One of the poshest events in the Venetian musical panorama: the New Year’s Concert at the Fenice Theatre. Conducting the resident orchestra and choir is Fabio Lusi, flanked by soprano Eleonora Buratto and tenor Fabio Sartori. The programme features, as is always the case, two sections The first is strictly orchestral: Brahm’s Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73. The second is all about opera, a melange of arias and choirs from the most famous melodramas, ending with Va, pensiero from the Nabucco and Libiam ne’ lieti calici from the Traviata. Since this year is the seventieth anniversary of Italian TV broadcasts, an added programme of TV musical themes is added. About the symphony: Brahms composed it quite quickly in the summer of 1877, during a merry family vacation in southern Austria, and finished in Baden-Baden, Germany, where Brahms was visiting Clara Schumann for her birthday. The work premiered on December 30, 1877, in Vienna, to meet instant, well-deserved success.
The concert, scheduled for four performances on Friday, December 29, 2023, at 8 PM, Saturday, December 30, 2023, at 5 PM, Sunday, December 31, 2023, at 4 PM, and Monday, January 1, 2024, at 11.15 AM, will be broadcast in its entirety on Rai Radio3 on Monday, January 1, 2024, at 8.30 PM, and on Rai5 on Thursday, February 8, 2024.
