From France to the atmospheres of Broadway musicals. The second appointment of the Concerti del Lingotto<\/em><\/strong> Series<\/strong>, dedicated to the early 20th century French and American music scene, will take place on Tuesday, November 12th<\/strong> at 8:30 PM at the Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium. The charismatic Italian-British conductor Sir Antonio Pappano<\/strong> will lead the Chamber Orchestra of Europe<\/strong>, a forty-year-old ensemble among the most appreciated in the world, bringing together musicians from all over Europe. A long-awaited return for Pappano and the COE, who, absent from the season since 2018, return to Lingotto in the penultimate Italian stop of a European tour that will also touch France and Germany. Protagonists of an effervescent evening in the shadow of New York skyscrapers, celebrating the influence of jazz on classical music, they will perform Milhaud\u2019s ballet La cr\u00e9ation du monde<\/em> and Bernstein\u2019s Fancy Free<\/em>, alongside Gershwin\u2019s Variations on \u201cI Got Rhythm.\u201d <\/em>The highlight of the program is Saint-Sa\u00ebns\u2019 Piano Concerto No. 2, entrusted to the luminous pianism of Bertrand Chamayou<\/strong>, a five-time winner of the French \u201cVictoires de la Musique\u201d award and already a guest at Lingotto Musica in 2016.<\/p>\n Sought after by the world\u2019s major theaters and concert halls and boasting a formidable career, Sir Antonio Pappano<\/strong> is Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra<\/strong> and was Music Director of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden from 2002 to 2024. He is also Conductor Emeritus of the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia<\/strong>, where he was Music Director from 2005 to 2023. Among the most sought-after opera conductors, he has collaborated with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Vienna and Berlin State Operas, the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and La Scala in Milan. His award-winning discography (Classic BRIT, ECHO Klassik, BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone Awards) includes collaborations with the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia, the London Symphony and the Berliner Philharmoniker, as well as with the ensembles of the Royal Opera House and the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Royal de la Monnaie, ranging from Pergolesi and Mendelssohn to the avant-garde of Panufnik, Boesmans and Maxwell Davies. His awards include: \u201cArtist of the Year\u201d for Gramophone magazine (2000), Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera (2003), Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award (2004), Bruno Walter Prize from the Acad\u00e9mie du Disque Lyrique in Paris.<\/p>\n Since 2016, Pappano has maintained a close relationship with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe<\/strong>, founded in 1981 by a group of young musicians who met in the European Community Youth Orchestra (now EUYO). Claudio Abbado was an important mentor in the early years of the ensemble<\/strong>: he led the COE in works such as Rossini\u2019s Il viaggio a Reims<\/em> and Il barbiere di Siviglia<\/em> or Mozart\u2019s Le nozze di Figaro<\/em> and Don Giovanni<\/em> and conducted various concerts, especially of works by Schubert and Brahms. Nikolaus Harnoncourt also had a great influence on the development of the COE<\/strong> thanks to his interpretations of all of Beethoven\u2019s Symphonies and opera productions at the Salzburg, Vienna and Styriarte Festivals. Currently, the ensemble is pursuing intense collaborations with Sir Andr\u00e1s Schiff and Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, both honorary members in the wake of Bernard Haitink and Harnoncourt. The COE is also a frequent guest at the Berlin, Cologne, Luxembourg and Paris Philharmonics, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Alte Oper Frankfurt. Since 2022, it has been the Orchestra in residence at the Esterh\u00e1zy Palace in Eisenstadt and, with over 250 recordings, has received numerous awards, including two Grammys and three Gramophone Awards.<\/p>\n The evening opens with the sparkling ballet La cr\u00e9ation du monde<\/em>, Op. 81a<\/strong> composed by Darius Milhaud<\/strong> in 1922 after visiting New York and being captivated by the jazz and spirituals of African Americans in Harlem. First performed by the Swedish Ballet of Rolf de Mar\u00e9 at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in 1923, it is a product of the fertile collaboration between the artists of the Parisian avant-garde during those unique and exuberant years: the subject, based on the creation of the world as narrated in an African legend, is in fact due to the pen of Blaise Cendrars while Fernand L\u00e9ger painted the scenes for the premiere.<\/p>\nThe return of the Italian-British conductor Sir Antonio Pappano and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe after six years<\/h3>\n
A Frenchman in New York: Milhaud\u2019s ballet La cr\u00e9ation du monde<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n