Notice is hereby given that the concert on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023 conducted by Riccardo Chailly and featuring violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian will be held at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi at 9 p.m., due to the strike called by the stage workers of Teatro alla Scala. The evening's program remains unchanged.
Tickets, season tickets and passes purchased, remain valid. The stage staff will reposition the audience according to their sector on the evening of the concert.

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Riccardo Chailly takes the podium in the first of two concerts in the new cycle with a program entirely dedicated to Sergei Prokof'ev. The first and last Symphonies are juxtaposed with the Violin Concerto in D major, performed by Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, a violinist whom Filarmonica's audience have already enjoyed in recent seasons. To write Symphony No. 1 in 1917, the year of the October Revolution, Prokofiev had retreated to the countryside, leaving the piano in Petersburg, with the intention of achieving a "purer" orchestral timbre. The First is the original creation of a modern artist proceeding along roads traveled by a dazzling new generation. To the same period and tonality belongs the Violin Concerto, a trace of his lyrical soul. Soon after, in 1918, Prokof'ev repaired to America and then to Europe, only to return to Russia in 1936 and be forced to deal with Stalin's regime: along with that of Šostakovič, Prokof'ev's name was at the top of the list of those accused of "formalistic deviations and anti-democratic tendencies."

Tickets on sale from Friday, December 30, 2022 at 2 p.m.

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