Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Roma (Ticketing information to be announced)

The Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia was the first in Italy to dedicate itself exclusively to the symphonic repertoire, promoting premieres of 20th-century masterpieces, including Fontane di Roma and Pini di Roma by Ottorino Respighi.  Since 1908, the Orchestra has collaborated with some of the greatest musicians of the century and has been conducted by figures such as Mahler, Debussy, R. Strauss, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Hindemith, Toscanini and more.  Its chief conductors have included Bernardino Molinari, Franco Ferrara, Fernando Previtali, Igor Markevitch, Thomas Schippers, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Daniele Gatti, Myung-Whun Chung and Sir Antonio Pappano (2005-2023).  Since 2024, the British conductor Daniel Harding has become Music Director of the Orchestra.  From 1983-1990, Leonard Bernstein was the Honorary President.

The Orchestra has performed at major festivals such as the BBC Proms in London, the Lucerne Festival, the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg and the Salzburg Festival, as well as in prestigious concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonie, Semperoper Dresden, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg , the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Royal Albert Hall in London, Salle Pleyel in Paris and more.  In March 2024, the Orchestra and Choir were resident guests at the Salzburg Easter Festival.

In recent years, the Orchestra’s extensive recording activities have garnered prestigious international awards.  Among the recordings, Puccini’s Turandot  with Sondra Radvanovsky and Jonas Kaufmann, has won the International Creative Media Award for “Best Opera.”  The Orchestra has also released a box set of 27 CDs, compiling the sacred and symphonic repertoire recorded under the baton of Pappano in the eighteen years.

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Daniel Harding is the Music and Artistic Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.  He was Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris from 2016 – 2019 and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 2007 – 2017.  He is honoured with the lifetime title of Conductor Laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has worked for over 20 years.  Since 2024, he has become Music Director of the Youth Music Culture, The Greater Bay Area for a five-year term; and also Music Director of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

He is a regular visitor to the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouworkest, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Staatskapelle Dresden , London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and more.

In 2005, he opened the season at La Scala, Milan, conducting a new production of Idomeneo.  He has also conducted Salome, Il Prigioniero, Cavalleria Rusticana, Falstaff and Le nozze di Figaro and Pagliacci, for which he was awarded the prestigious Premio della Critica Musicale ‘Franco Abbiati’.  He has conducted Ariadne auf Naxos and Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; The Turn of the Screw and Wozzeck at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.  He has also conducted new productions of Così fan tutte, La Traviata, Eugene Onegin and more with the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

His recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Mahler Symphony No. 10 with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Bavarian Radio Symphony both received widespread critical acclaim.  He has also recorded Billy Budd with the London Symphony Orchestra, which has won Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.

In 2002, Harding was awarded the title Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and in 2017 nominated to the position Officier Arts et Lettres.  Beyond being a conductor, he is also a qualified airline pilot.

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Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Roma (Ticketing information to be announced)

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20.11.2025 (Thu) - 21.11.2025 (Fri)
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Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

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20.11.2025 (Thu) - 21.11.2025 (Fri)
20:00

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Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

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Ticketing information to be announced.

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