Antonio Pappano and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia have unveiled their programme for the 2016/17 season. Following up on the last season, the orchestra will focus i.a. on Beethoven, opening their season with Fidelio (along with Accademia di Santa Cecilia’s Chorus), and later presenting also his Piano Concertos no.3, 4 and 5 (featuring Evgeni Bozhanov, Radu Lupu, and Yefim Bronfman, respectively), as well as his Symphonies no. 3 and 7, Egmont, and Choral Phantasy. Among other pieces of the more classical part of the programme, the orchestra offers Schubert’s Symphony no. 9, Bruckner’s Symphony no. 7, Bach’s St. John’s Passion, Mahler’s Symphony no. 2., Dvořák’s Symphony no. 9, and Händel’s Messiah.

True to their tradition of encouraging new composers, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia will again premiere several new pieces. Two new commissions will be presented in the forthcoming season; Pasquale Corrado’s composition for orchestra and choir and Richard Dubugnon’s Caprice Romain op. 72 no. 3. Furthermore, Peter Eötvös will conduct the Italian premiere of his opera Senza Sangue, making way for his next new work co-commissioned by Academia di Santa Cecilia which will premiere in the following season.

The orchestra prides in collaboration with the world’s foremost conductors and soloist. In 2016/17, apart from the abovementioned, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia will welcome conductors Ton Koopman, David Afkham, Gergiev, Andres Orozco Estrada, Daniele Gatti, Paavo Järvi, Jakub Hrůša, and Myung-Whun Chung, to name just a few. The list of soloists, beginning with the star line-up of Simon O’Neil, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Günther Groissböck, Amanda Forsythe, Sebastian Holecek, Maximilian Schmitt, and Julian Kim in Fidelio, includes also Martin Helmchen, Simone Rubino, Leonidas Kavakos, Seon-Jin Cho, Bertrand Chamayou, and Katia and Marielle Labeque who will perform Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos K. 365.

To read more about Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and to see their detailed programme, please visit http://www.santacecilia.it/en/abbonamenti.

Ester Lavoie Fialová

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