Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

La traviata in Paris is a film-opera of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata filmed live on television and worldwide, directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, conceived and produced by Andrea Andermann in 2000. A Traviata that takes place live, with a television reporter who, amid the events of the day that took place in France on June 3, 2000, connects live to the scene of the action but at the time exactly a century earlier, in the Paris of June 3, 1900 (the setting of the opera is thus postdated from the original, which was conceived for the 1850s).

From the “Arturo Toscanini” Auditorium in Turin, to celebrate the centenary of Luciano Berio’s birth, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and its principal guest conductor Robert Treviño present “Folk Songs” for voice and orchestra, performed by mezzo-soprano Justina Gringytė. The second half of the evening features Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43: one of the Russian composer’s most emblematic and experimental works.

From the Upper Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, maestro Ennio Morricone conducts the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, with the choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the participation of Massimo Ranieri.

From the Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, Oscar-winning composer Nicola Piovani takes centre stage in his dual role as conductor and composer, alongside the RAI National Symphony Orchestra. The programme features soundtracks from films by the Taviani brothers, Roberto Benigni and Federico Fellini.

From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Giuseppe Mengoli, performs Arvo Pärt’s *Fratres*, Antonio Vivaldi’s *Stabat Mater* (featuring countertenor Carlo Vistoli), and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92.

From the Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, performs a selection of music from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s two-act ballet "The Nutcracker", Op. 71. Actors Mario Acampa and Elisa Lombardi enhance the performance, bringing the magical atmosphere of Christmas to life.

Uto Ughi recounts the life and artistic career of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, performing several of his pieces: Concerto in D major, Op. 35, for violin and orchestra, with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra; and “Meditation,” with Marco Grisanti on piano.

From the Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Juraj Valchua and featuring pianist Alexander Malofeev, performs works by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff.

From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin: Johann Sebastian Bach – Anton Webern: Fugue (Ricercata) for 6 voices from *The Musical Offering* BWV 1079 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto in A major K. 622 for clarinet and orchestra – Aaron Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra – Igor Stravinsky. Conductor: John Axelrod.

From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov, with Seong-Jin Cho on piano, performs works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36.

From the RAI Auditorium in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, soprano Giuliana Gianfaldoni and mezzo-soprano Cecilia Molinari, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, perform Pergolesi’s *Stabat Mater dolorosa* and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (Pastoral).

From the Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by D. Kitaenkoosn, performs works by Rachmaninov and Ravel.

The Italian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kristjan Järvi performs Rachmaninov, Symphonic Dances for Orchestra op.45.D

From the Rai ‘Arturo Toscanini’ Auditorium comes the debut concert of Franco-German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt with the Rai Orchestra, performing the Jewish rhapsody for cello and orchestra *Schelomo*, one of Ernest Bloch’s best-known works. Tomáš Netopil takes to the podium and, to open the programme, presents the Rai premiere in Turin of the Overture from the third act of the opera Bouře (The Tempest), written in 1895 by the composer Zdeněk Fibich and based on Shakespeare’s play. The evening concludes with Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, composed in 1889 in Prague and known as the ‘English’ Symphony.

The RAI National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pascal Rophé and featuring Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier on piano, performs: Veress, "Hommage à Paul Klee", a fantasia for two pianos and string orchestra; and Ravel, "Concerto for the Left Hand" for piano and orchestra.

From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the young conductor Michele Gamba leads the Rai National Symphony Orchestra for Rai NuovaMusica. The program features two major orchestral works by German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Photoptosis, in its Italian premiere, and Stille und Umkehr. The concert continues with the Italian premiere of Enno Poppe’s Schnur for violin and orchestra, performed by violinist Francesco D’Orazio, and concludes with Iannis Xenakis’s Jonchaies for large orchestra.

From the Rai Auditorium in Turin, the history of symphonic music told by the great quick-change artist Arturo Brachetti. Music by the Rai Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta.

The Rai National Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Lloyd-Jones performs: Charpentier, Te Deum in D major for soloists, choir, and orchestra, and J.S. Bach, Magnificat in D major for soloists, choir, and orchestra.

The Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Juraj Valcuha, with Gloria Campaner at the piano, performs: Rachmaninov, Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18 for piano and orchestra.

From the Auditorium Rai Arturo Toscanini in Turin, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, conducted by John Axelrod and featuring the voices of The Swingles, performs music by Luciano Berio, Sinfonia for eight voices and orchestra, and Leonard Bernstein, Divertimento for orchestra and Fancy Free, suite for orchestra.