Ravenna Festival 2025 Review: Rut, Raccolti di Speranza

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(Photo: Luca Casadio) The Ravenna Festival, which takes place each year during the months of June and July, stages a wide variety of events ranging from opera to concerts, theatre and dance. It is also active in commissioning new works, which this year included a sacred oratorio for chorus, soloists and a small instrumental ensemble, composed by Mariana Acito to {…}

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Ravenna Festival 2024 Review: Dilexi

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(Photo: Zani-Casadio) One of the most fascinating people associated with the city of Ravenna is Galla Placidia, a woman born into the imperial family in Constantinople around 390 AD. Daughter of Emperor Theodosius I, sister of Emperor Flavius Honorius, wife of Emperor Constantius III and mother of Emperor Valentinian III, hers was a life lived at the centre of power. {…}

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Ravenna Festival 2021 Review: Teodora

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(Photo: Marco Borelli) High up on the right hand side of the apse, the Empress Teodora and her retinue look down onto the altar of Ravenna’s Basilica of San Vitale. The image is a golden mosaic infused with greens and purples. Teodora’s regal gaze dominates the picture, her knowing stare is cast upon the streams of visitors who come each {…}

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Amore Opera To Present Two Gypsy Operas To Close Out 2016-17 Season

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Amore Opera has just announced its next two opera productions for May and June with gypsies dominating their thematic material. The company’s main website revealed that Bizet’s “Carmen” and Donizetti’s “La Zingara” would be taking the stage to close out the 2017-18 season. The former work is one of the best known in the entire repertoire while the latter is {…}

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Ravenna Festival 2025 Review: Rut, Raccolti di Speranza

Ravenna Festival 2024 Review: Dilexi

Ravenna Festival 2021 Review: Teodora

Amore Opera To Present Two Gypsy Operas To Close Out 2016-17 Season