Like Orpheus, or Dante's Ulysses, all men are frontiersmen. The only possible ethics today, writes Umberto Galimberti, is that of the wayfarer. Unlike the traveler, the wayfarer has no destination. His nomadic journey, far from an anarchic wandering, is burdened by the absence of a purpose. The wayfarer presses forward, but no longer with the intention of finding something—home, homeland, love, truth, salvation. He walks so as not to lose the figures of the landscape. And so he discovers the emptiness of the law and the slumber of politics, still oblivious to the only condition common to humanity. Unnumbered seat €17 Reduced and special offers €10 Duration 60 minutes

Massimo Bernardini is the RAI voice of the TV program TALK, a true icon of Italian television journalism. For over twenty years, he has dedicated a prominent role to music, in every genre, with Nessun Dorma on RAI 5. A friend of Giorgio Gaber, he has met and interviewed the greatest musicians of our time. Together with Gloria Campaner, one of the most renowned Italian pianists on the international scene, he will explore the myth of Orpheus, from past to present, from Monteverdi's Baroque to Jobim's bossa nova, for a unique and contemporary portrait of the legend. Massimo Bernardini, journalist Gloria Campaner, pianist Presented by Pierachille Dolfini (L’Avvenire) Unnumbered seat €17 Reduced and special offers €10 Running time 60 minutes

Crying as a sign of devotion. Furthermore, complaintes, an ancient musical genre, express and sublimate the pain of loss or neglect. In this field, the father of the Baroque, Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), was an undisputed master, addressing both sacred and profane love in immortal passages such as "The Lament of the Madonna" and arias such as "Si dolce'l tormento," presented in this program. Raffaele Pe, countertenor Orpheus' Lyre Elisa Citterio, violin André Lislevand, viola da gamba Alberto Lo Gatto, violone Simone Vallerotonda, archlute Chiara Granata, double harp Gabriele Levi, harpsichord Program C. Monteverdi (1567-1643) Lament of the Madonna SV 288 and contemporary works Admission €17 Concessions €10 Running time 60 minutes without intermission

Barocco in Bilico is a concert that is listened to while observing the gestures, or it is a body movement that allows the sounds to emerge and be heard: the audience is free to alternate between listening and seeing, which complement each other even if they do not coincide. This show is a tale of what all performing arts pursue: discipline and self-control, preparation and refinement of gesture, trial and error, the push towards one's own limits, up to the acrobatic spectacularity. The inspiration that gave rise to the idea is a small note that the musician Girolamo Frescobaldi jots down at the end of a composition: "Not without effort does one reach the end," almost as if there were an artistic purpose in that effort, before the beauty of the music. But one could also say that all training seeks to achieve ease. What is the fruit of long work ultimately appears spontaneous, as we read in the I Ching. Baroque performance aesthetics encompass the exploration of limits, the play with risk, improvisation, and the enjoyment of the unexpected. Chiara Granta, double harp Giulia Sarah Gibbons, stilts and stick Program Music by G. M. Trabaci, A. Maione, J. Dowland, B. Pasquini, A. Scarlatti, G. F. Handel Unnumbered seats €10 Reduced and special offers €5 Open rehearsal for schools (10:00 am) €5 Running time 50 minutes without intermission

Catalina Vicens is curator of the Tagliavini Collection of Musical Instruments in Bologna, the largest of its kind in Europe. Originally from Chile, this extraordinary musician and teacher has focused her research on ancient keyboards, exploring rarely heard repertoire composed for these instruments. This program for the positive organ includes pieces that span a broad yet little-known time span, from the medieval soundscape of Hildegard of Bingen to lesser-known composers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Catalina Vicens, portative organ in conversation with Nicola Pedone (RAI Radio 3) Program Music by Hildegard, Francesco Landini, Giovanni Picchi, et al. Unnumbered seat €10 Reduced and special offers €5 Duration 50 minutes without intermission

Between the 16th and 17th centuries, editions of prose, verse, and music dedicated to the subjects or settings of villa life, work in the fields, the fine weather, and the love affairs of bucolic characters flourished with particular vigor, building on the success of the pastoral theatrical genre following the publication of Torquato Tasso's Aminta and Giambattista Guarini's Pastor fido. An interesting aspect of this literary and musical production is the treatment of the Arcadian theme, even in its most minute and seemingly insignificant aspects, a phenomenon that is part of the worldview typical of the years of the scientific revolution and the naturalistic painting of Caravaggio and his followers. Francesca Santi, Maria Dalia Albertini, sopranos and acting Alberto Allegrezza, tenor, lira da braccio and acting Riccardo Pisani, tenor and acting Guglielmo Buonsanti, bass and acting Marco Muzzati, percussion and acting Alberto Allegrezza, conducting, direction, and costumes Admission: €10 Reduced and discounted prices: €5 Running time: 70 minutes without intermission

In this sonic ritual, Mariangela Gualtieri gives voice to the verses of Quando non morivo, interweaving them with others from the past, and composing everything into a well-orchestrated rhythmic score. The aim remains to capture what Amelia Rosselli called "phonic enchantment," that acoustic bath that immerses everyone within themselves while simultaneously keeping the community alive and united. Everything stems from the certainty that poetry is most effective when spoken orally, from mouth to ear, in a ritual in which even the audience's listening can be as inspired as the writing and the speaking of the voice. Produced by Teatro Valdoca with the contribution of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Cesena www.teatrovaldoca.org

Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo is the opera that best represents the classicist reform of the theater in the mid-eighteenth century. Gaetano Guadagni, for whom the role of Orfeo was composed, was the unwitting protagonist of this reform, becoming an essential reference for generations to come for his interpretive and acting skills. This version of the opera is based on a revision that Guadagni himself composed after retiring to Padua at the end of his career and dying in 1792. The opera, staged following René Jacobs's recent studies of this repertoire, will be performed in concert format. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE by C. W. Gluck (1714-1787) A theatrical piece for music in three acts Libretto by Raniero de' Calzabigi DIRECTED BY RENÉ JACOBS La Lira di Orfeo Conductor, Elisa Citterio Chorus of La Lira di Orfeo Academy Harpsichordist, Jacopo Raffaele Raffaele Pe, Orpheus Alice Madeddu, Love Maria Teresa Becci, Eurydice The excerpts are from the version of the opera held in the Pontifical Antoniana Library in Padua (ms D.IV.1624), likely recomposed by Gaetano Guadagni for a private occasion, dated between 1775 and 1785. *The role of Eurydice will be assigned by Maestro Jacobs as a result of the Orfeo Wants You training project, inaugurated at this year's festival. Program Overture Act I Scene I Orpheus and the Chorus "Ah, if around," Chorus "Enough, enough, o comrades," Orpheus, recitative "I call my love thus," Orpheus, aria Scene II Love and Orpheus "Hold your gaze," Love, aria Act II Scene I Orpheus and the Chorus Ball, Maestoso "Who ever from Erebus," Chorus of the Furies Ball of the Furies, Presto "Ah, be still with me," Orpheus, aria "Wretched youth," Chorus of the Furies "Men tyrants," Orpheus, aria (version composed by G. Guadagni) "Ah, what an unknown," Chorus of the Furies INTERVAL Scene II Orpheus and the Chorus of Heroes and Heroines "Che puro ciel," Orpheus, recitative Accompanied "Come to the Realms of Rest," Chorus of Heroes and Heroines Act III Scene I Orpheus and Eurydice "Come, Satisfy Your Husband," Orpheus and Eurydice, duet "What a Fierce Torment," Eurydice, aria "What Shall I Do Without Eurydice," Orpheus, aria "Return, O Beauty, to Your Husband," Chorus of Heroes and Heroines Unnumbered seats €17 Reduced and special offers €10 Duration: 120 minutes, including intermission Photo credits: Philippe Matsas