Overview
- Orchestra, chorus, and staff wore a gold pin featuring a treble clef with a heart and handed it to audience members entering the theater, with conductor Michele Mariotti also wearing it.
- The protest unfolded during Rai’s broadcast of the New Year’s Concert, giving nationwide visibility to the dispute.
- Union representatives reiterated demands to withdraw Beatrice Venezi’s nomination and to restart the selection process, alongside calls for Nicola Colabianchi to step down.
- Superintendent Colabianchi described courteous forms of protest as legitimate and expressed hope for dialogue leading to shared decisions.
- Venice mayor Luigi Brugnaro acknowledged the action, said he wants to see Venezi conduct and believes she may merit the role, and the customary pre-concert mayoral greeting did not take place.