KAOS | PRESTINI | MARIOTTI

Milano / Sunday 13 September 2026

Conservatorio “G. Verdi” di Milano / at 08:00 PM

Paola Prestini (c) Erin Baiano - Michele Mariotti (c) Victor Santiago

KAOS is a 2026 MITO commission: composer Paola Prestini draws inspiration from three of Pirandello's short stories – La giara, Mal di luna, Requiem – for an orchestral triptych on Sicily's conflicts and superstitions. Britten responds with the Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes: four marine snapshots – dawn, Sunday morning, moonlight, storm – in which the atmosphere is a cast of the inner torments of the human soul. Mendelssohn closes with the Italian Symphony, written on the return from the 1830 journey that had struck him: from the funeral march to the tarantella, and a first movement that celebrates, without reservations, light.

Paola Prestini KAOS per orchestra Commissione di MITO SettembreMusica
Prima esecuzione assoluta Benjamin Britten Four Sea Interludes da “Peter Grimes” op. 33a Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Sinfonia n. 4 in la maggiore op. 90 "Italiana"

Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

Michele Mariotti, conductor