Teatro Manzoni, Bologna Martijn Dendievel / Josef Špaček — Respighi, Mozart
Bologna, Auditorium Manzoni — Main Hall
About the Event
An orchestra of great tradition, Sergiu Celibidache, ZoltánPeskó, Vladimir Delman, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Michele Mariotti have taken turns at its helm as music directors. Among the conductors who have led the ensemble are Gary Bertini, Myung‐Whun Chung, James Conlon, Pinchas Steinberg, Valery Gergiev, Eliau Inbal, Vladimir Jurowskij, Daniel Oren, Peter Maag, Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Mstislav Rostropovič, Esa Pekka Salonen, Georg Solti, Christian Thielemann, Charles Dutoit, Georges Prêtre. The Teatro Comunale Orchestra is frequently invited abroad (Holland, Romania, Spain, France and Switzerland) and has participated in prestigious festivals (Amsterdam 1987, Parma 1990, Wiesbaden 1994, Santander 2004 and 2008, Aix en Provence 2005, Savonlinna 2006, Macau 2013, Muscat 2015, Guanajuato in Mexico 2017, Paris 2018). A privileged relationship with Japan has resulted in several tours, most recently in June 2019 in Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama, Fukuoka, with Rigoletto and Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Ottorino Respighi
Gregorian concerto for violin and orchestra, P 135
Composed in the summer of 1921 and considered by Respighi himself to be one of his best works, the Concerto is inspired by Gregorian themes, real, verisimilar or simply imagined. It is the most luminous testimony to the Bolognese composer’s interest in early music, of which he was a tireless devotee, not with a nostalgic attitude, but with a sincere conviction that the past could live on even in the forms of the present.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C major , K 551 “Jupiter”
Cited by Woody Allen in the film “Manhattan” as “one of the things worth living for,” Symphony No. 41, the last of those composed by Mozart, is a triumph of form and content: never in an eighteenth‐century orchestral work had we gone so far in expanding the symphonic texture, combining a sunny, Olympian majesty (hence the name “Jupiter” affixed by the London impresario Johann Peter Salomon) with a contrapuntal subtlety capable of the highest expressive value.
Practical Information
You must print out the order confirmation and show it at the box office to collect your regular ticket, starting one hour before the start of the concert, at the Teatro Manzoni, Via De' Monari 1/2.
Cast / Production
Orchestra del Teatro comunale di Bologna
Martijn Dendievel, conductor
Josef Špaček, violin
Address
Auditorium Manzoni, Via de'Monari 1/2, Bologna, Italy — Google Maps
