The Eliseo Classica for Antarctica project was carried out by the Associazione Suono e Immagine between November 2012 and May 2013, at the Teatro Eliseo in Rome, in collaboration withENEA, the National Museum of Antarctica and National Geographic Italy, with the main objective of promoting the dissemination of culture, art and music through artistic-cultural initiatives aimed at teachers, students and families.
The concerts of the 2012-2013 Eliseo Classica season were twinned with the Obiettivo Antartide initiative, promoted by PNRA (National Program for Research in Antarctica), aimed at popularizing Antarctic scientific culture through a photo exhibition by National Geographic Italy and a series of meetings with secondary schools in Rome, at the Eliseo Theater.
For the first time ever, on November 18, 2012, a live broadcast in remote mode was made of the concert for violin (Liliana Bernardi) and piano(Lorenzo Porta Del Lungo) from the Teatro Eliseo, with the permanent Italian-French Concordia Station located in Antarctica, more than 16,000 km away from Italy, and inhabited from November to February, by about 50 participants (including researchers and technicians) of the PNRA.
For the audience at the Elysee Theater and the Internet, it was an opportunity to hear a masterful interpretation of classical authors and admire the images transmitted from the South Pole of the first sunrise after the long polar night. The video link with Antarctica was replayed on the occasion of the second solo piano concert on April 14, 2013, in the presence of the French Ambassador to Italy.