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Symphony and Opera Season 2024/25 in Bolzano and Trento
Polyphony of thoughts. A new journey of vision and listening
The new Symphony and Opera Season of the Haydn Foundation of Bolzano and Trento is an invitation to find your own listening space, a hymn to plurality and the search for new connections. The program created by the artistic director Giorgio Battistelli embraces with a single gaze the appointments with symphonic music and opera, inviting you to go beyond your usual perimeter of experience with openness and passion. Dantone, Dausgaard and Bonato are the reference sticks.
It opens Tuesday 1st October the 2024/25 Symphony and Opera Season of the Haydn Foundation of Bolzano and Trento: over thirty concerts, an ambitious opera programme, new projects and events open to the community will radiate in the cities of Bolzano and Trento until May 28, 2025.
Paul Gasser, President of the Foundation, welcomes the presentation of a Season that is the fruit of an organic vision, expressed by the artistic direction of Giorgio Battistelli: «As Artistic Director Giorgio Battistelli has been able to build a unique, articulated and polyphonic programme, bringing the experience of the best Italian and international artists and the most original and sophisticated repertoires. The program we present is a confirmation of the constant path of growth in terms of the quality of the cultural proposal of the Foundation and its Orchestra, thanks also to the work of all the directors who accompany it”. A further new element is the presence of a musical director who will support Giorgio Battistelli in the three-year period 2024 – 2026. The choice fell on Ottavio Dantone, already Principal Conductor since 2021. «A very high profile figure who – underlined Gasser – I am sure will be able to express a common musical idea and who will be able to build a sincere relationship of harmony with the artistic life of our Orchestra». The Dane Thomas Dausgaard he will instead hold the position of Principal Conductor, dedicating himself mainly to Nordic and contemporary music; Guest director will be instead Alessandro Bonato, who Giorgio Battistelli defines not only as a young conductor but “an extraordinary conductor in whom the Haydn orchestra has invested” with a view to a collaboration that intends to “expand and develop in the coming years”.
«Today we present a program – he adds Monica Loss, General Director of the Foundation – which is the result of constant research, comparison and analysis, an important team effort that has given life to the heart of our programming. Thanks go to the support of our partners and to all the institutional entities with which we have established virtuous collaborations. We hope that the public will now also appreciate our commitment, following us with interest and enthusiasm in this new adventure.”
The new Symphony and Opera Season, collected in a single program curated by Giorgio Battistelli, is configured as a varied fresco of the symphonic repertoire and melodrama which involves internationally renowned artists alongside new generations of talents. «With this new proposal – he comments Giorgio Battistelli – we have emerged from the most predictable and codified patterns by working on plurality. We created connections within the program, between the various programs of each concert, but also in relation to the activity of the Haydn Orchestra and the geographical space in which it operates. We want to send a strong message to our audience: we are creating an extremely diversified offering that will allow everyone to find their own listening space.”
The opening concert is entrusted to Ottavio Dantoneflanked by Benedict Wolf in the Concerto for piano and orchestra n. 19 in F major, K 459 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. During the Season, the Orchestra and its Musical Director will be committed to giving continuity to the path of in-depth interpretative analysis of the classical period, as well as of the European historical twentieth century, also continuing the exploration of Haydn’s symphonies, with the conclusion of the eleven o’clock cycle So-called “London” symphonies.
This year too, internationally renowned conductors and soloists will follow one another on stage. Driven by Yutaka Sadothe Haydn Orchestra will be the protagonist of a tribute to Luciano Berio, one of the most important Italian composers of the European avant-garde, a pioneer also in the field of electronic music, whose centenary of birth is celebrated this year, with the performance of a new commission entrusted by the Haydn Foundation to the composer from Bolzano Marco Uvietta, combined with two scores by Franz Schubert. One of the highlights of the calendar will be the concert directed by Michele Spotti with the pianist Beatrice Rana, highly anticipated exceptional soloist. There is still room for female talent with Valentina Peleggi who will conduct a program dedicated to Chačaturjan and Tchaikovsky with the violinist Anna Tifu.
Donato Renzetti will be the protagonist of an event that will compare Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony with the depth of writing of Silvia Colasanti, one of the most appreciated composers on the international scene. Diego Waxing returns to the podium in a program that will introduce, for the first time in Italy, the compositional talent of the young French artist Camille Pépin in an unprecedented dialogue with three rarities by Ildebrando Pizzetti. Also awaited is the return of Michele Mariotti which continues its many-year partnership with the Orchestra enriched this year, starting next June, by a collaboration with the Conservatories of Trento and Bolzano with the involvement of students to support the first parts of the Orchestra in performances of prestigious repertoires . The Danish director Thomas Dausgaardwith his “North-East Passage”, will draw bridges with repertoire and contemporary Nordic European music. Alessandro Bonatoa young talent with whom the collaboration will intensify in the coming years, will arrive in the region with a concert dedicated to Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich and with the direction of The Barber of Seville. The special guest of the season will be the Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra of Parma directed by Sesto Quatrini And Carolin Widmann on the violin.
There is also great anticipation for the new opera season curated by Giorgio Battistelli. After nine years dedicated to the work of the 20th and 21st centuries, the journey proposed by the artistic direction will be characterized by an ever-changing play of mirrors between styles, languages and repertoires of different eras. At the end of the Puccini year, the opera program opens with a new staging of Gianni Schicchi with the direction ofValentina Carrascocombined with the composition Pierrot Lunaire of Schönberg, who this year marks the 150th anniversary of his birth. Second appointment on the calendar will be The Barber of Seville with the direction of Fabio Cherstich who with this first production begins his journey with the Haydn Foundation as Artist in residence. Performative, irreverent and provocative: the third title that makes up the Opera Season will be Satyricon by Bruno Maderna directed by Manu Lalli and the direction of Tonino Battista. The billboard will close Julius Caesar by Handel directed by Ottavio Dantone with the direction of Chiara Muti.
Furthermore, there will be numerous special events dedicated to audiences of all ages such as End of Year Concerts And New Year’s and the return of the project Music and Cinema with the Haydn Orchestra which, conducted by Timothy Brockwill perform the soundtrack of The Kid, Charlie Chaplin’s first feature film. It also returns this year Haydn Surrounda series of concerts in which the public will be able to attend by sitting directly on the stage, in the heart of the orchestra: a completely innovative, experimental and open to all way of living a different listening experience.
Supporters
The activity of the Haydn Foundation is supported by the Ministry of Culture and by the founding members and financiers the Trentino Alto-Adige Region, the Autonomous Province of Trento, the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, the Municipality of Bolzano and the Municipality of Trento, with the support of the Sponsors Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse Foundation, Mediocredito Trentino Alto Adige, Alperia, Schenk Italian Winery, Sparkasse GmBh. The Municipal Theater and Auditorium Foundation and the Santa Chiara Cultural Services Center are technical partners. Furthermore, all Season Ticket Holders who contribute to the realization of the Season every year with their subscriptions are Supporters.
Info & Tickets
The season ticket purchase and renewal campaign will start Tuesday 04 June 2024.
Single tickets for the opera will be on sale from 18 June 2024. All benefits for season ticket holders are available on the website www.haydn.it
