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On Easter Monday; Feast to honor San Galgano. Pilgrimage from Chiusdino  and walk through the nature from  Monticiano.

Already from many years, in the summery period, the Abbey of Saint Galgano is the setting of concerts in collaboration with the Accademia Chigiana (Music Academy of Siena). In the evocative scenario of this roofless Cathedral, under the open sky, full of stars,  musical comedies, theatrical perfomances, grand operas, concerts and shows take place.

The concerts  and spectacles start at 9:00 p.m.

Season 2008 (Opera Festival schedules):

  • Friday June 13  - Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m.
    Carmina Burana - Bolero
    Carmina Burana by Carl Orff: scenic cantata for solo singers, chorus, chorus of young voices and orchestra
    Bolero by Maurice Ravel: for orchestra

  • Wednesday June18 -  Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m.
    Il Flauto magico - Die Zauberflote
    Two acts Opera
    Music by W. A. Mozart

  • Saturday June 21 - Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m.
    Il Flauto magico - Die Zauberflote
    Two acts Opera
    Musica di W. A. Mozart

  • Saturday June 28 -  Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m.
    Il Flauto magico - Die Zauberflote
    Two acts Opera
    Musica di W. A. Mozart

  • Friday  July 4 - Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m.
    Il Flauto magico - Die Zauberflote
    Opera in two acts
    Music by W. A. Mozart

  • Saturday July 5  - Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m.
    Paolo Poli - Favole
    Speaker Paolo Poli
    At the piano M° Antonio Ballista

  • Saturday July 12, Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m. 
    Le Stagioni
    Music by Antonio Vivaldi

  • Tuesday July 15 - Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m.
    La Traviata
    Three acts melodrama
    Music by Giuseppe Verdi

  • Saturday July 19 - Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m.
    La Traviata
    Three acts melodrama
    Music by Giuseppe Verdi

  • Thursday July 24  -  Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m.
    Sulle tracce di Diaghilev

  • Saturday  July 26 - Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m.
    Carmina Burana - Bolero
    Carmina Burana by Carl Orff: scenic cantata for solo singers, chorus, chorus of young voices and orchestra
    Bolero by Maurice Ravel: for orchestra

  • Friday Aug  01 -  Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m.
    La Traviata
    Three acts melodrama
    Music by Giuseppe Verdi

  • Sunday Aug 3 - Abbey of San Galgano at 9:00 p.m.
    La Traviata
    Three acts melodrama
    Music by Giuseppe Verdi


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  • Information and reservation: tel. 055 5978308/09 – fax 055-5979687
    Multipromo Opera festival – via San Francesco, 3 – 50014 Fiesole (Fi) info@festivalopera.it - www.festivalopera.it

 

 

 

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