Introducing ‘Anima Mundi,’ a performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s Estate from The Four Seasons executed by the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at the Fendi headquarters in Rome. Star violinist Anna Tifu, for the occasion, is dressed in three different Fendi Couture looks.

The idea of the Fendi ‘Anima Mundi’ 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 finds for the first time its iconographic expression through Fendi’s Couture dresses which visually personify the narrative of Estate. The performance is 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 is an “itinerant” performance in space and time, the one of violinist Anna Tifu and of the orchestral professors.

Anna Tifu plays the 1716 Antonio Stradivari “Marèchal Berthier” ex Napoleon a very prestigious violin that the Fondazione Pro Canale of Milan lends to the most talented violinists to be played and be brought back to life. Antonio Stradivari is universally regarded as the greatest violin maker in history.