Due to a strike, the concert in honor of Giacomo Puccini, which took place on November 29, 2024, on the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death at La Scala in Milan, had to be performed without an orchestra. Instead of the original program Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann and Mariangela Sicilia, accompanied by James Vaughan at the piano, presented highlights from “Manon Lescaut”, “La Bohème”, “Tosca” and “Turandot”, among others. The concert will be shown on ARTE concert on December 29 at 5:10pm and will be available on the media library for some time afterwards.
Vienna State Opera’s ‘Opern Air Concert’ on various channels
On Sunday, 7 September, in Vienna's Burggarten: the Vienna State Opera's ‘Opern Air Concert’, a special event with, among others, Elīna Garanča, Sonya Yoncheva, Jonas Kaufmann, Benjamin Bernheim and Boris Pinkhasanovich, as well as the choir and orchestra of the Vienna State Opera conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Admission is free. Those who cannot attend in person will have the opportunity to watch the concert via live stream at play.wiener-staatsoper.at at 7 p.m. It will also be broadcast on ORF III at 8:15 p.m. Afterwards, it will be available to watch on ORF.ON for three months. From 18 September, the complete concert will be available on arte.tv for around a year. A slightly abridged version will be broadcast on ARTE on 12 October.
