After the long deafening silence dictated by the restrictions aimed to control the Covid-19 pandemic, music in Italy restarts from Ravenna: in the Rocca Brancaleone, the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and soprano Rosa Feola join Riccardo Muti for the first concert with an audience, crowned by the solemn and grandiose “Jupiter” Symphony which lifted Mozart above the troubles of one of his life’s most dramatic times. The 31st edition, reimagined for an unprecedented situation, is also the first to reach tens of thousand spectators around the world. And while Muti and the Cherubini Orchestra also  remember the suffering of the Syrian people with a concert in Paestum, sister-site of ancient Palmyra, Ravenna hosts the Budapest Festival Orchestra led by Iván Fischer, the Mariinsky Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, soloists Beatrice Rana and Mario Brunello for the étoiles of Duets and Solos, the single dance event this year. Faced with the second wave of infections, which again stops the events with an audience, in autumn Muti and the Cherubini perform in the Alighieri Theatre for two streamed concerts promoted around the world thanks to the partnership with the websites of El País, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, and Spring Festival in Tokyo.
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