2017

May 25 – July 11 “The Noise of Time”

November 17-23 Autumn Trilogy On the verge of the 20th century Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Tosca

President Cristina Mazzavillani Muti Artistic Direction Franco Masotti, Angelo Nicastro > Saturday, June 3 | Palazzo dei Congressi (9 pm) Ravenna Festival FOR DANTE 2015-2021 Music and Cinema > From May 25 to July 2 | Ancient Franciscan Cloisters (11 am) The cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Young artists for dante direction Robert Wiene in collaboration with Società Dante Alighieri script Hans Janowitz e Carl Mayer music and live electronics Edison Studio > From May 25 to July 2 | Basilica of San Vitale (7 pm) with the contribution of SIAE Vespers AT san vitale within the project “SIAE - Classici di oggi” in collaboration with Opera di Religione della Diocese di Ravenna > Sunday, June 4 | Foreste Casentinesi National Park (10 am) > From May 25 to July 2 (every day except on Monday) | Rasi Theatre (8 pm) A tribute to the Natural Park of Sasso Fratino Inferno “UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site” conception, artistic direction and direction concerto trekking Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari “Polyphonie” music Luigi Ceccarelli Classica Orchestra Afrobeat set design Edoardo Sanchi Njamy Sitson soloist commissioned by Ravenna Festival in collaboration with Romagna Acque and Trail Romagna coproduction Alighieri Theatre, Ravenna Theatre - Teatro delle Albe in collaboration with Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera >Sunday, June 4 | Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (11.30 am) and “Ottorino Respighi” Music Conservatory, Latina In templo Domini Liturgies in the Basilicas Missa Ducalis for 13 voices by Costanzo Porta The festival at the Mar Master of the Cappella Metropolitana in Ravenna from 1567 to 1575 > 25 May - 11 July | Museo d’Arte della Città di Ravenna Costanzo Porta & Ensemble Cremona Antiqua conductor Antonio Greco MUSICs Photos by Lelli e Masotti >Sunday, June 4 | Basilica of S. Apollinare in Classe (9 pm) A journey in black and white featuring protagonists of the history of music Revolutions in Music Controcanti Empty with memories From Giovanni Gabrieli’s polychoral magnificience to Arvo Pärt’s ascetic minimalism The suspended time of Palazzo San Giacomo Costanzo Porta Choir & Ensemble Cremona Antiqua video installation Silvia Lelli music Luigi Ceccarelli conductor Antonio Greco > Sunday, May 28 | Palazzo Mauro de André (9 pm) music Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, John Tavener, Arvo Pärt Munich Philharmonic conductor >Tuesday, June 6 | Artificerie Almagià (9 pm) Tribute to Karlheinz Stockhausen in the 10th anniversary of his death Semyon Bychkov Harlekin for clarinet (1975) Jean-Yves Thibaudet soloist Roberta Gottardi Pëtr Il’icˇ Cˇajkovskij light design Luciano Gottardi Concert for piano and orchestra no. 1 in B flat minor, op. 23 costume design Gabriella Gasperini Louis-Hector Berlioz direction Stefano Patarino Symphonie fantastique (épisode de la vie d’un artiste) op. 14 > Thursday, June 8 | Palazzo Mauro de André (9.30 pm) > Thursday, June 1 | Alighieri Theatre (9 pm) Ballet du Nord/CCN Roubaix Nord-Pas de Calais Dances, Voices, Sounds of the Italian Futurism The Hell of Power UCCIDIAMO IL CHIARO DI LUNA (1997-2015) Les mémoires d’un seigneur choreography Silvana Barbarini reation Olivier Dubois choirmaster Emanuele De Checchi artistic assistant Cyril Accorsi with dancers of Civica Scuola di Teatro “Paolo Grassi” creation assistant Karine Girard music Aldo Giuntini, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Alexander Mosolov, André Laporte répétiteurs Karine Girard, Marie-Laure Caradec, Sandra Savin new staging within RIC.CI project interpreter Sébastien Perrault with the participation of 40 selected male performers (Reconstruction Italian Contemporary Choreography, Eighties and Nineties) music François Caffenne conception and artistic direction Marinella Guatterini production Ballet du Nord/CCN Roubaix Nord – Pas de Calais coproduction Productiehuis Rotterdam-Rotterdamse Schouwburg > Friday, June 2 | Basilica of San Vitale (9.30 pm) 5th centenary of Martin Luther’s Reformation > Friday, June 9 | Cloister of the Biblioteca Classense (9.30 pm) Corale luterano The Smith Quartet e musica nel rito tridentino Ian Humphries, Rick Koster violins Concerto Vocale La Stagione Armonica Nic Pendlebury viola organ Carlo Rossi conductor Sergio Balestracci Deirdre Cooper cello music , Georg Philipp Telemann, Joseph Klug, Johann Walter, Michael Praetorius, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina > Saturday, June 10 | Alighieri Theatre (9 pm) > Friday 16 and Saturday 17 June | Palazzo San Giacomo (9.30 pm) A Passage to India Shobana Jeyasingh Dance THE Festival IN Russi programme to be announced Material Men choreography Shobana Jeyasingh > Sunday, June 18 | Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe (10 am) music Elena Kats-Chernin live music The Smith Quartet In templo Domini Liturgies in the Basilicas Cantores Minores > Sunday, June 11 | Basilica of Sant’Agata Maggiore (11.30 am) The Choir of Boys and Young Men of Cathedral In templo Domini Liturgies in the Basilicas organ Markus Malmgren conductor Hannu Norjanen I Solisti della Cappella Marciana conductor Marco Gemmani > Sunday, June 18 | Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe (9 pm) Tribute to the centenary of Finland’s Indepence > Sunday, June 11| Basilica of San Vitale (9.30 pm) Tribute to Claudio Monteverdi in the 450th anniversary of his birth il suono del nord VESPRI DELL’ASSUNTA Cantores Minores of Helsinki Cathedral organ Markus Malmgren Reconstruction of the Vespers composed in Venice by Claudio Monteverdi around 1640 conductor Hannu Norjanen I Solisti della Cappella Marciana music Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean Sibelius, Joonas Kokkonen, Einojuhani conductor Marco Gemmani Rautavaara, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi

> Monday, June 12 | Palazzo Mauro de André (9 pm) > Sunday, June 18 | Cloister of the Biblioteca Classense (9.30 pm) Revolutions in Music – The New Music of the Enlightenment Revolutions in Music Accademia Bizantina Cuneo Rosso (Tribute to El Lissitzky) conductor The Piano and the Russian Revolution Ottavio Dantone Daniele Lombardi piano Music Arthur-Vincent Lourié, Aleksandr Vasil’evicˇ Mosolov, cello Daniele Lombardi, Igor’ Stravinskij Giovanni Sollima Franz Joseph Haydn > Monday, June 19 | Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe (9 pm) Symphony no. 81 in G major Tribute to Claudio Monteverdi for the 450th anniversary of the birth Symphony no. 80 in D minor Concerto No. 2 for cello and orchestra in D major, Hob. VIIb: 2 È questa vita un lampo Sacred affection and profane effects in the Selva Morale e Spirituale by Monteverdi > Tuesday, June 13 | Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (9 pm) Allabastrina Choir & Consort Revolutions in Music conductor Elena Sartori Follie Corelliane (première partie) > Tuesday, June 20| Cloister of the Biblioteca Classense(9.30 pm) (first part) Ludus Gravis Imaginarium Ensemble ensemble of double basses violin Enrico Onofri Daniele Roccato first double and artistic director Arcangelo Corelli Violin Sonatas op. 5 Double basses Stefano Battaglia, Paolo Di Gironimo, Simone Masina, Andrea Passini, Giacomo Piermatti, Francesco Platoni, Alessandro Schillaci > Wednesday, June 14 | Sala Corelli of the Alighieri Theatre (9 pm) music Sofia Gubaidulina e Fabio Cifariello Ciardi (new composition commissioned Duo Gazzana by Ravenna Festival and Alessandro Scarlatti Association) tribute to Andrej Tarkovskij Natascia Gazzana cello > Wednesday, June 21 | Alighieri Theatre (9 pm) Raffaella Gazzana piano Revolutions in music - The masterpiece of Russian Futurism Music Johann Sebastian Bach, Valentin Silvestrov, Arvo Pärt VICTORY OVER THE SUN (1913) Opera in 2 actions and 6 scenes by Aleksej Krucˇenych > Thursday, June 15 | Palazzo Mauro de André (9 pm) prologue Velimir Chlébnikov Orchestre National de Lyon music Mihail V. Matjušin stage and costumes Kazimir S. Malevicˇ conductor reconstruction of the opera produced by Stas Namin Theatre in Moscow in Leonard Slatkin collaboration with The Russian Museum of St. Petersburg (2013) violin direction Andrey Rossinskiy stage and video Grigory Brodsky on drawings by Kazimir S. Malevicˇ Anne-Sophie Mutter musical interpretation and arrangements Aleksandr Slizunov Louis-Hector Berlioz light designer Andrey Dudnik Le Carnaval Romain ouverture caractéristique op. 9 choreography Ekaterina Goryacheva Toru Takemitsu first piano Alexandra Popova second piano Anastasia Makushkina Nostalghia for violin and string orchestra (performed in Russian with Italian surtitles) Felix Mendelssohn Italian premiere Concerto in D minor for violin and orchestra op. 64 Maurice Ravel Rhapsodie Espagnole , Pavane pour une infante défunte, Daphnis et Chloé Suite n. 2 > Tuesday, June 27 | Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (9 pm) For the 70th anniversary of India’s independence Revolutions in Music DARBAR FESTIVAL IN RAVENNA Follie Corelliane A Passage to India (second part) Stefano Montanari violin June, 22 | Sala Corelli of the Alighieri Theatre (3.30 pm) Arcangelo Corelli Carnatic music demonstration with Ranjani & Gayatri Violin sonatas op. 5

June, 22 | Basilica of San Vitale (9.30 pm) Escape into Night Ragas > Wednesday, June 28 | Sala Corelli of the Alighieri Theatre (6 pm) Debasmita Bhattacharya sarod Gurdain Rayatt tabla waiting for 1917 Fausto Malcovati teacher of Russian literature at the University of Milan June 23 | Sala Corelli of the Alighieri Theatre (10 am) with Davide Sacco and Agata Tomsic / ErosAntEros Demonstration lesson of rudra veena with Ustad Bhauddin Dagar Quartetto Noûs

Quartet n arcs. 8 in C minor, op. 110 by Dmitrij Šostakovicˇ June 23 (5.30pm), June 24 (12am) June | Sala Corelli of the Alighieri Theatre Yogabliss Hatha yoga lesson by Kanwal Ahluwaliai with Giuliano Modarelli guitar > Wednesday, June 28 | Alighieri Theatre (9 pm) Revolutions in Music June 23 | Alighieri Theatre (9 pm) Epic Ragas 1917 Manjusha Patil Kulkarni khayal vocal singing concept Davide Sacco and Agata Tomsic / ErosAntEros Murad Ali sarangi Gurdain Rayatt tabla with Agata Tomsic and Quartetto Noûs Pandit Kushal Das sitar Shashank Subramanium carnatic flute Shubhankar direction and live electronics Davide Sacco Banerjee tabla Patri Satish Kumar mridangam dramaturg Agata Tomsic literary consultancy Fausto Malcovati June 24 | Basilica of San Francesco (10 am) animations Gianluca Sacco light design Paolo Baldini costumes Laura Dondoli Glorious Morning Ragas commissioned by Ravenna Festival coproduced with ErosAntEros Praveen Godkhindi bansuri Subhankar Banerjee tabla in collaboration with La Corte Ospitale

June 24 | Sala Corelli of the Alighieri Theatre (3 pm) > Thursday, June 29 | Palazzo Mauro de André (9.30 pm) Demonstration lesson of bansuri with Shashank Subramanium Ballet Nacional de Cuba June 24 | Alighieri Theatre (9pm) Artistic Director Alicia Alonso Raga Time Travel Ustad Bhauddin Dagar rudra veena Pelva Naik chante dhrupad La magia della danza Surdarshan Chana jori choreographies from Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Coppélia, Ranjani & Gayatri chante khayal Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Gottschalk Symphony Patri Satish Kumar mridangam Giridhar Udupa ghatam > Friday 30 June | Palazzo Mauro de André (9 pm) Jyotsna Shrikanth violon Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI With the support of the Embassy of India, Rome conductor Juraj ValCˇuha piano > Sunday, June 25 | Orthodox Church of Protezione della Madre di Dio (10.30 am) In templo Domini Liturgies in the Basilicas David Fray Robert Schumann Divina Liturgia di San Giovanni Crisostomo Concert for piano and orchestra in A minor, Op. 54 Orthodox Patriarchate Choir of Moscow choirmaster Anatolij Grindenko Richard Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie op. 64 > Sunday 25 June | Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (9 pm)

Orthodox Patriarchate Choir of MOSCOW > Saturday, July 1 | Basilica of San Francesco (9 pm) choirmaster Music and Cinema Anatolij Grindenko La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928) by Carl Theodor Dreyer > Monday, June 26 | Cloister of the Biblioteca Classense (9.30 pm) with fifteenth century music performed by Orlando Consort Italian premiere quartetTO ADORNO Edoardo Zosi, Liù Pelliciari violins Benedetta Bucci viola the festival in comacchio Danilo Squitieri cello > Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 July | Various venues Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in E minor No. 2 op. 59 “Rasumowsky” Tra anguille e tarante second edition Anton Webern Five pieces for strings, Op. 5 A project by Ambrogio Sparagna Claude Debussy String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 With the participation of Orchestra Popolare Italiana of the Auditorium Parco della in collaboration with Musica di Roma and Luca Barbarossa European Chamber Music Academy – Scuola di Musica di Fiesole > Sunday, July 2 | Basilica of San Vitale (10.30 am) In templo Domini Liturgies in the Basilicas the roads of friendship Orlando Consort liturgy celebrated by Moscow Archibishop S.E. Mons. Paolo Pezzi A bridge of brotherhood through art and culture > Saturday, July 8 | Palazzo Mauro de André (9 pm) > Monday, July 3 | Sala Corelli of the Alighieri Theatre (9 pm) orchestra giovanile luigi cherubini la folia conductor Matteo Ramon Arevalos compositions and piano riccardo Muti

> Tuesday, July 4 | Antico Porto di Classe (19 pm) THE festival IN Forlì sound, stones, sunset > Sunday July 9 | Church of San Giacomo, Forlì (9pm) Fabio Mina flute, duduk, khaen, electronics, field recording A Passage to India Geir Sundstøl pedal steel guitar, dobro Anoushka Shankar Land of Gold Anoushka Shankar sitar Sanjeev Shankar shehnai > Tuesday, July 4 | Palazzo Mauro de André (9 pm) Manu Delago hang & drum kit Tom Farmer double bass, keys, electronics Over the Noise of Time ST. petersbUrg philharmonic orchestra > Monday, July 10 | Sala Corelli of the Alighieri Theatre (9 pm) conductor Tuesday, July 11 | Antico Porto di Classe (7 pm) Yuri Temirkanov Saskatoon Children’s Choir piano Many Hearts: One Voice (10 July) Denis Matsuev Rise Up Singing (11 July) Dmitrij Sˇostakovicˇ Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra no. 1 > Tuesday, July 11 | Alighieri Theatre (9 pm) Symphony no. 7 in C major “Leningrad” Music and Cinema Charlie Chaplin The festival in Forlì (1925) > Wednesday, July 5 | Church of San Giacomo (9 pm) The Gold Rush Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini Fabrizio De André. Women and Other Stories conductor Timothy Brock Amore che vieni, amore che vai original music by Charlie Chaplin, reconstructed by Timothy Brock Cristina Donà voice in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna Rita Marcotulli piano Enzo Pietropaoli double bass Fabrizio Bosso trumpet AUTUMN TRILOGY Javier Girotto sax On the verge of the 20th century Saverio Lanza electric guitar Cristiano Calcagnile drums, percussion > November 17, 21 | Alighieri Theatre Music Fabrizio De André cavalleria rusticana opera in one act > Thursday, July 6 | Alighieri Theatre (9 pm) libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci Chicago Children’s Choir adapted from a play and a short story by Giovanni Verga conductor music by Pietro Mascagni Josephine Lee > November 18, 22 | Alighieri Theatre a musical journey through gospel, protest songs, world & pop music PAGLIACCI drama in one prologue and two acts The festival in Forlì music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo > Friday , July 7 | Church of San Giacomo (9 pm) > November 19, 23 | Alighieri Theatre From Leonard Bernstein to Justin TOSCA Timberlake opera in three acts Chicago Children’s Choir libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa conductor Josephine Lee based on the dramatic play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou music by Giacomo Puccini > Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July | Antico Porto di Classe (7 pm) Teatro dei Due Mari and Daf - Teatro dell’Esatta Fantasia conductor Vladimir Ovodok THE CYCLOPs direction and concept Cristina Mazzavillani Muti Satyr play by Euripides Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini translation Filippo Amoroso with Edoardo Siravo Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza direction Angelo Campolo music Marco Betta live performance choirmaster Corrado Casati set and costumes Giulia Drogo Fondazione Ravenna Manifestazioni thanks all those who have made the 2016 edition of the Ravenna Festival possible with their support and sponsorship

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