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Venice Boat Show 2020
After the first edition in 2019, the Venice Boat Show postpones the 2020 event: already at work for the 2021 appointment.
Due to the persistence of the Covid-19 epidemic...
The Feast-day of the Madonna della Salute
The Festa della Salute is probably the least "touristy" of the Venetian festivities and evokes strong religious feelings among the city's inhabitants.The holiday is, like the Redentore, in memory...
17. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura
The 17th International Architecture Exhibition will run 22 May to 21 November 2021, curated by architect and scholar Hashim Sarkis. “The world is putting new challenges in front...
Happy Friday - 11 dicembre 2020
Happy Friday - 27 novembre 2020
Happy Friday - 27 novembre 2020
Happy Friday - 31 ottobre 2020
LA CAMBIALE DI MATRIMONIO
Rossini’s first opera, the one-act farce La cambiale di matrimonio (The Bill of Marriage), premiered in 1810 at Venice’s Teatro San Moisè. Composed in a few days when he was 18 years old...
PRIMA LA MUSICA E POI LE PAROLE
Prima la musica e poi le parole
divertimento in one Act
Composer Antonio Salieri | libretto Giovanni Battista Casti
Der Schauspieldirektor
singspiel in one Act kv 486...
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
«Always make Barbiere! Always Barbiere!», Beethoven suggested to Rossini on meeting him in Vienna. “I cannot help but think that Il barbiere di Siviglia, by its abundance of true musical...
Happy Friday - 25 settembre
IL TROVATORE
Il trovatore (The Trobadour), premiered in Rome in 1853, is a panel of Verdi’s so told ‘popular trilogy’ alongside Rigoletto and La traviata. Themes of obsession, revenge, family...
FESTIVAL GALUPPI E DELLA MUSICA 2019
Historical Regatta 2020
Venice and American Studio Glass
The next spring exhibition at LE STANZE DEL VETRO, ‘Venice and American Studio Glass’, will be open from 6 Septempber to 10 january 2021. This exhibition is curated by Tina Oldknow and William...
Happy Friday - 28 agosto 2020
LA TRAVIATA
When Verdi unveiled La traviata as a “subject of our time”, he hoped this salacious tale would receive a performance in modern dress for its première at La Fenice. Instead, the censors introduced...
AIDA
In 1860 Isma’il Pascià, the Khedive of Egypt commissioned Verdi with a composition to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal for a sum of 80,000 francs. Verdi refused, saying he...
Happy Friday - 24 luglio
ROBERTO DEVEREUX
Fascinated by English history, Donizetti wrote three operas featuring in a starring role the self-styled ‘Virgin Queen’ as a woman torn between...
Happy Friday - 19 giugno 2020
RINALDO
In Torquato Tasso’s epic La Gerusalemme liberata, on which Händel’s masterpiece Rinaldo is based, the tale of the attempted seduction of the hero by the enchantress Armida is told...
MYUNG-WHUN CHUNG
The Staatskapelle Dresden (known formally as the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden) is a German orchestra based in Dresden, the capital of Saxony. Founded in 1548 by Maurice, Elector of Saxony, it...
TON KOOPMAN
Ton Koopman (1944) is een van de laatste grote oude muziek-pioniers van het eerste uur. Tijdens zijn loopbaan als organist, klavecinist, dirigent en onderzoeker groeide Johann Sebastian Bach uit...
Fondazione Querini Stampalia riapre gli spazi espositivi
Museo, Area Scarpa, Collezione Intesa Sanpaolo e mostre temporanee a partire da sabato 23 e nel week end fino al 31 maggio saranno aperti gratuitamente solo i fine settimana (dalle ore 11...
Fabrizio Plessi The Golden Age
The work of contemporary master Fabrizio Plessi is celebrated in two exhibitions: a large retrospective in the rooms of Ca’ Pesaro and a spectacular installation in the windows of Museo Correr in...
Creatives of Our Time
Building on the success of the first edition, in which over 2300 young artists took part, the Artefici del nostro tempo (Creatives of Our Time) competition returns, promoted by the Municipality of...
Piranesi Roma Basilico
Piranesi Roma Basilico, the exhibition that in the year of the 17th Architecture Biennale celebrates the charm of Rome, comparing the ancient city of Piranesi's engravings and the contemporary...
Opera
Venice, the cradle of melodrama, is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the wonderful musical art of opera. The exhibition presents the history of opera through four centuries...
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