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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
RIGOLETTO
One of the most exciting operas from the mid 19th century, Rigoletto was initially embattled by the censors of the time, who had several issues with its content for both aesthetic and political...
MYUNG-WHUN CHUNG
Gustav Mahler composed most of the score to his Symphony No. 3 in the summers of 1895 and 1896 in a composing hut he had built at the edge of the Alpine lake at Steinbach am Attersee. Natalie...
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...
Untitled, 2020
Punta della Dogana presents the exhibition ‘Untitled, 2020’, conceived and curated by Caroline...
Youssef Nabil. Once Upon a Dream
As well as the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition - which will occupy the first floor of the exhibition space - Palazzo Grassi will also host a ...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu
VENETO JAZZ
Sabato 14 marzo 2020 ore 19.30 - Sale Apollinee
DIEGO BOROTTI-NU 4ET
Il 14 marzo (ore 19.30) alle Sale Apollinee del Teatro La Fenice il sassofonista...
JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE. L'INVENZIONE DELLA FELICITA'. FOTOGRAFIE
Dal 29 febbraio al 12 giugno 2020 la Casa dei Tre Oci di Venezia ospita la più ampia retrospettiva mai organizzata in Italia, dedicata al fotografo francese Jacques Henri...
Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Migrating Objects:
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Tentazioni Dinner & Show
Casinò di Venezia opens the Salone delle Feste to one of the most original Shows of the moment and presents a magical evening bringing together the pleasures of food &...
Musikamera 2020
Musikàmera, founded by a group of chamber music enthusiasts from different musical and professional background, aims to cultivate an ever broader audience among the city's residence with...
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