Ravenna Festival

Cinema City, lunedì 20 maggio ore 20.30
Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! (Lo schiaccianoci), lunedì 20 maggio al Cinema City di Ravenna ore 20.30 (biglietto 5 euro), è l’ultimo appuntamento della rassegna cinematografica dedicata al geniale coreografo inglese che tra poche settimane sarà protagonista al Festival con la nuova, sensazionale, interpretazione della Bella addormentata (in prima italiana al Teatro Alighieri dal 30 maggio al 2 giugno).

A pochi giorni dall’inaugurazione della XXIV edizione torna Omaggiovani una delle iniziative più attese dal pubblico ‘giovane’ di Ravenna Festival. Un pubblico in continua crescita grazie ad una programmazione artistica sempre più multidisciplinare e aperta ai linguaggi ed alle suggestioni del mondo contemporaneo ed al determinante contributo della Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna...

Un anno dopo il successo riscosso con I due Figaro di Saverio Mercadante, Riccado Muti torna nella capitale spagnola con l'Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini per il Don Pasquale. L’opera di Donizetti sarà rappresentata al Teatro Real (4 repliche dal 13 al 19 maggio) nell’allestimento prodotto da Ravenna Festival nel 2006 con la regia di Andrea De Rosa, le scene di Italo Grassi ed i costumi di Gabriella Pescucci.

The xxiv edition of Ravenna Festival confirms the formula successfully tested in 2012, extending the programme over the whole year: February saw a preview with Alchemy, the brand-new show by Moses Pendleton’s Momix, which had its world premiere at the Alighieri Theatre; the 'central body' of the Festival will be scheduled from May to mid-July, and then, in November, the "Autumn Trilogy" will focus on the relationship between Giuseppe Verdi and William Shakespeare.

Taking up from Verdi's "popular trilogy", which closed the 2012 season, the decision was made to expand on the concept of "popular" by making it one of the Festival’s multi-faceted cores, on which part of the programme will be built.

Never before had the presence of Riccardo Muti been so central and irreplaceable: this year celebrates the bicentenary of the great patriarch of Italian music, Giuseppe Verdi, who, like no one else, was able to stage the great human passions, making himself universally understood and thus giving the term 'popular' a more catholic and profound meaning.

This year the Festival's journey on the Paths of Friendship will touch the area of Emilia-Romagna struck by the 2012 earthquakes. In the heart of Mirandola, Riccardo Muti, his 'Cherubini Orchestra', a choir and soloists will perform Verdi's most famous arias for the victims of the quakes.

The usual sacred music concerts and Sunday liturgies in the Byzantine basilicas will all be focused on the relationship between folk and classical music.

If there ever was a composer who could, like few others, mix "high" and "low", "cult", "pop" and "folklore" music, it was Luciano Berio, the tenth anniversary of whose death is celebrated this year.

The dance playbill includes several events of exceptional international importance: following Alchemy by Momix, May will see the return of British choreographer and director Matthew Bourne and his company, New Adventures, together with the award-winning costume designer Lez Brotherson: their latest creation is Sleeping Beauty, on the immortal music of Tchaikovsky.

The "Autumn Trilogy" project returns with a set of three original opera productions created, directed and coordinated by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti and her masterful crew of cutting-edge sound and scenes technicians, in a sort of “workshop” that has already resulted in the discovery and promotion of several new talents.