Events
Home Festival 2020
Home Festival, one of the most long-awaited events of the Italian summer festivals, will be taking place from July 10 to 13. The international festival celebrates its...
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...
Feast of the Ascension
Every year millions of visitors came in Venice attracted by world-wide events. Among these stands out the Festa della Sensa, which, more than any other event,...
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...
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...
17. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura
The 17th International Architecture Exhibition will run 29 August to 29 November 2020 (pre-opening 27 and 28 August), curated by architect and scholar Hashim Sarkis. “The world is putting new...
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...
Happy Friday - 22 maggio 2020
FAUST
Gounod’s Faust (1859) was among the world’s most performed operas from the 1860s to World War II, and still remains a core repertory work.
The story, adapted by Gounod’s librettists Jules...
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...
CLAUDIO MARINO MORETTI
Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227, is a motet composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is also known as Motet No. 3 in E minor. The work takes its title from the hymn “Jesu, meine Freude”, with its chorale...
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