For Tchaikovsky, fate is a blind and inscrutable force, speaking through the dark horn fanfare that opens his Symphony No. 4; for Prokofiev, it is the energy of a free and resilient nation, expressed in the grand, victorious chorus that concludes the cantata Alexander Nevsky, born from his collaboration with director Sergei Eisenstein. These two monuments of Russian music return to the Regio under the baton of Nicolò Umberto Foron, a young Italian-German conductor with a meteoric career. Mezzo-soprano Alisa Kolosova, a deeply moving interpreter of the Slavic repertoire, joins the Coro del Teatro to bring the most intense emotional depth to Prokofiev’s cantata.