The traditional New Year's Concert at La Fenice in Venice returns in attendance and with 100 percent capacity

Back and highly anticipated is the traditional New Year’s Concert at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, which again this year will be televised live on Rai1. The event is already sold out and is open with100 percent capacity for 1,000 spectators. Conducting the nineteenth edition will be Fabio Luisi, who will lead the Teatro La Fenice Orchestra and Chorus, the latter prepared by Alfonso Caiani, and two great soloists, soprano Pretty Yende and tenor Brian Jagde.

The musical program will consist of two parts: an exclusively orchestral first with a performance of Symphony No. 9 in E minor Op. 95 From the New World by Antonín DvoÅ™ák, and a second part dedicated to melodrama, with a roundup of arias and choral passages from the most beloved opera repertoire that will conclude with the Va pensiero from Nabucco and the toast Libiam ne’ lieti calici from Giuseppe Verdi’s Traviata. This second part of the program will be televised live on Rai1 at 12:20 p.m. on New Year’s Day and will then be shown again on Rai5 at 6:15 p.m. The concert, scheduled for three repeats on Thursday, December 30, 2021 at 5 p.m., Friday, December 31, 2021 at 4 p.m., and Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 11:15 a.m., will be broadcast in full on Rai Radio3 on Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 8 p.m. and on Rai5 on Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:15 p.m. The event is co-produced with Rai Cultura and in collaboration with Regione del Veneto, Arte and wdr; with the participation of Cipriani and Zafferano. Main partner Intesa Sanpaolo.

In the live television broadcast on Rai1, the music of the New Year’s Concert will be interspersed with some dancing moments, with choreography by Diego Tortelli interpreted by the dancers of Aterballetto, directed for television by Fabrizio Guttuso Alaimo and recorded in different locations in the lagoon, such as the Borges labyrinth of the Giorgio Cini Foundation on the Island of San Giorgio, at the installations of Achim Menges and Tumo at the Biennale and at Palazzo Grassi.

The traditional New Year's Concert at La Fenice in Venice returns in attendance and with 100 percent capacity

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