Dante's Divine Comedy is a cornerstone of European culture, with an endless series of works of literature, fine art and music reflecting on it over the past centuries. In 2002, has been created a massive Gesamtkunstwerk of a production called Liszt, Dante and Doré: The Divine Comedy in music, poetry and painting, which was presented with great success at the Ravenna Festival, the Rome Opera and the Verona Arena. It went on, under the title Multimedia Dante, to be shown in other Italian cit...ies, as well as at the Weimar Art Festival. In 2005, DanteXperience renewed and extended the show both in terms of its technology and content, turning it into a breath-taking audio-visual journey.
For the Dresden premiere of his Dante Symphony, Liszt planned a "multimedia” performance, with a projection of Bonaventura Genelli's illustrations of Dante's work. The costs eventually proved prohibitive, and the plan was abandoned. A few years later Liszt and the young Camille Saint-Saëns performed the Dante Symphony, on two pianos, in the Paris home of Gustave Doré, the famous painter. 150 years on, this event came to suggest a synthesis of Doré's own breathtaking Dante series and Liszt's music, making reality of the composer's dream.
Presented by: Palace of Arts, Ravenna Festival
Parking information
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