(ANSA) - RAVENNA, 13 SEPT - The door of Dante's tomb in Ravenna is always open, day and night, and it was open even in the darkest days of the pandemic, as if his poetry could be a refuge and protection for the city. A strong bond, consolidated by a necessary search for artistic and spiritual points of reference that the figure of Dante has increased in this year of celebrations. In short, Dante understood as a sum of values that goes beyond the written word to become the essence of human expression such as that condensed not by chance in the "Concerto per Dante" directed by Riccardo Muti starting from Ravenna, a city that pays homage to him in every corner, on 12 September in the public gardens in front of the Lombard Loggetta, then in Florence on 13 September at the Teatro del Maggio and finally in Verona on 15 September at the Philharmonic Theater.
A concert that is a triptych of different inspirations, a range of nuances and therefore unmissable, bringing together Verdi, Mansurian and Liszt in their passion for the Divine Comedy. Riccardo Muti with his usual sensitivity and energy conducts the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra and the Maggio Choir (choir director Lorenzo Fratini).
It starts with the absolute lightness of Saint Bernard's prayer to the Madonna, in an almost unrecognizable Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), to then move on to the Purgatory that the RavennaFestival commissioned from Tigran Mansurian (1939), in the Italian première in Ravenna. Finally Franz Liszt (1811-1886) and his wonderful Dante-Symphonie, from Dante Alighieri, S 109. (ANSA).