Daniel Harding conducts the New Year's Concert 2014-2015 of La Fenice Theatre of Venice.
Daniel Harding will direct the 12th edition of the
New Year's Concert of the Theatre la Fenice, as he did in 2010-2011.
The dates of the concert will be three:
-Tuesday 30 December 2014 at 5pm
-Wednesday 31 at 4pm
-Thursday 1 January 2015 at 11:15 am live on the Italian Tv channel Rai1.
The first part of the concert will, as usual, only be played by the orchestra. The second part, which will also see the participation of soloists and chorus, will be devoted to opera and will end, as is the tradition of
New Year's Concerts of the Theatre la Fenice, with the chorus
"Va' Pensiero" from Nabucco and the toast
" Libiam ne 'lieti calici " from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi.
The tickets for the event are already on sale, with a price range between 30 and 300 euros at the Hellovenezia ticketoffices and at the
Theatre la Fenice, at all branches of Banca Popolare di Vicenza, through telephone ticketing (041 2424), on-line ticketing (www.teatrolafenice.it).
DANIEL HARDING
Born in Oxford, he started his career as assistant of Sir Simon Rattle at the City
of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 1994. It is principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, which is why he works regularly with orchestras such as the Dresden Staatskapelle,Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Koninklijk Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Rundfunk, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra della Scala. In 2005, he opened the season at La Scala in Milan with Idomeneo, followed in 2011 by Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, for which he won the Premio Abbiati from the Italian critics, and in 2013 by Falstaff. He also directed Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic and The Flying Dutchman at the Staatsoper in Berlin and Vienna. Regularly collaborating with the Festival of Aix-en-Provence where he conducted new productions of Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Turn of the Screw, La Traviata, Eugene Onegin and The Marriage of Figaro.
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