Florence Art Week returns for its third year beginning September 28 through October 8. Encompassing 29 cultural institutions, 44 events, 32 venues, and 11 days of programming, this showcase is a celebration of Florence’s rich historical and contemporary art. Below are a selection of the many exhibitions featured in this year’s Art Week. The inauguration of Robert Mapplethorpe’s Beauty and Desire, a display curated by Sergio Risaliti, Eva Francioli, and Muriel Prandato in [...]
The Bardini Museum and Palazzo Medici-Riccardi have organized two special evenings allowing for the public to experience viewing ancient masterpieces stored in the city museums. At the Bardini Museum, on July 15, Antique Harmonie provides a unique opportunity for visitors to walk among urns, sarcophagi, paintings and monumental sculptures once owned by the art and antiques collector Stefano Bardini. The guided tour will be accompanied by a musical performance inspired by myth and [...]
The 26th edition of the O Flos Colende free music series will inaugurate on Monday, May 15, at the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (9 pm). Dedicated to Norwegian saxophonist, Jan Garbarek, and the British male vocal quartet, Hilliard Ensemble, the concert will be conducted by the organist and musicologist, Gabriele Giacomelli. In 1994, Garbarek and the vocal quartet presented modern reinterpretation of 12th to 16th century music by such composers [...]
This year marks the 85th edition of Italy’s oldest music festival, second only in Europe to the Salzburg Festival. Founded in 1933, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (with a recently updated program that took into account budget cuts) this year will run from April 22 through July 13 and offers a program of three staged operas, 11 concerts, an opera for young people and an international conference about Maria Callas on the 100th anniversary [...]
February 25 & 26, 2023: AMICI DELLA MUSICA chamber concerts. Organized by the Amici della Musica, two out-of-the-ordinary concerts will be hosted in Florence this weekend on Saturday, February 25 at 4 pm and Sunday, February 26 at 9 pm in Teatro della Pergola. Saturday’s show will be led by Kolja Blacher, one of the most well-known violinists of modern music. Joined by five others — Christoph Streuli (violin), Cristoph Von Der [...]
AMICI DELLA MUSICA February 2023 program. All concerts take place at the Theater or Saloncino della Pergola on via della Pergola. For the full schedule and tickets visit www.amicimusicafirenze.it/. Enlivening the winter program of the Amici della Musica are eight new concerts scheduled as usual on Saturdays at 4 pm in the Teatro della Pergola and on Sundays at 9 pm in the Saloncino. Pianist Anna Vinnitskaya will perform a program dedicated to [...]
January 7 – 29, 2023 AMICI DELLA MUSICA CHAMBER CONCERTS. Teatro della Pergola, via della Pergola. All concerts will take place at the Theater or Saloncino della Pergola. It should be noted the Teatro della Pergola is undergoing renovations therefore advisable to constantly check here: www.amicimusicafirenze.it as the concert venues may vary. For the full schedule and tickets visit www.amicimusicafirenze.it/ & https://www.ticketone.it/artist/amici-della-musica-firenze/ in addition to Box Office Firenze. Amici della Musica will open 2023 [...]
December 3, 2022 – January 29, 2023. AMICI DELLA MUSICA chamber concerts (via della Pergola) It should be noted the Teatro della Pergola is undergoing renovations therefore advisable to constantly check here: www.amicimusicafirenze.it as the concert venues may vary. For the full schedule and tickets visit www.amicimusicafirenze.it/ & https://www.ticketone.it/artist/amici-della-musica-firenze/ The Amici della Musica will continue hosting chamber concerts at the Teatro della Pergola with a holiday program starting in December and continuing into January on [...]
The Florence Dance Festival (FDF), one of the few arts events worldwide that succeeded in having live performances last year, is back for 2022 with plans to expand many of last year’s initiatives. The festival will take place from June 22 to July 24 and will be staged at Santa Maria Novella’s Great Cloister (Chiostro Grande della Basilica di Santa Maria Novella). Featuring world-renowned choreographers and dancers as well as Florence’s local talent, [...]
The Orchestra della Toscana (ORT), together with conductor Ryan McAdams and soloist Pietro de Maria, will bring the compositions of Jessie Montgomery, Saint-Saëns and Mendelssohn to the stage on Tuesday, March 15, at Florence’s Teatro Verdi (via Ghibellina 99) at 9 pm. The orchestra and the musicians will give a repeat concert in Poggibonsi (March 16), Empoli (March 18) and Livorno (March 19). ORT will play a piece from Jessie Montgomery’s 2012 Strum [...]
