Ravenna Bella di Sera 2012
Summer Evening events in the city center of Ravenna
Various places in the city
Ravenna (Ra)
Date: 6 July - 24 August 2012
Opening: 29 June 2012

During the evenings In July and August the town comes alive with theatrical, literary and musical events, organized by the Control Room of the Historical Center of the city

The detailed schedule in date order:

• Opening night of Ravenna Bella di Sera 2012
Various places in the city, Ravenna
Date: 29 June 2012
Live music venues:
from 7.00p.m. Clou Cafè - L'Alighieri Cafè - GrandItalia - Fargo - Alex & Paul
from 8.00p.m. Fellini - Fricandò
from 9.30p.m. Mosaico Cafè - Bar OrientEspresso - Gamba7 - Cabiria
from 10.00p.m. Mariola Casa e Bottega - Osteria Saporidivini

• Concert of Banda town of Ravenna
Strada Pedonale Benedetto Fiandrini, Ravenna
Date: Friday, 6 July 2012
Event timetable: 9.00pm

• Visioni di Eterno. Teodorico il Grande [Eternal Visions. Theodoric the Great]
Ravenna - Mausoleum of Theodoric
Date: Friday 13 and Saturday 14 July
Event timetable: 9.30pm
Spectacular video mapping creation by Andrea Bernabini, N.E.O Visual Project Ravenna.
Following the success of the visual art at the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (Eternal Visions. Galla Placidia Shines On - July 2011), the project dedicated to enhancing the UNESCO sites and to Ravenna's candidature for European Capital of Culture 2019 continues. This year, the World Heritage Site chosen by the artist is the Mausoleum of Theodoric, and the snow-white frontage of the mighty Late Antiquity building will be transformed into an unforgettable creative spectacle.
Financed by Law 77/06, and produced by the Municipality of Ravenna Tourism and Cultural Activities Service.
Free admission

• Orthographe Company
!Thump Flash MDXII
Giardini Pubblici
Viale Santi Baldini, 4 Ravenna
Date: Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Event timetable: 9.00pm
Preparation of a magnesium flash photography, arrayed in rows like artillery batteries: a special and exciting staging. This event is inserted in the manifestations of the Five hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Ravenna

• I figli della battaglia [The sons of battle]
Classense Library
Via Baccarini, 3 Ravenna
Date: Thursday, 19 July 2012
Event timetable: 9.00pm
With Gianfranco Tondini (piano) and Federica Maglioni (bassoon). This event is inserted in the manifestations of the Five hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Ravenna

• "Italia in tavola" ["Italy on the table"]
Piazza del Popolo
Ravenna
Date: Friday 20 July 2012
Event timetable: 6.00pm - 00.00am

Date: Saturday 21 July 2012
Event timetable: 8.00am - 1.00pm

• Romagna viva. E sgnor Giulio un fa famì
Pubblic Gardens
Viale Santi Baldini, 4 Ravenna
Date: Saturday, 21 July 2012
Event timetable: 9.00pm
Three acts of Augusto Chiarini, directed by Carla Fabbri. Curated by Capit Ravenna

• Romagna viva. E vampiro
Pubblic Gardens
Viale Santi Baldini, 4 Ravenna
Date: Sunday, 22 July 2012
Event timetable: 9.00pm
Three acts of Bruno Gondoni, directed by Roberto Battistini. Curated by Capit Ravenna

• Music for St. Apollinare, patron saint of Ravenna
Pubblic Gardens
Viale Santi Baldini, 4 Ravenna
Date: Monday, 23 July 2012
Event timetable: 9.00pm
Concert dedicated to St. Apollinare patron of the city with the Banda town of Ravenna

• Bandeandrè: tribute to Fabrizio De Andrè
Piazza del Popolo, Ravenna
Date: Monday, 30 July 2012
Event timetable: 9.00pm
Gianluigi Tartaull, Nazzarena Galassi - voices
Raimondo Raimondi, Giacomo Sangiorgi - guitars
Loretta Pompognoli, Stefano Fabbri - percussion
Luca Vassura - accordion
Caterina Sangiorgi - flaute

• The Scommitments: 100% Soul!
Piazza del Popolo, Ravenna
Date: Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Event timetable: 9.00pm
Marco Morini, Daniela Peroni, Roberta Montanari - voices
Mirko Guerra - electric guitar
Massimo Maccolini - piano, rhodes, organ
Andrea Mazzotti - bass
Omar Taroni - drums
Matteo Parrinello - tenor and baritone sax
Raffaele Bandoli - trumpet
Francesco Bucci - trombone

• Concert of Banda town of Ravenna
Strada Pedonale Benedetto Fiandrini, Ravenna
Date: Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Event timetable: 9.00pm

• Bambitudine: poems of the heart
Via Galla Placidia, Ravenna
Date: Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Event timetable: 9.00pm
Poems by Livia Santini, read by Eliseo Dalla Vecchia and Silvia Manzani

• Sotto le Stelle di Galla Placidia [Under the Stars of Galla Placidia]
Ravenna – Via Galla Placidia
Date: 3 August - 24 August
Event timetable: 9.00pm
Year after year, this musical season presents a varied and entertaining programme of events featuring top quality international performers. You will find jazz, swing and other musical genres from 9 pm onwards, in the evocative night-time atmosphere of Via Galla Placidia, next to the Basilica of San Vitale and the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia.
Organised by the Ravenna City Orchestra, Artistic Director - Matteo Salerno.
Free admission

• O Musiva Musa...tessere di poesia e musica [O Musiva Musa....interwoven poetry and music]
Ravenna – Via Galla Placidia
Date: 2 August - 19 August
Event timetable: 9.00pm
This year the programme is dedicated specially to the 1512 Battle of Ravenna, which took place five hundred years ago. This prestigious cultural programme is catching the public's attention more and more each year, offering well-known poetry readers with live musical accompaniment from 9 pm in the splendid setting of Via Galla Placidia. Artistic Director - Franco Costantini
Free admission

Download the poster of the event (.pdf)