On April 25, 2024, a special event awaits residents of Tashkent - for the first time in Uzbekistan, the musicAeterna orchestra will perform on the stage of the Palace of International Forums “Uzbekistan” under the direction of the famous conductor Teodor Currentzis. The orchestra's new symphony program will be dedicated to the image of Italy in the works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The head of musicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis, was born and raised in Greece, and received his musical education from the legendary professor of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory, Ilya Musin. At one time he was the chief conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, artistic director of the Opera and Ballet Theater and the Diaghilev Festival in Perm. There he founded the musicAeterna orchestra and choir in 2012. In 2019, Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna moved to St. Petersburg, and the House of Radio became their creative residence. As a stage director, Currentzis collaborates with the world's leading directors (Robert Wilson, Romeo Castellucci, Peter Sellars, Dmitry Chernyakov, Theodoros Terzopoulos and others) and the largest opera houses in Europe and Russia. While heading the Perm Opera, he premiered works by key contemporary composers - Dmitry Kurlyandsky, Sergei Nevsky, Alexey Syumak. Together with musicAeterna and other orchestras, Teodor Currentzis regularly tours the world, performing at venues such as the Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin, Elb, Munich and Paris Philharmonic, as well as other major halls around the world and Russia. Teodor Currentzis is a nine-time winner of the Russian theater award "Golden Mask", winner of the KAIROS award, Commander of the Order of the Phoenix and Knight of the Order of Friendship. At the Palace of International Forums “Uzbekistan” musicAeterna will play “Italian” works by Tchaikovsky, which he wrote under the impression of a trip to Rome and its environs. Memories from the “eternal city” and the Roman carnival resulted in “Italian Capriccio” - a brilliant orchestral piece for which the composer himself predicted a great future. This work in the concert program logically coexists with an orchestral fantasy based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. When writing another play, Tchaikovsky was inspired by another classical plot, gleaned from Dante's Divine Comedy: Francesca da Rimini was conceived as an opera, but turned into a programmatic orchestral work. Turning to the Italian literary canons, Tchaikovsky isolates in them what constitutes the core of the romantic myth about Italy. In his music, this country appears not only as a real territory on the world map, but also as a space of fantasy and free feelings, where neither centuries-old human enmity nor the forces of hell have power over true love. The concert is organized by the Foundation for the Development of Culture and Art of Uzbekistan and is part of a program aimed at introducing the country's residents to the world musical heritage, as well as supporting creative performers of Uzbekistan.