Ravenna Festival 2012
Different places in the city
Ravenna
Date: 9 June - 15 July 2012

The Festival 2012, now in its XXIII edition, is renewed in the formula and is presented in four chapters that punctuate the year from spring to autumn.

Anteprima 27 April 2012
Allegromosso 16 - 17 May 2012
Nobilissima visione 9 June - 15 July 2012
Trilogia d’autunno 9 - 18 November 2012

• Anteprima

- 27 April 2012
9.00 pm – Palazzo Mauro De André
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti director

- 16 May 2012
9.00pm – Arena Mauro De André
Youth Orchestra Luigi Cherubini. Instrumentalists of music schools in Europe
Wayne Marshall director and solist

• Nobilissima visione
The theme of Ravenna Festival builds on a central core, or “heart”: the millennium of the Holy Hermitage of Camaldoli, founded by Saint Romuald, a Benedictine monk from Ravenna. “One heart, one soul”: this fundamental precept, handed down by the first community of Jerusalem and forming the ideal model of monastic life, makes us ponder on the historical significance of Western and Eastern monasticism, and on its seemingly irrelevant topicality. The Festival’s core will also give us a chance to tell the tale of a very different Ravenna, not as splendid as at the time of the Western Roman Empire but quite as extraordinary: the Ravenna of Saint Romuald and his monks, of Sant Adalbert or Gerbert d’Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II), a Ravenna “dappled with a soft oriental worry” (as poet Eugenio Montale put it) and an extraordinary cultural project and European workshop.

- 9 June 2012
5.30pm - Sala Muratori, Classense Library
Meeting with Alessandro Barban (Prior General of the Camaldolese Monks). Presentation of the book: “I passi del silenzio. Da Ravenna all’Eremo di Camaldoli sulle tracce di San Romualdo”
9.00pm – Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo
Vespro della beata Vergine by Orazio Tarditi (1602-1677), Camaldolese Monk
The season harmonic. Vocal and Instrumental Concert.
11.00pm – Basilica of San Francesco
La via dolorosa. The songs of passion in Sicily
with Mancuso brothers

- 10 June 2012
9.00pm – Arena Mauro de André
Orchestra giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Tennis Russel Davies director

- 11 June 2012
9.00pm - Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe
Cantores minores della cattedrale di Helsinki
Finnish music from medieval to contemporary

- 12 June 2012
9.30pm – Classense Library
Meeting with Steve Reich
Conducted by Franco Fabbri

- 13 June 2012
9.00pm – Arena Mauro De André
Tribute to Steve Reich

- 14 June 2012
9.30pm – Cloisters of the Classense Library
Munâjât Yulchieva. Ghazal, Sufi mystic poem from Uzbekistan

- 15 June 2012
9.00pm  – Theater Alighieri
Coro of the Sat. (Society of Tridentini Mountaineers ). The music of the peaks

- 16 June 2012
9.00pm - Arena Mauro De André
Shen Wei Dance Arts

- 17 June 2012
9.30pm – Cloisters of the Classense Library
Trio Mediaeval (Norwey)

- 18 June 2012
6.00pm - Cloisters of the Classense Library
Via Sancti Romualdi – Meeting with Enzo Bianchi (Prior of the Community of Bose)
Monasticism and civil society

- 21 June 2012
9.00pm – Theater Alighieri
Evergreen Symphony Orchestra
Eastern folklore songs arranged by Taiwanese composers

- 23 June 2012
9.00pm – Arena Mauro De André
Chicago children’s choir. From gospel to Michael Jackson
9.30pm – Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi, Cervia
Voices of the Corridor. 100 years of Italian song...with swing
Concert for the 100 years since the founding of Milano Marittima

- 24 June 2012
9.00pm - Arena Mauro De André
Gran Gala “Gran Pas Classique”
Étoiles, First Dancers and Soloists from Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris

- 25 June 2012
9.00pm – Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe
Orchestra giovanile Luigi Cherubini Chicago children’s choir
Pietro Borgonovo director

- 26 June 2012
Ore 21.30 – Chiostri della Biblioteca Classense
Chominciamento di gioia. La musica virtuosistica per il ballo nel Medioevo

- 27 June 2012
6.00pm – Trekking - Parco 1° maggio
9.30pm – Concert - Parco 1° maggio
Concerto Trekking. Like trees in winter

- 28 June 2012
9.30pm – Rocca Brancaleone
Memorie di Adriano. The Clan's songs of Adriano Celentano

- 29 June 2012
9.30pm - Cloisters of the Classense Library
Bellezza Barbarica. The concert and the tradition of Eastern European
Ore 21.30 – Rocca Brancaleone
Ben Frost – Yuri Ancarani (Weird Tales 1)

- 30 June 2012
9.00pm – Arena Mauro De André
Cedar lake contemporary ballet
9.30pm - Cloisters of the Classense Library
Piero Bonaguri. Tribute to Segovia

- 1 July 2012
9.00pm – Basilica of San Vitale
Ensemble heinavanker
Choirs and religious music in Northern Europe after the Year One thousand

- 3 July 2012
9.00pm – Theater Rasi
La cotogna di Istanbul. Paolo Rumiz storyteller

- 4 July 2012
9.00pm – Arena Mauro De André
Käfig Brasil. Creation for 11 dancers

- 5 July 2012
9.30pm – Garden of San Vitale
Sette giorni in Tibet – Ani Choying Drolma.
I lama tibetani del Monastero Drepung Loseling

- 6 July 2012
6.00pm - Classense Library
7 days in Tibet – Ceremony marking the start of the Mandala
The Tibetan lamas of Drepung Loseling Monastery
9.00pm – Theater Alighieri
Paul Hindermith. Nobilissima Visione. Orchestral Suite from the homonymous ballet
Paul Hindermith. Sancta Susanna. Riccardo Muti director Youth Orchestra Luigi Cherubini
9.30pm – Rocca Brancaleone
Egberto Gismonti, Naná Vasconcelos

- 7 July 2012
Ore 10.30 – Theater Alighieri
Massimo Cacciari e Riccardo Muti. Conversatione about “Nobilissima Visione”
Ore 21.00 – Theater Alighieri
Paul Hindermith. Nobilissima Visione. Orchestral Suite from the homonymous ballet
Paul Hindermith. Sancta Susanna. Riccardo Muti dirtector Youth Orchestra Luigi Cherubini
Ore 21.30 – Rocca Brancaleone
Egberto Gismonti, Trio Madeira e Hamilton De Holanda

- 8 July 2012
9.00pm – Basilica of San Vitale
7 days in Tibet – Stephan Micus
9.00pm – Arena Mauro De André
Orchestra filarmonica di San Pietroburgo
Yuri Temirkanov director

- 9 July 2012
9.00pm – Theater Alighieri
7 days in Tibet – Sacred music and dance from Tibet
The Tibetan lamas of Drepung Loseling Monastery

- 10 July 2012
9.30pm – Gardens of San Vitale
7 days in Tibet – Tibetan Monks inside electronics

- 11 July 2012
6.00pm - Classense Library
7 days in Tibet – Solemn ceremony of destruction of the Mandala
The Tibetan lamas of Drepung Loseling Monastery
9.00pm – Basilica of San Vitale
Orthodox male choir of Moscow. The great tradition of sacred music and liturgy of the Russian church
9.30pm – Rocca Brancaleone
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (Weird Tales 2)
11.00pm – Giardini di San Vitale
7 days in Tibet – Raga verde. A meeting between Dhrupad singing and Gregorian chant

- 12 July 2012
9.00pm  – Arena Mauro De André
Concerto della Fraternità
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini; Orchestra Giovanile Italiana Stagione Armonica. Director Riccardo Muti

 - 13 July 2012
9.30pm – San Giacomo Palace, Russi (Ra)
Francesco De Gregori & Ambrogio Sparagna - Vola Vola Vola
Orchestra Popolare Italiana dell'Auditorium; Parco della Musica; Coro Amarcanto

 - 14 July 2012
9.30pm – San Giacomo Palace, Russi (Ra)
Taranta Nera (quando il Salento incontra l'Africa)
with Officina Zoè, Baba Sissoko, Mamani Keita (Mali) and Sourakhata Dioubate (Giunea)

 - 15 July 2012
9.30pm – San Giacomo Palace, Russi (Ra)
Kareyce Fotso (Camerun), Aly Keïta (Mali), Dobet Gnahoré (Costa d'Avorio)

•  Autumn Trilogy "Waiting for Verdi"

- 9, 13, 16 November 2012
8.30pm  – Theater Alighieri
Rigoletto

- 10, 14, 17 November 2012
8.30pm – Theater Alighieri
Il trovatore

- 11, 15, 18 November 2012
8.30pm – Theater Alighieri
La traviata