Grand opening with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, on the podium of this extraordinary American group their musical director: Riccardo Muti. But, commemorating Romualdo of Ravenna, the festival’s theme covered the most remote spiritual paths of monasticism, and for an entire week the city was “invaded” by a small community of Tibetan monks from the ancient monastery of Drepung Loseling, and filled with the suggestive sounds of the mandala ritual. And the Roads of Friendship turned into a touching “Brotherhood Concert”, whereby different religious expressions came together.
The first of the Autumn Trilogy was reserved for Verdi: on stage, evening after everning, Traviata, Trovatore and Rigoletto, directed by Cristina Muti.

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