The next edition of Concerto per Milano, the big free outdoor event that Filarmonica della Scala dedicates to its city every year: on Thursday, June 8, at 9:30 p.m., thousands of spectators will once again fill the Piazza del Duomo for Italy's best-attended classical music event.
As always on the podium is Riccardo Chailly, Conductor music of the orchestra, who offers a tribute to the great Italian operas, with the exceptional participation of Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez.
The program includes some of the most beloved symphonies and arias in the repertoire, from La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini, Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti, I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini, La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, concluding with "Che gelida manina" from La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini.
from The Cinderella
Symphony
"Yes, find her I swear."
from The Capulets and the Montagues
Overture
"It is preserved to this steel."
from Lucia di Lammermoor
"Tombs of my ancestors"
La Traviata
Prelude Act I
"Far from her."
Symphonic Prelude
from La Bohème
"What a cold little hand."
Principal Conductor of Filarmonica della Scala since 2015 and Musical Director of Teatro alla Scala since 2017, Riccardo Chailly is one of the most relevant conductors of his generation.
Read MoreTenor. Born in Lima, he began singing and playing rock and Peruvian folk music as a child; he later studied at the National Conservatory of Peru and then obtained a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In 1996 he made his debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro as Corradino in Shabran's Matilde. At the age of twenty-three he made his debut ...
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