2025 SYMPHONIC SEASON – TEATRO G. VERDI, TRIESTE
From 11 September to 23 December 2025
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3rd Concert
Monday 22 September 2025 – 7:30 p.m.
Conductor PINCHAS STEINBERG
Soprano ANA MARIA LABIN
Mezzo-soprano DENIZ UZUN
Tenor ANTONINO SIRAGUSA
Baritone GEZIM MYSHKETA
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor for soloists, chorus and orchestra, Op.125
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF THE FONDAZIONE TEATRO LIRICO GIUSEPPE VERDI, TRIESTE
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF THE SLOVENIAN NATIONAL THEATRE, MARIBOR
Born out of a collaboration with PordenoneLegge 2025—which will also host a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Teatro Verdi in Pordenone on 21 September—this project celebrates, through the work’s timeless message of unity and brotherhood, the artistic partnership between the chorus and orchestra of Trieste’s Verdi Theatre and those of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor. With an enlarged ensemble, the performance amplifies and gives voice to the enduring resonance of Beethoven’s vision. At the podium, mastering this boundless sea of sound, is one of the great veterans of our time, Pinchas Steinberg.
In the year when Go! 2025 Nova Gorica – Gorizia celebrates the deep cultural bonds between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Slovenia — lands shaped for centuries by shared history and Habsburg heritage— the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the Teatro Verdi in Pordenone and the Slovene National Theatre Maribor join forces under the banner of one of the most renowned and symbolic works of the classical repertoire, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, in a co-production that will bring to the stage musicians and singers from both territories.
The large bilingual ensemble will be led by one of the most distinguished veterans of the podium, eighty-year-old Pinchas Steinberg, who, after a career on the world’s most prestigious stages, is today Principal Conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra and, most notably, one of the few remaining heirs of the great tradition forged by masters like Heifetz, Gingolt and Blacher.
The cast of soloists is equally distinguished: Romanian-born soprano Ana Maria Labin, today a leading interpreter of the baroque and Mozart repertoire with forays extending into contemporary music; and Turkish-German mezzo-soprano Deniz Uzun, who after Trieste will appear in Madrid, Paris and at Carnegie Hall in New York; the Sicilian tenor Antonino Siragusa, who has already appeared on the stages of La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, among many others, and the acclaimed Albanian baritone Gezim Myshketa.