For an indisposition, M° Daniele Gatti has to renounce performing his concert that was to be held on Friday 11 December.
Tickets may be changed or refund in the ticket office of the Opera di Firnze from Saturday 12 December to Saturday 19 December (opening hours: tue-sat 10 am-1pm)
The heroic story of Egmont, the protagonist of the tragedy of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who sacrifices his own life to defend the freedom of Flanders from Spanish rule, could not be indifferent to Ludwig van Beethoven. It is with enthusiasm that he accepted the invitation to wrote the scene music for a revival of the drama in Wien, from which comes the energetic Ouverture that opens this evening. Also from Goethe comes the two poems of Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, while the Elegischer Gesang, perhaps on a text by Ignaz Franz Castelli, is dedicated to the wife of his friend Johann Pasqualati, died at twenty-four. The evening ends with the romantic intertwining of music and nature of Symphony no. 6 , "more an expression of feeling than painting" as the composer himself warns.
