Concerts in Italy during April 2008 and onward
A full programme of events at Milan’s La Scala from spring and into summer 2008. March and April 2008 sees the revival of Trittico at Milan’s La Scala opera house during March and April, part of the 150th anniversary celebrations for Giacomo Puccini’s birth. La Scala also hosts Graham Vick’s setting of Verdi’s Macbeth (it debuted in 1997), this time conducted by Kazushi Ono with Leo Nucci and Ivan Inverardi sharing the title role. A tragedy of a different kind, George Orwell’s 1984 is given the operatic treatment at La Scala, starting in May. The dystopian tale is written and conducted by Lorin Maazel and directed by Robert LePage. Two new productions debut from May at La Scala, with The Prisoner (Luigi Dallapiccola) and Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók. The conductor is the Great Briton, Daniel Harding.
From April to July, we have the oldest and perhaps the most famous music festival in all Italy, the Maggio Musicale (Musical May) in Florence. Running since 1933, the festival has two months of concerts, ballet, opera and exhibitions. During June, the Miami International Piano Festival has a festival and symposium in the superb Puglian baroque city of Lecce. Venice’s contribution to the European Fête de la Musique day sees the Serene Republic hosting free concerts in all of its squares – everything from folk to classical, rock to jazz. June and July see the Spoleto festival, centred on the Piazza della Liberta in the heart of town. A superb annual event, which grows by the year, Spoleto has ballet, classical music, theatre and visual arts events.
Heading into the far north-east of Italy we have the International Operetta Festival at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste. The festival runs June into July and is approaching its fortieth year, with everything from Gershwin to Franz von Suppé. Summer is a fertile time for Italian music festivals in fact, with the Ravenna Festival during June and July, and featuring opera, dance, jazz, world music and drama. There is also, of course, the world famous Verona Arena Opera Festival during the summer months.
Verona Opera Festival tickets
Ravenna Festival
International Operetta Festival, Trieste
Spoleto Festival
La Scala
Maggio Musicale
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