Concerto Per Firenze Capitale by Donizetti, Verdi, þri 03 feb 2015, Frá (2015/2015), Hljómsveitarstjóri Giuseppe La Malfa, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence, Italy

A concert to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of Florence as the Capital of Italy. On the evening of February 3, 1865, King Vittorio Emanuele II arrived by train to Florence. The next morning The newspapers write: "The soul of the citizens was divided between the joy [...] and the thought of the causes of this long-awaited and happy, yes, but unexpected event." A few days later will begin "improvement plans" that include the removal of the fourteenth-century walls, the demolition of historic tenements to make way for roads on the Parisian model and the creation of new residential districts.