Program with a British setting for Michele Spotti, a director who, on the threshold of thirty years of age, is establishing himself in Europe as a point of reference for the 19th century operatic repertoire. Together with the Irish tenor Robin Tritschler and Andrea Cesari (who replaces Martin Owen at the last moment unable to perform due to health problems) he presents the Serenata op.31 by Benjamin Britten, a 1943 composition that meditates on nature and the night by looping English verses of different eras. Britten also offers Lachrymae , soloist Stefano Zanobini, principal violist of the ORT: a tribute to a great composer of the Elizabethan era, John Dowland. In the other two pieces directed by Spotti, Great Britain appears instead observed by musicians from the continent. InHebrides Mendelssohn depicts his astonishment in front of Fingal's Cave (on the Isle of Staffa, in the Scottish archipelago of the Hebrides, in fact); The pendulum clock , on the other hand, is one of the twelve symphonies that Haydn composed, at the height of his fame, on the occasion of his two trips to London.
