The Roads of Friendship: Concerto delle Fraternità

According to the main themes of this year’s Festival (the monastic life, and the calling to the prayer, the silence, and the meditation), the 2012 Roads of Friendship project is a great opportunity to reflect together at the Concert of Brotherhoods at Palazzo Mauro de Andrè in Ravenna. The meeting between monastic communities and brotherhoods takes place through the musical language and strikes the higher chord weaving apparently incompatible styles and approaches together. In fact, this concert highlights those shared elements of spirituality that could turn out to be the very key for the mutual understanding between peoples and their different cultures. Riccardo Muti conduces the Youth Orchestra “Luigi Cherubini”, the Italian Youth Orchestra, the Stagione Armonica choir, and the Choir of Fruili Venezia Giulia (choirmaster Sergio Balestracci). The concert (whose classical programme encompasses Haydn, Brahms, and Mozart) includes the Tibetan monks of the Drepung Loseling monastery, the Nepalese nun Ani Choying Drolma, the Orthodox Male Choir of Moscow, the Serbian Choir ‘Moisey Petrovich’ of Belgrade, the Choir of San Carlo Borromeo Brotherhood, the traditional Sicilian from Mussomeli and Marianopoli - all expressions of faith, friendship, peace, resulting from the need for spirituality that travels through ages and lands