Riccardo Muti conducts the concert of friendship at the Teatro Grande in Pompeii
Tuesday 11th July, at 21:30, as the third of the concerts of the Vie dell'Amicizia Ravenna Festival 2023
‘I love Pompeii more than Paris’, Herman Melville wrote in his travel diary; perhaps because the author of Moby Dick knew how to recognise the beauty that intertwines visible and invisible, myth and history. This beauty can be seen when, on Tuesday 11 July at 21.30, Pompeii welcomes the concert directed by Riccardo Muti as the final part of this year’s Vie dell'Amicizia. The Ravenna Festival project since 1997 has visited cities that are a symbol of ancient and contemporary history.
'The concert in the Teatro Grande of ancient Pompeii is in fact the third of the events after the concerts of 7 and 9 July, held respectively in Ravenna and Jerash, the 'Pompei d'Oriente' in Jordan. This year the Festival takes place on the occasion of the centenary of Calvin's birth and is entitled in it’s XXIV edition ‘The Invisible Cities’, a reference to the common Roman past and archeological heritage that links the two long-buried cities – one by the ash of Vesuvius, the other by the sands of the desert – to Ravenna, whose port was designed by Emperor Augustus.
In tribute to the generosity and spirit of brotherhood of the Jordanian people, (which in the last decade has welcomed hundreds of thousands of refugees), the three concerts will unite the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the Cremona Antiqua Choir with Jordanian musicians in the II act by Orfeo and Euridice of Gluck with the Tenor Filippo Mineccia.
The project Le vie dell'Amicizia is supported by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; the appointment at the ancient city of Pompeii – organised thanks to the collaboration with the Archeological Park of Pompeii and with RAI 1, which will resume the concert – is made possible by the decisive and precious support of Caruso, A Belmond Hotel di Ravello.
“We are happy that this year the bond of sincere friendship that unites Maestro Riccardo Muti and his excellent Cherubini Orchestra to these territories is being reborn – emphasises the Director of the Archeological Park of Pompeii, Gabriel Zuchtriegel – And I would like to emphasise that the appointment is possible thanks to the sponsorship of a local company the Caruso, A Belmond Hotel di Ravello. A circumstance that not only means sustainability and the capacity for self-financing, (which the Minister also invites us to strengthen), but also contains an ethical message: the values of brotherhood and dialogue and the historical-cultural meaning of Pompeii are shared by society, creating synergies and relationships that bring out the positive qualities of a territory unique to the world.”
"Since, in 1997, the call came from a Sarajevo which was disfigured by bombs, Le vie dell'Amicizia entrusts its message to the universal language of music - explains Antonio De Rosa, Superintendent of Ravenna Festival - Year after year, Maestro Muti climbs on the podium with Italian orchestras and choirs, joined by musicians from the destination cities of the trip. Among the unforgettable destinations are Beirut, Jerusalem, Moscow, New York after September 11, Nairobi, Tehran, Kiev ... In 2020 we were in Paestum, twinned with the Palmyra site, to remember the Syrian people, the same people who, forced into the diaspora, found an extraordinary welcome in Jordan. This year the XXVII edition of the Vie dell'Amicizia also reaches Pompeii, as part of the dialogue with the Archeological Park that in May has already given us, in the same Teatro Grande, the debut of Acarnesi Stop the War!, another ode to peace and brotherhood among peoples.”
“The collaboration with the Archeological Park of Pompeii continues in the wake of culture: a virtuous path that last year was inaugurated with the sponsorship of the exhibition "Art and sensuality in the houses of Pompeii" and that this year resorts to another Muse and another language, that of music, capable of "tuning" the peoples and levelling frictions, differences and hostility. - states the Managing Director Alfonso Pacifico of the Caruso, A Belmond Hotel di Ravello, - A call that is part of the very fabric of Ravello, famously called the City of Music ".
Information
Tickets for the first sector: 90 Euro, for the second sector: 42 Euro
Reduced over 65 and under 30: first sector 82 Euro, second sector: 38 Euro
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