(ANSA) - UDINE, 17 LUG - 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. (ANSA).