As part of this year’s edition of Ravenna Festival, THE ROADS OF FRIENDSHIP – A bridge of brotherhood through art and culture, offers two appointments with music and theater.
So many years have passed since the first adventurous journey that marked the beginning of the Paths of Friendship project: it was 1997, the sound of bombs still in our ears, the rubble in our eyes, when music was called from the smouldering ruins of Sarajevo to offer new hope for the future. Since then, Ravenna Festival has never stopped building bridges of brotherhood to heal the wounds of hatred and terror, of incomprehension and mistrust, but also to find our roots in the ancient stones and in the eyes of others.
Sunday 7th July
THE ROADS OF FRIENDSHIP – RICCARDO MUTI
Where: Palazzo Mauro De André
When: 9 pm
Scenarios of war, exoduses and migrations, suffering and death, are everyday news. That is why we are called to trace unprecedented “paths of friendship,” through bridges of brotherhood that unite in a cry of hope the shores of the Mediterranean, now a sea of death. Through the “universal” code of music, Riccardo Muti leads the audience along that very bridge, ever more slender as necessary, between the dramatic and intimate lyricism of Schubert and the archaic yet very modern language of Sollima’s Stabat Mater.
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Coro della Cattedrale di Siena “Guido Chigi Saracini”
choirmaster Lorenzo Donati
Coro a Coro conducted by Rachele Andrioli
Nicolò Balducci countertenor
Giovanni Sollima cello
Lina Gervasi theremin
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 4 in C minor D. 417 “Tragic”
Giovanni Sollima
Stabat Mater for countertenor, theremin, choir and orchestra
on verses by Filippo Arriva
Monday 8th July
THE ROADS OF FRIENDSHIP – NON DIRMI CHE HAI PAURA
Where: Teatro Alighieri
When: 9 pm
Musical theater play based on Giuseppe Catozzella’s novel
from an idea by Giorgia Massaro
The show tells the true story of Samia Yusuf Omar, a young Somali athlete, who dreamed of escaping the war by landing on Italian shores, but who sadly, like so many other thousands of migrants, drowned in her attempt to reach that longed-for freedom.
The narrative on stage is tinged with the power of theater, the energy of dance and music.
supervision to the stage adaptation Giuseppe Catozzella
direction Laura Ruocco
artistic supervision Ivan Stefanutti
original music and arrangements Alessandro Baldessari
music Peter Gabriel and Jill Gabriel (performed under license from Real World Music Ltd)
music director Andrea Calandrini
choreography Giulio Benvenuti
lighting design Emanuele Agliati
set design Matteo Benvenuti
video direction and graphic animations artistic direction Alessandro Parrello
