Stagione 26 Concerto per Milano | Chailly [Sumino] - Piazza Duomo - 13 giugno 2026

For the thirteenth edition, Filarmonica della Scala's Concerto per Milano returns with something new: Piazza Duomo is transformed into a large audience under the stars with 5000 seats available to the public free of charge upon reservation, the stage moves in front of the Cathedral, which becomes the suggestive scenography of the evening. As usual, Principal Conductor Riccardo Chailly conducts the Filarmonica. The occasion marks the debut of japanese pianist Hayato Sumino aka Cateen, as the 2.2 million followers on his social platforms know him: at just thirty years old, he is already a world star as well as an ambassador for a new approach to music.

In the program the great music of the twentieth century tells a story: from the Russian opera Aleko by the young Sergej Rachmaninov to the American musical with symphonic dances from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, distant sound worlds follow a single expressive arc. At the center is George Gershwin's Concerto in F Major for piano and orchestra, a masterpiece that combines symphonic language and jazz, alongside the curious music that Dmitry Shostakovich wrote for the animated film Story of the priest and his worker Balda, based on a fable by Pushkin.

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Sergei Rachmaninov

Selection of dances from the opera Aleko

Intro

Women's Dance

Interlude

Men's Dance

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Dmitry Shostakovich

Suite from Story of the priest and his worker Balda

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George Gershwin

Concerto in F major for piano and orchestra

Allegro

Adagio. Walking with a motorbike

Allegro agitato

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Leonard Bernstein

Symphonic dances from West Side Story

Prologue

Rumble

Free admission, reservation required for seats online only

It will be possible to attend the concert even without a reservation, standing on the sides of the audience.

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