Program - Festa dell'Opera

Festa dell'Opera
Festa dell'Opera awaits you next year!

A project by
Fondazione Teatro
Grande Brescia

11.45pm - 00.30am

Gran Finale al Tempio

Tempio Capitolino


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10.45pm - 11.30pm

Ever.ravE

Museo Diocesano


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10.45pm - 11.30pm

Che gelida manina

Piazza del Foro


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10.30pm - 11.15pm

Perchè sei tu Romeo?

Cortile del Palazzo Broletto


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10.15pm - 11.30pm

La Traviata Ballabile

Largo Formentone


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9.30pm - 11.30pm

Opera riparata

Chiostro del Museo Diocesano


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9.30pm - 10.15pm

Violette e Margherite

Piazza del Foro


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9.30pm - 10pm

Serenata d’Opera

Riserva del Grande


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9.15pm - 10pm

Dolce notte, quante stelle!

Cortile di Palazzo Broletto


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9pm - 9.45pm

Voi lo sapete, oh mamma

Largo Formentone


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8.45pm - 9pm

Assaggi d’Opera

Contrada del Carmine


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9pm - 9.30pm

Serenata d’Opera

Torre Bruciata


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8.30pm - 9pm

Serenata d’Opera

Piazza del Mercato


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8pm - 8.30pm

Su la testa!

Terrazza del Teatro Grande


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6.00pm - 7.45pm

Su la testa!

Teatro Grande's terrace


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8pm - 8.30pm

Serenata d’Opera

Palazzo Sigismondi


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8pm - 9pm

Gran Gala

Teatro Grande di Brescia


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8pm - 8.15pm

Assaggi d’Opera

Piazzetta Vescovado


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8.15pm - 8.30pm

Scuola di guida

Piazza Paolo VI - Incrocio Via Bevilacqua


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7.30pm - 8pm

Serenata d’Opera

Torre d'Ercole


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7pm - 7.15pm

Assaggi d’Opera

San Faustino


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7pm - 7.30pm

Serenata d’Opera

Palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino


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7pm - 7.30pm

Volgi lo sguardo all’Opera

Terrazza di Palazzo Negroboni


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7pm - 7.45pm

Suggestioni dai cortili | Se saper voi bramate

Garden of the Palazzo del Prefetto


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6pm - 7pm

Banda all’Opera

Portico of the Loggia Palace


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6pm - 6.45pm

Suggestioni dai cortili | Sul fil d’un soffio

Sigismondi Palace


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5.30pm - 6.45pm

Scuola di guida

San Luca "Piazzetta"


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5.30pm - 6.15pm

Suggestioni dai cortili | I promessi sposi

Garden of the Palazzo Vescovile


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5pm - 5.45pm

Opera barocca

Santa Maria della Carità Church


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5pm - 5.30pm

Volgi lo sguardo all’Opera

Terrazza Palazzo Negroboni


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5pm - 7pm

Operametro

Vittoria Station


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4.30pm - 5pm

Banda giovanile all’Opera

Loggia Palace


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4.30pm - 7.30pm

Opera Bike

City streets of Brescia


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4.30pm - 4.45pm

Viaggio in una notte stellata

Teatro San Carlino


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3.45pm - 6pm

Tornami a vagheggiar

Circolo al Teatro


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3.30pm - 4.45pm

Acquaprofonda

Teatro Grande di Brescia


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3.30pm - 4.15pm

Opera senza confini

Teatro Sociale


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3pm - 5pm

Tanto amore segreto

Averoldi Palace


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1pm - 2.30pm

Aggiungi un posto a tavola

Houses of Brescia


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12.45am - 1.30pm

Opera Jukebox

Via Gasparo da Salò


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12am - 1.30pm

Operacar

Brescia city center and surroundings


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12.00pm - 12.45pm

Opera Sacra

Chiesa del Santissimo Corpo di Cristo


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11.45am - 1pm

Un pranzo con l’Opera

Mensa Menni


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11.15am - 12am

Amor ch’a nullo amato

Salone Pietro da Cemmo del Conservatorio Luca Marenzio


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11am - 12.15am

Acquaprofonda

Teatro Grande di Brescia


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11.00am - 12.15am

Lucia di Lammermoor sul lettino dello psicoanalista

Palazzo Martinengo delle Palle


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10.30am - 12.30am

Voci Verdiane

Palazzo Broletto


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5.30am - 6.15am

Arie di luce

Castle of Brescia


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5.30am-6.15am

Castle of Brescia

Arie di luce

An ideal tour of Europe through some of the most persuasive, sweet and poignant melodies of the great composers. A the end of the concert, an Italian-style breakfast.

Limited places available. Advanced booking required on the 6th and 7th June. To reserve your seat, please call +39 0302979348 (10.00-13.00).

Opera singers Nina Solodovnikova, Anna Cimmarrusti
Piano Davide Rinaldi
Ensemble Bazzini Consort

2
10.30am-12.30am

Palazzo Broletto

Voci Verdiane

A special artistic performance dedicated to the great composer from Busseto.

Limited seats available. Admission every 20 minutes.

Coro Lirico Ponchielli Vertova
Choirmaster Patrizia Bernelich

3
11.00am-12.15am

Palazzo Martinengo delle Palle

Lucia di Lammermoor sul lettino dello psicoanalista

Some semi-serious insights around music and psychiatry.

Speaker Graziano De Giorgio

4
11am-12.15am

Teatro Grande di Brescia

Acquaprofonda

The topical issue of water pollution told through a contemporary opera for adults and children, which was awarded the Premio Siebaneck as part of the prestigious Premio Abbiati.

Only stalls seats available.

Original music by Giovanni Sollima
Libretto Giancarlo De Cataldo
Direction Luis Ernesto Doñas
Scenes Chiara La Ferlita
Costumes Elisa Cobello
Production AsLiCo

5
11.15am-12am

Salone Pietro da Cemmo del Conservatorio Luca Marenzio

Amor ch’a nullo amato

The immortal stories of Paolo, Francesca and Count Ugolino re-read by Donizetti, Zandonai and contemporary composer Fabio Massimo Capogrosso.

Opera singers Valentina Corò, Alessandro Goldoni, Filippo Quarti, Bryan Sala
Piano Andrea Dindo
Cello Sara Airoldi

6
11.45am-1pm

Mensa Menni

Un pranzo con l’Opera

For Mensa Menni guests only.

7
12.00pm-12.45pm

Chiesa del Santissimo Corpo di Cristo

Opera Sacra

An excursus in the typical sacred repertoire of some of the greatest Opera composers.

Opera singers Benedetta Mazzetto, Matteo Straffi
Organ Tomas Gavazzi

8
12am-1.30pm

Brescia city center and surroundings

Operacar

The Festa dell’Opera car speeds along Brescia streets spreading music and sounds everywhere.

In collaboration with Gruppo Barchetti.

9
12.45am-1.30pm

Via Gasparo da Salò

Opera Jukebox

Choose your favourite aria and listen to it live performed by the artists of Festa dell’Opera.

Opera singers Claudia Ceraulo, Flavia Fioretti, Hao Kang, Bryan Sala
Piano Francesco Orecchio
Host Sarah Tisba

10
1pm-2.30pm

Houses of Brescia

Aggiungi un posto a tavola

Let Festa dell’Opera enter your own house by inviting one of our singers for lunch!

Info and booking from the 5th to 7th June, please call +39 0302979348 (10am – 1.00pm).

11
3pm-5pm

Averoldi Palace

Tanto amore segreto

Puccini and his “last portrayed woman”, Liù, inside a treasure chest of voices and beauty.

Limited seats available. Admission every 15 minutes

Opera singers Silvia Spessot, Erika Tanaka
Vibraphone Filippo Pelucchi Gogna

12
3.30pm-4.15pm

Teatro Sociale

Opera senza confini

Opera melodies performed by the students of the Brescia and Bergamo Conservatories to celebrate the year of the Capitale Italiana della Cultura.

Conservatorio di Musica Luca Marenzio
Conservatorio Gaetano Donizetti di Bergamo

13
3.30pm-4.45pm

Teatro Grande di Brescia

Acquaprofonda

The topical issue of water pollution told through a contemporary opera for adults and children, which was awarded the Premio Siebaneck as part of the prestigious Premio Abbiati.

Only stalls seats available.

Original music by Giovanni Sollima
Libretto Giancarlo De Cataldo
Direction Luis Ernesto Doñas
Scenes Chiara La Ferlita
Costumes Elisa Cobello
Production AsLiCo

14
3.45pm-6pm

Circolo al Teatro

Tornami a vagheggiar

In a new version for two guitars and voices, arias from Handel’s Alcina, an opera based on Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso.

Limited seats available. Admission every 15 minutes.

Opera singers Patricia Fodor, Lorène Quinodoz, Lara Morger
Guitars Stefano Festa, Mauro Vanzani

15
4.30pm-4.45pm

Teatro San Carlino

Viaggio in una notte stellata

Tales in music and words of love, deception, and mysteries by moonlight, with readings from Goldoni and Verne and music by Haydn, Offenbach, and Verdi.

Coro di ricerca Armonia Segreta
Actors of the Accademia Teatrale Francesco Campogalliani
Opera singers Giulia Perusi, Hao Kang
Piano Antonio Atriano
Conductor Michelangelo Rossi

16
4.30pm-5pm

Loggia Palace

Banda giovanile all’Opera

Banda giovanile Isidoro Capitanio
Bass Stefano Bioni
Conductor Marina Maccabiani

17
4.30pm-7.30pm

City streets of Brescia

Opera Bike

A bike journey through the wonders of Brescia and the events of Festa. Meeting place in Piazza della Loggia at 4.15pm.

Opera singers Federica Cassetti, Gianluca Andreacchi

In partnership with Brescia Mobilità and FIAB Brescia “Amici della Bici Brescia”

18
5pm-7pm

Vittoria Station

Operametro

Get off at the Victoria stop for a special voice and piano performance.

Dalle 5pm alle 5.20pm
Dalle 5.45pm alle 6.05pm
Dalle 6.30pm alle 6.50pm

Opera singers Benedetta Marchesi, Song Eun Park, Annalisa Gerosa Tahereh
Piano Valentina Gabrieli

19
5pm-5.30pm

Terrazza Palazzo Negroboni

Volgi lo sguardo all’Opera

Voices are heard in Piazza Paolo VI…

Opera singers Valentina Corò, Alessandro Goldoni
Piano Francesco Orecchio

In collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo

20
5pm-5.45pm

Santa Maria della Carità Church

Opera barocca

Monteverdi and Cavalli compared with great classical literature.

Opera singers Eleonora Filipponi, Matteo Straffi
Ensemble I Madrigalisti Estensi
Conductor Michele Gaddi

21
5.30pm-6.45pm

San Luca "Piazzetta"

Scuola di guida

Short and entertaining Opera by Nino Rota, about the love between a young student and her driving instructor.

From 5.30 to 5.45
From 6.30 to 6.45

Opera singers Simone Fenotti, Flavia Fioretti
Piano Alexandra Filatova

22
5.30pm-6.15pm

Garden of the Palazzo Vescovile

Suggestioni dai cortili | I promessi sposi

On the 150th anniversary of the death of Italy’s greatest novelist, a tribute to his most famous opera, I promessi sposi, set to music by Amilcare Ponchielli.

Opera singers Chiara Guerra, Benedetta Mazzetto, Kazuki Yoshida,  Filippo Quarti
Piano Lorenzo Di Stefano

23
6pm-7pm

Portico of the Loggia Palace

Banda all’Opera

Banda Cittadina Isidoro Capitanio
Conductors Giuliano Mariotti, Sergio Negretti

23
6.00pm-7.45pm

Teatro Grande's terrace

Su la testa!

The voices of Festa dell’Opera surprise from above. Stop and look up!

From 6pm to 6.15 pm
From 7.30pm to 7.45pm

Opera singers Alessandra Rizzini, Aoxue Zhu, Xin Zhang,  Davide Tuscano

24
6pm-6.45pm

Sigismondi Palace

Suggestioni dai cortili | Sul fil d’un soffio

Hamlet and The Merry Wives of Windsor portray the tragic and comic side of William Shakespeare. Verdi, Thomas and Vaughan Williams write about their events and colors.

Opera singers Silvia Spessot, Lorène Quinodoz, Camilla Antonini, Paolo Ingrasciotta, Raffaele Facciolà
Piano Michelangelo Rossi
Narrator Laura Finozzi

26
7pm-7.30pm

Terrazza di Palazzo Negroboni

Volgi lo sguardo all’Opera

Voices are heard in Piazza Paolo VI…

Opera singers Giulia Perusi, Giuseppe Infantino
Piano Antonio Atriano

In collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo

27
7pm-7.30pm

Palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino

Serenata d’Opera

Opera singers Benedetta Mazzetto, Gianluca Andreacchi
Accordion Davide Bonetti

28
7pm-7.45pm

Garden of the Palazzo del Prefetto

Suggestioni dai cortili | Se saper voi bramate

Beaumarchais’ Spanish trilogy starring Figaro, interpreted by Rossini and Mozart.

Opera singers Claudia Ceraulo, Marta Pluda, Gianluca Moro, Ramiro Maturana, Bryan Sala
Piano Lorenzo Di Stefano
Ensemble Bazzini Consort

29
7pm-7.15pm

San Faustino

Assaggi d’Opera

Brief but intense hints of Opera colour the city streets.

Opera singers Aoxue Zhu, Xin Zhang

30
7.30pm-8pm

Torre d'Ercole

Serenata d’Opera

Opera singers Patricia Fodor, Hao Kang
Guitar Matteo Murari
Nyckelharpa Lorène Quinodoz

30
8pm-8.30pm

Palazzo Sigismondi

Serenata d’Opera

Opera singers Silvia Spessot, Gianluca Moro
Guitars Stefano Festa, Mauro Vanzani

31
8pm-8.15pm

Piazzetta Vescovado

Assaggi d’Opera

Brief but intense hints of Opera colour the city streets.

Opera singers Aoxue Zhu, Xin Zhang

 

33
8pm-9pm

Teatro Grande di Brescia

Gran Gala

A traditional opera recital will bring to the stage famous arias and lesser-known music by the great Opera composers.

Only stalls seats available.

Opera singers Alessia Panza, Riccardo Della Sciucca, Valeria Girardello
Piano Amedeo Salvato

34
8.15pm-8.30pm

Piazza Paolo VI - Incrocio Via Bevilacqua

Scuola di guida

Short and entertaining Opera by Nino Rota, about the love between a young student and her driving instructor.

Opera singers Simone Fenotti, Flavia Fioretti
Piano Alexandra Filatova

35
8pm-8.30pm

Terrazza del Teatro Grande

Su la testa!

The voices of Festa dell’Opera surprise from above. Stop and look up!

Opera singers Claudia Ceraulo, Bryan Sala

36
8.30pm-9pm

Piazza del Mercato

Serenata d’Opera

Singers Benedetta Mazzetto, Gianluca Andreacchi
Accordion Davide Bonetti

37
8.45pm-9pm

Contrada del Carmine

Assaggi d’Opera

Brief but intense hints of Opera colour the city streets.

Opera singers Aoxue Zhu, Xin Zhang

38
9pm-9.30pm

Torre Bruciata

Serenata d’Opera

Opera singers Patricia Fodor, Hao Kang
Guitar Matteo Murari
Nyckelarpa Lorène Quinodoz

39
9pm-9.45pm

Largo Formentone

Voi lo sapete, oh mamma

An ideal journey through Italy, with pages inspired Moravia’s La Ciociara, Camilleri’s Il birraio di Preston and Verga’s Cavalleria Rusticana.

Opera singers Erika Tanaka, Eleonora Filipponi, Kazuki Yoshida, Raffaele Facciolà
Piano Alexandra Filatova
Narrator Rosana Sparapano

40
9.15pm-10pm

Cortile di Palazzo Broletto

Dolce notte, quante stelle!

Puccini with Madama Butterfly, in an ideal preview of the Opera Season and pages from the operas by Britten.

Opera singers Anna Cimmarrusti, Sarah Tisba, Lara Morger, Camilla Antonini, Alessandro Goldoni, Paolo Ingrasciotta
Piano Davide Rinaldi
Ensemble Bazzini Consort
Narrator Laura Finozzi

41
9.30pm-10pm

Riserva del Grande

Serenata d’Opera

Opera singers Silvia Spessot, Gianluca Moro
Guitars Stefano Festa, Mauro Vanzani

42
9.30pm-10.15pm

Piazza del Foro

Violette e Margherite

The protagonists of this concert are the characters that Verdi and Gounod make sing in the transpositions of the great novels by Dumas and Goethe.

Opera singers Nina Solodovnikova, Ramiro Maturana, Giuseppe Infantino, Filippo Quarti
Piano Andrés Gallucci
String quartet

43
9.30pm-11.30pm

Chiostro del Museo Diocesano

Opera riparata

Paying homage to Bruno Munari and his “Opera rotta,” Økapi and Simone Memè deconstruct and recompose famous operas according to the contemporary logic of digital remixes.

With Økapi, Simone Memè

44
10.15pm-11.30pm

Largo Formentone

La Traviata Ballabile

The transcription of La Traviata according to the popular tradition of the Emilian dances.

Musicians Mirco Ghirardini, Andrea Medici, Fabio Codeluppi, Valentino Spaggiari, Cristina Zambelli, Dimer Maccaferri, Gianluigi Paganelli

45
10.30pm-11.15pm

Cortile del Palazzo Broletto

Perchè sei tu Romeo?

Vincenzo Bellini and Charles Gounod “compete” on the same pages that made Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet immortal.

Opera singers Alessandra Rizzini, Marta Plauda, Davide Tuscano
Piano Davide Rinaldi
Ensemble Bazzini Consort
Narrator Rosanna Sparapano

 

46
10.45pm-11.30pm

Piazza del Foro

Che gelida manina

Murger’s Life of Bohème inspired Giacomo Puccini, just as Faust inspired Arrigo Boito.

Opera singers Chiara Guerra, Kazuki Yoshida, Paolo Ingrasciotta, Filippo Quarti.
Piano Andrés Gallucci
String Quartet

47
10.45pm-11.30pm

Museo Diocesano

Ever.ravE

The Opera merges with the sound and visual texture of Gianluca Iadema’s performance, who works with multidimensionality, immersive narratives, and artificial intelligence.

With Gianluca Iadema
In collaboration with Line Culture

48
11.45pm-00.30am

Tempio Capitolino

Gran Finale al Tempio

In the magic atmosphere of the Roman Forum, Festa dell’Opera comes to an end.

Opera singers Marta Mari, Leon Kim, Stefano Secco
Orchestra Bazzini Consort
Conductor Aram Khacheh