The tour, organized by Ravenna Festival, which saw
Riccardo Muti and the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra
cross the peninsula from north to south,
could only end in Sicily
: after the appointments recorded in Bergamo and Naples, already available for free streaming,
from 11 am on Sunday 28 March the concert at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo will be online
.
Riccardo Muti and the Cherubini Orchestra at the Massimo of Palermo. Courtesy of riccardomutimusic.com
In this city whose heritage and beauty arise from the encounter and stratification of cultures, Muti and his Orchestra have renewed their mission for Italian music and theaters, helping to keep the doors of the Massimo virtually open with a program that includes
the Symphony n.
3 by Franz Schubert and the Symphony no.
9 "From the New World" by Antonín Dvořák
, a real look at the future.
In collaboration with RMMUSIC, the concert will be available for thirty days on ravennafestival.live, on ansa.it as part of the
"Ansa per la cultura" project
and on the web TV of the Theater which can be accessed from the
teatromassimo.it
homepage
.
Muti, to whom Palermo confers honorary citizenship for his commitment to spreading the values of peace and communion among peoples through the universal language of music, has chosen to include in the program a history of social and cultural integration.
In the city that in itself reconciles a myriad of pasts - Phoenician, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Norman… - Cherubini performed the Symphony n.
9 in E minor Op. 95 which Dvořák conceived after becoming, at the invitation of patron Jeanette Thurber, director of the New York Conservatory, one of the first schools to admit women and African Americans.
In contact with the immense spiritual and native repertoire, the composer combined two popular heritages, the Bohemian and the American.
Schubert instead composed the Symphony n.
3 in D major D 200 in 1815 a few months after his eighteenth birthday.
Of this opera, which sprouted from an incredible harvest of Lieder (almost 150 that year), the cantabile vein and the freshness of the melodic invention that unfold after the restless introductory Adagio immediately jump to the ear.