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Can a deck of cards become a company of dancers? The Jolly the eclectic villain of the story? Are the dealer's frenetic movements a choreography? Only Igor Stravinsky could imagine a ballet like Jeu de cartes, an extraordinary test of skill “in three hands” inspired by Poker, among his favorite games and a tribute to the casino world that fascinated him since he was a child. For his return to the Filarmonica podium, Michele Mariotti combines this eccentric Stravinsky of the neoclassical period with Mozart's Symphony No. 40, an essential model for those who wanted to try their hand at this form after him. But before listening to his famous opening, that murmur of violas on which the restless action of violins is stretched, the concert opens with the orchestra transcription of Petite suite: a distillate of Claude Debussy's compositional art in which we can find, hidden, the echoes of Clair de Lune, composed shortly after.
Petite suite, version for orchestra by Henri Büsser
Jeu de cartes. Ballet "in three deals"
Symphony No. 40 in G. min. K 550
Michele Mariotti has been Music Director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma since 2022. Recipient of the 36th Abbiati Prize as Best Conductor, he is a guest at major Italian and international theaters and festivals. Among these are La Scala in Milan, the Opéra de Paris,
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