Europakonzert 2025 from Bari, Italy

01 MAY 2025: The Berliner Philharmoniker & Riccardo Muti with a mixed programme of Italian & German music.

Following the Berliner Philharmoniker's Europakonzert at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in 2009, maestro Riccardo Muti now returns to conduct another edition in his homeland - with a mixed programme of Italian and German music.

With its brick-red façade, a gleaming white entrance area and a magnificent red and gold auditorium, the venue for this year’s Europakonzert, Bari’s Teatro Petruzzelli, is an architectural jewel.

Under the direction of Riccardo Muti, the Berliner Philharmoniker present a mixed programme of Italian and German music. Rossini’s rousing William Tell Overture and the atmospheric ballet music from Verdi’s opera The Sicilian Vespers exude Italianità. Completing the programme, the dusky mixture of yearning and consolation in Brahms’ Second Symphony make the work a seminal example of late German Romanticism.

The programme will be live streamed and broadcasted on Thursday, 1 May 2025, 11:00 am, and is available as follows:
Arte Concert: 1 May, 11:00 am (live)
Medici: 1 May, 11:00 am (live)
Digital Concert Hall Berliner Philharmoniker: 1 May, 11:00 am (live)
Mezzo: 1 May, 9:00 pm
RAI: 1 May 12:00 noon (Rai 5) and 20 May, 3:20 pm (Rai 3)
Arte TV: 1 May, 6:35 pm (Germany) and 1 May 5:09 pm (France)
Czech TV: 1 May, 8:15 pm
ZDF: 11 May, 10:15 am
rbb: 1 May, 11:00 (live) (Radio only)

Genre Orchestral Music
Recording location Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari, Italy
Recording date 1 May 2025
Duration 100'
Video format HD
Production Company EuroArts Music, RAI in co-production with ZDF, Mezzo, Les Films Figures Libres in cooperation with ARTE, Medici.tv
TV Director Henning Kasten
Distribution TV EuroArts Music International
English title of music work Gioacchino Rossini: William Tell: Overture
Original title of music work Giuseppe Verdi: I vespri siciliani: Le Quattro Stagioni, Ballet Music
Orchestra / Band Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor Riccardo Muti
English title of music work Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73