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“One needs to be as light as a
swallow, not as a feather”
Paul Valery
The
aim of the Ravello Festival is to generate a special
atmosphere which caresses the spirit. The ingredients it
can count on are the serene landscape on all sides, the
balmy climate, the highly evocative monuments and the
courtesy which distinguishes personal encounters. Here
at the heart of the Mediterranean the classical Latin
heritage has been tempered with Arab grace, giving
moments of relaxation a certain poise, rendering
reflections creative and ensuring that exchanges are
always conducted with the greatest respect.
The Festival’s cultural offering accompanies the summer
without impinging on guests’ privacy; we provide
opportunities for entertainment, but we do not impose;
we cater for a range of recondite desires without
compromising anyone’s wish for solitude, for the primacy
of silence or for unhampered meditation. The Ravello
Festival seeks to enable a style of life based on
introspection, creative idleness, ethics and aesthetics.
A model of existence emancipated from the idiocies of
destructive competition and activity for its own sake.
The 2009 edition has a rich array of opportunities, and
the thread that links these opportunities together, like
so many pearls, showing them off but without any sense
of constriction, is the topic of Courage, this year’s
Wagnerian Leitmotiv.
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