Sweden – “Music Travel through Dante’s Places” by Raffaello Bellavista and Serena Gentilini
Pianists, opera singer, and composer Raffello Bellavista and singer and stylist Serena Gentilini – two young emerging artists from Romagna – have been invited by prestigious Swedish cultural association SI Svezia-Italia to make a documentary-concert about their musical project inspired by the Divine Comedy and Dante: Music Travel through Dante’s Places, which will be performed also in Sweden, once the pandemic situation gets better.
The music travel "from Inferno to Paradiso” includes piano, opera, and modern compositions: the Dante Sonata for piano by Franz Liszt and two arias from Mozart’s Don Giovanni –symbolizing Hell, the famous Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven –symbolizing Purgatory, while the essence of Heaven and love is evoked in the final part through crossover arrangements of pop music (Ain’t no sunshine by Bill Withers, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door by Bob Dylan, Heaven by Avicii) performed by Serena Gentilini and two pieces by Raffaello Bellavista, Eden op. 2 and Notturno a Venezia op.1, expressly composed as a tribute to Dante and performed for the first time.
The travel in "Dante’s places" let us plunge in many historical places in and around Ravenna, thanks to the hight quality footage directed and largely made by Bellavista and Gentilini with latest-generation devices: the “Sala Dantesca” in the Classense Library, the “Sala Preconsiliare” and “Sala Consiliare” in the historic City Hall, the Tomb of Dante and the garden with the Quadrarco di Braccioforte, the pinewoods, the Boscoforte Peninsula.
An homage to Swedish audience is from the Biblioteca Classense, where the artists will show the 1856 Swedish edition of the Divine Comedy, a precious piece from Leo S. Olschki's legendary collection of first and rare editions of Dante’s works.
The initiative is supported by: Municipality of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna Region, Regional Secretariat of the Ministry of culture in Emilia Romagna, SIAE, SI Svezia-Italia Association
On April 15, at 08:00 p.m., the concert-documentary is streamed on LIVE ALL platform (with admission fee), available throughout Europe, besides Sweden and Italy, of course.
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