Riccardo Chailly & Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala De Milán by Tchaikovsky, P. I., Ravel, From (2024/2024), Conductor Riccardo Chailly, Kursaal, Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain

The festival will welcome one of the great figures of conducting, Riccardo Chailly, in what will be his third time at the Fortnight. If in 1997 and 2003, he offered concerts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, this time he arrives in San Sebastian with his current orchestra, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala of Milan. Born as a pit orchestra in the most prestigious opera house in the world, it was Claudio Abbado who in 1982 “took it out” from there and began its symphonic activity. Chailly began his career as assistant to Claudio Abbado at La Scala in Milan; In 1980 he was appointed music director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1980 and in 1988 of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; From 2005 to 2016, he led the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and from 2015 he became music director of the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala in Milan.