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'West Side Story' returns to the Sistina Theatre

Big jazz reunion in Rome; At La Scala Baricco, Rocca, Solarino; then Wagner's opera 'Siegfried'; followed by the London Symphony Orchestra

2 June 2025

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Rome celebrates twenty years of the Casa del Jazz; for this an exceptional concert, bringing together Bollani, Fresu, Rava, Gatto, Pietropaoli. The musical 'West Side Story' is back on stage (by popular demand) at the Sistina Theatre.

Quite a busy week in Milan. On the 4th at La Scala a War of the Athenians makes us reflect on today. The next day the Concert for Milan in Piazza Duomo, with the Filarmonica della Scala. The following day, the premiere of Wagner's opera 'Siegfried'. And to finish off the week, the London Symphony Orchestra arrives with its conductor Antonio Pappano (already at S. Cecilia for eighteen years).

Stefano Bollani

Rome

To celebrate 20 years of the Casa del Jazz a rather special concert. On 6 and 7 June, the 'Shades of Chet' line-up will come together with Enrico Rava (trumpet and flugelhorn), Paolo Fresu (trumpet and flugelhorn), Stefano Bollani (piano), Enzo Pietropaoli (double bass) and Roberto Gatto (drums). It will be the inauguration of Summertime 2025, the customary summer festival of the Casa del Jazz, managed by the Fondazione Musica per Roma since 2018.

From 6 to 15 at the Sistina Theatre one of the classics of the musical, 'West Side Story', written by the Bernstein-Sondheim-Laurents-Robbins dreamteam. In Italian, a Sistina production.

Other dates: 27 August Catona (RC), Arena Alberto Neri; 30 August Lecce, Cave del Duca; 13 September at the Sferisterio in Macerata; 19 and 20 September at the Teatro Antico in Taormina; 4 October at the Teatro Romano in Verona.

Alessandro Baricco, Stefania Rocca, Valeria Solarino e Giovanni Sollima, Enrico Melozzi e i 100 Cellos.

Milan

On the 4th at La Scala "Thucydides. Athens versus Melo", adapted and directed by Alessandro Baricco, music by Giovanni Sollima; with Baricco, Stefania Rocca, Valeria Solarino and Giovanni Sollima, Enrico Melozzi and the 100 Cellos. Set to Sollima's music is the story of the clash, which took place in 416 B.C., between the Athenians and the inhabitants of the island of Melo. The refusal of the Melii to submit to the ultimatum of surrender and conquest sent by the Athenians resulted in one of the most tragic episodes of the war: the total destruction of the city. A poetic, cutting and highly topical reflection on what Justice and Law are in the face of the relationship between aggressor and aggressed, weak and strong, winner and vanquished.

Concerto per Milano Filarmonica della Scala (Copyright: hanninen)

On the 5th in Piazza Duomo the 12th edition of the Concert for Milan, with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala conducted by Riccardo Chailly. The programme is a cinematic fantasy between the Brazilian rhythms of Milhaud and the best-loved music of John Williams, Nino Rota and John Adams. Free admission; live on Rai 5, Rai Radio 3 and Arte from 9.15 pm.

On 6-9-13-16-21 at La Scala the opera 'Siegfried' by Wagner, the third episode of the great fresco 'The Ring of the Nibelung'. On the podium Simone Young (6-9-13) and Alexander Soddy (16-21). Directed by David McVicar.

On the 8th at La Scala the London Symphony Orchestra with its conductor Antonio Pappano. Other dates on the 9th in Bologna at the Teatro Manzoni, for the Bologna Festival; and on the 10th in Florence for the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.