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Guys, sadly for me, my friend cannot attend the show… This means I have a spare ticket for Monday’s special evening.
 
Seat: I ORDINE PALCHI DX n. 6 Posto 1
 
You’ll be sitting next to yours truly 😉.
 
The ticket (PDF) has the name of my friend on it, however, as I gather from the comments here that doesn’t matter 🙂.
 
Anyone interested? Or know someone who might be interested? 🎟️  Please give me a shout!

No sighting.
 
The royal box held the Italian president who was joined by the president of the EU commission.

Concert programme. I hope there will be an English version sold at the venue.
https://assets-global.website-files.com/60ae054b30328f0c5ad249fd/638e2dc3680eb6cc722ffe66_PROGRAMMA_WILLIAMS_12DIC_web_doppie.pdf
 
Poster:
https://assets-global.website-files.com/60ae054b30328f0c5ad249fd/638e2dd3a625838dea439783_AOFS_locandina_12 dicembre 2022_WEB.pdf
 
 

+++Concert will be broadcast live on Radio 3, Monday 12 December at 8 pm++++[Edit: TBC]
Rai Radio 3 Classica | Canale | RaiPlay Sound
Rai Radio 3 | Palinsesto | Canale | RaiPlay Sound
 
+++Italian program notes by Audissino+++
 

Imperia-Hollywood: il musicologo imperiese Emilio Audissino autore del "libretto" per il concerto di John Williams alla Scala - Riviera24
di Stefania Orengo, 06 Dicembre 2022
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INTERNATIONAL
Imperia-Hollywood: the musicologist from Imperia Emilio Audissino, author of the "libretto" for John Williams' concert at La Scala
 
Williams has won 5 Oscars for the soundtracks of the most famous films, including Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Harry Potter
 
Imperia-Hollywood. Imperia meets Oscar-winning music and flies to La Scala in Milan thanks to Emilio Audissino, from Imperia, film historian, musicologist and associate professor at Linnaeus University in Sweden is currently the world's greatest expert on composer John Williams.
 
Who is John Williams? The composer, 5 times Oscar winner is the "father" of the soundtracks of all StevenSpielberg's films, including Indiana Jones, of the Star Wars saga of the "Edwige Theme" of Harry Potter.
 
At the age of 90, the American composer will make his debut in Italy and for the first time will perform in Milan next Monday, December 12th. Emilio Audissino was commissioned to write the program or the "libretto" that will be distributed at the theater with the explanation of all the pieces that Williams will propose in his first Italian performance. «It is a great satisfaction for me to participate in this epochal event for music and even more so that I have been asked to write the Italian libretto, since usually my works are almost exclusively in English» comments the musicologist.
 
Audissino has written two books about Williams, who is in effect one of the most famous composers in the world and who is currently taking care of the soundtrack of the latest episode of Indiana Jones, out next June 2023 in theaters. An exceptional concert in Milan, where tickets were sold out after just five minutes and where Imperia will also be there not only thanks to the work of Professor Audissino but also to his presence, requested, the day before Williams' performance. Audissino will introduce the open rehearsal to be held at the Teatro alla Scala on Sunday 11 December for the public under 30.
 
The concert will be broadcast live on Radio 3 on Monday 12 December at 8 pm
 
In the picture Maestro Williams and Emilio Audissino in their debut in Vienna. The musicologist and professor from Imperia is the author of the books "Film/Music Analysis: A Film Studies Approach" and "The Film Music of John Williams: Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style" (2014, republished in 2021).
 
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Last year in Berlin there was a rehearsal too for the youngsters.  I had a ticket and they let me in without asking ID😅

Last year in Berlin there was a rehearsal too for the youngsters.  I had a ticket and they let me in without asking ID😅

There are no Covid restrictions virtually anywhere at the moment. No mandatory vaccination pass to access theatres and other public venues. Masks are only recommended.

Everything will be revealed soon. 

Savini is a tourist trap nowadays, with mediocre food served at absurdly high prices. Don’t be fooled about the premium location in the beautiful Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. It’s very much like the cafés in St. Mark’s Square in Venice, so avoid it.
 
As a trusted Milanese, I will give you a few tips for good food places in the city center at reasonable prices. Let me collect ideas and will get back to you.

I had a great ticket, but the payment failed. Impossible to get the window to enter the credit card number... 😭

I got mine at 14:04. 

Now I try to buy tickets for a friend of mine but the website page is down. But I managed to buy one ticket for myself. 

The sale starts tomorrow. Fingers crossed !🙏🏻 Hopefully everybody is able to get tickets.  

Here is the link: https://www.vivaticket.com/it
 
Are the chances slim to get tickets? Sales starts at 14:00 PM and I will be ready with two laptops at 13:30 PM. I don't wanna miss it.  

Geen dank ;)!

When you go to the information page you see the sale starts at 14:00: https://shop.vivaticket.com/en/sell/?cmd=prices&pcode=9819358&tcode=vt0007867&qubsq=0e7337bf-a772-44f2-a100-97281adfffed&qubsp=2959d179-939d-4677-a98b-c598d5962923&qubsts=1665340555&qubsc=bestunion&qubse=vivaticketserver&qubsrt=Safetynet&qubsh=0ddf44b1704c2cfb8a758686f2312edc
 

Geen dank ;)!

When you go to the information page you see the sale starts at 14:00: https://shop.vivaticket.com/en/sell/?cmd=prices&pcode=9819358&tcode=vt0007867&qubsq=0e7337bf-a772-44f2-a100-97281adfffed&qubsp=2959d179-939d-4677-a98b-c598d5962923&qubsts=1665340555&qubsc=bestunion&qubse=vivaticketserver&qubsrt=Safetynet&qubsh=0ddf44b1704c2cfb8a758686f2312edc
 

Here is the link: https://www.vivaticket.com/it
 
Are the chances slim to get tickets? Sales starts at 14:00 PM and I will be ready with two laptops at 13:30 PM. I don't wanna miss it.  

The sale starts tomorrow. Fingers crossed !🙏🏻 Hopefully everybody is able to get tickets.  

The sale starts tomorrow. Fingers crossed !🙏🏻 Hopefully everybody is able to get tickets.  

The sale starts tomorrow. Fingers crossed !🙏🏻 Hopefully everybody is able to get tickets.  

The sale starts tomorrow. Fingers crossed !🙏🏻 Hopefully everybody is able to get tickets.  

Apparently, one of the final awards approved by the Queen

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11244771/Queens-final-knight-John-Williams-honoured-creating-music-blockbuster-films.html

With a Bleistift, ja ja.

I hope we will all be here 10 years from now, listening to JW's anecdotes about Hedwig, the wonderful pet owl of Indiana Jones's — or how Han & the Princess was supposed to be a love theme, but they turned out to be siblings!

John Williams appeared on the podium at Tanglewood on Tuesday August 2 for the annual "Tanglewood on Parade" night at the Koussevitzky Music Shed, conducting first the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in a performance of "Just Down West Street... On The Left," and then the Boston Pops in "Hedwig's Theme" and "Fawkes the Phoenix."
 

 
 
The Maestro looks in great shape. Nice to see Keisuke Wakao and Gus Sebring (recent guests of the BSO tribute video at TLOJW) in the band

This right there.
 
 
You keep responding with "Yes, but…"s. Yes, Williams clearly enjoys meeting his fans *in concert*. The fist bumps on Saturday show just how much (and as far as I know, they were a first). He also clearly does not enjoy being bothered by them outside the concerts. That's why he has bodyguards. That's why he exits the Hotel Imperial through the main entrance to enter a car that drives him just around the hotel and straight into the Musikverein, while as I'm told *all * other major artists just exit the hotel through the rear entrance and walk the couple of metres across the street into the Musikverein. He also sends clear instructions to the hotel stuff ahead of his visit that they are not to accept any letters or items for him.
 
If you've followed the reports of Williams's concerts over the years, you should know the relevant factors. He did use to sign stuff for fans before the concerts, at least up to the mid-2000s in Boston. He obviously stopped doing that, for a variety of reasons. One is that he is old and has to conserve his energy, and is clearly tired after a lengthy concert - so much so that in Berlin, he only waved a brief goodbye at the end and left, while the audience kept applauding for 15 minutes straight. Look at him walking in that video - I'll be happy if I can walk that well at 90, but it's also clear that after standing and conducting for two and a half hours, he has to sit down and wants to get back to the hotel as quickly as possible. Another factor are aggressive fans - there's the famous story of some guy trying to chase his car for an autograph in Boston (if I recall correctly, that more or less coincides with Williams stopping to give autographs, and upping his security). There's the guy in Berlin who rushed to him and tried to get an autograph while he was leaving the stage (and carefully walking down the podium steps because he was exhausted), when the guards didn't pay attention for just one second. There's the guy in the video above who just proves why all the security is necessary.
 
The chief bodyguard in Vienna was the same as in Berlin. Those who have been attending Williams's concerts for longer could tell if he's had the same guy for longer than that, but I expect he has. This is clearly not a case of security personnel being over-protective of an artist who doesn't know how popular he is or who is stopped from interacting as much with his fans as he would like (unlike Horner at the Hollywood in Vienna symposium, who clearly enjoyed the crowds and tried to stick around for autographs as long as possible, but was ushered out by the organisers who wanted to get him to the next gala or something). This is Williams having experienced the good and the bad sides of fan crowds and hiring security because he doesn't want to be bothered outside of his concerts.