More than 30 artistic projects of
theater, music, dance, and circus focusing on the theme
"Inevitable" will transform Cividale del Friuli (Udine) into a
big stage from July 21 to 30 during Mittelfest, a festival of
Mitteleuropa culture, which is about to raise the curtain on its
2023 edition.
Among the guests expected in the ducal city enrolled since
2011 in the serial site "The Lombards in Italy" included in the
Unesco World Heritage List are Janoska Ensemble, Vinicio
Marchioni, Nicola Piovani, Erri de Luca, Fast Animals and Slow
Kids, Haris Pašović, Strijbos & Van Rijswijk, Lucia Vasini,
Lorenzo Lavia, Paolo Triestino, Mirijana Karanović, Gardi
Hutter, Electrico 28.
By artistic director Giacomo Pedini's choice, this 32nd
edition on the theme "Inevitable" focuses on "the challenge,
even daily, between destiny and the freedom to choose."
Among the long-awaited return is that of Mittelfest's stage in
Piazza Duomo, which will host, among others, the two concerts
that open and close the festival. On July 21 at 9:30 p.m., the
curtain of Mittelfest 2023 will rise for the first time with
Janoska Style Goes Symphonic: the FVG Orchestra and the
Austro-Slovak group Janoska Ensemble will perform together.
The rock sounds of Fast Animals and Slow Kids, accompanied by
the symphonic guise of the Arcangelo Corelli Orchestra, will be
closing the Mittelfest on July 30 at 9:30 p.m. Piazza Duomo will
also host a tribute for the centenary of Calvino's birth, "The
Cloven Viscount" (July 22, 9:30 p.m.), starring Vinicio
Marchioni and live music by Radio Zastava.
Itinerant shows, tailor-made for Cividale to help people
rediscover the city and its places, are a leitmotif of
Mittelfest: it begins with Deriva Urbana (July 22-23) by the
Austro-Catalan collective Eléctrico 28 and co-produced with the
Italian Drama of Rijeka, which simulates the audience to search
for new relationships between people, things and places as they
walk around Cividale.
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