2024 SYMPHONIC SEASON OF THE TEATRO LIRICO GIUSEPPE VERDI OF TRIESTE
September 27 to December 22, 2024
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1st CONCERT
Friday 27 September 2024 at 7.30 p.m.
Conductor HANS GRAF
Violin SERGEJ KRYLOV
PROGRAMME
ÉDOUARD LALO
Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra in D min., op. 21
MODEST PETROVIČ MUSORGSKIJ
Tableaux d’une exposition orchestrated by Maurice Ravel
Orchestra by Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi Trieste Foundation
Following the successful capsule in collaboration with the Trieste Concert Society as part of the “Il Faro della Musica” festival, the actual symphonic season kicks off on Friday 27 September. The event is especially enhanced by the presence of the great violin soloist Sergej Krylov, who, after opening the season at the Verdi in Trieste, will also open the symphonic season of the Teatro Alla Scala at the end of November. Spectators will find the theatre stalls renovated, with four rows of seats right under the stage – already on sale these days.
With the expertise of Austrian conductor Hans Graf, a former pupil of Celibidache and Jansons as well as music director of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, on Friday 27 September we will get to the heart of the symphonic season, with an interesting and original concert, dedicated to the rediscovery and recreation of European 19th century educated folk music revival with the rare Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra by Édouard-Victor-Antoine Lalo and Mussorgsky’s Tableaux d’une exposition orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. On the stage, now closer to the audience thanks to the addition of four restored rows, we will have the excellent Russian virtuoso Sergej Krylov, who will open the Trieste season two months before the Scala season.
Thanks to the Symphonie espagnole, a violin concerto in five movements written for Pablo de Sarasate (coeval with Bizet’s Carmen), and the Tableaux d’une exposition in Ravel’s powerful 1922 orchestration, with its plethora of unprecedented instrumental choices in the percussion section, the 27 September concert highlights the excellence of the Verdi Orchestra, the authentic heir to the musical tradition that make Trieste one of the capitals of European music. Superintendent Julian Polo: “A truly sparkling opening for our orchestra and audience, which again this year responded well to the subscription campaign for the symphonic season, while the one for the opera and ballet season is still underway. Among the many novelties this year, enhancing our offer to the audience, is – first and foremost – the restoration of the first rows of the stalls, for an increasingly close and intimate relationship between the auditorium and the stage, an almost chamber-like proximity that is hardly ever found in opera houses and that we believe will provide a unique experience. This is something that theatre enthusiasts will not want to miss, but also a welcome surprise for theatre neophytes, because of the empathy that proximity to the stage can convey to those who are not familiar with the sound impact of the orchestra. To those who know our theatre well, we really recommend not to miss this experience”- the under-stage rows were added with the theatre’s restoration completed in 1997 but haven’t been in use since the end of the pandemic emergency-.
The Subscription Campaign for the 2024 Symphonic Season runs through Friday, 27 September.
Tickets from € 35.00 to € 11.00
New stalls rows A-B-C-D, tickets € 31.50
People under 34 – all areas, tickets € 11.00
Trieste, September 25, 2024