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To mark this year’s anniversaries of Verdi, Wagner, Britten and Gesualdo da Venosa, the festival sees the production of five operas. There are two evenings dedicated to Verdi and Wagner and a series of concerts of...
For this delightful chamber music festival, artistic director Antonio Lysy has drawn up the usual wide-ranging music programme featuring a host of world-class names. In the wake of last year’s success, he also offe...
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The Festival Puccini takes place on the shores of Massaciuccoli Lake, near the Tuscan town of Lucca. Performances are in an open-air theatre, just a stone’s throw from Villa Puccini, where the composer lived, worke...
Organised by the prestigious Accademia Musicale Chigiana, the festival attracts a large number of world famous musicians who also lead master classes and workshops. The "Settimana" is famous for having brought to light r...
Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Keith Jarrett, Diana Krall, Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea, Terence Blanchard, Jan Garbarek are just some of the artists performing in Perugia this year. Umbria Jazz, with its jam-...
True to the festival’s primary aim to highlight the artistic and historic value of the House of Savoy palaces in the Piedmont region, this interesting event offers a multi-disciplinary calendar of  performance...
A free concert in Viterbo’s main square by popular composer and pianist Giovanni Allevi and a new dance production dedicated to Verdi in his anniversary year are the highlights of this year’s programme. Retur...
This lovely festival draws on a unique blend of scenic beauty, historical landmarks and great personalities in the world of music and culture. Its aim – organisers explain – is to foster an experience to reme...
Star pianist Alexander Lonquich inaugurates the festival this year with a recital in the abbey of Fossanova. The sophisticated event has its origins in the 1960s when Lelia Caetani and her husband Hubert Howard founded a...
Seventeen days of music, art, opera, dance, cinema and drama with over 120 different performances and the presence of many big names make up this 56th edition of the Spoleto Festival,  the famous arts event in the b...
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Possibly the most famous open-air opera season in the world thanks to its breath-taking setting in the ancient Roman arena, and the truly magic atmosphere of the events in programme. The festival's centennial coincides w...
The sixth edition of the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia directed by Luca De Fusco has a rich programme despite the crippling cuts in the sector. This year’s refreshing arts festival includes 20 debuts, three Italian...
A top-class festival that seems to be surviving the dire austerity measures. The festival, under the patronage of star conductor Riccardo Muti who has his home in Ravenna, confirms last year’s successful formula th...
Living in the World - Transmission and Practices is the title of the three-year programme of new director Virgilio Sieni. The International Festival of Contemporary Dance of the Venice Biennale o...
This festival is one of the most important world events dedicated to the piano as both a solo instrument and as part of a great orchestra. Being the 50th edition, this year is obviously a special one and more than a them...
Every year Cremona honours its most famous son with an annual three-week festival featuring a mix of his own works and works of those he inspired and mentored. Acclaimed by musicologists as the first major figure in the...
This famous arts festival, which is one of the oldest in Italy, hosts an interesting programme with numerous star players including conductors Claudio Abbado and Daniel Barenboim and a Verdian calendar that includes Macb...
This cutting edge international festival of contemporary stage arts offers a varied and complex programme. From its centre, the Stazione Leopolda, it stretches out across Florence with events in other spaces including sq...
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