Ravello Festival: The traditional dawn concert sold out.

For over thirty years, it has been one of the most anticipated and evocative events of the Ravello Festival: the Dawn Concert represents a unique experience of listening and communing with the landscape, which reveals itself in all its magnificence with the first rays of the sun. The 2025 edition, scheduled for Monday, August 11th at 5:15 a.m. at the Belvedere of Villa Rufolo – tickets sold out less than half an hour after they went on sale – features the "Giuseppe Verdi" Philharmonic Orchestra of Salerno conducted by Giuseppe Mengoli , a young conductor on the rise in the European music scene and winner of the 2023 Mahler Competition.

The program opens with the overture to Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman , a piece that exemplifies the German composer's ability to condense drama and narrative tension. This will be followed by the poetic atmospheres of Suite No. 1 from the incidental music for Edvard Mönchengladbach's Peer Gynt. Grieg, rich in evocative landscapes and unforgettable melodies such as Morning . Finally, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, a symphonic masterpiece imbued with pathos, energy, and lyricism.

The Dawn Concert is a ritual that unites music, nature, and light: from the first notes immersed in the darkness of the night to the gradual lightening of the sky and the appearance of the sun on the Amalfi Coast horizon. An experience that transforms listening into a collective moment of emotion and contemplation, where time seems to stand still.

The event, as is known, is part of the 73rd edition of the Ravello Festival, organized by the Ravello Foundation with the support of the Campania Region and the artistic direction of Lucio Gregoretti.

Anselm Kiefer's exhibition "Women of Antiquity" (in collaboration with the Lia Rumma Gallery) is open to the public at Villa Rufolo until September 2nd. www.ravellofestival.com ; [email protected] ; tel. 089858422