Festival dei 2 Mondi - Festival of the 2 Worlds
Spoleto
24 June | 10 July 2016
This year, Spoleto's Festival dei 2 Mondi is taking place from the 24th June to the 10th July, and has 17 days of great events in store, transforming the town into a stage that will be hosting operas, musical and theatrical performances, dance, exhibitions, film screenings as well as many special guests.
Now in its 59th edition, Spoleto's festival again confirms its original and prestigious nature as an important international appointment. A historic meeting point for different cultures, the festival today offers an established showcase for great artists as well as emerging talents and above all, is an unstoppable workshop for original productions.
Here is a taster of what's to come in the 2016 edition: the piece chosen to open the festival is "The Marriage of Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whilst the closing concert will see the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia perform, conducted by Antonio Pappano, with Stefano Bollani on the piano and music by Schoenberg, Lehár and Gershwin.
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Sacred Music Festival
Cortona
27 June | 3 July 2016
The Sacred Music Festival in Cortona has taken place every year since 2004 in July and is organised by the Associazione Cortona Cristiana following the ideal of mixing arts, music, culture and religious faith.
The Associazione Cortona Cristiana wants to promote and spread Christian artistic and music culture in a place where culture has always been mixed with faith. Within the city walls of Cortona there are seventeen churches, which show the deep-rooted presence of religious faith. We cannot forget to mention that the famous “Laudario Cortonese” was written in Cortona in the 13th century. It is a handwritten collection of laude and religious poems, the oldest book of its kind preserved in the world (today displayed in the Municipal Library of Cortona). In particular, it contains forty-six laude set to music, which have been often sung during the different editions of the Sacred Music Festival.
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Musiche.
Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria Perugia
1 July | 25 September 2016
July 1st 2016 is the opening date for the Lelli and Masotti exhibition which commences with Musiche, a journey into the world of music through 80 black and white pictures taken by Silvia Lelli and Roberto Masotti, two of the greatest interpreters of music and entertainment photography in Italy, and long-standing official photographers of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and other important institutions in Italy and abroad.
The exhibition, which will run until September 25 and is co-produced with the Trasimeno Music Festival and Umbria Jazz, focuses on the execution of live music, from Italy and abroad, and offers an unusual and extensive history of music from classical to jazz, rock or modern, ranging from the early sixties onwards.
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