A huge rust-colored shell, gray armchairs and warm pear wood. It is the New Lyric Theatre of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, opened tonight with a concert conducted by Zubin Mehta. “I’m very excited. They had been waiting 40 years,” said the maestro Zubin Mehta.
Among the guests Gianni Letta, Giuliano Ferrara, Adriano Sofri, Carla Fracci, Virna Lisi, Vittorio Sgarbi, Massimiliano Fuksas, Fabrizio Palenzona, vice president of Unicredit. “Coming I thought that the architecture of our time produces boxes of shoes – said the art critic Vittorio Sgarbi -. What is important however, is what’s inside the shoe boxes.” ”Beautiful new theater “, said former Secretary of Prime Minister Gianni Letta. For the mayor Matteo Renzi, the inauguration “is a very important point of arrival’ ‘and Francesco Profumo, the Minister of Education, noted that is ”an important signal to the city and culture in general.”
The orchestra and choir made its debut in May of Leonore Overture No. 3 by Beethoven to continue with a ‘novel’, Gegenliebe (”Love reciprocated ‘), commissioned by the Florentine composer May Bussotti. Conclusion and applause with the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven.
But the work for the new theater are not finished. In January, work will resume in the hope that the government allocates 100 million missing. In addition to the great hall, where Maggio performed tonight, there will be a smaller room with 1,100 seats, while the outdoor arena will be capable of holding 2,600 spectators. The work should be completed by the end of 2012.
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