Ravello Foundation Celebrates Easter with a Sacred Music Concert

The Ravello Foundation celebrates the Easter festivities with a concert that, on the afternoon of Holy Saturday (March 30), will be held in the Church of San Giovanni del Toro. At 5:30 PM, the Instrumental Ensemble of Rome will perform the Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. The concert will be conducted by the violinist and violist Giorgio Sasso, leader of the ensemble founded in 1990 as a body promoting the dissemination, research, and performance of the repertoire of Western music from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Stabat Mater is one of the most sublime works in the entire history of sacred music, composed by Pergolesi just a few months before his death. The suffering, the realization of the fragility of human life, led the Maestro to craft a poignant, wonderful page that outlines the most terrible pain a human being can experience, that of a mother witnessing the death of her own child. With Pergolesi, the mystery of God is embodied in man and his fragility, and by doing so, the composer from Jesi was one of the first to exemplarily apply that rhetorical figure at the heart of much of Baroque music, described in the so-called "Theory of Affects". This Stabat Mater traditionally involves only the strings with the basso continuo and features only the voices of the soprano and alto, who alternate in a series of duets and solo arias. In Ravello, the voices will be those of Minni Diodati and Federica Moi. The soprano Minni Diodato is a winner of numerous awards and competitions and, after a long collaboration with Antonio Florio and the Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini, has debuted in several operas and was recently the operatic voice of the female protagonist in the successful TV series "Il Commissario Ricciardi", performing classics of Neapolitan songs. The alto Federica Moi has been a soloist with the Musica Viva Association of Cagliari and since 2014 has performed at all the association's events. Since 2017, she has been part of the artistic formation Musicamore's Artist, composed of young opera singers with the aim of spreading opera, chamber music, and operetta in unconventional venues and for social purposes. A very appreciated voice, from 2019 to today, she has been a soloist in productions in Italy and abroad. Completing the formation are Teresa Ceccato on violin; Gabriele Politi on viola; Luca Peverini on cello; Luca Cola on double bass, and Salvatore Carchiolo on harpsichord. Entrance to the concert is free until seats are filled. www.ravellofestival.com