The Wiener Symphoniker will be
Trieste's "guest star" in spring 2025. In collaboration with the
Teatro Stabile del Friuli Venezia Giulia, the orchestra will
play three concerts from April 10 to 13, conducted by maestro
Petr Popelka.
This collaboration between cultural entities that cross
borders was explained Thursday during a press conference at the
Rossetti Theater. "It enriches the artistic offer," "attracts
quality tourism," and "pays homage to the ideals that inspire
the appointment of Nova Gorica-Gorizia as European Capital of
Culture."
The festival "Spring from Vienna. The Wiener Symphoniker in
Trieste" includes a three-concert program; the final event will
be filmed and broadcast on Austrian television Orf. It starts
with a "prelude" on April 10, with "musical surprises" in the
city, and then continues on the 11th with a concert featuring
pieces by Verdi and from Wagner's Walküre. The next day, the
orchestra will perform Mozart's Symphony 38 in D Major KV 504
Prague and Gustav Mahler's Symphony 4 in G Major. On April 13,
the program will offer the operetta repertoire with A Night in
Venice by Johann Strauss son, from which some waltzes and polka
will also be heard, before moving on to Josef Strauss, Puccini,
Tchaikovsky, and Schimdt.
"The Politeama Rossetti," said President Francesco Granbassi,
"was the first theater where the Wiener Symphoniker performed
outside Austria." it was April 4, 1902, and Trieste was still
part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. "120 years later, the bond
is strengthened, and I hope this is the beginning of a path we
can take together."
"We want to unite the best of two cultures," underlined
Wiener Symphoniker Superintendent Jas Nast, "as musical
ambassadors of the city of Vienna, with the new festival, we
want to revitalize and interpret in a modern way the common
history of the two cities of Vienna and Trieste and the great
cultural heritage of the entire Alpine-Danubian-Adriatic region.
Music as a bridge from yesterday to today and across borders."
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