Ristori Baroque Festival

The Ristori Baroque Festival has reached its fourth edition, dedicated to Contrasts.

A direct reference to the tension of opposites that runs through the musical language of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries and that the event intends to reinterpret as an expressive hallmark still alive, capable of speaking to the present.

Around these reflections unfolds the entire program of the Baroque Festival at the Ristori Theatre.

The festival opens on March 3 with The Age of Extremes , featuring the baroque ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro, directed at the harpsichord by Francesco Corti. On March 9, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin will present “The Musical Offering” by Johann Sebastian Bach, among the peaks of Bach's contrapuntal art. On March 11, Avi Avital & Friends will bring a comparison between Venetian virtuosity and Neapolitan brilliance with "Between Venice and Naples,” alongside an eclectic musician. On March 13, the young cellist Ettore Pagano will perform a refined and intense interpretation of Bach's Suites for solo cello paired with Gaspar Cassadó's Suite, while on March 19, Dutch flutist Lucie Horsch, accompanied by French lutenist Thomas Dunford, will present an energetic and pulsating program, featuring music by Vivaldi, Bach, Telemann, and Couperin.

On March 24, the Orchestra Frau Musika, a project conceived by Andrea Marcon, will perform “Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione Opera VIII,” with Chouchane Siranossian on violin and conducted by Marcon. The programming continues on March 27 with “Goldberg Variations”: variations for strings and harpsichord with the ensemble Il Concerto Italiano, conducted by Rinalda Alessandrini. The festival concludes on March 29 with the Ensemble Brezza performing “Cuadratura,” dedicated to the 18th-century European chamber music repertoire, where balance, stability, and perfection merge.

The concerts begin at 20:30 at the Ristori Theatre.