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With its brick-red façade, a gleaming white entrance area and a magnificent red and gold auditorium, the venue for this year’s European Concert, Bari’s Teatro Petruzzelli, is an architectural jewel. Under the direction of Riccardo Muti, the Berliner Philharmoniker will present a mixed programme of Italian and German music. Rossini’s rousing William Tell Overture and the atmospheric ballet music from Verdi’s opera The Sicilian Vespers exude Italianità. Completing the programme, the dusky mixture of yearning and consolation in Brahms’ Second Symphony make the work a seminal example of late German Romanticism.
Artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Riccardo Muti conductor
Programme
Gioacchino Rossini
William Tell: Overture
Giuseppe Verdi
I vespri siciliani: Le Quattro Stagioni, Ballet Music
Interval
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 73
Additional information
The Europakonzert is kindly supported by Deutsche Postcode Lotterie.
Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari, Italy