Le città invisibili
Sergio Rubini

Milano Marittima, Palazzo dei Congressi | 14 June 2023 | at 9:30 PM

Il Trebbo in musica 2.3

Tribute to Italo Calvino on the centenary of his birth (1923-1985)
Le città invisibili
with Sergio Rubini

Michele Fazio piano

concept and artistic coordination Elena Marazzita
adaptation Cosimo Damiano Damato

AidaStudioProduzioni

with the contribution of Cooperativa Bagnini Cervia

We will never know exactly what the relationship is between Kublai Khan’s maps and the cities bearing women’s names described by Marco Polo: the narrative unfolds precisely in the impossible reconciliation of the secret reasons of the narrator’s voice and the inscrutable ones of the listener. And what we learn about these cities always brings us back to the labyrinthine essence of each place and the ambiguity of each story. Thus, among the “invisible cities” there are some where it is not clear whether an object is a thing or a sign, some where the enthusiasm for novelty is threatened by dangerous piles of rubbish from a past life, some that were left unfinished and some that are already in ruins. Sergio Rubini takes on the task of unravelling this dialogue, carving a path through Calvino’s cities, supported by the jazzy echoes of Michele Fazio’s piano.

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Tribute to
Angelo Mariani

conductor Donato Renzetti

Teatro Alighieri | from 14 June to 31 December 2023

150 years after the death of Angelo Mariani (Ravenna 11 October 1821- Genua 13 June 1873)

Orchestra dell’Accademia del Teatro alla Scala
Solisti dell’Accademia del Teatro alla Scala
Donato Renzetti conductor

Giuseppe Verdi
from Aroldo Overture
from Giovanna D’Arco “O fatidica foresta”
soprano Greta Doveri
from Attila Preludio “Mentre gonfiarsi l’anima“
bass Livio Li Huanhong
from La traviata “È strano!… Sempre libera”
soprano Zhou Fan
from Don Carlos Preludio, ballabili from act III

Gaetano Donizetti
from Lucia di Lammermoor “Tombe degli avi miei”
tenor Andrea Tanzillo

Charles Gounod
from Faust “Alerte, alerte, ou vous êtes perdus!”
soprano Zhou Fan, tenor Andrea Tanzillo, bass Livio Li Huanhong

Richard Wagner
from Lohengrin Prelude to act I
from Tannhäuser Overture

in collaboration with Associazione Musicale Angelo Mariani di Ravenna

It had to be Verdi and Wagner, the two undisputed giants of nineteenth-century opera and now the pillars of a concert commemorating the 150thanniversary of Angelo Mariani’s birth. If the former was a long-time personal friend and collaborator of Mariani’s (although they had a serious falling out due to misunderstandings and probably romantic jealousy), the latter owed the first Italian performances of his operas to Mariani, who conducted the premieres of both Lohengrinand Tannhäuser in Bologna. This further widened the rift with the great composer from Busseto, who perhaps also blamed the charismatic Ravenna-born musician for the liberties he took with other people’s scores. However, Mariani played an important role in the rise of the modern professional conductor, combining the roles of maestro concertatoreand direttore d’orchestra to achieve “a true unity of performance, conception and interpretation”.

The Programme

Presentation of the program 2023

XXXIV edition

Teatro Alighieri | 12 March 2022 | at 11:00 AM

Terre incognite
Concerto per Roberto

Terre incognite
Concerto per Roberto

Ouverture (Portici del Teatro)
Martin Mayes Alpenhorn/corno delle Alpi

Roberto Ottaviano sax soprano e Alexander Hawkins pianoforte
Charlie’s Blue Skylight

Patrizio e Stefano Fariselli pianoforte e sax suonano la musica degli Area

Giancarlo Schiaffini basso tuba

Paolo Damiani contrabbasso e Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi pianoforte

Luigi Ceccarelli live electronics estratti da Bianco Nero Pianoforte

Blend 3: Andrea Grossi contrabbasso, Manuel Caliumi sax contralto, Michele Bonifati chitarra elettrica
feat. Beatrice Arrigoni voce

Fabio Mina flauto e live electronics

Giovanni Sollima violoncello

Ars Ludi: Antonio Caggiano, Rodolfo Rossi, Gianluca Ruggeri, Alessio Cavaliere percussioni
Steve Reich: Drumming (Part 1)
Francesco Filidei: I funerali dell’anarchico Serantini (versione per 3 esecutori)

Famodou Don Moye drums e percussioni, Simon Sieger pianoforte e trombone e Christophe Leloil tromba
con la partecipazione di Silvia Bolognesi contrabbasso

Alvin Curran live electronics

Carte da musica (estratti): Luigi Esposito pianoforte e Monica Benvenuti voce 
musica di Luigi Esposito, testi di Roberto Masotti
Prima esecuzione assoluta

TAI No-Orchestra
Massimo Falascone sax, Roberto Del Piano basso elettrico e Filippo Monico drums

con la partecipazione di
Silvia Bolognesi contrabbasso, Martin Mayes corno e Gianluca Lo Presti live visual
immagini di Roberto Masotti

Per bussola, nell’esplorare le terre incognite della musica – là dove la musica accadeva o stava per accadere – aveva scelto la macchina fotografica; strumento fra gli strumenti, per mescolarsi ai nomadi del suono lungo un itinerario che era un continuo attraversamento di frontiere. E allora Terre incognite. Concerto per Roberto è un invito al viaggio: il Teatro Alighieri di Ravenna accoglie tanti di quei musicisti che Roberto Masotti, scomparso lo scorso maggio, ha incontrato, conosciuto, ascoltato, fotografato.

Oltre 30 artisti si alterneranno in scena nella città natale di Roberto, straordinario “fotografo della musica” e testimone di una meravigliosa stagione di creatività: sei ore di concerto, dal jazz d’avanguardia, soprattutto europeo ma anche d’oltreoceano, al sound ECM, etichetta discografica alla quale è stato legato da una collaborazione ultradecennale, alle tante altre musiche di oggi, incluse il minimalismo e la sperimentazione elettronica, passando per le contaminazioni fra suoni e l’evocazione dei paesaggi naturali al centro di tante sue fotografie. Né mancheranno testimonianze della sua attività nella videoarte e nella scrittura, anche poetica, quest’ultima poco nota al pubblico.

Programma di sala

Elio Germano
and Teho Teardo

Il sogno di una cosa

Milano Marittima, Arena dello Stadio dei Pini | 03 July 2022 | at 9:30 PM

Tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pierfrancesco Pisani presents
Il sogno di una cosa

freely adapted from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s masterpiece
by and with Elio Germano e Teho Teardo

with the contribution of Cooperativa Bagnini Cervia

In Friuli, the lives of three young men are cut short by the hardships of the world: the misery of the peasant milieu, the experience of migration, the political struggles, and then the integration into the middle-class of the booming economy. They yearn for happiness and a comfortable life abroad, develop a political consciousness, dream of revolution, then yield to the compromises of adulthood, likely to meet a work-related death.
In his first narrative experiment, Pasolini speaks in the voices of those who fled poverty-stricken post-war Italy to illegally enter Yugoslavia, attracted by the Communist utopia and by the promise of work and food for everyone. A counter-exodus on the Balkan route, across the same border that today’s refugees try to reach to enter Italy: we seem to have forgotten it, but just a short way back, we were the ones who resorted to passeurs.

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Bio-Economy Days

Teatro Alighieri | Disponibile fino al 31 dicembre 2022

Bio-Economy Days

organised by Cluster Spring, Assobiotec, Federchimica, Fondazione Raul Gardini, Fondazione Resoil, Apre, Fva, Novamont
in collaboration with Ravenna Festival
with the support of Fondazione Impact, Transition2bio, Molino Spadoni and the patronage of the Comune di Ravenna

Discover the complete programme

The national Bio-Economy Day returns to Ravenna, and doubles in length to explore the issues underpinning ecological transition and the fight to climate change. Intended as the economy that uses renewable biological sources as raw materials for industrial, energy, food and feed production, in 2020 the Italian bio-economy was worth 317 billion euros, and employed around 2 million people. The issues of this meta-sector, which proved to be resilient during the pandemic, and which forms the basis for the European Green New Deal, will be discussed by key stakeholders from the world of industry, agriculture and finance. This will also be an opportunity to discuss sustainable development, the UN 2030 Agenda and green jobs, and to award the schools that took part in the Bio-economy4You competition.

Bio-Economy Days

Teatro Alighieri | Available to 31 December 2022

Bio-Economy Days

organised by Cluster Spring, Assobiotec, Federchimica, Fondazione Raul Gardini, Fondazione Resoil, Apre, Fva, Novamont
in collaboration with Ravenna Festival
with the support of Fondazione Impact, Transition2bio, Molino Spadoni and the patronage of the Comune di Ravenna

Discover the complete programme

The national Bio-Economy Day returns to Ravenna, and doubles in length to explore the issues underpinning ecological transition and the fight to climate change. Intended as the economy that uses renewable biological sources as raw materials for industrial, energy, food and feed production, in 2020 the Italian bio-economy was worth 317 billion euros, and employed around 2 million people. The issues of this meta-sector, which proved to be resilient during the pandemic, and which forms the basis for the European Green New Deal, will be discussed by key stakeholders from the world of industry, agriculture and finance. This will also be an opportunity to discuss sustainable development, the UN 2030 Agenda and green jobs, and to award the schools that took part in the Bio-economy4You competition.

Aldo Cazzullo
Moni Ovadia

Il duce delinquente

Milano Marittima, Arena dello Stadio dei Pini | Available to 31th December

Il Trebbo in musica 2.2

Il duce delinquente

by and with Aldo Cazzullo and Moni Ovadia
cello, piano, and vocals Giovanna Famulari

organiser Corvino Produzioni

with the contribution of Cooperativa Bagnini Cervia

Alongside his fervent activity as a journalist, Aldo Cazzullo has grown increasingly fond of the theatre, where he narrates the essential facts and figures of Italian history bringing together his own curiosity and the talent of actors and musicians. In order to shed light on Benito Mussolini and Fascism, whose granite propaganda got consolidated through the Duce’s private and public crimes and betrayals, Cazzullo needs the “stinging” Moni Ovadia to lend his voice to both Mussolini and his victims. The eclectic Giovanna Famulari provides a soundtrack to this tale for two voices, with music and songs from the period. We will follow the events that led to WWII, and their profound impact on the history of our country.

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Messa Arcaica
e Canzoni Mistiche

Tribute to Franco Battiato

Palazzo Mauro De André | Available to 4 September 2022

Tribute to Franco Battiato

Messa Arcaica
per soli, coro e orchestra
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
by Franco Battiato

soloists
Juri Camisasca vocals
Cristina Baggio mezzo

Coro della Cattedrale di Siena “Guido Chigi Saracini”
choirmaster Lorenzo Donati
Carlo Guaitoli piano
conductor Guido Corti

Canzoni Mistiche
by Franco Battiato
voce Juri Camisasca, Alice, Simone Cristicchi
conductor and pianist Carlo Guaitoli

soloists Juri Camisasca, Alice, Simone Cristicchi

keyboards and programming
Angelo Privitera
Orchestra Bruno Maderna

original production by Ravenna Festival and Sagra Musicale Malatestiana

Franco Battiato premiered his Messa arcaicain the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi in 1993: what looked like a simple sacred composition, including the canonical Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei, was in fact something very different in terms of compositional technique. After all, Battiato was a master of sound, and had explored the possibilities of acoustic instruments (among which the human voice) in generating different perception and creating a sense of suspension. «Most human beings do not realise they have a soul; they only listen to their bodies. But at night, and not while we sleep, we all leave our bodies to go on astral journeys», he often repeated. These journeys also concern his Canzoni mistiche, collected here by some of his collaborators as the evidence of an incessant spiritual quest for an unknown elsewhere.

credits Nicola Cisternino, Franco Battiato Caminantes – Venezia-Istambul, (2021)

The Programme

Fanny & Alexander
Addio Fantasmi

Teatro Alighieri | Available from 18th July to 17th August

Fanny & Alexander
Addio Fantasmi
based on Nadia Terranova‘s novel by the same name (Einaudi, 2018)

direction Luigi De Angelis
dramaturgy and costume design Chiara Lagani
on stage Anna Bonaiuto e Valentina Cervi

co-production Ravenna Festival, E Production / Fanny & Alexander, Infinito Produzioni, Progetto Goldstein, Argot Produzioni
premiere

Ida arrives in Messina, where her mother has called her back to renovate the family flat. Surrounded by the usual objects of her former life, Ida must come to terms with the ancient trauma of her father’s disappearance, when he left one morning and never returned. His absence determined the silence with her mother, her own identity, based on an anomaly, and her relationship with her husband. But now that she is besieged in her childhood home, she must break the spell and finally get her father off the stage. The play builds on the obsession with the physical space of the dilapidated house, overlapped with the psychic space, and liberates the ghosts that haunt both mother and daughter. The aim is to exorcise their power, and circulate the crucial images that govern the most ancestral relationships.

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