Theatre Festivals

Festivalof theatre, dance and musical theatre that takes place in Fiesole (Florence) between June and August.

Cartellone is a website devoted to live performing arts in the Emilia-Romagna region. A complete listing of music, drama and dance events taking place in the region’s fine theatres; a testimony to the wide variety of performances on offer in the area. Though not offering a complete guide in English, the site gives access to most information with bilingual search programmes.

International Festival of the Arts.

The several sections of this festival of various arts are theatre,ballet, cinema and music. It takes place in summer in the most spectacular Greek theatre of Sicily.In Italian and English.

Music has always had a fundamental role in the artistic life of Florence, where, at the end of the sixteenth century, the very first operas were performed, following the theory and practice of the Camerata dei Bardi. Today the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the centre of musical life in Florence, is based at Teatro Comunale, and produces the Maggio Musicale Festival - together with Bayreuth and Salzburg, the oldest, important European music festival - as well as its annual concert, opera and ballet seasons.

Calendar for the Arena Season.

Festival Nazionale ed Europeo Teatro dei Ragazzi.

ITALIAFESTIVAL ASSOCIATION'S JOURNAL

Teatro Festival Parma is organized by Teatro Due at Parma, which in the past was the capital city of the Farnese, the Bourbons and Marie Louise of Austria, the second wife of Napoleon. The wealth of works of art and rich cultural activities, together with a celebrated cuisine, make Parma a highly desirable stopover when touring Italy. Among the many splendid sixteenth-century buildings - including Palazzo della Pilotta, S. Giovanni Evangelista, Madonna della Steccata - and the paintings of artists like Correggio and Parmigianino also the Teatro Farnese deserves attention: an architectural jewel of Italian baroque, today a museum with visitors arriving all over the world.

The Festival of Italian Theatre was inaugurated in 1980 on the initiative of a group of intellectuals and artists (Ruggero Iacobbi, Domenico Rea, Domenico Purificato, Alberto Bevilacqua, Giuseppe De Santis) ideated and organized by Franco Portone, with the assistance of Renato Giordano after 1983.