VietNamNet Bridge – The Italian symphony orchestra “I Solisti Veneti” will play a single concert at the Hanoi Opera House on March 21 to celebrate 40 years of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Italy.

The event is being organised by the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in co-ordination with the Performing Arts Organization Centre and the Italian embassy in Vietnam.
“I Solisti Veneti”, currently conducted by Claudio Scimone, was founded in 1959.

Over the past 50 years, it has performed 5,000 concerts in 90 countries and territories around the world and recorded more than 350 albums.

The orchestra has performed in such famous places as La Fenice Theatre in Venice, Italy, and the New York Theater, with well-known classical and drama artists, including Salvatore Accardo, Uto Ughi, Itzhak Perlman, Sergei Nakariakov, and Cecilia Gasdia.

It has also worked with theatre actors and actresses as well as popular singers such as Massimo Ranieri, Ottavia Piccolo, Lucio Dalla and Giovanni Allevi.

Maestro Claudio Scimone and "I Solisti Veneti" received the 2008 "Una vita nella musica" prize at the La Fenice Theatre in Venice, which is considered by international critics as music’s “Nobel Prize.”

Source: VOV