Ravenna's Roads of Friendship pass through Pompei and Jordan

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 4 - Italian and Jordanian musicians are to perform side by side in a triptych of concerts conducted by Riccardo Muti in Ravenna, Jerash and Pompei as part of the annual Ravenna Festival The Roads of Friendship, which for this 34th edition takes the title 'The Invisible Cities' to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italo Calvino.
    On July 7, 9 and 11 Muti will be with his Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, the Cremona Antiqua chorus and musicians of the National Music Conservatory of Amman respectively at the Palazzo Mauro De André in Ravenna, the Roman South Theatre in Jerash and the Teatro Grande in Pompei for a performance linking the three cities by an invisible 'bridge of brotherhood through art and culture'.
    Pompei and Jerash - dubbed the 'Pompei of the East' - are linked by their ancient Roman origins and archaeological treasures and Ravenna is home to the ancient Roman Port of Classe, built by Emperor Augustus to host the eastern Mediterranean fleet.
    The programme includes a performance of Act II of Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck, excerpts from Bellini's Norma and Johannes Brahms' Das Schicksalslied (The Song of Destiny) for choir and orchestra, Op. 54.
    During their leg in Jordan the Ravenna Festival musicians will also visit Za'atari refugee camp, home to tens of thousands of refugees from neighboring Syria, and deliver new instruments to musicians living there. (ANSA).