Maestro Carlo Rizzi Returns to Conduct the Symphony Orchestra of India in its 20th Year
The penultimate concert of the SOI Spring 2026 Season saw the orchestra perform works by Dvořák and Sibelius under the baton of Carlo Rizzi
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 20: After nearly a decade, the renowned Italian conductor Carlo Rizzi returned to the National Centre for the Performing Arts to lead the Symphony Orchestra of India in two notable concerts for the Spring 2026 Season. His first concert opened with Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, a cheerful composition suffused with the spirit of the Bohemian countryside, invoking the composer’s summer home. Dvořák’s imaginative writing for the woodwinds was especially palpable in Rizzi’s interpretation, before giving way to the sweeping drama of Symphony No. 2 by Jean Sibelius, a Finnish composer of the late Romantic period. Know...