Trieste – The second edition of the “Trieste Festival – The Lighthouse of Music” was presented at the Caffè Sacher Trieste, conceived and organized by the Società dei Concerti Trieste, from 7 to 18 September, with a preview on 5 September in Piazza dell’Unità of Italy, will transform Trieste, a crossroads of people and cultures, with its wonderful theatres, buildings, squares and landscapes unique in the world, into a stage with world-famous artists and incomparable events to tell and experience the city through the emotion of music and, new this year, also dance.
«The Festival – explains the Artistic Director, M° Marco Seco – reflects the approach with which we build all the projects of the Società dei Concerti: it is a melting pot of stimuli, sounds and emotions. 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 performances, 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 proposed by Maestro Marco Seco is full-bodied, heterogeneous and captivating. 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 Piazza dell’Unità d’Italia (Scala Reale) on which, in a free event, the cellist Maestro Giovanni Sollima will perform with a surprise programme, dedicated to Bach and his compositions (14 September, 8pm).
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 d’Italia until September 18th, with a concert by an ensemble of the LaFil Orchestra of Milan which will perform 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 will play with LaFil of Milan directed by Maestro Marco Seco, music by Mozart, of which Alexander is considered among the performers most authoritative (7 September, 8.30 pm), Andreas Ottensamer, first clarinet of the Berlin Philharmonic who will perform for the first time in Italy together with the LaFil orchestra of Milan as director (9 September, 8.30 pm), and again Giovanni Sollima , here in the double role of director and soloist, who will conduct and play together with the Orchestra of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico G. Verdi of Trieste (15 September, 7.30 pm). At the end of the Festival, the immense Nikolai Lugansky will arrive on the piano together with the Orchestra of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico G. Verdi 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 (18 September, 7.30 pm).
To embellish the Festival, a special itinerary, hosted in some of the most fascinating places in Trieste and dedicated to the dances of all periods and of various styles that represented different peoples and cultures (from the Renaissance period to Flamenco) entitled “Danze e Contraddanze” . The main show is dedicated to Chopin and is created by the Società dei Concerti Trieste in co-production with Orsolina28 Art Foundation, an absolute premiere with the choreographer Andrea Bolognino and Gabriele Strata on the piano, which will be held at the Politeama Il Rossetti Theater in Trieste (10 September, 8.30pm). Three other appointments will follow: the Sonoro Quartet together with the dancer Giacomo Calabrese in the Sala del Ridotto “Victor de Sabata” at the Teatro Lirico G. Verdi (13 September, 8.30 pm), then, in duo, the lutenist Rolf Lislevand with Paola Erdas at harpsichord in the Auditorium of the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste (16 September, 8.30 pm) and finally the pianist Axel Trolese in dialogue with the dancer Marta Roverato in a program dedicated to Flamenco in the Sala Luttazzi of Magazzino 26 in Porto Vecchio (17 September, 8.30pm).
Another important event will be the concert which celebrates two important anniversaries, namely the 100 years since the death of Puccini and 150 years since the birth of Schönberg, composers to whom the program of the Goldberg Quartet is entirely dedicated together with Simone Gramaglia, viola of the Cremona Quartet and Kyril Zlotnikov, cello of the Jerusalem Quartet at Miramare Castle (12 September, 8.30 pm).
All these concerts, including those at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, an hour and a half before the performances, include a meeting with the artists and the Artistic Director of the Concert Society, to introduce the listening.
The Trieste Festival also offers the “Festival in the City” section this year which this time is split into two days: on the first Sunday 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 will invade the streets of the center at the same time starting from Piazza Ponterosso, Piazza Cavana, Molo Audace with a final concert in Piazza Verdi (8 September, starting at 11.00).
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 4.00 pm and in Piazza Hortis at 6.00 pm, interspersed with a concert at the Direzione Marittima FVG – Port Authority of Trieste, 5.00 pm.
Closing with two appointments, the first with Matteo Firmi who will conduct the Civica di Fiati Orchestra Città di Trieste with a program of music by Nino Rota composed for “The Godfather”, a film that many know was also filmed in Trieste fifty years ago, and in the Park of the Sartorio Civic Museum, at 6.30 pm, with the Eos Quartet on music by Šhostacóvič and Mozart, at 8.30 pm.
Wednesday 11 September again for the “Festival in Città” from 5.00 pm 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 for the FVG, the City Council Hall (also in live streaming), the G. Tartini Conservatory which will be connected to Vilnius and Vienna through the Lola project to form a single Jazz Band and the Antico Caffè San Marco; a review created in collaboration with the G. Tartini Conservatory of Trieste.
Also in this edition there will be a workshop for families and children at the Casa della Musica together with Vincenzo Stera, two shows which, in addition to live music, involve art and acting for children of all ages.
«The “Trieste Festival – The Lighthouse of Music”, the artistic proposal conceived and promoted by the Society of Concerts of Trieste in the wake of its more than ninety-year tradition of excellence in the musical offering of the City, reaches its second edition – declared the President of the SdC Trieste, lawyer. Piero Lugnani – in the wake of the enormous success achieved last year, expanding the time span and the number of his performances which range across the universe of symphonic and chamber music, this year with particular attention also to the theme of Dance.
With the co-organization of the Municipality of Trieste, the collaboration of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico G. Verdi of Trieste, of the Teatro Stabile del Friuli Venezia Giulia Il Rossetti, of the G. Tartini Conservatory of Trieste, of the School of Music 55-Casa della Musica and of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Maritime Directorate – Port Authority of Trieste, and thanks to the contribution of the Ministry of Culture – Special Projects FNSV 2024, of the main sponsor Generali with the Valore Cultura project, of private sponsors and Artbonus patrons who continue to strongly believe in the project and to whom our heartfelt thanks go, Trieste “very musical city” will rekindle its Lighthouse of Music in September to project itself with the role it deserves due to history, culture and tradition in an international dimension on a par with the cities that host the most renowned festivals of music in the world.»
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Information on ticketing, purchase and reductions is indicated in detail, for each concert, on the festival website https://www.societadeiconcerti.it/fest24
The Trieste Festival-Il Faro della Musica with its September appointments anticipates the musical offering of the Società dei Concerti, i.e. its concert season which this year will reach 93 editions.
The Trieste Festival is organized by the Società dei Concerti in co-organization with the Municipality of Trieste, the collaboration of the G. Verdi Lirico Theater Foundation of Trieste, of the Teatro Stabile del Friuli Venezia Giulia Il Rossetti, of the G. Tartini Conservatory of Trieste, of the School of Music 55-Casa della Musica and of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Maritime Directorate – Port Authority of Trieste, and thanks to the contribution of the Ministry of Culture – Special Projects FNSV 2024, of the main sponsor Generali Italia Spa, of private sponsors and patrons Artbonus.
