Ravenna Festival – Past Concerts
Ravenna Festival: Orchestra Notturna Clandestina
Thursday, July 23, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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With a reputation for staging night-long "classical music raves", this genre-bending orchestra presents a program of W.A. Mozart, Nirvana, 21st-C. works, & more.
Free
Ravenna Festival: Giovanni Sollima Cello Ensemble
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Giovanni Sollima, “the Jimi Hendrix of the Cello”, & his cello ensemble return to Ravenna Festival with a program of Baroque, rock, & everything in between.
Free
Ravenna Festival: The Battle of Lepanto – Gianluigi Tosto & La Pifarescha
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Narrative performance centered around the 16th-C. battle that ended Turkish dominance of the Mediterranean, featuring period instrument ensemble La Pifarescha.
Free
Ravenna Festival: “Requiem for a Dying Planet” Cinema-Concert – Werner Herzog & Ernst Reijseger
Monday, July 20, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Ernst Reijseger performs original works written for the films of Werner Herzog, with footage from The Wild Blue Yonder, The White Diamond, & more.
Free
Ravenna Festival: Vinicio Capossela – Pandemonium
Friday, July 17, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Narrative concert featuring the songs & writings of Italian singer/songwriter/composer Vinicio Capossela, performed by Vincenzo Vasi.
Free
Ravenna Festival: Francesco Manara & Cesare Pezzi – Tribute to Beethoven 250
Thursday, July 16, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 12, No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 30, No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 “Kreutzer"
Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 30, No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 “Kreutzer"
Free
Ravenna Festival: Charlie Chaplin's “City Lights”
Wednesday, July 15, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Conductor Timothy Brock & the Orchestra Arcangelo Corelli perform Charlie Chaplin's original score to his own landmark 1931 film.
Free
Ravenna Festival: Ludus Gravis Double Bass Ensemble
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Giacinto Scelsi – Mantram
Daniele Roccato – Minima Colloquia No. 4 “Vilma’s Memories”
Sofia Gubaidulina – Mirage: The Dancing Sun
Francesco Antonioni – Altre Isole
Stefano Scodanibbio – Octet
Daniele Roccato – Minima Colloquia No. 4 “Vilma’s Memories”
Sofia Gubaidulina – Mirage: The Dancing Sun
Francesco Antonioni – Altre Isole
Stefano Scodanibbio – Octet
Free
Ravenna Festival: Teleion – Fragments of ancient Greek music
Monday, July 13, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Using modern instruments, sound machines, & ethno-musicological research, Camilla Lopez & Matteo Ramon Arevalos recreate music from the 3rd Century AD & earlier.
Free
Ravenna Festival: Riccardo Muti – Tamás Varga – Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Sunday, July 12, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Antonín Dvořák – Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191
Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178
Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178
Free
Ravenna Festival: Amor tiranno – Love passions in 17th-century Venice
Friday, July 10, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Music of love & loss by Baroque composers Claudio Monteverdi, Filiberto Laurenzi, Benedetto Ferrari, & Francesco Cavalli.
Free
Ravenna Festival: Il demone della perfezione – The genius of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Thursday, July 9, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Roberto Cotroneo & Matteo Cavezzali discuss the life & career of pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, with performances by 17-year-old Domenico Bevilacqua.
Free
Ravenna Festival: Ci sono giorni che non accadono mai
Thursday, July 9, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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A previously unreleased score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone accompanies this production with a subject of topical interest: love in the time of Covid-19.
Free
Ravenna Festival: I Have Killed the Beatles – Tribute to John Lennon
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Stefano Valanzuolo – I Have Killed the Beatles (stage piece one act for singer, actor, and string quartet)
The Beatles, arr. Antonio Di Francia – Various works TBA
The Beatles, arr. Antonio Di Francia – Various works TBA
Free
Ravenna Festival: The Plague in Hamburg (1663)
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Lamentations and texts of the Passion in pre-Bach Germany. With works by Heinrich & J.S. Bach, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Matthias Weckmann, Johannes Rosenmüller, & others.
Free
Ravenna Festival: Filippo Gorini, piano – Tribute to Beethoven
Thursday, July 2, 2020 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
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Franz Schubert – Sonata in G major, D. 894, Op. 78 "Fantasie"
Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Free
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