Conducting the OSI for the first time in this setting will be Maestro Jader Bignamini, music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and a prominent guest at major theaters around the world. The program features music by Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann.
Now in its fifth year, the event confirms its status as a highly symbolic moment for the city and for Ticino audiences, combining music and industrial architecture in a one-of-a-kind experience.
The program opens with Franz Schubert's Overture in C major in the Italian style, which highlights Gioachino Rossini's intense Italianizing influence on Viennese composers of the time, driven by the enormous success of his heroic melodrama Tancredi and his dramma giocoso L'Italiana in Algeri.
Maestro Bignamini will then conduct the OSI in the Variations for Orchestra, Op. 56a by Johannes Brahms, based on a theme from Haydn's Chorale St. Antonius, itself a quotation from an ancient Austrian processional chant. The Variations are considered a sort of "dress rehearsal" for the Hamburg genius in the symphonic field before he embarked, three years later, on his First Symphony.
The concert closes with the extraordinary Third Symphony, known as the Rhenish Symphony, by Robert Schumann, himself an early supporter of the young Brahms, having recognized Brahms's powerful propensity for symphonic writing already at the age of twenty. In his Rhenish Symphony, Schumann achieves a Romantic glorification of a historical epic, in the myth of the great German and European river.
Ticket Sale
Advance ticket sales will be available from 29.10.2025 at 12:00 at the Bellinzona e Valli Turismo InfoPoint.
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- Event Category Music
- Public holidays Christmas