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A city by the sea in ancient times, Ravenna still hears its call, and so retains a vocation as a crossroads of peoples and cultures. And in the spirit of Ulysses \u2013 as Dante pictures him: ever longing for the next journey and eager to sail \u201con the high and open sea\u201d (Inf.<\/em>\u00a0XXVI 100) \u2013 the Festival has never lost its appetite for the great adventure of music and the arts, which has taken its programme \u2013 each summer between June and July \u2013 across all performing languages, while Ravenna\u2019s heritage sites have served as its many harbours. Byzantine basilicas shining with mosaics, historic theatres (starting from the 19th<\/sup>\u00a0century Dante Alighieri Theatre, named after the Poet who lived and died in Ravenna), cloisters, palaces, and even the natural surroundings: the rich history of the city, home to eight UNESCO World Heritage monuments and historically a gateway between the East and the West, is the inspiration for the annual Festival founded in 1990 by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti.\u00a0This year the Festival sails the Mediterranean and chooses Greece as its destination \u2013 both metaphorically and literally, within the ambassador project\u00a0Roads of Friendship<\/em> \u2013, taking the chance to celebrate one of the cradles of Western cultures within the wider theme of the journey.<\/p>\n

The 30th<\/sup>\u00a0edition starts from the exclusive meeting between two giants of music such as Riccardo Muti and Maurizio Pollini, together for the opening concert. Muti shall later lead Italian and Greek artists in the\u00a0Roads of Friendship<\/em>\u00a0joined concerts in Athens and Ravenna, for the performance of Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony and the appeal for brotherhood of its\u00a0Ode to Joy.<\/em>\u00a0The Greek strand also features\u00a0 violin virtuoso and conductor\u00a0Le\u014dnidas Kavakos on the podium of the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, while the Greek-Byzantine singing practice shall meet the Western piano tradition in the concert with Nektaria Karantzi and Vassilis Tsabropoulos.
\nThe sound of waves also arises from the tributes to two celebrated Italian singer-songwriters such as Fabrizio De Andr\u00e9 and Domenico Modugno, but the journey continues in the steps of Berlioz\u2019s\u00a0Harold en Italie<\/em>, part of the programme of the Orchestre National de France led by Emmanuel Krivine, with violist Antoine Tamestit. While the Giardino Armonico conducted by Giovanni Antonini visits Haydn\u2019s\u00a0The Desert Island<\/em>\u00a0and then tackles Mozart with sisters pianists Katia and Marielle Lab\u00e8que, the Tallis Scholars lead a pilgrimage between Ravenna\u2019s churches, for an extraordinary seven-concerts-in-a-day experience. The route climbs the mountain of Dante\u2019s\u00a0Purgatory<\/em> \u2013 a mystery play by Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari, tailor-made for the city where the poet spent his last years and was buried \u2013 then plunges into the psychedelic depths with the double homage to Pink Floyd:\u00a0Shine!<\/em>, a choreography by Micha van Hoecke, and the concert of\u00a0Nick Mason\u2019s Saucerful of Secrets<\/em>. The rhythm is set by the week of\u00a0The 100 percussions<\/em>\u00a0and by another legendary drummer, Stewart Copeland of the Police, who will \u201clight up\u201d the Cherubini Orchestra.
\nThe dance section features the Hamburg Ballett (the only dates in Italy in the year of John Neumeier\u2019s 80th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday, with three works inspired by Beethoven, Mahler, and Bernstein) and the Martha Graham Dance Company, whose programme includes\u00a0Errand in the Maze<\/em>, based on the Greek myth of the Minotaur. A shower of stars for the closing event of the summer programme: the ballet gala night\u00a0Les \u00e9toiles<\/em>.
\nLast but not least, Ravenna\u2019s own history is celebrated by the daily events:\u00a0Young Artists for Dante\u00a0<\/em>in the Franciscan Cloisters adjacent to the Poet\u2019s Tomb, and the\u00a0Vespers\u00a0<\/em>sacred music concerts in the Basilica of San Vitale.<\/p>\n

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