Rimini is ready to host the 67th edition of the music festival Sagra Musicale Malatestiana, one of the oldest and most prestigious Italian music festivals.
The festival once again opens its doors to great music, hosting important international symphony orchestras, conductors and soloists, as well as new projects where original music is intertwined with other arts.
Among the guests: famous artists such as Martha Argerich and Stefano Bollani, internationally renowned orchestras such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mariinsky TheatreOrchestra, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the RAI - National Symphony Orchestra and prestigious directors such as Yannik Nezet-Seguin and Valery Gergiev.
Five are the evenings dedicated to the Symphonic concerts in the beautiful setting of Rimini Palacongressi. On stage the Rotterdam Philarmonic Orchestra on August 30th, the Marinski Theatre Orchestra on September 4th, the MDR SifonieOrchester on September 7th, the Youth Orchestra of Bahia on Semptember 9th and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra on September 13th.
The opening of the symphonic concerts (30th August) is entrusted to the baton of Yannik Nézet-Séguin who conducts the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in the First Symphony by Gustav Mahler. It follows a concert dedicated to Russian music with the conductor Valeri Gergiev who returns in Rimini with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra (4th September) with a rich music program including the famous variations on a Rococo theme by Tchaikovsky which will see the young winner of the Tchaikovsky Prize 2016 as soloist.
The pianist Stefano Bollani will be on stage in the famous Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin (7th September) together with the oldest German radio orchestra, the MDR Sinfonieorchester, conducted by Kristjan Järvi.
Martha Argerich, the legendary pianist, will play with the young musicians of the Youth Orchestra of Bahia, conducted by Ricardo Castro, and with the young pianist, Theodosia Ntokou, in a concert for two pianos by Poulenc, before her performance as soloist with the music by Sergei Prokofiev (9th September).
The symphonic concerts will conclude with RAI Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Stanislav Kochanovsky and Simon Trpčeski on piano in a performance of Russian music, from the symphony by Ščedrin to the Second Concert by Rachmaninov and Shéhérazade by Rimskij-Korsakov (13th September).
To the myth of Orpheus and the origins of opera will be dedicated the new stage production of the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana, thereby marking a new step in the path of research in the Baroque music carried out in recent years (23rd-24th September).
A series of concerts will focus on Jean Philippe Rameau and the influence exerted by the great French composer throughout Europe with a project that will link the music of the eighteenth century to the celebrations for the fortieth anniversary of Fellini's Casanova (26th - 31st October).
The varied program of musical events that will animate Rimini and the surrounding towns proposing renowned soloists and young talents will be concluded by a piano marathon dedicated to Karlheinz Stockhausen, the undisputed master of twentieth-century music (October 1st).
All the Synphonic Concerts are held in Rimini Palacongressi's Auditorium. See the PROGRAMME in details
Tickets sale: Novelli Theatre, via Cappellini 3 - Rimini
Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00 to 14.00, Tuesday and Thursday from 15.30 to 17.30 - tel. +39 0541 793 811 biglietteriateatro@comune.rimini.it
Ticket office at the Auditorium (30 August - 4 - 7 - 9 to 13 September 2016) from 6pm to 8pm
Info: www.sagramusicalemalatestiana.it