“Estate all’Italiana Festival” (Summer Italian Style Festival)
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has launched the initiative “Estate all’Italiana Festival” (Summer
Italian Style Festival) through which it is offering its branches around the world access to watch more than twenty live concerts happening at various summer music festivals in Italy.
The concerts can be enjoyed for free and streamed on demand for 48 hours.
OperaEstate Festival | Mephistopheles, A Grand Tour of Anagoor
Venue: The Theatre at the Tito Gobbi Castle – Bassano del Grappa
A great journey that talks, through images and music, lights and
shadows, about man and animals as reflected in their relationship with nature,
eros, time and technology.
OperaEstate Festival
Theatre at the Tito Gobbi Castle – Bassano del Grappa
MEPHISTOPHELES – A Grand Tour
Simone Derai, author and director
Mauro Martinuz, music and sound design
Giulio Favotto, director of photography
Marco Menegoni, assistant director
Simone Derai – Giulio Favotto, editing
Anagoor 2020 – production
Operaestate Festival Veneto, co-production
co-production Kunstfest Weimar, Theater an der Ruhr, Donnaregina
Foundation for Contemporary Arts / Museo Madre, Centrale Fies, Operaestate
Festival Veneto supported by the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Nature
Protection of Thuringia; supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of
North Rhine – Westphalia; funded by POC Campania Region 2014-2020
Under the title of Mephistopheles, Anagoor reworks the video
material collected between 2012 and 2018 by Simone Derai and Giulio Favotto
into a single journey via images through the light and pain of the world, set
to music in a live symphonic set by Mauro Martinuz. Mephistopheles is a Grand
Tour into the dark regions of the cosmos, where the light and the suffering of
generations are found together, where the relationship of man and animals with
nature, eros, time and technology are investigated.
More information on www.operaestate.it
Puccini Festival | ‘Tosca’ by Giacomo Puccini
Venue: Giacomo Puccini Grand Open Air Theatre, Torre del Lago
An absolute masterpiece, among the most famous and dramatic works of the Maestro, that tells the tragic story of the protagonist and her lover Cavaradossi.
Tosca
by Giacomo Puccini
Puccini Festival Orchestra
Puccini Festival Choir
Stefano Monti, director
Alberto Veronesi, conductor
Roberto Ardigò, choir conductor
Amarilli Nizza as Tosca
Amadi Lagha as Cavaradossi
Devid Cecconi as Baron Scarpi
The Puccini Festival is one of the most awaited events in the rich cultural life of Tuscany, the most important opera festival in Italy and the only one in the world dedicated to the composer Giacomo Puccini. It takes place every summer in the months of July and August in the very places that inspired Maestro Puccini to compose his immortal melodies.
Founded in 1930, over the years the festival became an important event that attracts thousands of spectators from all over the world and lets them watch some of the biggest stars of opera directed by major conductors, and admire the extraordinary sets curated by famous directors of Puccini’s operas, from Madama Butterfly, Turandot, La Bohème, Tosca to Manon Lescaut. Puccini’s operas are staged in a large open-air theatre (3.400 seats) on the shores of Lake Massaciuccoli, surrounded by greenery, right in front of Maestro Puccini’s House Museum where you can find the remains of the musician and where visitors can admire treasures and relics from Puccini’s life and glorious artistic career.
For further information: www.puccinifestival.it