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Summer is upon us! Today marks the longest day of the year, when the Earth is at the fullest of her strength, light, and abundance. To mark the beginning of this season of regrowth and bounty, Fendi shares with us a special streaming event, FENDI Renaissance Anima Mundi, which translates to Soul of the Universe. Head to Fendi.com today, the day of Solstice, the view the full special concert.  

The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia together with FENDI presents a special performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s Estate from The Four Seasons, performed by the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and star violinist Anna Tifu, who will be dressed in three different FENDI Couture looks. Celebrating FENDI’s Roman roots and Made in Italy excellence, the concert’s stage will be at FENDI’s picturesque headquarters in Rome, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana.

In the words from the Maison: "The project is the result of a collaboration between Accademia di Santa Cecilia and FENDI, two realities deeply bound to the city of Rome of which they are an expression of excellence and creativity at the highest levels. The idea of the performance comes from the desire to share with the community, after the pandemic, a positive message of rebirth through art, fashion and music. The symphonic music, whose peculiarity lies in the highest quality of sound, finds for the first time its iconographic expression through FENDI’s Couture dresses which visually personify the narrative of Estate. The performance will be celebrated on the day of the summer solstice, symbolizing the common desire to restart, reunite and rejoin. Of all the concerts of the Vivaldi cycle, Estate is the one that leads the listener to a climax of exciting and engaging emotions, rendered by the musical writing with almost ‘visible' effects. 

"Anima Mundi represents the unifying principle from which each organism takes shape, articulating and differentiating itself through its individual specifications, to then unify under a Universal Soul. The performance is executed following this concept, with the musicians first playing separately and then united by a special element: the Orchestra. It will be an “itinerant” performance in space and time, the one of violinist Anna Tifu and of the orchestral professors. From the first movement, at dawn, on the steps of Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana and then under the arches, maintaining the social distance imposed by the events of recent weeks, the musicians will finally rejoin at sunset on the rooftop of the “Square Colosseum” to tune up for the last movement of Estate, playing music together again after these months of forced separation and celebrating together the warmth of music and summer."  

Share in the beauty of the Solstice at Fendi.com