At the Ravello Festival Pablo Heras-Casado leads Anima Eterna Brugge, Saturday 27 August at the Belvedere di Villa Rufolo.
The penultimate event of the 70th edition of the Ravello Festival will see Pablo Heras-Casado on stage at the Belvedere di Villa Rufolo, on Saturday 27 August (19.30:XNUMX pm), leading Anima Eterna Brugge.
The Granada maestro, making his debut on the Ravello stage, has entered into an artistic collaboration with the Dutch period ensemble affiliated to the Concertgebouw in Bruges which in the coming years will see him tour Europe performing Anton Bruckner's symphonies. The first stage of this collaboration, in 2022, is the performance of the Seventh Symphony.
Anima Eterna Brugge, founded in 1987 by conductor and harpsichordist Jos van Immerseel, initially focused on baroque music, before gradually conquering the classical, romantic and even early twentieth-century repertoire. Today the ensemble is unique in the world of orchestral ensembles.
The musicians, in fact, use original instruments without neglecting continuous research in the interpretation and execution of their repertoire. The orchestra will therefore take the stage of the City of Music with the same instruments, strings and orchestral forces used in Bruckner's time, including the historic sound of the famous "Wagner tuba".
This instrument invented in 1876 by Adolphe Sax was requested by Richard Wagner himself who wanted an instrument that had a sound between the French horn and the saxhorn; originally created for the Ring of the Nibelung tetralogy, it has found space in many compositions and in particular in those of Bruckner: the second movement of the Seventh Symphony begins with a passage entrusted to the Wagnerian tubas in homage to the Maestro to whom the Ravello Festival is dedicated .
Wagner also returns with Heras-Casado, an internationally highly regarded conductor with a very diverse career, who will conduct Parsifal at the opening of the Bayreuth Festival next year.
He is the first Spanish conductor to occupy the prestigious podium of the Theater of the famous green hill - with the exception of the performances of The Valkyrie conducted by Placido Domingo in 2018 -, joining his name to an impressive list of great conductors. A circularity that closes, therefore, passing through Ravello where Domingo himself - it was 1997 - was the protagonist in Parsifal.
Article published on 25 August 2022 - 13:11
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