It was October 1993 when Franco Battiato presented his Archaic Mass for the first time in the Basilica of San Francesco d’Assisi, a sacred composition symbolizing the intense spiritual journey that accompanied the artistic career of the Sicilian singer-songwriter. A work that, with its Mystical Songs, represents the testimony of that incessant intimate and musical research, to which the Malatesta Music Festival for its 73rd edition chooses to pay homage with a special and precious preview.
An original production that sees the renewal of the collaboration between Sagra Musicale Malatestiana and Ravenna Festival, and which is proposed as the first of a series of events that anticipate the new season of one of the oldest Italian music festivals.
For the tribute to Battiato, three soloists who have worked alongside the singer-songwriter and who now pay homage to his vast artistic production, such as Simone Cristicchi, Juri Camisasca and Alice, who together with the mezzo-soprano Cristina Baggio join the Bruno Maderna Orchestra and the Choir of the Siena Cathedral "Guido Chigi Saracini" on the Rimini stage.