RAVENNA FESTIVAL
10:30 pm (Israel time)
Opening concert
Rocca Brancaleone – Ravenna
Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra
director Riccardo Muti
Rosa Feola soprano
Aleksandr Nikolaevič Skrjabin
Rêverie op. 24
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Exsultate, jubilate motet in F major for soprano, 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings and organ KV 165
Et incarnatus est from Mass in C minor KV 427
Symphony n. 41 in C major Jupiter KV 551
It was July 1990, when Riccardo Muti, on the stage set up at the Rocca Brancaleone, raised his wand to inaugurate the first edition of the Ravenna festival, exactly thirty years ago and in the same place that today hosts the “rebirth” of live music in Italy, after the long months of the lockdown.
Italy restarts from here, from the fifteenth-century Venetian fortress nestled in the heart of the city, with Maestro Muti and “his” young Cherubini Orchestra of 62 musicians under 30 from all over Italy, in an almost entirely Mozartian program.
At the opening of the concert, Alexandr Nikolaevič Skrjabin’s Rêverie, followed by the motet Exsultate, jubilate KV 165 and the Et incarnatus est from the Mass in C minor KV 427, both entrusted to the voice of Rosa Feola. Complete the program the majestic Symphony n. 41 in C major KV 551, composed by Mozart during the difficult summer of 1788. From one of the darkest periods of his life, a symphony was born whose luminosity once again pounds Mozart’s genius above everyday adversity.
- The show will be available on the platform www.ravennafestival.live: upon registration, the interested parties will receive by email the access link for viewing the concert.