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10-19 July. Once Umbria Jazz was all about jazz, now it is increasingly about how to attract the crowds to fill S. Giuliana stadium, especially in a time of increasingly scarce resources. But there is always the hope tha...
26 June-12 July. There is only one opera production at the Spoleto festival this year, Mozart's Così fan Tutte (26-29 June) and now that Vanessa Redgrave has cancelled her much-awaited appearance with A World I Loved. St...
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19 June-9 Sept. The operas this year are Nabucco by Verdi (19 June-5 Sept), Zeffirelli's production of Aida (20 June-6 Sept) and the Hugo da Ana production of Puccini's Tosca (26 June-14 Aug). The dance programme incl...
25 April-27 July. This year the festival is dedicated to Dante Alighieri on the 750th anniversary of his birth in 1265. It is the beginning of a multi-disciplinary project which will end in 2021, the anniversary the poet...
27 May-28 June. The three operas in the festival this year are Bernstein's Candide (until 3 June) Britten's Turn of the Screw (until 7 June), and Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (18-25 June). Maggio Elettrico presents...
The fourth edition of Memorie Urbane Street Art Festival promises to be the biggest ever festival dedicated to street art in Italy. This year the event features 40 artists, seven towns, three provinces and two regions...
This year the festival, which traditionally has chamber music at its core, focuses on the influence of master performers on their pupils and the relationship between the two. To repeat the quote from Benjamin Franklin...
The first festival in 1939 was dedicated entirely to music by Vivaldi, whose work was little known at the time and since then it has always tried to “re-discover” works by Italian composers and more recently...
Torre del Lago Festival. This is the only festival dedicated exclusively to the works of Puccini. It takes place on the outskirts of Viareggio in an open-air theatre on the shore of Lake Massacciucolo, in the grounds of...
This year's festival of interdisciplinary arts in and around Turin focuses on Nordic culture from Finland, Norway and Sweden. There are also performances of dance, contemporary circus, street art, video art and various t...
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Officially the dates for the annual opera festival at Viterbo are 7 July-15 Aug but in mid-June there was still a query about the dates and there was still no programme. Events will probably begin in the courtyard of...
Non-stop jazz from mid-day to past midnight is the formula for this famous festival. Events take place in bars, restaurants, museums, courtyards and squares, and for ten days Perugia is synonymous with jazz played by and...
The festival is now only a shadow of it former self when Spoleto was Italy's most famous festival under the guidance of Giancarlo Menotti. Opera. Its once excellent opera programme has been reduced to two days (27 and...
Over 50 events are programmed this year under the theme South. The inaugural and closing events are centre on Neapolitan culture, with a special tribute to Eduardo De Filippo to open the festival on 21 June and a conc...
The Ravenna festival, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, should be high up on your list of festivals this year for the sheer choice and quality of its programme. Since its foundation by Riccardo Muti in 1990 i...
The festival specializes in rare or forgotten works and this year’s programme includes Benjamin Britten's Arche di Noe (21 July), Armide (27, 30 July), La Lotta di Ercole con Archeloo (25, 28 July, 1 Aug). There...
The first good news about Maggio Musicale festival is that it is still with us, with a new organisation and a life-saving injection of state funding. The second is that the city’s new theatre, Nuova Teatro dell&...
The 12th edition of Piú Libri piú liberi, the national fair for small and medium Italian book publishing houses, offers a literary programme of conferences, lectures, readings, theatre workshops, performanc...
One of Italy’s oldest and most established dance festivals. Adopting this year’s European theme “Citizens”, the festival highlights a mix of different cultures and ideas. This international event...
Walls and Divisions is the theme chosen for this amazing opera festival. Unique of its kind thanks to the venue in which it takes place: the 18th-century “Sferisterio”, a long, oval-shaped arena that was orig...
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