Sir Antonio Pappano returns to Santa Cecilia for Mozart and Bruckner

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Szilvia Vörös, Natalya Romaniw, Pavel Černoch and Giorgi Manoshvili

By Pia Maltri, 02 November 2025

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“Pappano directed his Santa Cecilia forces with confidence and attention to detail”

Reviewed at Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma: Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome on 30 October 2025

Mozart, Symphony no. 41 in C major, "Jupiter”, K551

Bruckner, Mass no. 3 in F minor, WAB 28

Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor

Natalya Romaniw, Soprano

Szilvia Vörös, Mezzo-soprano

Pavel Černoch, Tenor

Giorgi Manoshvili, Bass

Andrea Secchi, Choirmaster / chorus director

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SangKwon Lee, 4th December

Daniel Harding and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia choose proportion over spectacle as their Asian tour reaches Seoul.

****1

Lorenzo Viotti conducts the death and rebirth of Spring in music

Alissa Balocco, 8th February

The Swiss conductor returns to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, presenting a triptych of pieces by Schumann, Debussy and Zemlinsky inspired by the season of renewal.

****1

Bereft blues as the Santa Cecilia and Hrůša play at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 18th May

Lackluster Gershwin undercuts an otherwise impressive outing by Jakub Hrůša and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

****1

Kirill Gerstein: a Mozartian master with the Santa Cecilia

Alissa Balocco, 25th January

The pianist enchants the audience with Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor, conducted by Leonidas Kavakos.

***11

Pappano and Levit take the Santa Cecilia on an incredible journey

Alissa Balocco, 2nd November

Levit offers impeccable Beethoven, while Pappano enchants the Rome audience with Cherubini and Sibelius.

****1

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David Karlin, 3rd July

The French pianist gives a performance of Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto to remember; Tugan Sokhiev and an inconsistent Santa Cecilia thrill in Tchaikovsky.

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Pia Maltri

Pia first fell head over heels for opera when she was a teenager by listening to recordings of some of the great voices of the past: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Mirella Freni, Alfredo Kraus. She holds a degree in Italian Literature and she lives in Rome.

Sir Antonio Pappano returns to the Santa Cecilia for Mozart and Bruckner