The Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted on this occasion by Oleg Caetani, returns to the stage of the Apollon auditorium (at 8 p.m.) at the Acropolis Palace for a truly exceptional program.
Indeed, it will be an opportunity to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Gounod—who has a street in our city where he came in 1885 to hear his Faust at the Opera—by discovering, with the Piano Pedal Concerto, an instrument now forgotten but which captivated important composers at the end of the 19th century, such as Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, and Camille Saint-Saëns. On this occasion, Roberto Prosseda will have the daunting privilege of running his fingers over the keyboard.
In the second part of this concert, we will hear the monumental masterpiece of the Russian repertoire, Symphony No. 7, known as Leningrad, which Dmitri Shostakovich began composing while the city, now renamed Saint Petersburg, was besieged by the German army. A siege of nearly three years heroically endured by the Red Army and the population that remained.
