THE RAVELLO FESTIVAL DISTRIBUTES BROADCAST QUALITY FOOTAGE TO INTERNATIONAL MEDIA VIA MMPK.net

Released on = September 2, 2005, 8:34 am

Press Release Author = Videoplugger Limited

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = The Ravello Festival, the oldest of its kind in Italy, is the first Italian music festival to distribute Multi Media Press Kits containing broacast quality footage from its main performances.

Press Release Body = The Ravello Festival, the oldest of its kind in Italy, is the first Italian music festival to distribute Multi Media Press Kits containing broacast quality footage from its main performances. With more than 100 events and 700 artists from five different continents, its truly a world music event, the festival has been featuring acclaimed acts such as famous conductors Krzysztof
Penderecki and Valery Gergiev as well as the famous Marinsky Theatre Orchestra from St Petersburg and veteran Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami.

The 2005 edition of the Ravello Festival runs for 80 days, from 1st of July running until the 18th of September offering music dance, cinema, theatre, exhibitions, visual arts and scientific congresses.

The overall theme linking the whole festival in a persuasive yet open-ended fashion is the Wagnerian Leitmotiv, “Contrast”, approached through music, art, science, ecology, philosophy, sociology, literature and management.

The Ravello Festival seeks to offer its participants full immersion in an appealing atmosphere of spiritual solace in a unique location declared patrimony of humanity by the UNESCO.

The next upcoming musical events from the Ravello Festival will be:

September 2nd in Scala, a small village near Ravello
The Coro Polifonico Universitario, conducted by Italian conductor Antonio Spagnolo, will be performing the last of the Musical Promenades, a series of concerts not confined to one venue, that accompanies the audience around the town of Ravello in Villa Rufolo and Villa Cimbrone, from piazzas, to churches.

Programme:
Adrian Willaert, O dolce vita mia
John Wilbye, Adieu, sweet Amaryllis
Filippo Azzaiolo, Sentomi la formicula
Orlando di Lasso, O occhi, manza mia; Matona mia cara
Paul Hindemith Un cygne
Henry Aldrich Tom Jolly's nose
John Farmer Fair Nymphs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Essen trinken das erhält
Antonio Salieri, Viva viva la bottiglia; Son confusa pastorella
Orlando di Lasso, Olà, o che bon eccho! Stefano Busiello, Esthermitmuschel; Stravko; Perlmuttschnecke

Sunday the 18 of September,
The Gran Finale, the last concert of the Ravello Festival will be performed by the Quintetto Bibiena (Villa Rufolo, 9.30 pm), followed by the great fireworks in the Festa di Torello.

Allegro, non troppo
Bibiena Quintet
Giampaolo Pretto (flute), Alessandro Carbonare (clarinet), Paolo Grazia (oboe), Roberto Giaccaglia (bassoon), Stefano Pignatelli (horn)
Programme: Luciano Berio: Opus number Zoo
Jean Francaix: Quintetto n.1
Sergei Prokof'ev: Peter and the Wolf, op.67 (adapted wind quintet by Andrea Chenna)

It is possible to download the contents of past and future events from the Ravello Festival by logging on to http://www.mmpk.net.

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Web Site = http://www.ravellofestival.com

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