The orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is touring Moscow for the Rostropovich Festival. Pianist Francesco Piemontesi is the guest soloist with Maestro Antonio Pappano and his orchestra.

From the Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra and Choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Sciarrino: ‘La nuova Euridice secondo Rilke’ – Bach: ‘Magnificat’. Sopranos Barbara Hannigan and Amanda Forsythe.

From the Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Santa Cecilia, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Antonio Pappano, performs Rachmaninoff’s The Isle of the Dead and Piano Concerto No. 1, and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2. Alexander Romanovsky is at the piano.

Small-time con man Nick DeMarco is ordered by his parole officer to take a minimum-wage job as a department store Santa during the holidays... and he hates it. Near the end of his first shift, he hastily promises a young boy, Billy, that Santa will bring his estranged parents back together by Christmas. When his sister Rosemary hears this, she is livid and can't believe he would break a little boy's heart with an empty promise. After a long night of soul searching - and with the help of an insightful female pastor - Nick decides to make good on his promise to the child, somehow. But after meeting the boy's mother Carol, will Nick ultimately choose to put the happiness of others ahead of his own?

The Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Antonio Pappano and featuring soprano Dorothea Roschmann, performs works by Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Small-time con man Nick DeMarco is ordered by his parole officer to take a minimum-wage job as a department store Santa during the holidays...and he hates it. Near the end of his first shift, he hastily promises a young boy, Billy, that Santa will bring his estranged parents back together by Christmas. Nick decides to make good on his promise to the child, somehow. But after meeting the boy's mother Carol, will Nick ultimately choose to put the happiness of others ahead of his own?

From the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Má Vlast – My Homeland, a cycle of symphonic poems by Bedřich Smetana. The Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Jakub Hrůša.

John Nelson conducts the Orchestra and Choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Handel's Messiah. Soprano, Sara Blanch; mezzo-soprano, Sasha Cooke; tenor, Krystian Adam; bass, Alex Esposito. Choir master, Andrea Secchi.

The story of a woman whose world seemingly crumbles when she suffers a stroke. What at first seems like a tragedy ends up being an opportunity to reunite her family and rebuild her life.

In nineteenth century Jutland, Mikkel Krænsen, a peddler of knitted goods, wants the best for his daughter Cecilia, who is in love with the neighbour's son Esben. Only too late, the father realises that love is not as manageable as business.