For the second time, the Wiener Symphoniker will travel to the seaside city of Trieste over Palm Weekend, from March 27 to 29, bringing a musical breeze to the port city with their festival Primavera da Vienna. The program draws on blossoming tonal colors and southern cantilenas, blending Viennese sound culture with a Mediterranean atmosphere and ushering in spring beneath the blue canopy of the Politeama Rossetti.

The opening of Primavera da Vienna is shaped by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Symphony No. 4. Chief Conductor Petr Popelka leads the symphony, which ignites a true springtime firework from the fragrant sounds of strings and woodwinds. With violinist Renaud Capuçon and Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto, the violin also joins the spring dance, letting delicately shimmering lyrical passages as well as virtuosic chords embedded in the orchestral texture shine forth. Ludwig van Beethoven’s richly colorful Symphony No. 7 brings the play of sound and color of the first concert evening to a close.

Saturday is entirely devoted to Giacomo Puccini and Franz Lehár, as silvery, shimmering operetta meets passionate verismo. Highlights of the evening include excerpts from the operas Tosca, La Bohème, Manon Lescaut, and Madama Butterfly. Vocally, the arias and duets are performed by soprano Krassimira Stoyanova and tenor Francesco Meli. The Wiener Symphoniker also turn to the symphonic repertoire of the two composers; with Lehár’s Ball Sirens and Puccini’s Preludio Sinfonico, thunderous applause is guaranteed.

On the final evening, three of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most famous piano concertos - C major KV 467, A major KV 488, and B-flat major KV 595 - take center stage with Rudolf Buchbinder, supported by the pianist’s long-standing and close partnership with the orchestra. This triple piano-concerto program concludes the second edition of Primavera da Vienna as a musical spring greeting of exceptional radiance, one that will resonate for a long time to come.

Concert tickets can be purchased through the website of the Wiener Symphoniker, at the Wiener Konzerthaus ticket office, or via the Vivaticket platform.