Programme
Hector Berlioz – Benvenuto Cellini: Overture
Piotr Tchaikovsky – Francesca da Rimini, op. 32
Guiseppe Verdi – La forza del destino: Overture
Pietro Mascagni – Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
Ottorino Resphigi – Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome)
Sara Stagg (Leader) / Dennis Simons (Conductor)
Join the
North Wiltshire Symphony Orchestra for an Italian-themed summer concert on 17th June with guest conductor Dennis Simons. The entertaining programme includes the greats of Italian music such as Verdi’s overture to
La forza del destino, Resphigi’s
Pines of Rome and Mascagni’s intermezzo to
Cavalleria rusticana as well as Tchaikovsky’s
Francesca da Rimini, the symphonic interpretation of the tragic tale of the beautiful woman who was immortalised in Dante’s
Divine Comedy.