The Ravello Festival starts again, 15 concerts of the most famous Italian and foreign orchestras

For the 73rd edition of the Ravello Festival an intense programme: 15 evenings of Wagner and other classics, but also baroque repertoire, soundtracks and jazz. Italian and foreign artists will tread the most beautiful stage in the world, between the historic Villa Rufolo garden and the breathtaking panorama of the Amalfi Coast.

The event promoted by the Ravello Foundation, and realised with the support of the Campania Region, features some of the most renowned orchestras in 2025. They range from the Italian Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Filarmonica della Scala to the British Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, together with outstanding soloists and conductors. Daniel Harding, Yuja Wang, Myung Whun Chung, Stefano Bollani, Kent Nagano and Michael Spyres, to name but a few.

The performances are scheduled from 6 July. They are 15 concerts organised by the Ravello Foundation _ led by president Alessio Vlad with the general direction of Maurizio Pietrantonio and the artistic direction of Lucio Gregoretti _ . "Clarity is the prerequisite for defining a cultural project _ declares Alessio Vlad _ with this in mind, we shared the start of a path with the aim of ensuring a high and homogeneous level of quality. The unique relationship between music and landscape that characterises Ravello must be a stimulus to build a cultural proposal supported by an ethical orientation. This is why the Festival must be considered as part of a project of education, dissemination, and protection of heritage and landscape'.

Artistic Director Gregoretti adds: "The Festival returns to host orchestras, conductors and soloists among the most prestigious on the international scene, alongside emerging ensembles and local realities of excellence. A programme conceived as a great musical landscape in which different epochs, styles and sensibilities coexist, in the name of listening, quality and the meeting of cultures. Never as at this time, when the world is torn apart by conflict, violence and injustice, is it important to remember that the great achievements of history, both artistic and scientific, are often born from the union of differences. The Ravello Festival wants to be a small contribution to the harmonious coexistence of differences, through the power of music'.

On Sunday, 6 July, (8 pm), there will be a concert (exclusive for Italy) by Jérémie Rhorer, conducting his orchestra, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie. A company that uses period instruments for a classical or romantic repertoire. On Friday 11 July (8 pm), the American children's choir, the Uniting Voices Chicago, directed by Josephine Lee, returns. It is the spearhead of a non-profit musical organisation that has been promoting inclusion and youth education through the study of music and choral practice since 1956, involving thousands of children from 6 to 18 years of age. Saturday 12 July (8 pm) will feature a concert by the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with its new music director Daniel Harding who will perform Gustav Mahler's Blumine, Johannes Brahms' Second Symphony and Wagner's Prelude and Death of Isolde from Tristan und Isolde. On Sunday 13th July (9.00 pm), the Mahler Chamber Orchestra arrives exclusively in Italy, with a superstar like Yuja Wang, who will also be conductor of the famous ensemble; the programme includes, along with Stravinsky's Octet for wind instruments and Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture, two concertos for piano and orchestra, the First by Tchaikovsky and the Fourth by Ukrainian Nikolai Kapustin, a piece from 1989 that the composer himself describes as "jazz for classical musicians". Another weekend in the sign of the classical romantic repertoire with, on Saturday 19 July (8 pm) the Filarmonica della Scala conducted by Myung Whun Chung, who will perform Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. We arrive at Sunday 20 July (8 pm), with a recital by Filippo Gorini at the piano, who returns to Ravello with a programme of music by György Kurtág, Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Entirely Wagnerian, on Friday 25 July (8 pm), the programme proposed by the SWR Symphonieorchester of Stuttgart conducted by Robert Treviño, who will perform Der Ring ohne Worte, the version of the Tetralogy "edited" without the texts sung in 1987 by Lorin Maazel. +Thursday 31 July (9.30 pm) sees the opening of a triptych of appointments between jazz and other music, with a concert by three famous pianists Stefano Bollani, Dado Moroni and Danilo Rea dedicated to Oscar Peterson on the centenary of his birth. On Friday 1 August (9.30 pm), a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, conceived by singer Roberta Gambarini, with trumpeter Giovanni Amato and the Salerno Jazz Orchestra.