Ravello Festival

Till 30 September 2010

The Ravello Festival derives from a series of previous initiatives which make it the oldest Italian festivals after the “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”.  It should be recognized to Girolamo Bottiglieri and Paolo Caruso the conception of the cultural event that more than any one else would have helped build the identity of Ravello as "City of Music".
In the summer of 1953 Paul Caruso in collaboration with the “Turism provincial Organization”, then headed by Girolamo Bottiglieri, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the death of Wagner, began opening the "Wagnerian concert in the garden of Klingsor" by relying on two evenings Orchestra of San Carlo theatre, conducted by Hermann Scherchen and William Steinberg. The program, of course, was entirely devoted to German music.
Since the mid-seventies, the festival has used the artistic advice of Roman Vlad, who has given the review a sign of original quality.
For years, Wagner has remained the tutelary deity of the festival and still the symphonic event of every edition is devoutly reserved for his music.