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Saturday
04-02-2012
Special Events 0
11:00
Teatro Alighieri
 
Friday
27-04-2012
left1The first meeting between Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra dates back to 1973. The partnership was consolidated in 2010 when Muti was appointed Musical director. In anticipation of the 2013 anniversary, Muti and the CSO pay tribute to a composer who was very near and dear to the Master’s heart: Nino Rota, who judged young Muti at the Conservatory of Bari granting him top marks and honours “in view of his future performances”. On the basis of such biographical intersections, the scores for Visconti’s Leopard would be enough for a concert, but two monuments celebrate the ideal of the undaunted artist: the romantic Tod und Verklärung by Strauss (only in death does the artist achieve the ideal he pursued in his life) and the progressive Fifth by Shostakovich (a patronizing response to Stalinism in music).]]>
Concerts 1
21:00
Palazzo Mauro de André
Thursday
03-05-2012
left1The dramatic historical, political and cultural identity issues of the Tibetan diaspora will be documented and reflected upon in a series of four documentaries and a feature film made over the last 15 years by independent filmmakers Ritu Sarin (India) and Tenzing Sonam (Tibet), screened alongside the Scorsese “classic”, Kundun. They will tell of Tibet’s stubborn resistance to Chinese domination and its high toll in human lives, but also of the omni-present aura of spirituality anddevotion for the Dalai Lama pervading the country since times of old. The two directors will exceptionally meet the audience and present their work at the closing of the season.]]>
Special Events 0
21:00
Cinema Corso
Monday
07-05-2012
left1The dramatic historical, political and cultural identity issues of the Tibetan diaspora will be documented and reflected upon in a series of four documentaries and a feature film made over the last 15 years by independent filmmakers Ritu Sarin (India) and Tenzing Sonam (Tibet), screened alongside the Scorsese “classic”, Kundun. They will tell of Tibet’s stubborn resistance to Chinese domination and its high toll in human lives, but also of the omni-present aura of spirituality anddevotion for the Dalai Lama pervading the country since times of old. The two directors will exceptionally meet the audience and present their work at the closing of the season.]]>
Special Events 0
21:00
Cinema Corso
Monday
14-05-2012
left1The dramatic historical, political and cultural identity issues of the Tibetan diaspora will be documented and reflected upon in a series of four documentaries and a feature film made over the last 15 years by independent filmmakers Ritu Sarin (India) and Tenzing Sonam (Tibet), screened alongside the Scorsese “classic”, Kundun. They will tell of Tibet’s stubborn resistance to Chinese domination and its high toll in human lives, but also of the omni-present aura of spirituality anddevotion for the Dalai Lama pervading the country since times of old. The two directors will exceptionally meet the audience and present their work at the closing of the season.]]>
Special Events 0
21:00
Cinema Corso
Wednesday
16-05-2012
left1Conductor, pianist, organist; as much at ease with Bernstein and Saint Saëns as with Ellington and Gershwin (see his memorable piano performance in Porgy and Bess at Glyndenbourne); a regular guest at the BBC Proms and the artistic partner of entertainer Kim Criswell; jazzman and composer: Wayne Marshall is all this. Born in Britain to Caribbean parents and now living in Malta, Marshall has been conducting the Verdi Orchestra in Milan since 2007. He regularly appears on the most important podiums worldwide: London, Hong Kong, Vienna, Berlin and obviously Ravenna, where Marshall will conduct the Cherubini Orchestra and the musicians from European music schools in a two-faced programme: half American and half Italian, half opera and half soundtrack, featuring the scores from 8½ as a counterpoint to Star Wars.]]>
Concerts 2
21:00
Palazzo Mauro de André
Thursday
17-05-2012
left1Conductor, pianist, organist; as much at ease with Bernstein and Saint Saëns as with Ellington and Gershwin (see his memorable piano performance in Porgy and Bess at Glyndenbourne); a regular guest at the BBC Proms and the artistic partner of entertainer Kim Criswell; jazzman and composer: Wayne Marshall is all this. Born in Britain to Caribbean parents and now living in Malta, Marshall has been conducting the Verdi Orchestra in Milan since 2007. He regularly appears on the most important podiums worldwide: London, Hong Kong, Vienna, Berlin and obviously Ravenna, where Marshall will conduct the Cherubini Orchestra and the musicians from European music schools in a two-faced programme: half American and half Italian, half opera and half soundtrack, featuring the scores from 8½ as a counterpoint to Star Wars.]]>
Concerts 2
21:00
Palazzo Mauro de André
Monday
21-05-2012
left1The dramatic historical, political and cultural identity issues of the Tibetan diaspora will be documented and reflected upon in a series of four documentaries and a feature film made over the last 15 years by independent filmmakers Ritu Sarin (India) and Tenzing Sonam (Tibet), screened alongside the Scorsese “classic”, Kundun. They will tell of Tibet’s stubborn resistance to Chinese domination and its high toll in human lives, but also of the omni-present aura of spirituality anddevotion for the Dalai Lama pervading the country since times of old. The two directors will exceptionally meet the audience and present their work at the closing of the season.]]>
Special Events 0
21:00
Cinema Corso
Monday
28-05-2012
left1The dramatic historical, political and cultural identity issues of the Tibetan diaspora will be documented and reflected upon in a series of four documentaries and a feature film made over the last 15 years by independent filmmakers Ritu Sarin (India) and Tenzing Sonam (Tibet), screened alongside the Scorsese “classic”, Kundun. They will tell of Tibet’s stubborn resistance to Chinese domination and its high toll in human lives, but also of the omni-present aura of spirituality anddevotion for the Dalai Lama pervading the country since times of old. The two directors will exceptionally meet the audience and present their work at the closing of the season.]]>
Special Events 0
21:00
Cinema Corso
Saturday
09-06-2012
left1A thousand years have passed since a group of monks settled in the forest clearing of Camaldoli, then called Campo di Maldolo, on the ridge of the Apennines, between Arezzo and Romagna. The land had been granted to Romuald of Ravenna and his five companions by Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo. They founded the Hermitage of Camaldoli, where St. Romuald’s disciples still live in prayer and in a spirit of penance. For ten centuries, the hermitage and cenobium of Camaldoli have been a place where the search for God through the study of the Holy Scriptures becomes true delight in creation as God’s gift to humanity. The millennium tells the story of men and women transformed by asceticism and culture, and the story of the countlesstravellers they welcomed into their homes.]]>
Special Events 0
18:00
Sala Muratori, Biblioteca Classense
Free entrance
Saturday
09-06-2012
left1“There’s Music and Music” was a 1972 TV series produced by Luciano Berio on the variety of 20th century musical experiences. Had he lived in the 17th century, Berio would not have needed it: at the time there was just one kind of music, variously declined from “educated” to folk. No surprise, then, that the programme should juxtapose the Marian litanies by Orazio Tarditi – a Roman-born monk who worked in Faenza and Forlì – and the canti ad accordo typical of popular sacred polyphony in Sicily: on one side is the concerted style à la Monteverdi developed by one of the most prolific sacred composers of the 17th century; on the other is the ascetic roughness of a centuries-old polyphonic tradition. What binds them is an invisible network of musical threads, worthy of being uncovered.]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Saturday
09-06-2012
left1“There’s Music and Music” was a 1972 TV series produced by Luciano Berio on the variety of 20th century musical experiences. Had he lived in the 17th century, Berio would not have needed it: at the time there was just one kind of music, variously declined from “educated” to folk. No surprise, then, that the programme should juxtapose the Marian litanies by Orazio Tarditi – a Roman-born monk who worked in Faenza and Forlì – and the canti ad accordo typical of popular sacred polyphony in Sicily: on one side is the concerted style à la Monteverdi developed by one of the most prolific sacred composers of the 17th century; on the other is the ascetic roughness of a centuries-old polyphonic tradition. What binds them is an invisible network of musical threads, worthy of being uncovered.]]>
Special Events 0
23:00
Basilica di San Francesco
Sunday
10-06-2012
Sunday Liturgies 0
11:30
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe
Free entrance
Sunday
10-06-2012
left1In the mid-’70s, after practicing most of the musical styles of the xx century, Pärt entered a long period of silence. He felt he had to embark on more radical research, aiming at the bare simplicity of sound, freeing it from the artificiality of contemporary language. His research resulted in the tintinnabuli style: Pärt’s music is austere, tinged with mysticism and sometimes incantatory. It has a rare feature for a contemporary artist: it stirs something deep inside the listener, and, without becoming facile, it pleases the audience, which is enough to short-circuit some clichés on contemporary music. And Gustav Holst will not take us down to earth, but on an interplanetary journey into the planets’ astrological characters.]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Palazzo Mauro de André
Monday
11-06-2012
left1The tradition of pueri cantores, both Catholic and Protestant, and especially traceable to the Lutheran Reformation in Germany, revives through Finnish choir Cantores Minores, founded in 1952. The choir includes boys and young men aged 8-25, who are only admitted after a year’s school training and vocal practice. The choir’s permanent repertoire includes Bach’s major works: the Passions, usually performed on Good Friday, the Christmas Oratorio and the Mass in B minor. Their programmes also feature the German and Italian tradition of sacred music, and Finnish choral music spanning from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. The choir regularly performs in Finland, in Europe and in the United States.]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe
Tuesday
12-06-2012
left1Steve Reich was a prominent figure in one of the most significant revolutions in xx century music. Today it is difficult to think that an artistic movement like minimalism, obsessively focused on reduction and simplification, nearly “ascetic” in its poetics – and thus in line with the theme of this year’s Festival – may have had such a strong influence on our way of listening to and thinking of music. Reich developed his own language after Western music had reached an apparent state of saturation, becoming increasingly abstract and inaccessible. Reich, with a few others, was a true outsider: his music is original and different, immediately recognizable as a real sound icon of our times.]]>
Special Events 0
21:30
Biblioteca Classense
Free entrance
Wednesday
13-06-2012
left1At the age of 70 Reich is one of the masters of contemporary music. Tehillim (1981), resulting from his study of Hebrew cantillation, sets to music some psalm verses, attesting to his interest in Baroque and pre-Baroque music. Reich’s visionary and innovative masterpiece, City Life, is a tribute to New York, the audio description of a day in the life of a metropolis. The sounds of cabs, trains, speech and slang are played back amongst the other instruments to create the best of soundtracks for NY. The art of the minimalist genius reaches its peak when the sounds of the city are replaced by the sirens, screams and bits of communication from the NY Fire Department during the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Palazzo Mauro de André
Thursday
14-06-2012
left1The voice of Munâjât Yulchieva is the symbol of Uzbekistan, the country in Central Asia sharing borders with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Uzbek musical tradition has strong connections with Persian and Arabic music, Sufi mysticism and the classical maqâm repertoire. Born into a peasant family in the Ferghana valley, near Tashkent, Munâjât Yulchieva, whose name means “ascending to God”, inherited an early passion for singing. Her art reflects the spiritual values of Sufism and ancient mystic ghazal. The music of Monajat Yulchieva, accompanied by her mentor Shavkat Mirzaev, a master of the rabâb lute, is the genuine expression of an ancient heritage still charged with communicative power.]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Chiostro Biblioteca Classense
Friday
15-06-2012
left1In a celebrated sketch of a few decades ago, stand-up comedian Walter Chiari satirized the repertoire of Alpini songs, crammed with the imagery of long-dead mothers and girls vainly waiting for a beloved who had died in the war. Does that make sense to you? Or is your knowledge of Alpini songs limited to the widely known Montanara? Well, you’d better know that one of the arrangers for the SAT Choir is no less than Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, the supreme pianist, who in 1949, while teaching at the Conservatory of Bolzano, donated the Choir his entire composing production: the harmonization of 19 popular songs (not all sad!). And in case this is not enough, how about an 85-year-long history, more than 100 recordings, a repertoire of 300 songs and over 1000 concerts?]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Teatro Alighieri
Saturday
16-06-2012
Drama & Ballet 0
21:00
Palazzo Mauro de André
Sunday
17-06-2012
Sunday Liturgies 0
11:30
Basilica di Sant'Agata Maggiore
Free entrance
Sunday
17-06-2012
left1From the thriving Scandinavian music scene, this concert combines the ancient with the modern in a seductive game of temporal references where Nordic folklore and medieval music blend with improvisation and technology. Trio Mediæval, born in 1997 and recording albums for the ECM label, has a repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant to contemporary Gavin Bryars, from Norwegian folk melodies to xii-xiii century songs. The vocal trio is complemented by the trumpet of Arve Henriksen, a leading exponent of the contemporary North European jazz scene, whose instrument often uses electronica to construct soundscapes which are either in open conflict or in perfect harmony with the singers’ voices.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Chiostro Biblioteca Classense
Monday
18-06-2012
left1The ecumenical dialogue between different Christian churches is at the heart of the mission of Bose monastic community, founded by its prior, Enzo Bianchi, and now including both men and women, Christians, Protestants and Presbyterians. After taking a University degree on December 8th, 1965, the closing date of the Second Vatican Council, Bianchi resolved he would be a different kind of Christian, living in solitude in the outskirts of Biella. Three years went by before the first brothers and sisters joined him to live in community and in celibacy under the supreme rule of the Gospel. A prolific writer, an important theologian and a passionate preacher, Bianchi dedicates his ministry to teaching the present-day relevance of the Gospel.]]>
Special Events 0
18:00
Chiostro Biblioteca Classense
Free entrance
Thursday
21-06-2012
Concerts 0
21:00
Teatro Alighieri
Saturday
23-06-2012
left1“Giving voice to voices”, the choir’s motto, becomes reality. This choir could not have been born elsewhere: this is Chicago, the multiracial, multicultural city, the Windy City. Founded by Reverend Moore in 1956, at the height of the civil rights struggle, the Choir serves thousands of children of differing social and cultural backgrounds on the belief that the secret of mutual understanding lies in singing together. More than 50 school choirs are featured, and their best members have now become a new city landmark. The Choir performs worldwide with the greatest artists – Pavarotti, Celine Dion, Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Riccardo Muti – singing Verdi alongside Michael Jackson.]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Palazzo Mauro de André
Saturday
23-06-2012
left1Who can ever forget Quartetto Cetra? This legendary vocal quartet, who provided a soundtrack for much of the Italian twentieth century, now inspires Voci di corridoio and their arrangements for voices, piano, bass and drums. The group was born in Turin in 1995 as a vocal quintet but performs here as a quartet with a programme featuring the history of Italian song: the “classic” hits of Natalino Otto, Gorni Kramer, Lelio Luttazzi, Carlo Alberto Rossi, Garinei and Giovannini, Trio Lescano and, obviously, Quartetto Cetra. Swing with an Italian flavour, then: graceful and light, stylish and ironic, singing of love but also recalling the atmosphere of the years of the Italian economic miracle: radio and film stars, and the first hugely successful TV programmes.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Piazza Garibaldi, Cervia
Free entrance
Sunday
24-06-2012
Sunday Liturgies 0
11:30
Basilica di San Francesco
Free entrance
Sunday
24-06-2012
left1La Sylphide Coreografia: August Bournonville Musica: Herman Severin von Lovenskjold Interpreti: Marine Ganio  & Simone Valastro CoppellaCoreografia: M.BaryshnikovMusica: L.DélibesInterpreti: Mathilde Froustey &  François Alu Il lago dei cigni estratto dal III^ atto passo a due  del CIGNO NERO Coreografia: Marius Petipa Musica: P. I. Tchaikovsky Interpreti: Florian Magnenet & Myriam Ould Braham Giselle Coreografia M. Petipa Musica A. Adam Interpreti: Dorothée Gilbert  & Josua Hoffaltpasso a due da Les Enfants du ParadisCoreografia J.MartinezMusica D.ScarlattiInterpreti: Muriel Zusperreguy & Alessio Carbone Intervallo Adagietto Coreografia Oscar Araiz Musica G.Mahler Interpreti: Marine Ganio  & Simone Valastro Romeo e Giulietta Coreografia R.Nurayev Musica Seguei Prokofiev Interpreti: Muriel Zusperreguy & Josua Hoffalt Il lago dei cigni estratto dal III^ atto passo a due  del CIGNO BIANCO Coreografia: Marius Petipa Musica: P. I. Tchaikovsky Interpreti: Florian Magnenet & Myriam Ould Braham Arepo coreografia: Maurice Béjart Musica U.Le Bars Interprete: Alessio Carbone La morte del cigno Coreografia : Michel FokineMusica : C.Saint-SaënsInterprete: Dorothée Gilbert Don QuichiotteCoreografia: Y.GrigorovichMusica: L.MinkusInterpreti: Mathilde Froustey &  François Alu Études Coreografia Harald Lander Musica Carl Czerny studi per pianoforte Finale: tutti “Awake, harp and lyre, I will rouse the dawn”: this verse from Psalm 108, the premonition of a fate of joy and brotherhood, fades in the glare of voices and bursts of percussions. In 1965, in one of his most sincere and successful scores, Bernstein returned to his mother tongue, Hebrew, renouncing all unfit experiments to concentrate on the mystery of emotion. The same mystery had also touched young Schubert’s light-hearted and mildly ironic Third Symphony, composed 150 years earlier for the Vienna Imperial Convict. Today, that very same mystery turns the rigour of discipline into the fresh spontaneity of interpretation of the Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the Chicago Children’s Choir.]]>
Drama & Ballet 0
21:00
Palazzo Mauro de André
Monday
25-06-2012
Concerts 0
21:00
Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe
Tuesday
26-06-2012
left1Duo Eloqventia dedicates this performance to the dance of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: Italian, French, Sephardic and Andalusian dances resulting from the cultural mingling at a time when the Iberian peninsula was under Islamic rule. The Spanish duo interprets these dances on flute and percussions, drawing on European folk traditions and on the musical cultures of the Near East. It will be a journey back to the Middle Ages and to the many different cultural components of medieval Europe. The duo approaches the medieval repertoire along the lines of a thorough ethno-musical research, with the aim of reviving the joyful performances of a catalogue that was pre-eminently linked to festive occasions.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Chiostro Biblioteca Classense
Wednesday
27-06-2012
left1Trees are links between heaven and earth. Their roots are firmly planted in the ground, and their trunks and branches soar upward. Likewise, humans struggle between Earth – matter, “hell” – and Heaven – spirituality, “paradise”. Similar is the music of this unique concert, ranging from Nordic mountain traditions (Alpini songs and Inuit throat singing) to contemporary electronics, and in which the singing voice meets the voice of the instrument, while a mysterious speaker tells a story to accompany the audience along a path that unwinds in a unique area. The centuries-old majestic Classe pinewood forest, the coastal wetlands of Ortazzo and Ortazzino, where the salt in the air leads to the beach, a sort of golden frame for such rare and unexpected beauty.]]>
Special Events 0
18:00
Parco 1° Maggio
Thursday
28-06-2012
left1“We chose Celentano because we wanted to go back to the songs we sang when we were young, at the wheel of our first car or sitting around bonfires on the beach – songs that have made ‘our’ history”. This is how the “Clan of Adriano” – including some of the best Italian jazz musicians and Peppe Servillo – recalls the genesis of these Memorie. The Clan thus cheerfully turns to songs: songs that can be sung and danced by everybody and that provide the performers a pleasant diversion from their individual artistic journeys. Having revisited the repertoire of Frank Zappa and Domenico Modugno, the members of the Clan now turn to Celentano “because we had never had a chance to play his songs before”: of course one could hardly imagine Il ragazzo della via Gluck in the repertoire of a jazz musician, or Pregherò in Peppe Servillo’s.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Rocca Brancaleone
Friday
29-06-2012
left1In his autobiography, Telemann writes about the traditional music he discovered during his stay in Krakow and Hanà. The power and the “Barbarian beauty” (Barbarische Schönheit) of Polish folk music fascinated the composer, who started to adopt these “musical gestures” to the Italian and French styles. About the same time, in Berlin, some musicians from Bohemia, like the Benda brothers, brought to the orchestra of Frederick the Great a very typical trait of virtuosity and style that differentiated that music from European Baroque. The “Bohemian” or “Polish” style of many German Baroque concerts is enhanced in this program by the cimbalom of Marcel Comendant, a great expert of Gypsy music from Romania and Bohemia.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Chiostro Biblioteca Classense
Friday
29-06-2012
left1The collaboration between these two visionaries of artistic expression seemed almost predestined. After shooting “Il capo” (winner of several prizes among which the festivals of Barcelona, Paris and Wroclaw), Ravenna-born filmmaker Yuri Ancarani started looking for a very special soundtrack for a new medium-length film, “Piattaforma Luna”, the first film produced by Maurizio Cattelan, presented with great success at the Venice Film Festival. The solution came from Australian-born and Icelandic resident Ben Frost, a key figure on the global experimental music scene, who enjoys the high esteem of such a legendary musician as Brian Eno. The result is a disorienting and mysterious mix of images and sounds, an elusive creature that moves between the memories of Kubrik and glimpses of pure metaphysical poetry.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Rocca Brancaleone
Saturday
30-06-2012
Drama & Ballet 0
21:00
Palazzo Mauro de André
Saturday
30-06-2012
left1Ravenna Festival pays due tribute to Andres Segovia in the 25th anniversary of his death (and 56 years after the concert he gave at the Alighieri Theatre, Ravenna, on December 2, 1956,). Segovia is a true legend in the history of twentieth-century music, become part of our collective imagination as the “inventor of the modern guitar,” which, through him, left the narrow circle of its own traditional folklore vocation and of its connoisseurs to strike roots in a “high” cultural context and enter the great European tradition of composition and interpretation. One of the Master’s brightest students, Piero Bonaguri, will celebrate his memory and his heritage as a great teacher who used to tell his students: “You must not try to be the second Segovia: be the first yourself.”]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Chiostro Biblioteca Classense
Sunday
01-07-2012
Sunday Liturgies 0
10:30
Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
Free entrance
Sunday
01-07-2012
left1This year’s edition dedicates a section to the musical traditions and expressions of East Europe. This falls within the Festival’s theme, which, inspired by St. Romuald and the founding of the Holy Hermitage of Camaldoli, recalls the early first millennium, when some great men of extraordinary spirituality left Ravenna to go East and convert whole nations to Christ by a respectful dialogue with different cultures. The concert of Estonian group Heinavanker revisits the fertile musical tradition of Estonia with pre-Christian runic songs, folksongs imbued with profound spirituality. The programme, including several arrangements by the ensemble’s components themselves, will take us to a suspended dimension of rarefied harmonies, an echo of vast spaces and silences.]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Basilica di San Vitale
Tuesday
03-07-2012
left1“...that was the secret / hidden in the unmistakable smell / of clean lingerie in the skin / of beautiful Masha from Sarajevo”. A work of love in the broadest sense of the term moves from the pages of the ballad-book and hits the stage to become three-dimensional. Paolo Rumiz writes of Max and Maša (“Tartar eyes and long thigh-bones”), and of the passion overwhelming them when the woman, beautiful and wild, falls ill. She is the one who sings the story of the “quince of Istanbul”, the golden fruit that “hides a flower within”. And she is the one who becomes a symbol of Sarajevo, the indomitable and heroic city. The narrative, poetic in the book, is articulated onstage in Middle Eastern sounds, in a sort of musical fresco celebrating the Balkan-Danubian area through tonal suggestions and linguistic fascinations.]]>
Special Events 0
21:00
Teatro Rasi
Wednesday
04-07-2012
left1Hip-hop is no longer the same since Mourad Merzouki, the French-Kabyle choreographer who gave artistic dignity to the most popular of street dances, bringing it to theatre stages. His company, Käfig, founded more than 15 years ago, showcases brilliant hip-hoppers from the French banlieux and a fabulous crew of dancers recruited in Brazilian favelas, starring in Merzouki’s hit creations Correría and Agwa. The same 11 performers now feature in Käfig Brasil, created in Rio de Janeiro in conjunction with other choreographers, who contributed modules of 15 minutes each, leaving the last one to the improvisation of carioca dancers led by superstar Diego Gonçalves Do Nascimento Leitão (“White”).]]>
Drama & Ballet 0
21:00
Palazzo Mauro de André
Thursday
05-07-2012
left1Drepung Loseling, founded in 1416, used to be the largest monastery in Tibet, the “monastic” country par excellence, and in the world, with over ten thousand monks. Today, after destruction, the monastery is in exile in southern India, where the monks preserve and spread the ancient wisdom and mysterious charm of Tibetan Buddhism, now truly facing the daily threat of extinction. The monks’ ancient rituals, songs and dances will inspire improvising musicians in mutual listening, a dialogue only music can implement. Cutting-edge sound technology will serve the spirituality of their songs and chants and lead us into a suspended dimension of time.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Giardini di San Vitale
Friday
06-07-2012
left1No other symbolic design is so universal as the mandala, representing the process by which the universe was created from its centre. Mandalas have an ancient magical effect: their pattern creates a sacred enclosure preventing “dispersion” and protected from the impure outer world. The stunning physical mandalas are an aid to meditation: they serve the purpose of creating another mandala in the mind. Sand mandalas only last as long as they serve a religious scope, and are destroyed shortly after completion, swept away with the sand they were made of, as a metaphor of the impermanence of things and of the cycle of death and rebirth, destruction and life.]]>
Special Events 0
18:00
Biblioteca Classense
Free entrance
Friday
06-07-2012
left1When in 1938 Paul Hindemith, deeply touched by the Giotto frescoes in the church of Santa Croce, Florence, chose the life of St. Francis as the subject for a ballet, the “danced legend” to be staged and choreographed by Massine as Nobilissima Visione, he had just – 4 years before – disowned and withdrawn his 1921 one-act opera, Sancta Susanna, at once considered outrageous and obscene only to be later unanimously recognized as a masterpiece of expressionist theatre. An emotional gap apparently separates the nocturnal story of a young nun overcome by the passion of the senses from the luminous diatonism pervading the suite drawn from the ballet. This gap, though, disappears in the composer’s mystic afflatus and formal and contrapuntal rigour, the distinctive marks of this key figure of modern music.]]>
Opera 0
21:00
Teatro Alighieri
Friday
06-07-2012
left1In the composite panorama of Brazilian music, Gismonti and Vasconcelos are a bridge between folk tradition and modernity. Their collaboration was consolidated in the ’70s and ’80s with several recordings for the ECM label, including Duas Vozes (1984). Gismonti, born in Carmo, was strongly influenced by Nadia Boulanger, Jean Barraqué, Schönberg, Webern, Villa-Lobos, jazz music and the traditions of the Xingu Indians, with whom he had lived for a period of time. Nana Vasconcelos, instead, is a native of Recife, where he came to learn all the Brazilian percussion instruments specialising in the berimbau. As the instrument’s foremost player, he collaborated with such important jazz musicians as Gato Barbieri, Don Cherry, Pat Metheny and Jan Garbarek.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Rocca Brancaleone
Saturday
07-07-2012
left1The true spirit of monasticism cannot be fully appreciated without confronting the figure of St. Francis of Assisi, God’s minstrel and patron saint of Italy. Dante Alighieri and Giotto, two giants of world culture, confronted the task with opposite expressive results, and their genius helped build the foundations of European thought leaving an indelible mark. More than a thousand years after the death of St. Francis, composer Paul Hindemith was inspired by the frescoes Giotto dedicated to the friar of Assisi and composed the score for his Nobilissima Visione. This will be the starting point for a conversation between Massimo Cacciari and Riccardo Muti: once again, a confrontation on mysticism, the power of art and the relationship between faith and church.]]>
Special Events 0
10:30
Teatro Alighieri
Free entrance
Saturday
07-07-2012
left1When in 1938 Paul Hindemith, deeply touched by the Giotto frescoes in the church of Santa Croce, Florence, chose the life of St. Francis as the subject for a ballet, the “danced legend” to be staged and choreographed by Massine as Nobilissima Visione, he had just – 4 years before – disowned and withdrawn his 1921 one-act opera, Sancta Susanna, at once considered outrageous and obscene only to be later unanimously recognized as a masterpiece of expressionist theatre. An emotional gap apparently separates the nocturnal story of a young nun overcome by the passion of the senses from the luminous diatonism pervading the suite drawn from the ballet. This gap, though, disappears in the composer’s mystic afflatus and formal and contrapuntal rigour, the distinctive marks of this key figure of modern music.]]>
Opera 0
21:00
Teatro Alighieri
Saturday
07-07-2012
left1Together, their three different voices can give an idea of the many souls and the vast universe of Brazilian music. Egberto Gismonti is a guitarist, pianist and composer of ample expressive breadth, whose wide horizons encompass influences ranging from European music, jazz and the traditions of the Xingu Indians. Trio Madeira Brasil, among the protagonists of Mika Kaurismaki’s documentary film Brasileirinho, revives the choro genre, the first urban popular music of Brazil and a fertile ground for the later styles of samba and bossa nova. Hamilton de Holanda is an explosive mandolin virtuoso whose encyclopedic knowledge of music spans from classical to jazz to Brazilian folklore.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Rocca Brancaleone
Sunday
08-07-2012
Sunday Liturgies 0
10:30
Basilica di San Vitale
Free entrance
Sunday
08-07-2012
Special Events 0
18:00
Chiostro Biblioteca Classense
Free entrance
Sunday
08-07-2012
left1The solemn interweaving of Orthodox liturgical themes and popular rites in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival; the descriptive virtuosity and visionary power of Mussorgsky’s celebration of his friend Hartmann’s Paintings (brilliantly arranged by Ravel); the lyrical and romantic momentum curbed to fit the classical form of Mendelssohn’s Concerto: this is the ideal programme for Russia’s oldest symphonic ensemble, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic orchestra, founded in 1822. In it they can best express their “mother tongue” and the expressive impetus that characterizes all their performances, especially if the conductor is Yuri Temirkanov, the celebrated Maestro who completed his studies in St. Petersburg Conservatory and then went on to conquer a worldwide audience.]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Palazzo Mauro de André
Sunday
08-07-2012
left1Drepung Loseling, founded in 1416, used to be the largest monastery in Tibet, the “monastic” country par excellence, and in the world, with over ten thousand monks. Today, after destruction, the monastery is in exile in southern India, where the monks preserve and spread the ancient wisdom and mysterious charm of Tibetan Buddhism, now truly facing the daily threat of extinction. The monks’ ancient rituals, songs and dances will inspire improvising musicians in mutual listening, a dialogue only music can implement. Cutting-edge sound technology will serve the spirituality of their songs and chants and lead us into a suspended dimension of time.]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Basilica di San Vitale
Monday
09-07-2012
left1Drepung Loseling, founded in 1416, used to be the largest monastery in Tibet, the “monastic” country par excellence, and in the world, with over ten thousand monks. Today, after destruction, the monastery is in exile in southern India, where the monks preserve and spread the ancient wisdom and mysterious charm of Tibetan Buddhism, now truly facing the daily threat of extinction. The monks’ ancient rituals, songs and dances will inspire improvising musicians in mutual listening, a dialogue only music can implement. Cutting-edge sound technology will serve the spirituality of their songs and chants and lead us into a suspended dimension of time.]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Teatro Alighieri
Tuesday
10-07-2012
left1Drepung Loseling, founded in 1416, used to be the largest monastery in Tibet, the “monastic” country par excellence, and in the world, with over ten thousand monks. Today, after destruction, the monastery is in exile in southern India, where the monks preserve and spread the ancient wisdom and mysterious charm of Tibetan Buddhism, now truly facing the daily threat of extinction. The monks’ ancient rituals, songs and dances will inspire improvising musicians in mutual listening, a dialogue only music can implement. Cutting-edge sound technology will serve the spirituality of their songs and chants and lead us into a suspended dimension of time.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Giardini di San Vitale
Wednesday
11-07-2012
left1No other symbolic design is so universal as the mandala, representing the process by which the universe was created from its centre. Mandalas have an ancient magical effect: their pattern creates a sacred enclosure preventing “dispersion” and protected from the impure outer world. The stunning physical mandalas are an aid to meditation: they serve the purpose of creating another mandala in the mind. Sand mandalas only last as long as they serve a religious scope, and are destroyed shortly after completion, swept away with the sand they were made of, as a metaphor of the impermanence of things and of the cycle of death and rebirth, destruction and life.]]>
Special Events 0
18:00
Biblioteca Classense
Free entrance
Wednesday
11-07-2012
left1“One by one the faces are lit/ ancient roots/ a forest of icons,/ and the day becomes night,/ snow and stars,/ and the darkness becomes roses,/ crystal-clear roses, rather than dew.” The verses from Cristina Campo’s Byzantine Diary take us back to the sensory dimension of the Orthodox liturgy, made of candles, incense, gold, sumptuous robes, meaningful gestures whose beauty is an instrument of spirituality. This ritual is evoked in San Vitale by a choir including some of the best singers from Moscow churches and monasteries and by their chants for specific Orthodox rites. “O imperial fragrance/ Bulgarian rose oil mysteriously disclosing/ the mind’s eye, the heart’s eye, the Name’s eye/ from moist eyelashes–/ Holy Myron is Thy Name!” ]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Basilica di San Vitale
Wednesday
11-07-2012
left1With an original sound that clearly recalls a fusion of Parliament, Polyphonic Spree, Bob Marley and the Incredible String Band, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros are an indie-rock band of eleven, strongly inspired by the communities of musicians that spontaneously gathered in such small Californian neighbourhoods as Laurel Canyon in the Sixties and Seventies. Led by the voice of histrionic Alex Ebert, the band debuted with a bang in 2009 with Up From Below, an idealistic album whose choral atmosphere of folk-psychedelic rock deliberately ignores the advances of technology in favour of an amateurish craftsmanship capable of providing memorable moments. And now it is time to enjoy their brand new LP, Here.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Rocca Brancaleone
Wednesday
11-07-2012
left1Drepung Loseling, founded in 1416, used to be the largest monastery in Tibet, the “monastic” country par excellence, and in the world, with over ten thousand monks. Today, after destruction, the monastery is in exile in southern India, where the monks preserve and spread the ancient wisdom and mysterious charm of Tibetan Buddhism, now truly facing the daily threat of extinction. The monks’ ancient rituals, songs and dances will inspire improvising musicians in mutual listening, a dialogue only music can implement. Cutting-edge sound technology will serve the spirituality of their songs and chants and lead us into a suspended dimension of time]]>
Concerts 0
23:00
Giardini di San Vitale
Thursday
12-07-2012
left1For years, Ravenna Festival has reached out a hand and built bridges of brotherhood towards so many cities wounded by war and pain or offended by ancient or new conflicts. In our days of renewed moral and civic rigour, this bridge of brotherhood offers an occasion for meditation, a hymn to fraternity where prayer, meditation, silence and the search for the ultimate, mysterious meaning of faith are intertwined with the Western classical tradition, inevitably imbued with the ineffable spirituality that man expresses in Art. The young musicians from our best orchestras, the diverse monastic communities and confraternities and the hermits of many different religions will raise their voices in visionary ecstasy, longing for heaven.]]>
Concerts 0
21:00
Palazzo Mauro de André
Friday
13-07-2012
left1The “prince” goes back to his origins with the typical instruments of folk tradition: the reed-pipe, the four-string chitarra battente, the diatonic accordion. “Vola vola vola” is a project by Francesco De Gregori and Antonio Sparagna, the herald of new Italian folk. This very peculiar event will feature some of De Gregori’s least popular songs Sparagna rearranged in a folk key: among these are La ragazza e la miniera (from La donna cannone), Terra e acqua (from Viva l’Italia), San Lorenzo (from Titanic), Ipercarmela (from Bufalo Bill). Alongside these are some folk songs in various languages and dialects and some lines from the Divine Comedy translated into “grico”. Onstage with the two artists will be the OPI-Orchestra Popolare Italiana and choir of the Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Palazzo San Giacomo (Russi)
Saturday
14-07-2012
left1Vocals and percussion are at the heart of the “Black Taranta” night. The second edition of “Black is Beautiful” sees the encounter of two areas from the planet’s South: Salento and Africa. An original and enthralling encounter where the pizzica and the taranta meet the African rhythms, the frenzy of tambourines dialogues with talking-drums, the Griko chant combines with the oral tradition of the griot from Mali. On the one hand is Officina Zoé, a renowned folk group from Salento. On the other are Malian musician and griot Baba Sissoko, singer Mamani Keita (also from Mali) and Guinean percussionist Sourakhata Dioubate. A mixture from below the North-South divide, proving how ancient art forms, simple and profound, can create a unique musical event across the boundaries of different “languages”.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Palazzo San Giacomo (Russi)
Sunday
15-07-2012
left1Music from Sub-Saharan Africa will end the series of concerts at the Palazzo S. Giacomo, Russi. Two incredibly fascinating and powerful female voices and the virtuoso of a “magical” balafon will be the protagonists: Kareyce Fotso, from Cameroon, skilfully bends her exceptional voice to the roughness of the Bantu language. A revelation as a multi-instrumentalist, she is a virtuoso at such traditional instruments as the sanza and the talking drum as well as the guitar. She will perform alongside a singer, dancer and percussionist from the Ivory Coast: Dobet Gnahoré, “the Black Goddess” and the heir of the powerful bété tradition. They will be onstage with Malian musician Aly Keïta, whose spectacular and enchanting polyphonies fascinated such partners as Joe Zawinul, Omar Sosa and Trilok Gurtu.]]>
Concerts 0
21:30
Palazzo San Giacomo (Russi)
Friday
09-11-2012
left1“No one is more popular or shocking than him. The entire human race hangs from the strings of his guitar”: these words by Bruno Barilli might sound rather emphatic, but one thing is certain: 2013 will be the year of Verdi worldwide. We anticipate the celebrations of the composer’s bicentenary with three of his most beloved and popular operas, alternatively scheduled on the same stage on consecutive days: an opera “marathon” for the Festival’s productive capacity, which will test the experience gained over the years by working with young talents and cutting edge sound and visual technologies, combining different stage crafts and exploring new ways of interpretation and expression.]]>
Opera 0
20:30
Teatro Alighieri
 
Saturday
10-11-2012
left1“No one is more popular or shocking than him. The entire human race hangs from the strings of his guitar”: these words by Bruno Barilli might sound rather emphatic, but one thing is certain: 2013 will be the year of Verdi worldwide. We anticipate the celebrations of the composer’s bicentenary with three of his most beloved and popular operas, alternatively scheduled on the same stage on consecutive days: an opera “marathon” for the Festival’s productive capacity, which will test the experience gained over the years by working with young talents and cutting edge sound and visual technologies, combining different stage crafts and exploring new ways of interpretation and expression.]]>
Opera 0
20:30
Teatro Alighieri
 
Sunday
11-11-2012
left1“No one is more popular or shocking than him. The entire human race hangs from the strings of his guitar”: these words by Bruno Barilli might sound rather emphatic, but one thing is certain: 2013 will be the year of Verdi worldwide. We anticipate the celebrations of the composer’s bicentenary with three of his most beloved and popular operas, alternatively scheduled on the same stage on consecutive days: an opera “marathon” for the Festival’s productive capacity, which will test the experience gained over the years by working with young talents and cutting edge sound and visual technologies, combining different stage crafts and exploring new ways of interpretation and expression.]]>
Opera 0
20:30
Teatro Alighieri
 
Tuesday
13-11-2012
left1“No one is more popular or shocking than him. The entire human race hangs from the strings of his guitar”: these words by Bruno Barilli might sound rather emphatic, but one thing is certain: 2013 will be the year of Verdi worldwide. We anticipate the celebrations of the composer’s bicentenary with three of his most beloved and popular operas, alternatively scheduled on the same stage on consecutive days: an opera “marathon” for the Festival’s productive capacity, which will test the experience gained over the years by working with young talents and cutting edge sound and visual technologies, combining different stage crafts and exploring new ways of interpretation and expression.]]>
Opera 0
20:30
Teatro Alighieri
 
Wednesday
14-11-2012
left1“No one is more popular or shocking than him. The entire human race hangs from the strings of his guitar”: these words by Bruno Barilli might sound rather emphatic, but one thing is certain: 2013 will be the year of Verdi worldwide. We anticipate the celebrations of the composer’s bicentenary with three of his most beloved and popular operas, alternatively scheduled on the same stage on consecutive days: an opera “marathon” for the Festival’s productive capacity, which will test the experience gained over the years by working with young talents and cutting edge sound and visual technologies, combining different stage crafts and exploring new ways of interpretation and expression.]]>
Opera 0
20:30
Teatro Alighieri
 
Thursday
15-11-2012
left1“No one is more popular or shocking than him. The entire human race hangs from the strings of his guitar”: these words by Bruno Barilli might sound rather emphatic, but one thing is certain: 2013 will be the year of Verdi worldwide. We anticipate the celebrations of the composer’s bicentenary with three of his most beloved and popular operas, alternatively scheduled on the same stage on consecutive days: an opera “marathon” for the Festival’s productive capacity, which will test the experience gained over the years by working with young talents and cutting edge sound and visual technologies, combining different stage crafts and exploring new ways of interpretation and expression.]]>
Opera 0
20:30
Teatro Alighieri
 
Friday
16-11-2012
left1“No one is more popular or shocking than him. The entire human race hangs from the strings of his guitar”: these words by Bruno Barilli might sound rather emphatic, but one thing is certain: 2013 will be the year of Verdi worldwide. We anticipate the celebrations of the composer’s bicentenary with three of his most beloved and popular operas, alternatively scheduled on the same stage on consecutive days: an opera “marathon” for the Festival’s productive capacity, which will test the experience gained over the years by working with young talents and cutting edge sound and visual technologies, combining different stage crafts and exploring new ways of interpretation and expression.]]>
Opera 0
20:30
Teatro Alighieri
 
Saturday
17-11-2012
left1“No one is more popular or shocking than him. The entire human race hangs from the strings of his guitar”: these words by Bruno Barilli might sound rather emphatic, but one thing is certain: 2013 will be the year of Verdi worldwide. We anticipate the celebrations of the composer’s bicentenary with three of his most beloved and popular operas, alternatively scheduled on the same stage on consecutive days: an opera “marathon” for the Festival’s productive capacity, which will test the experience gained over the years by working with young talents and cutting edge sound and visual technologies, combining different stage crafts and exploring new ways of interpretation and expression.]]>
Opera 0
20:30
Teatro Alighieri
 
Sunday
18-11-2012
left1“No one is more popular or shocking than him. The entire human race hangs from the strings of his guitar”: these words by Bruno Barilli might sound rather emphatic, but one thing is certain: 2013 will be the year of Verdi worldwide. We anticipate the celebrations of the composer’s bicentenary with three of his most beloved and popular operas, alternatively scheduled on the same stage on consecutive days: an opera “marathon” for the Festival’s productive capacity, which will test the experience gained over the years by working with young talents and cutting edge sound and visual technologies, combining different stage crafts and exploring new ways of interpretation and expression.]]>
Opera 0
20:30
Teatro Alighieri