Presentation of the 13th edition of the Piccolo Opera Festival of Friuli Venezia Giulia

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Opera music in castles, old houses, historic gardens , in a symphony of sounds and voices that will lead to the discovery of enchanted and secret corners, rich in history and art, of Friuli Venezia Giulia, from the 20th August to the 13th September the Piccolo Opera returns Friuli Venezia Giulia Festival , awaited summer program that also this year does not want to miss the appointment with its audience. Outdoor shows , which will be accompanied by guided tours, aperitifs, introductions to listening and dinners before and after musical events. For an experience that will allow you to get to know not only the history and architecture, but also the flavors and wines of this extraordinary border region reaching out towards Central Europe.

13 events for the 13th edition of the Festival

Now in its 13th edition, the Piccolo Opera Festival of Friuli Venezia Giulia enters the maturity of its original cultural and tourist proposal. Thanks to the strong identity built over the years, it manages to confirm a good part of its program, despite the stringent measures for the live show made necessary by the health emergency. The spirit of the Festival has always been not to adapt the place to the show but the show, in particular the opera, to the place . A castle or a villa therefore becomes a tailor-made stage , where even the public itself becomes an integral part of the staging . Exemplary the production of L'elisir d'amore in the past edition, set in a country inn literally surrounded by the vineyards of Castello di Spessa, the beating heart of the festival and headquarters of the association, where even the orchestra was also part of the scene .

The program will be full of 13 events (as the 13th is the edition), including the expected and now traditional opera show at Castello di Spessa (30 August and 1 September). For this year the artistic director Gabriele Ribis has thought of proposing an absolutely original show with two mini-works ( The telephone by Giancarlo Menotti and The secret of Susanna by Ermanno Wolf Ferrari) which are almost the story of two couples during the quarantine. The musical direction will be entrusted to the emerging Alessandro Cadario, principal conductor of the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan while the direction to the young local director (from San Floriano del Collio) Jasmin Kovic.

Musical visits to historic gardens and villa recitals

There is a rich offer of concerts called "La verde musica" , real musical visits to historic gardens in the region with an all-Baroque program in collaboration with the National Artistic Pole of Verona. Four appointments: Cordovado Castle (24 August), Palazzo Lantieri in Gorizia (31 August), Formentini Castle in S. Floriano del Collio (3 September), Villa Manin di Passariano (mid-September weekend).

" Castelli in aria" will be the vocal recital section with prestigious names from the opera scene such as Massimo Giordano and Giorgio Caoduro, together with young voices as always selected and proposed carefully by the artistic direction of the Festival. Locations will be Villa Ottelio Savorgnan in Ariis (August 20), Villa Gorgo in San Vito al Torre (August 29) and Vila Vipolze in Slovenia (September 11) and Villa Partistagno in Faedis. The Festival from this year is proposed as a cross-border festival to discover the wonderful territory of Brda / Collio .