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Reggio Calabria

Italy

Rapsodie Agresti Calabriae Opera Musica Festival

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Ravenna

Founded in 1990 by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, Ravenna Festival has always been characterized by an artistic programme including all types of performing arts: symphonic and chamber music, opera, drama, dance, ballet, musical theatre, jazz, and ethnic music. Every year between June and July, the entire city becomes a stage for two months: its staggering gilded basilicas, encrusted with ancient mosaics, its elegant historical theatres, its cloisters, ancient buildings, the industrial heritage sites, but also its beaches and its pine forest, where Dante was hosted, and further off, the gently rolling hills peeping from the distant horizon…

These extraordinary places – it is worth remembering here that 8 monuments in Ravenna are UNESCO World Heritage sites – and a multidisciplinary vocation are the distinctive features that make the Ravenna Festival unique and contribute to rediscover a city which used to be a crossroad of peoples and cultures. The Artistic Direction yearly defines a rich programme centred on a culturally and artistically relevant theme.

Many topics have already been dealt with and thoroughly examined: from the most specifically musical themes of the very beginnings (“Salieri and the Vienna School” in 1990, “Around Rossini”, “Bellini and Wagner”, etc.) to the more visionary ones, which projected Ravenna – a subject and an object at one and the same time – into new soulscapes: the Mediterranean, the East, the Apocalypse, visions, deserts and pilgrimages, in a mix of popular and fairy tale, sacred and profane…down to the history of the twentieth century. Over the years the Festival has dealt with crucial events such as the First World War or the Russian Revolution, and paid homage to icons such as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Pier Paolo Pasolini, or Dante Alighieri.

Since 1997, the year of the first historic concert in Sarajevo, the route of the Ravenna Festival has been closely intertwined with “The Roads of Friendship”, a series of lay pilgrimages touching on cities wounded by war, re-establishing ancient ties to places that have made history and building “bridges of brotherhood”. Leading on these paths as a cultural ambassador to the world is Riccardo Muti, with orchestras and choirs that, in line with the spirit of brotherhood that animates these concerts and in the name of the universality of music, have regularly welcomed some local musicians and given life to unforgettable events in such symbolic sites as Beirut, Jerusalem, Moscow, Yerevan, Istanbul, New York, Cairo, Damascus, Nairobi, Mirandola, Redipuglia, Otranto, Tokyo, Tehran, Kyiv, Athens, Lourdes and Loreto.

Ravenna Festival

Ravenna Musica

Willard

United States

Since 1904 Ravinia has been Chicago's "sound of summer," a place where you can meet up with your friends and hear some of the greatest music in the world. Each summer Ravinia presents everything from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to jazz, dance, country, rock and pop on its three stages. But there's more to Ravinia than merely the world's greatest music. The not-for-profit festival hosts emerging artists at Ravinia's Steans Music Institute and serves over 75,000 people through its Reach Teach Play education programs. For as many people who walk through Ravinia's gate each summer, there are just as many ways to enjoy what we call "The Ravinia Experience"—whether it be a picnic on the lawn or a dinner at one of the in-park restaurants and seats in the Pavilion.

Ravinia Festival

London

United Kingdom

Raymond Gubbay Christmas Festival

Varese

RCT InOpera Varese

Rieti

Reate Festival

Turin

Regio Opera Festival

Naples

Regione Lirica

France

Rencontres musicales du château d'Ainay-le-Vieil

Paris

Rencontres Musicales Georges Enesco – Paris

Reykjavík

Iceland

Reykjavík Arts Festival

Reykjavik Opera Days is a fresh and growing festival that has gained considerable attention since it was held for the first time in 2016 as Kopavogur Opera Days. Moving to Reykjavik in 2018, it won the Music Festival of the Year award at the Icelandic Music Awards in the following year.

Founded by passionate young singers that were frustrated at the lack of an exciting grass root classical vocal/opera/music theatre scene in Iceland. From the beginning, they aimed to create a festival where there would be room for experiments, international collaboration, events for all age groups in unusual and usual places and spaces as well as a strong community focus. This is still the goal as well as creating new job opportunities for singers and their collaborators and facilitating expansion of their network by offering symposiums, workshops, masterclasses and other events connected to the genre and profession. 

Today, the festival has become a well known event in Icelandic cultural life and is gradually gaining more attention abroad. We encourage everyone interested in our work to reach out to us and get in touch.

See you at Reykjavik Opera Days!

Reykjavík Opera Days

Oestrich-Winkel

Germany

Rheingau Musik Festival

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Richard Strauss Festival

Dresden

Richard-Strauss-Tage Dresden

Wels

Austria

Richard Wagner Festival Wels

Riga

Latvia

The International Early Music Festival is the most charming, posh and smartest cultural event in Latvia. The concerts are homed by Rīga churches and concert halls, as well as by the Rundāle Palace – the most outstanding Baroque palace in Latvia. The Rundāle Palace was built by Italian designer Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1736–1768 as a summer residence for Ernst-Johann Karl Oskar, Prince of Courland. The Rundāle Palace has just been restored (the restoration took 50 years, 1972–2014); Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli had also designed the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.

The festival is reviving the masterpieces by Percel, Vivaldi, Telemann, Gluck, Handel et als Baroque masters. There are gorgeous garments, authentic instruments and the Baroque architecture and interiors present. The closing concert at the Rundāle Palace Park has been always attended by thousands – and there has always been the fragrance of the rosario there.

Riga Early Music Festival

The Riga Jurmala Music Festival remains a singular one in the landscape of Europe’s summer classical music festivals. It is composed of weekends anchored around a visiting international symphonic orchestra and its music director. The weekends are scheduled between early July and September.

The orchestra performs two different programmes with outstanding soloists, while the third evening is devoted to a recital or chamber music. Noon recitals on the weekend dates feature up-and-coming as well as established artists. The repertoire focuses primarily on the core classical music canon.

After the inaugural year, the Riga Jurmala Music Festival has arguably marked its territory on the map of summer festivals*. One reason is that few festivals can invite so many distinguished international symphonic orchestras each season. The other may be the Festival team’s innovation, as evidenced by its creative responses to the pandemic: Musical Soirées, the Riga Jurmala Academy, a documentary with a new perspective on the life of conductor Mariss Jansons.

* The Festival was included in British newspaper The Telegraph’s top 10 summer festivals, in addition to gaining a prestigious EFFE Label from the European Festivals Association.

Festival History
The Riga Jurmala Music Festival is based on the traditions of the Baltic Musical Seasons concert series, which aimed to introduce Latvian and international music lovers to the world’s best classical musicians. The concert series was founded under the initiative of several Latvian business owners.

2021
In 2021 Riga Jurmala Music Festival featured 21 symphony and chamber music concerts which were attended by more than 15,100 visitors from 30 countries, including Germany, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Lithuania, Estonia, Norway and others.

Under the leadership of John Eliot Gardiner and with performances by pianists Yuja Wang and András Schiff, the 2021 summer season was opened by the newly formed Mariss Jansons Festival Orchestra, which united leading musicians from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The musicians joined forces to replace the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and honour the memory of Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons. That weekend also saw special daytime concerts by British vocal group The King’s Singers, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, and baritone Matthias Goerne. Other three weekends presented a diverse selection of the world’s renowned orchestras and artists, including Concertgebouworkest and Daniel Harding, soprano Renée Fleming, pianists Yefim Bronfman, Daumants Liepiņš, Alexandre Kantorow, Leif Ove Andsnes, Kristine Opolais and pianist Agnese Eglina as well as Mischa Maisky, Daniel Lozakovich and Mikhal Pletnev, Arcadi Volodos and Yoav Levanon.

The season 2021 was concluded with special performances from the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra for a rare performance outside of their hometown under the baton of Latvian native Andris Nelsons and joined by soloists Christine Goerke, Klaus Florian Vogt and Günther Groissböck, and pianist Mao Fujita.

2020
Four world-class orchestras had been planned for the second season of the festival: the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with their new Artistic Director Lahav Shani; the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manfred Honeck; the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and its long-serving Artistic Director Yuri Temirkanov; and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy. For its second season, the festival began a new initiative: music masterclasses in collaboration with the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in which emerging talents from Latvia and abroad could develop their skills under the tutelage of world-famous performers. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the festival season was postponed to the following year, while the educational programme gained a new format, offering Latvian and Baltic students online masterclasses. Meanwhile, audiences could listen to the programmes which had been planned to be performed, played during the festival’s specially-organised Musical Soirees.

2019
The new, world-class Riga Jurmala Music Festival took place for the first time in Latvia with performances by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as the top current soloists: Vadim Repin (violin), Yuja Wang (piano), Julian Rachlin (violin), Mischa Maisky (cello), Seong-Jin Cho (piano), Jan Lisiecki (piano), Rudolf Buchbinder (piano) and others. The festival was visited by 15,500 audience members from 50 different countries. The festival was included in British newspaper The Telegraph’s top 10 summer festivals, in addition to gaining a prestigious EFFE Label from the European Festivals Association.

2018
The Dzintari Concert Hall presented concerts by world-class stars. Actor John Malkovich, tenor Juan Diego Flórez, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with Elīna Garanča, cellist Mischa Maisky, Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, and pianist Denis Matsuev all performed in Jurmala.

2017
The Dzintari Concert Hall was visited by world-famous conductor Riccardo Muti and his Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, opera singers Elīna Garanča and Hibla Gerzmava, Denis Matsuev, Lawrence Brownlee, Sarah Coburn, Kristīne Opolais, Pavel Černoch, Joshua Bell and Chris Botti. The Artistic Director of Baltic Musical Seasons was Andrejs Žagars.

Riga Jurmala Music Festival

Riga Opera Festival, founded in 1998 as the first festival of its size and scale in Eastern Europe, it has already become a treasured tradition. The festival is highly anticipated by both Latvian audiences and opera-lovers from abroad, which form the majority of all Riga Opera Festival fans. In 2022, the festival programme for the first time will include also ballet performances.

Riga Opera Festival

Organization Name	City, Country	Organization Type
Rapsodie Agresti Calabriae Opera Musica Festival	Reggio Calabria, Italy	FestivalView profile
Ravenna Festival	Ravenna, Italy	FestivalView profile
Ravenna Musica	Ravenna, Italy	FestivalView profile
Ravinia Festival	Willard, United States	FestivalView profile
Raymond Gubbay Christmas Festival	London, United Kingdom	FestivalView profile
RCT InOpera Varese	Varese, Italy	FestivalView profile
Reate Festival	Rieti, Italy	FestivalView profile
Regio Opera Festival	Turin, Italy	FestivalView profile
Regione Lirica	Naples, Italy	FestivalView profile
Rencontres musicales du château d'Ainay-le-Vieil	France	FestivalView profile
Rencontres Musicales Georges Enesco – Paris	Paris, France	FestivalView profile
Reykjavík Arts Festival	Reykjavík, Iceland	FestivalView profile
Reykjavík Opera Days	Reykjavík, Iceland	FestivalView profile
Rheingau Musik Festival	Oestrich-Winkel, Germany	FestivalView profile
Richard Strauss Festival	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	FestivalView profile
Richard-Strauss-Tage Dresden	Dresden, Germany	FestivalView profile
Richard Wagner Festival Wels	Wels, Austria	FestivalView profile
Riga Early Music Festival	Riga, Latvia	FestivalView profile
Riga Jurmala Music Festival	Riga, Latvia	FestivalView profile
Riga Opera Festival	Riga, Latvia	FestivalView profile

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