music
Gioachino Rossini Symphony from Barbiere di Siviglia
Miklós Rózsa The Jungle Book

with Bustric

 

conductor Marcello Bufalini

The Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi and Bustric offer a fascinating trip to India, with the adventures of Mowgli and his friends. A distant and mysterious land that we will visit, reminding us of  a beautiful animated cartoon by Walt Disney, The Jungle Book, inspired by a book which tells the story of Mowgli, a boy hero of many adventures told by the English writer Joseph Rudyard Kipling.
Music has often looked into this novel, which has had several film versions. Miklós Rózsa, in particular, composed the  music for Walt Disney´s The Jungle Book in 1942.

Bustric puts this music on stage as narrator and interpreter at the same time and tells the story wearing an Indian traveller’s clothes, with turban and gold shoes, travelling with his beautiful bike.
India seems like a fairy tale country, made of coloured maps and plastic flowers, the characters and situations are represented with tricks big and small, unexpected and original. It is a show of transformation, pure fun, an exercise in style. The tricks and costumes are by Bustric himself, becoming a part of the story which continues with lightness and irony.
Clown-like in some parts  and cartoon-like in others, this show tells the adventures of Mowgli, the little man cub, who will never become a "noble savage" because in the jungle he finds the civilization that man seems to have forgotten.
Mowgli shows us that the performance can be an amazing game.

 

Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan
In the last few years, the Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan, established in 1993 by Vladimir Delman, has become one of the most important symphony orchestras in Italy, with a repertoire that ranges from Bach to the main composers of nineteenth and twentieth century symphonic music. Every year, the Orchestra’s calendar includes over thirty symphonic concerts with a repertoire that finds classics alongside less common composers, as well as other seasonal programs such as the major educational project “Crescendo in Musica” (Growing up in Music) for children.
Riccardo Chailly, today’s Honorary Conductor, was the musical director from 1999 to 2005. Since 2008/2009, Wayne Marshall and Helmuth Rilling have been the Principal Guest Conductors; Maestro Rudolf Barshai, with a long-standing relationship, since the 2006/2007 season has been Emeritus Conductor, a role previously filled by Carlo Maria Giulini until his death. The horn player Radovan Vlatkovic and pianist Simone Pedroni have been resident artists since 2007/2008. For
he 2009/2010 season the Musical Director is the Chinese Xian Zhang, while Ruben Jais will fill the role of Resident Conductor.
The Orchestra’s new home, the Auditorium in Milan, was inaugurated on October 6th 1999, with Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 Resurrection conducted by Riccardo Chailly.
Another distinguishing feature of the Orchestra is the constitution in October 1998, of the Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Choir of Milan, led until his death, by Maestro Romano Gandolfi, a prestigious figure of choral conducting who had worked with the greatest conductors and in the most important Opera Houses all over the world. The Choir currently has 100 elements capable of performing the grand operatic-symphonic repertoires from Baroque to twentieth century.
Several recurring appointments mark the Verdi’s musical journey: the complete cycle of Mahler’s symphonies, the annual appointment with one of Bach’s great Passions at Eastertime, and the New Year’s concert, featuring Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Among others, the Orchestra has been conducted by Riccardo Chailly, Georges Prêtre, Riccardo Muti, Valery Gergiev, Rudolf Barshai, Claus Peter Flor, Christopher Hogwood, Helmuth Rilling, Peter Maag, Marko Letonja, Daniele Gatti, Roberto Abbado, Ivor Bolton, Kazushi Ono, Vladimir Jurowski, Yakov Kreizberg, Ulf Schirme and Eiji Oue. During the season 2005/2006, various artists made their début with the Verdi, Herbert Blomstedt and Krzysztof Penderecki, while in 2006/2007 Leonard Slatkin, Vladimir Fedoseyev and Wayne Marshall. The Orchestra has collaborated with soloists such as Martha Argerich, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vadim Repin, Lynn Harrell, Viktoria Mullova, Han-Na Chang, Sarah Chang, Midori, Alexander Kobrin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Nelson Freire, Salvatore Accardo, Mario Brunello, Alexander Toradze, Hilary Hahn and Radovan Viatkovic.