Riccardo Muti and Cherubini Orchestra: streamed tour in Italy
Riccardo Muti and his Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra renew their commitment to music and the Italian theatres, contributing to keeping their doors virtually open with the tour organized by Ravenna Festival from north to south across Italy. The concerts recorded in Bergamo, Naples, and Palermo will be streamed for free from March 21, 26, and 28 respectively and available for 30 days.
March 21st, the first day of Spring, has been chosen for the streaming of the concert at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo: a message of rebirth for the city, one year after the first lockdown, and a gift by BPER Banca’s to one of the Italian areas which have most suffered.
The programme of the concert includes the Sinfonia from Don Pasquale by Donizetti and Beethoven’s imposing Eroica. In 2016, Riccardo Muti celebrated fifty years of career right in the Teatro Donizetti with the Sinfonia from Don Pasquale “because I want to leave you with a feeling of hope and a smile”, he explained at the time, a wish that is even more urgent and necessary today.
The concert will be available from March 21, 11 a.m. CET on bper.it, ansa.it, and ravennafestival.live.
The deep love and constant commitment Muti has shown in promoting the rediscovery of composers and works of the Neapolitan School and their crucial contribution to the European musical history had to be in the spotlight in Naples, at the Teatro Mercadante, for a concert which is also a preview of the 2021 edition of Napoli Teatro Festival.
The programme opens with the Sinfonia Saverio Mercadante composed for I due Figaro, the manuscript of which was discovered in Madrid in 2009 by musicologist Paolo Cascio. After the operatic world, the programme moves on to the symphonic universe with another “rediscovered” score: Franz Schubert’s Symphony no. 9 in C major D 944, the Great, which, composed between 1825 and 1826, would not be performed until 1839 under Mendelssohn’s baton, after Schumann had found it among the composer’s documents.
The concert will be available from March 26, 08:00 p.m. CET on live.napoliteatrofestival.it, cultura.regione.campania.it, ansa.it, and ravennafestival.live.
The last destination of the tour is Palermo, where Muti will be made an honorary citizen for his commitment to spreading the values of peace and brotherhood through the universal language of music.
Schubert again, this time his Symphony no. 3 in D major D 200, features in the programme of the concert in the Teatro Massimo. Composed by Schubert in 1815, a few months after his 18th birthday, also the Symphony no. 3 was first performed only later on, in London in 1881. The musical itinerary ends with the Symphony From the New World by Antonín Dvořák, a story of social integration and a true look into the future. In 1892, Antonín Dvořák was invited by patroness Jeanette Thurber to direct the New York Conservatory, one of the first schools to admit women and Afro-Americans. While discovering the endless spiritual repertoire and the music of the Natives, the composer united two popular heritages, the Bohemian and the American – in his Symphony no. 9 in E minor Op. 95.
The concert will be available from March 28, 11:00 a.m. CTE on the theatre web TV – that can be accessed through the homepage teatromassimo.it, on ansa.it, and on ravennafestival.live.
In collaboration with RMMUSIC, the three concerts will be available on ravennafestival.live for a further 30 days from the date of release.
It is possible to watch them also on ANSA website thanks to the partnership with the press agency within the “ANSA for Culture” project.
Moreover, the free APP of ravennafestival.live in English and Italian is available for Android or iPhone.