Ravello Festival 2026 programme
From July 4 to September 5, 2026, the 74th edition of the Ravello Festival will take place. It is the oldest music festival in Italy after the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the event that more than any other has contributed to shaping Ravello’s identity as the “City of Music.”
The 2026 program features 22 events spanning symphonic, baroque, jazz, opera, and chamber music repertoire. With the exception of two concerts, the rest of the festival will, as usual, take place in the stunning setting of Villa Rufolo, the historic complex located in the center of Ravello that has enchanted poets, writers, musicians, and cultural figures. Extraordinary artists will perform, including Daniele Gatti, Kent Nagano, Sir Simon Rattle, Giovanni Sollima, Isabelle Faust, Jordi Savall, and John Eliot Gardiner, along with some of the most prestigious orchestras on the international scene.
RAVELLO FESTIVAL 2026 PROGRAMME
July 4, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 8:00 PM
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Daniele Gatti
Richard Wagner, Siegfried-Idyll;
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 op. 55 “Eroica”
July 5, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 8:00 PM
Il Pomo d’Oro – Giovanni Sollima
Cello: Giovanni Sollima
Zappa & Zappa
Music by Francesco Zappa, Frank Zappa, Giovanni Sollima, Vanni Moretto
July 10, 2026
Piazza Duomo, 7:30 PM
Fresco, for five orchestras in space
Gioacchino Mansi; Rosario Barbarulo; Giuseppe Maresca; Angelo Decarluccio; Gabriella Fasulo; Luca Francesconi
Award-winning Band Orchestra “Città di Minori”; Historic Grand Band “Città di Salerno”; Band Ensemble “Città di Sorrento”; Grand Band “Città di Fisciano”; Music School Band Association “Città di Montecorvino Rovella”
Musical direction: Luca Francesconi; Stage coordination: Manuel Renga
Production: Ravello Festival
July 11, 2026
Church of San Giovanni del Toro, 6:00 PM
Ensemble of the Milan Symphony Orchestra
Luca Francesconi
Risonanze d’Orfeo
Production: Ravello Festival
July 11, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 8:00 PM
Le Concert des Nations / La Capella Reial de Catalunya – L’Orfeo
Jordi Savall
Claudio Monteverdi, L’Orfeo (concert version)
Main cast: Orfeo, Mauro Borgioni; Euridice / La Musica: Elionor Martínez; Messaggera: Sara Mingardo; Speranza / Proserpina: Marianne Beate Kielland; Caronte / Plutone: Salvatore Mario Vitale; Apollo: Furio Zanasi
July 12, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 8:00 PM
Orchestra of the Romanian National Opera
Daniel Jinga
Violin: Alexandru Tomescu
George Enescu, Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 op. 11;
Niccolò Paganini, Violin Concerto No. 2 op. 7 “La Campanella”;
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Suite from Swan Lake op. 20a
July 17, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 8:00 PM
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon
Baritone: Stéphane Degout
Franz Schubert, Der Doppelgänger D957/13; Symphony No. 8 D759 “Unfinished” (I mov.); Gruppe aus dem Tartarus D583; Symphony No. 8 (II mov.); Nacht und Träume D827;
Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 1 op. 68
July 19, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 8:00 PM
World (of) Dance
Piano: Jan Lisiecki
Music by Bohuslav Martinů, Manuel de Falla, Karol Szymanowski, Franz Schubert, Béla Bartók, Alberto Ginastera, Fryderyk Chopin, Johannes Brahms, Astor Piazzolla, Isaac Albéniz
July 24, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 8:00 PM
RAI National Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Tjeknavorian
Aram Khachaturian, selections from Gayaneh ballet suites
Modest Mussorgsky / Maurice Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition
July 29, 2026
Villa Rufolo, Sala dei Cavalieri, 8:00 PM
Piccinni and Gluck, a crown for two
by Valerio Cappelli
Actor: Sergio Rubini; soprano: Francesca Pia Vitale; piano: Luca Gorla
Music by Niccolò Piccinni
In collaboration with Teatro Petruzzelli of Bari and Angelo Tumminelli (Prima International Company)
July 31, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 8:00 PM
Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln
Kent Nagano
Richard Wagner, Götterdämmerung
Prologue and Act I (concert version)
August 6, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 9:30 PM
Andrea Motis Trio
August 7, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 9:30 PM
Rita Marcotulli Ensemble – Under 29 but me
August 8, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 9:30 PM
Homage to Miles
With Rick Margitza, Jeff Ballard, Dario Deidda, Roberto Tarenzi, Domenico Sanna, Carlo Fimiani
Production: Ravello Festival
August 11, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 5:15 AM
Orchestra “Giuseppe Verdi” Philharmonic of Salerno – Sunrise Concert
Conductor: Alessandro Palumbo
Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 8 op. 88;
Georges Bizet, Carmen Suites No. 1 and No. 2;
Franz Liszt, Les préludes s97
August 26, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 7:30 PM
“George Enescu” Philharmonic
Robert Treviño
George Enescu, Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 op. 11;
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2 op. 27
August 27, 2026
Villa Rufolo, Sala dei Cavalieri, 6:00 PM
Piano recital: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Music by Maurice Ravel
Complete piano works (Part I)
August 27, 2026
Villa Rufolo, Sala dei Cavalieri, 9:00 PM
Piano recital: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Music by Maurice Ravel
Complete piano works (Part II)
August 29, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 7:30 PM
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Philippe Jordan
Richard Wagner, Prelude from Parsifal;
Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 4 “Romantic”
August 30, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 7:30 PM
The Constellation Choir and Orchestra
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major op. 52 “Lobgesang”
September 5, 2026
Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, 7:30 PM
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Violin: Isabelle Faust
Robert Schumann, Violin Concerto;
Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 2 op. 61
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