Today, 30 March, maestro Gergiev will be conducting the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala at the illustrious theatre in Milan, the ensemble’s home stage. The concert programme includes the introductions to Acts I and III of Richard Wagner’s opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Johannes Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto with Yefim Bronfman as the soloist and Alexander Scriabin’s Le Poème de l’extase.
Valery Gergiev regularly appears with the fabled Italian orchestra which has much in common with the Mariinsky Orchestra – both ensembles “emerged” from theatre orchestras. Developing on a new level thanks to their performances of symphony music, they began to appear in their own right in concerts and are currently among the most frequently touring orchestras in the world. In November 2010 the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala awarded maestro Gergiev the title of Honorary Orchestra Member.
2–4 April will see the Russian maestro and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra present a series of programmes in The Netherlands under the common title of A Musical Firework with Valery Gergiev and Leonidas Kavakos. The internationally acclaimed Greek musician, who regularly collaborates with maestro Gergiev, will perform the solo in Dmitry Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (2 April) and the De Doelen concert hall in Rotterdam (4 April). The symphony music part of the tour features masterpieces by Wagner including highlights from the operas Parsifal, Götterdämmerung and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Moreover, on 3 April in Amsterdam Valery Gergiev will run an open conducting master-class with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Dutch audiences will thus have the unique opportunity to hear not just the dazzling result but also the painstaking working process to achieve an ideal sound with a full symphony orchestra.
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