The new Neapolitan year begins in the name of Music with the New Year's Concert of the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti at the Teatro Mediterraneo and conducted by Luigi De Filippi.
The always awaited event, this year celebrates its twenty-fifth edition: a new and very varied program, for all tastes and all ages with, alongside NOS, the versatile and amazing voice of Naomi Rivieccio.
It is a tradition for lovers of good music… all of it, to dedicate the first of January and especially the hours preceding the first lunch of the year, to the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, which has been held every year since 1939 on New Year's Eve in the golden hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, with a particular focus on the Austrian composer Strauss and his waltzes. At the Mostra d'Oltremare in Naples, the Neapolitan public had the privilege of attending a show in the wake of the one broadcast worldwide from Vienna, perhaps not as sumptuous as the one mentioned above, with an audience not as high-sounding composed of the international jet-set, but by spectators who, in terms of love, passion and competence for good music, have nothing to envy anyone. The orchestra, composed of approximately 54 high-level instrumentalists led and masterfully conducted by Luigi De Filippi, was able to captivate the large and knowledgeable audience of Naples who proved (as if there was still any need) once again that they have music and rhythm in their blood, clapping their hands in exemplary fashion in time with the music, at the director's urging, even during the Tritsch-Tratsch Polka schnell op 214, the most engaging of Strauss's polkas.
The event ranged from the great American musical on the unforgettable notes of The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers (immortalized in the 1965 film of the same name with Julie Andrews, known in Italy with the title The Sound of Music, an Oscar winner for music and at the top of the charts of the most viewed films of all time) to the classic Vienna of the most brilliant Waltzes and Polkas by J. Strauss; from Verdi to the Neapolitan fable of the Fisherman's Song (in the delicate reworking by Roberto
De Simone), from F. Kreisler to N. De Giosa to Offenbach's Cancan... Also passing through the most aggressive pop: and there was no shortage, as always, of small surprises on stage including the violist who infiltrated the spectators and who, dancing gracefully, joined the orchestra after a little "head-washing" by the director and who subsequently tried her hand at a dance with her lover who was demanding her from the audience.
In this new mix, alongside the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti conducted by Luigi De Filippi, Naomi Rivieccio, the young soprano already known to the NOS audience, who after having brilliantly debuted in opera is also establishing herself in pop music, and was among other things among the protagonists of the final of the 2018 edition of X Factor.
The artist with his crystalline voice and excellent virtuosity ranged for the occasion from Traviata to Mamma Knows Best, an international hit by the young English singer-songwriter Jessie J; from the overwhelming rap of Look At Me Now by Chris Brown ('extrabeat' – very fast) to a no less overwhelming, very modern version of Cicerenella, the real icing on the cake.
(in effect a 'rap' of our popular tradition) attributed to anonymous authors whose origins are lost in the "mists of time" of Neapolitan culture.
Last but not least, the Radetzky March and 'O surdat 'nnammurato to conclude the show in the most engaging and warm way imaginable.
A New Year's Eve that is decidedly all Neapolitan but not only...and absolutely not to be missed.
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