As part of his project “Paths of Friendship”, Riccardo Muti is planning a concert on the refugee island of Lampedusa next Tuesday. This concert will mark the end of the Ravenna Festival, which takes place every year in July.
In Lampedusa, Muti conducts the Siena Cathedral Choir and the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year.
“Stabat Mater” by Sicilian composer Giovanni Sollima will be performed. The verses of the work were written in Old Sicilian by Filippo Arriva. Sollima explains: “Composing a Stabat Mater means coming to terms with the greatest pain a mother can experience: the grief for her dead son. A son who, like many migrants, perished in our sea.”
Muti is celebrating the 28th anniversary of his concert series “Le Vie dell’Amicizia” (“Paths of Friendship”), which takes place annually in a place ravaged by crises. The concert series, supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, has made stops in recent years in cities such as Sarajevo, Beirut, Jerusalem, Moscow, Istanbul and Cairo.
The concert took place in Jordan in 2023
Last year, Muti conducted his peace concert in Jerash, Jordan, in honor of the generosity of the Jordanian people, who have welcomed hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees over the past decade.
“Bridges of Brotherhood”
The 82-year-old stressed: “Music has the ability to deeply touch people’s hearts without the need for translations.” He described the concerts in crisis areas as “bridges of brotherhood.”
Before the Lampedusa performance, Muti will give a concert in Ravenna, the city where he lives with his family, on Sunday. In August, he will perform again with the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Salzburg Festival to perform Bruckner’s 8th Symphony.
Source: Krone
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