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, op.
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Admission requires a minimum donation of 25 euros. Attendees can secure their seats by making a bank transfer to the Rotary Club Milano Est using the IBAN IT97J0538701618000047442573, including the participant’s full name in the transaction memo.
Proceeds from the concert will fund the rehabilitation and expansion of the hospital in Nekemte, located in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. Ongoing insecurity has displaced roughly 150,000 people to the area, straining local health infrastructure.
“I bisogni che ci interpellano sono tanti, come tanto grande è quell’Africa che amiamo,” said Dante Carraro, director of Medici con l’Africa CUAMM.
Carraro pointed out that the facility handled 4,000 births last year amid severe congestion, unsanitary conditions, and damaged infrastructure. The project aims to rebuild the hospital structures and invest in the training of young medical students from the nearby faculty.
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