Italian and Jordanian musicians are to perform side by side in a triptych of concerts conducted by Riccardo Muti in Ravenna, Jerash and Pompei as part of the annual Ravenna Festival The Roads of Friendship, which for this 34th edition takes the title 'The Invisible Cities' to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italo Calvino.
On July 7, 9 and 11 Muti will be with his Luigi Cherubini Youth
Orchestra, the Cremona Antiqua chorus and musicians of the
National Music Conservatory of Amman respectively at the Palazzo
Mauro De André in Ravenna, the Roman South Theatre in Jerash and
the Teatro Grande in Pompei for a performance linking the three
cities by an invisible 'bridge of brotherhood through art and
culture'.
Pompei and Jerash - dubbed the 'Pompei of the East' - are linked
by their ancient Roman origins and archaeological treasures and
Ravenna is home to the ancient Roman Port of Classe, built by
Emperor Augustus to host the eastern Mediterranean fleet.
The programme includes a performance of Act II of Orfeo ed
Euridice by Gluck, excerpts from Bellini's Norma and Johannes
Brahms' Das Schicksalslied (The Song of Destiny) for choir and
orchestra, Op. 54.
During their leg in Jordan the Ravenna Festival musicians will
also visit Za'atari refugee camp, home to tens of thousands of
refugees from neighboring Syria, and deliver new instruments to
musicians living there.
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