The symphony returns tonight (8 PM) and tomorrow (4 PM) at the Opera with a concert conducted by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
In 1977, when he was only nineteen years old, Pierre-Laurent Aimard was nevertheless chosen by Pierre Boulez to be the soloist of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, a position he held for nearly two decades.
Since 2009, he has been the artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival in England, and his talent leads him to perform on all the greatest stages in the world, from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to Carnegie Hall in New York, including the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
It is on the stage of the Nice Opera that the audience from the Côte d’Azur will be able to appreciate him, on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October, in the last piano concerto written by Beethoven: the No. 5 in E-flat major, Emperor. Its premiere in Leipzig in 1811 was a triumph for the composer, and the popularity of this work has never waned since then.
Its power and contours will be highlighted by the musicians of the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted on this occasion by Daniel Kawka. A graduate of the École Normale de Musique de Paris and also a musicology agrégé, he has been the principal conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana in Florence since 2011.
In the second part of the program, the audience is offered a journey through time with The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, an essential composition of the 20th century, composed in 1913 for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company.
