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 Project
The 2013 Ravello Festival will take place in July, August and September and feature the common theme of " Il Domani", viewed as both cultural heritage and a stimulus for social awareness and dialogue.

The tried and tested pluri-disciplinary format will once again involve international events staged in Villa Rufolo, the Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium, and the gardens of Ravello’s splendid hotels.

Without neglecting its well established musical highlights (from the traditional Wagnerian concert to the atmospheric dawn concert), the Festival will devote particular attention to the formative aspect of its mission, exploiting collaborations with several prestigious cultural institutions.

The 2013 Festival is a coherent element in the series of activities promoted by the Fondazione Ravello which from this year are programmed over the full 12 months. All the initiatives, whether formative or performative, will be systematically integrated so as to enhance the territory’s touristic and cultural growth still further, exploiting the conjunction of three unique structures: Villa Rufolo, Villa Episcopio and the Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium.