Wiener Symphoniker to guest star in spring 2025 in Trieste

(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 24 MAG - The Wiener Symphoniker will be Trieste's "guest star" in spring 2025. In collaboration with the Teatro Stabile del Friuli Venezia Giulia, the orchestra will play three concerts from April 10 to 13, conducted by maestro Petr Popelka.
    This collaboration between cultural entities that cross borders was explained Thursday during a press conference at the Rossetti Theater. "It enriches the artistic offer," "attracts quality tourism," and "pays homage to the ideals that inspire the appointment of Nova Gorica-Gorizia as European Capital of Culture." The festival "Spring from Vienna. The Wiener Symphoniker in Trieste" includes a three-concert program; the final event will be filmed and broadcast on Austrian television Orf. It starts with a "prelude" on April 10, with "musical surprises" in the city, and then continues on the 11th with a concert featuring pieces by Verdi and from Wagner's Walküre. The next day, the orchestra will perform Mozart's Symphony 38 in D Major KV 504 Prague and Gustav Mahler's Symphony 4 in G Major. On April 13, the program will offer the operetta repertoire with A Night in Venice by Johann Strauss son, from which some waltzes and polka will also be heard, before moving on to Josef Strauss, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, and Schimdt.
    "The Politeama Rossetti," said President Francesco Granbassi, "was the first theater where the Wiener Symphoniker performed outside Austria." it was April 4, 1902, and Trieste was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. "120 years later, the bond is strengthened, and I hope this is the beginning of a path we can take together." "We want to unite the best of two cultures," underlined Wiener Symphoniker Superintendent Jas Nast, "as musical ambassadors of the city of Vienna, with the new festival, we want to revitalize and interpret in a modern way the common history of the two cities of Vienna and Trieste and the great cultural heritage of the entire Alpine-Danubian-Adriatic region.
    Music as a bridge from yesterday to today and across borders." (ANSA).