TRIESTE – The second edition of the “Trieste Festival – The Lighthouse of Music” was presented – conceived and organized by the Trieste Concert Society, with the co-organization of the Municipality of Trieste, the collaboration of the G. Verdi opera house foundation of Trieste, of the stable theater of Friuli Venezia Giulia Il Rossetti, of the Tartini conservatory of Trieste, of the 55-Casa della Musica music school and of the Friuli Venezia Giulia maritime directorate – port authority of Trieste, and thanks to the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, of the main sponsor Generali with the “Valore Cultura” project – which from 7 to 18 September, with a preview on 5 September in Piazza dell’Unità, will transform Trieste into a stage with world-famous artists to tell and experience the city through the emotion of music and, new this year, also dance. The Festival – explained the artistic director, Marco Seco – reflects the approach with which we build all the projects of the Concert Society. We want the public to be able to live an immersive experience, in which they can choose their own path through the performances of the great soloists on the international scene with programs ranging from the Renaissance to today’s music, in symphony and chamber concerts, dance shows, meetings in-depth courses or workshops to bring children and their families to have their first musical experiences. All this in one of the most beautiful and culturally rich cities in Italy which offers us the opportunity to listen to concerts in castles, parks or cafés, places full of history that distinguish it or on the sea with which it has a historical and of beauty”.
The 2024 program
In fact, this year the Festival doubles its offer with twenty-nine events that will truly involve every corner of the city, touching over twenty different locations including a floating platform positioned in the sea in front of the Scala Reale in Piazza dell’Unità d’Italia on which , in a free event, the cellist Giovanni Sollima will perform, at 8pm on September 14th, with a surprise program dedicated to Bach and his compositions, waiting to be discovered. Preview on September 5th, at 6.30pm, with the opening of the Festival Music Center, a space that will be created specifically for this edition and positioned in Piazza dell’Unità until September 18th, with a concert by an ensemble of the LaFil Orchestra of Milan which will propose music by Mozart, Vivaldi and Piazzolla for the occasion. Four symphonic events will be held at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste together with names of great international appeal such as the pianist Alexander Melnikov who, on 7 September, will play with LaFil of Milan directed by Marco Seco, music by Mozart, of which Alexander is considered among the most authoritative performers, Andreas Ottensamer, first clarinet of the Berlin Philharmonic who will perform on 9 September for the first time in Italy together with the LaFil orchestra of Milan as director, and again Giovanni Sollima, here in the double role of director and soloist, who will conduct and play on September 15th together with the Orchestra of the G. Verdi lyric theater foundation of Trieste. To close the festival, on September 18th, Nikolai Lugansky will arrive on the piano together with the Orchestra of the G. Verdi Lyric Theater Foundation of Trieste conducted by Han-Na Chang – cellist who at just eleven years old won the first prize at the “V Rostropovič International Cello Competition” in Paris – today called to conduct the best orchestras in the world.
The “Festival in the city”
This year too, the Trieste Festival offers the “Festival in Città” section which this time is split into two days: on the first Sunday, 8 September starting from 11am, the event will be dedicated to the squares and parks of the city with the participation in concert of the local bands who will parade and invade the streets of the center simultaneously starting from Piazza Ponterosso, Piazza Cavana, Molo Audace with a final concert in Piazza Verdi. In the afternoon, a performance by I Piccoli di Podrecca will be held in two different venues accompanied by some musicians from the LaFil Orchestra of Milan, in Piazza Verdi at 4pm and in Piazza Hortis at 6pm, interspersed with a concert at the port authority of Trieste at 5pm. Closing with two events in the park of the Sartorio civic museum: the first with Matteo Firmi who will conduct the Civic Wind Orchestra City of Trieste with a program of music by Nino Rota composed for “The Godfather”, a film that many know to be was also filmed in Trieste fifty years ago, at 6.30 pm, the second with the Eos Quartet on music by Šhostacóvič and Mozart, at 8.30 pm. Wednesday 11 September again for the “Festival in Città” from 5pm we will find concerts in the private homes of Trieste in the tradition of Hausmusik and in some of the most significant places of city life such as the auditorium of the regional RAI headquarters, the city council hall (also in live streaming), the Tartini conservatory which will be connected to Vilnius and Vienna through the Lola project to form a single jazz band and the ancient San Marco café; it is a review created in collaboration with the Tartini conservatory of Trieste.
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