PRESS RELEASEVenice,June 2017
Schubert’s Legacy
2017-2018 Symphony Season
Schubert’s Legacyis the title of the 2017-2018Symphony Season of Fondazione Teatro La Fenice.Offering a programme that includes twelve concerts and nine repeat performances from 3 November 2017 to 8 July 2018, with the collaboration of twelve conductors, La Fenicewants to pay homage to the Austrian composer who lived from 1797 to 1828and whose production influenced generations of musicians and is still a point of reference for composer’s today. The opening, conducted by Donato Renzetti, will be followed by the traditional Christmas concert conducted by Myung-Whun Chung – this year dedicated to Claudio Monteverdi, marking the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth – with Marco Gemmani and the Soloists of the Basilica of Saint Mark; then on the programme are the concerts conducted by Daniele Rustioni, Claudio Marino Moretti and the Choir of Teatro La Fenice, Elio Boncompagni, Yuri Temirkanov, Diego Fasolis, Antonello Manacorda, Francesco Lanzillotta andHenrik Nánási.
With the Orchestra and Choir of Teatro La Fenice conducted by Donato Renzetti, the opening concert was dedicated to the one hundredth anniversary of Porto Marghera, the themes of employment and the birth of civilisation; in addition to the new composition by Fabio Vacchi to some of the most important examples of factory worker poetry, commissioned by La Fenice for this special anniversary, the programme also included«Qual notte!... Ella in poter del barbaro», the Foresto’s aria from the prologued of Giuseppe Verdi’s Attila, an opera that is dedicated to the birth of the city of Venice where it had its première; the orchestration of a great Venetian success from the years of the economic boom Io che non vivo (senza te)by Pino Donaggio, and Antonín Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony From the New World, a symphonic masterpiece composed by the Bohemian in the wake of the fascination of the discovery of the ‘new’ American civilisation.
Whilst on the subject of great symphonic masterpieces, the second date in the programme deserves a particular mention with the Korean maestro Myung-Whun Chung conducting his interpretation of Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Of particular important is also the concert conducted by Antonello Manacorda, with the performance of Wagner’s Siegfried-Idyll, Schubert’s Second Symphony and Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations: in fact, it is dedicated to a great friend of La Fenice who recently passed away, Maestro Sir Jeffrey Tate, with whom this concert had been defined.
An important excursus into the French repertoire will be offered by the Choir of Teatro La Fenice, conducted by Claudio Marino Moretti with the Requiem by Maurice Duruflè, whilst music from the Italian twentieth century will be one of the recurring themes throughout the season, continuing the 2016 season with the performance of works by Italian composers such as Giovanni Salviucci, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – whoseStabat Materwill be played in the evening of Easter Friday- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Ottorino Respighi and Nino Rota.
Once again, this Season includes an extensive section dedicated to today’s music, with the seventh edition of the project “New Music at La Fenice”, completed thanks to the support of Fondazione Amici della Fenice.
Ten concerts will take place at Teatro La Fenice, oneat Teatro Malibran and one, the traditional Christmas concert, in the Basilica of Saint Mark, with a repeat concert in the Duomo in Mestre.
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