The Mito/September Music Festival prepares for Revolutions
Milan and Turin unite in the name of great music
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Two cities intertwine in a single, important proposal that develops in four thematic perimeters to reflect on both the music of the past and that of the present, with symphonic concerts, chamber music, performances for children and young people, and multidisciplinary proposals. Sixty-seven appointments, a programme spanning epochs and genres with many classics and premieres. In Turin and Milan from 3 to 18 September 2025 you will be able to share immense music from Vivaldi and Bach to, Berio, Saunders and Moussa, from the Western sacred choral tradition to Eastern musical traditions, from times of peace and war to migratory phenomena. It will be the Filarmonica della Scala conducted by Myung- Whun Chung to open the programme in the Piedmontese capital, while it is the London Symphony Orchestra with Antonio Pappano to kick off the Milanese calendar. The festival is now in its nineteenth edition, the last under the artistic direction of composer Giorgio Battistelli. There are four musical declinations that will allow the audience to build their own personal journey..
Šostakovič and Berio
Two artists, two anniversaries. The first section with "Mitja e gli altri" celebrates the 50th anniversary of Dmitrij Šostakovič's death; on the programme are his symphonies, the complete quartets, various chamber music pieces and a series of concerts by his contemporaries from the Soviet area and beyond, such as Weinberg, Kancheli and Silvestrov. One hundred years ago Luciano Berio was born in Imperia. On the programme are some of his pieces, two first performances commissioned from Marcello Filotei and Salvatore Frega, and alongside his music those of John Cage and Julis Eastman. 1 'Concordia' by Samy Moussa to the oratorio 'Juditha triumphans' by Vivaldi to the secular mass 'The Armed Man' by Karl Jenkins, via Nielsen's Symphony No. 4 and the return of choral concerts. In the "Listening with the eyes" area, multisensory experiences, concerts in new spaces and installations in which music, image, word and movement mix: Riccardo Nova's The Book of Women with the Ictus Ensemble and the voices of Irini Ensemble, Hauch #2 with Ensemble Modern and CocoonDance Company, Telmo Pievani and Gianni Maroccolo's Nomadic project on biodiversity.
From the centre to the suburbs
Great orchestras and great performers will animate this edition of MiTo and the two cities. Among them will be the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester with Michael Sanderling, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Holst Sinfonietta conducted by Klaus Simon, the Sinfonica di Milano and I Pomeriggi Musicali, the Filarmonica and Orchestra del Regio di Torino, important chamber ensembles, and prominent Italian artists such as Costanza Principe, Davide Cabassi, Michele Marco Rossi, Alessandro Bonato, Alessandro Cadario, Tito Ceccherini, and Manuel Zurria. young performers and young audiences with cycles of concerts entrusted to students from local conservatories and masterclasses, the fable Una vita in musica: Amadé and Nannerl, a journey of discovery of classical music through the lives of the two Mozart brothers, and Falstaff: puppets and jokes based on the opera by Giuseppe Verdi, an AsLiCo - Opera Kids production. Dedicated to Julius Eastman, an emblematic figure of the American avant-garde, is Without Blood There Is No Cause - The body of Julius Eastman, a performance of music, video and words by director Fabio Cherstich with musical dramaturgy by Oscar Pizzo and videos by Francesco Sileo.
