Riccardo Muti from Moscow: a Virtual Concert, a Real Success
Milan, 27 July 2000 - " Among the highest and truly universal compositions, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is the one which better symbolizes the people-binding power of music" . Maestro Riccardo Muti's comment on the " Concert for Peace" conducted from the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on July 24th summarizes the deep emotion conveyed by this unique musical experience. The success of the event was marked by a 10 minutes-long round of applause from the public of the Bolshoi Theatre (over 2,000, with all tickets sold out) and by the access statistics to the special page published on this site (over 42,000 contacts and more than 1,000 full audio/video streaming sessions).
The performance of the " Teatro alla Scala" and the Bolshoi Orchestras and Choirs has thus magnificently closed the Ravenna Festival " per le Vie dell'Amicizia" , the annual rendezvous dedicated to peace and twinship among cities around the World. The magic emotions of this successful peace itinerary will flow again in July 2001, from Istambul and Armenia.
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