The most prestigious of German orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado, arrived in Ravenna for the prologue, while for the finale the unforgettable Italian voice of Luciano Pavarotti rose above the waters of the city’s harbour: both along the common thread connecting “Bellini and Wagner”. A memorable show was the Dantesque poetic workshop by Federico Tiezzi with Sandro Lombardi (I Magazzini) performing Paradiso (or Heaven), the dramaturgy by Giovanni Giudici, followed in the subsequent years by Purgatorio (or Purgatory) and Inferno (or Hell), by Mario Luzi and Edoardo Sanguineti respectively.

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