The new Season

Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio
Filarmonica ’900 del Teatro Regio

Teatro Regio, 31 October  2009 - 24 May 2010

The Concerts of the Regio will begin again on 31 October. Despite the crisis, the 2009-2010 Symphony Season of the Teatro Regio and the Filarmonica ’900 is keeping its pledge to the public, scheduling nine concerts with programmes that include many genres of the contemporary and classical musical universe. Two of these appointments will see the Regio’s Music Director, Gianandrea Noseda, as protagonist, while making their happy return will be artists of the calibre of Gian Maria Testa, Mario Brunello and Ezio Bosso who will present, as a world premier, his latest work dedicated to “migrants”. Alternating on the podium of the Filarmonica ’900 will be such international conductors as Yutaka Sado and Henrik Schaefer, in concert with pianista Barry Douglas, while Regio orchestra members Sergej Galaktionov and Silvio Gasparella will be personally engaged on the podium.

As we have become happily accustomed over the last few years, this edition will also be inaugurated, on Saturday 31 October at 8.30 pm, under the energetic baton of maestro Gianandrea Noseda. The concert, centred on music from early twentieth-century Vienna, will open with two works by Arnold Schönberg: the first work will feature the Chorus of the Regio, directed by maestro Roberto Gabbiani, engaged in the magnificent and rarely performed Friede auf Erden for a cappella chorus, followed by A Survivor from Warsaw, the short and tragic cantata to remember the horrors of the Holocaust; concluding the evening is the sardonic and dreamy, intimate and grandiose Fifth Symphony by Gustav Mahler.

The concert on Monday 30 November at 8.30 pm will be dedicated to great film scores, with Silvio Gasparella who for the occasion will part with his violin to conduct the Filarmonica ’900 del Regio and lead us through the evocative power of some of John Williams’ most important works, written for Star Wars, Harry Potter and Schindler’s List, and Hans Zimmer’s The Gladiator. 

On stage on Monday 21 December at 8.30 pm will be Gian Maria Testa, one of the most distinctive voices among Italian songwriter-singers, also highly acclaimed abroad. Having already appeared on other occasions at the Teatro Regio, the chansonnier will present a stimulating programme in two parts. In the first part, relying only on his own warm voice and his evocative guitar, he will interpret some of his most beautiful songs and the new single from his album Solo dal vivo; the second part will see the participation of Nicola Negrini on bass and Piero Ponzo, Testa’s original clarinettist who on this occasion will also let himself be lured by the exotic sounds of the saxophone and Indian harmonium. 

By now a tradition, there will be the double appointment for the end of the year. Wednesday 30 December at 8.30 pm and Thursday  31 December at 5.30 pm the famous Firebird, the masterpiece of the young Igor Stravinsky’s “Russian” period, will be performed in its complete version. Conducting the Orchestra del Teatro Regio will again be maestro Gianandrea Noseda, undisputed interpreter of this repertoire.

The young Henrik Schaefer, one of the most refined and rigorous conductors of his generation, former assist to Claudio Abbado with the Berlin Philharmonic and now a popular guest conductor of major orchestras and theatres all over the world, will be featured together with the award-winning pianist Barry Douglas and the Filarmonica ’900 del Teatro Regio in the concert on Monday 1 February; on the programme the impervious Concerto n. 3 in d minor for piano and orchestra op. 30 by Sergei Rachmaninov, the work which, after the success of the  film Shine, is by now universally known as “Rach 3”, and the Symphony no. 3 in c minor by Sergei Prokofiev.

Again the Filarmonica ’900, which on Monday 1 March will perform a concert ranging from Escales by Jacques Ibert to  Four Sea Interludes by  Britten and the suite from Pelléas et Mélisande by Fauré, concluding with the famous Boléro by Ravel. On the podium will be Yutaka Sado, an impassioned conductor led by an exceptional sense of form and an acute rendering of sound detail, gifts that were polished with such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Gennadij Roždestvenskij, Charles Dutoit and Seiji Ozawa. The concert is realised with the support of the Fondazione CRT.

On Monday 22 March at 8.30 pm Mario Brunello, a great cellist and innovative populariser, but above all a musician in the round, will bring to the stage his show of music, words, video and electronics, Pensavo fosse Bach, created together with Saul Beretta, with stage direction by Francesco Frongia and the video participation of Vinicio Capossela (already protagonist in collaboration with Brunello in the highly successful Fuggite, amanti, Amor).

Thursday 22 April at 8.30 pm the concertmaster of the Regio Serguei Galaktionov will reveal to us the secrets of the strings of the Orchestra del Teatro Regio, performing, with his precious 1748 Giorgio Serafino violin, Apollon Musagète by Igor Stravinsky and the famous Serenade for Strings in C Major by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The last appointment of this edition of the Concerts of the Regio, Monday 24 May, will see the long-awaited return of one of the most important up-and-coming composers, Ezio Bosso, who will present, as a world premier, his latest work, dedicated to “migrants”. Known to the general public for the sound track of Gabriele Salvatores’ film Io non ho paura (transformed into a beautiful show performed at the Regio in 2003), Bosso will be on the podium of the Filarmonica ’900 to conduct his Symphony no. 1 “Oceans” with soloist Relja Lukic, first cellist of the Regio.

The 2009-10 Concerts have received again this year the fundamental contribution of UniCredit Group, title sponsor of the Filarmonica ’900 since its founding, and of  Unicredit Private Banking. They also make use of the collaboration of La Stampa.
Season tickets are on sale at the box office of the Teatro Regio in piazza Castello 215 - Tel. 011.8815.241/242. The season ticket for the nine concerts costs € 150 (Reduced € 120 for over 65s and those organisations having a special arrangement with the Regio; € 100 for season ticket holders of the Regio; € 50 for under 30s). Single tickets on sale(also on line at www.vivaticket.it and www.ticket.it) cost € 25 (Reductions: € 20 for over 65s, those  organisations having a special arrangement with the Regio and season ticket holders for the Regio; € 8 for under 30s). The Concerts are part of the Al Regio in famiglia programme that provides free admission for young people up to 16 years of age if accompanied by an adult (with a reduced ticket of 20%). For all concerts 30 tickets are guaranteed available one hour before the concert at a price of € 15.
Further information can be obtained at our site www.teatroregio.torino.it and www.filarmonica900.it.

Torino, 12 October 2009

Paola Giunti
Head of the Press Office
Teatro Regio Torino