A tribute to Sicily with the Symphony The Sicilian Vespers of Giuseppe Verdi opened the concert event that Riccardo Muti opened last night, on the podium of the Cherubini orchestra, he directed in front of the Temple of Concordia, one of the most iconic monuments of the Valley of the Temples of Agrigento Italian capital of culture 2025.
Sold out in the audience for the concert, concluded with over five minutes of applause, of the youth orchestra founded in 2004 by Maestro Muti and made up of musicians under 30 years of age, a great ensemble of young talents who gave birth to an extraordinary evening among the music of Verdi, Beethoven, Mendelssohn. After the symphony with which the concert was opened two other very popular scores and loved by the public: the so-called Italian by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (fourth symphony in La Maggiore Op. 90) said so because the German composer conceived it on his tour along the peninsula accomplished in 1830. And to follow a great classic of musical history: the fifth symphony in Do Minore. Ludwig van Beethoven in 1808, the symphony of the “fate that knocks on the door”. Inserted in the Agrigento Italian capital program of culture 2025, the evening, says the director of the Archaeological Park of Agrigento, Roberto Sciaratta, “is not only a concert, but a declaration of love for culture, a tribute to Agrigento and a gift to the community that believes in the strength of beauty”.