To: Awestruck
From: Entertainment Muse
Date: Starry Nights
Subject: City of Music
Take a musical tour of the mystic Amalfi coast starting with the Ravello Music Festival.
The Ravello Festival is the oldest of the Italian festivals after the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Girolamo Bottiglieri and Paolo Caruso devised the idea for the cultural event which has contributed towards Ravello's status as "Città della musica".
Villa Rufolo inspired in 1880 Richard Wagner to create some scenes of Parsifal. Since then the Villa has been stage to Wagnerian concerts, including the "Wagnerian concert in the gardens of Klingsor" performed by the Orchestra of San Carlo Theatre from Naples.
Today the Ravello Festival takes place in the spring, summer and autumn. The Festival main venue includes a suspended stage, build around the gardens of the Villa and hanging above a cliff 1,150 feet above the sea. A full musical teaching program runs in parallel with a series of concerts by artists and musicians attracted here, where the music is rivaled in excellence only by the location - the stunning landscape of the Amalfi Coast.
Every edition of the Ravello Festival exhibits a rich array of occasions, from symphonic to chamber music, from opera to ballet, from cinema to visual arts. Leading musical formations, prestigious artists and outstanding personalities have been called upon to make this array all the more precious.
The new Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium - Ravello's latest masterpiece - designed by Oscar Niemeyer, widely regarded as the greatest living contemporary architect - is an auditorium worthy of putting on the best classical performances. The imposing curved, open-sized structure, named after the Brazilian architectural titan, provides the city with a covered venue for concert and recitals throughout the year.
Ravello, the "City of Music", already disposed of many open air locations such as Villa Rufolo, Villa Cimbrone, Piazza San Giovanni del Toro and Piazza Duomo, wonderful scenaries where to enjoy music, ballet, cinema and recitals, but none of those provided a covered location for more than 100 people.
When the auditorium will be completed, it will become a visual reference for everyone looking at Ravello from the distance. From the entrance the entire building and the panorama can be enjoyed at the same time, while the seats will follow the natural inclination of the ground. From the glass entrance to the window behind the orchestra, the magnificent view can still be enjoyed while listening to delightful music in perfect acoustic.
Hotel Caruso Ravello is a perfect curator to your cultural voyage.
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