(ANSA) - LOURDES, 12 JUL - A shining mosaic, "in the sign of spirituality" as master Riccardo Muti says, the one that illuminated the square of the sanctuary of Lourdes with notes and voices for one night.
As darkness slowly descended in a town marked by the post-Covid economic crisis, the music took shape and took your breath away until it sparkled, similar to the pieces with which Marko Rupnik embellished the facade of the lower basilica.
A program that was a heap of cultures and languages with a high symbolic rate, always oscillating between the painful religious vibration and the explosion of joy, from Vivaldi to the choir of the Ukrainian National from the mountains of Lourdes to Verdi,
The occasion, in this place devoted to hope, was the traditional annual appointment with The Ways of Friendship, conducted by Riccardo Muti with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, for the Ravenna festival, this time as part of the musical offer, dedicated to to issues of disability.
"An evening in the name of the spirituality of any naturasia", explains Maestro Muti at the end of the concert.
"So also for Giuseppe Verdi, whose religiosity has often been discussed in a sterile way, but whoever is capable of making the Miserere play in that way does so because the problem of the existence of a superior being arises. It is evident that Verdi was not exempt from questions. on the afterlife, issues that he faced with his all-human frailty ".
A "cosmic religiosity" that of cuiparla Muti, who passes through the language of friendship which is exactly the opposite of war and does so through music, as in the very sense of the project of Le Viedell'Amizie which started in 1997 from Sarajevo.
The symbolic musical pilgrimage continues and ends in Loreto where The Ways of Friendship, Maestro Muti and the OrchestraCherubini will be on the evening of July 14th.
(HANDLE).