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Music Festivals In Italy
Italian music festivals Below is a list of music festivals in Italy : Festivals *Agglutination Metal Festival in Sant'Arcangelo Founded in 1995, it is the oldest Metal Music Festival in Italy. *Arena di Verona Festival, Arena di Verona Opera during the summer months in the Roman amphitheater in Verona. *Arezzo Wave in Arezzo Pop and Rock music founded in 1987. *Dissonanze focused on electronic music, ran from 2000 to 2010. *Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the two Worlds) in Spoleto Held since 1957, it has a program of symphonic music, opera, dance and jazz. *Festival della canzone italiana or the San Remo Festival is a popular song contest held in Sanremo since 1951 *Festival di Napoli was a Neapolitan song contest which ran from (1952–1971, 1981, 1998–2004) *Festival Verdi, mainly in Parma, is dedicated to the music of Giuseppe Verdi, Verdi. *Folkest in Spilimbergo *Gods of Metal in Milan *Heineken Jammin Festival in Venice is a pop/rock festival founded in 1998. *Indep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Festival
A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or holiday. Music festivals are generally organized by individuals or organizations within networks of music production, typically music scenes, the music industries, or institutions of music education. The music festival is the largest and one of the most important performance institutions in music life, a place for experiencing where the culture is at. Music festivals are commonly held outdoors, with tents or roofed temporary stages for the performers. Often music festivals host other attractions such as food and merchandise vending, dance, crafts, performance art, and social or cultural activities. Many festivals are annual, or repeat at some other interval, while some are held only once. Some festivals are organized as for-profit concerts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gods Of Metal
Gods of Metal is the biggest Italian metal festival, held annually since 1997. It takes place in early summer, usually on the first or second weekend of June. It is most often held at venues in or near Milan, but took place in Bologna three times and one time in Turin. It was acquired by Live Nation in 2010. Lineups 1997 Held on June 7 at Palavobis in Milan. 1998 Held on June 6 at Forum Open Air Arena in Milan. 1999 Held on June 5 and June 6 at Forum Open Air Arena in Assago-Milan. 2000 Held on June 10 and June 11 at Stadio Brianteo in Monza. 2001 Held on June 9 at Palavobis in Milan. 2002 Held on June 8 and June 9 at Stadio Brianteo in Monza. 2003 Held on June 8 at Palavobis in Milan. 2004 Held on June 5 and June 6 at Arena Parco Nord in Bologna. Due to heavy rain, the UFO concert was cancelled and Stratovarius played the next day, between the Quireboys and W.A.S.P. 2005 Held on June 11 and June 12 at Arena Parco Nord in Bologna. 2006 Held on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (English: Florence Musical May) is an annual Italian arts festival in Florence, including a notable opera festival, under the auspices of the Opera di Firenze. The festival occurs between late April into June annually, typically with four operas. History In April 1933, on 's idea, Vittorio Gui founded the festival, with the aim of presenting contemporary and forgotten operas in visually dramatic productions. It was the first music festival in Italy and the oldest in Europe after the Salzburg Festival. The first opera presented was Verdi's early ''Nabucco'', his early operas then being rarely staged. The first festival's success, which included two performances of Spontini's ''La Vestale'' with Rosa Ponselle, led to it becoming a biennial event in 1937 with the presentation of nine operas. After 1937, it became an annual festival, except during World War II. Performances took place in the Teatro Comunale and Piccolo Teatro, plus the Teatro della Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trento
Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th century, the city was the location of the Council of Trent. Formerly part of Austria and Austria-Hungary, it was annexed by Italy in 1919. With 118,142 inhabitants, Trento is the third largest city in the Alps and second largest in the historical region of Tyrol. Trento is an educational, scientific, financial and political centre in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, in Tyrol and Northern Italy in general. The city contains a picturesque Medieval and Renaissance historic centre, with ancient buildings such as Trento Cathedral and the Castello del Buonconsiglio. Together with other Alpine towns Trento engages in the Alpine Town of the Year Association for the implementation of the Alpine Convention to achieve sustainable development in the Alpin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandrea Music Festival
Mandrea Music Festival (previously 'Mandstock Festival') is an annual music festival taking place in Trentino by Lake Garda in Italy since 2012. In 2015, the festival was reviewed as one of Europe's best summer music festivals by The Telegraph's travel blog, and as one of the 10 "best festivals in Europe... that you've probably never heard of" by The Guardian's travel blog. The music often features roots reggae headliners on the Amphitheater stage, UK folk music at the Banjo Buddha stage, as well as rock, dub, hip-hop and electronica on other stages around the site. Previous performances have included Will White of the Propellerheads, Israel Vibration Israel Vibration are a reggae harmony group, originating from Kingston, Jamaica. Lascelle "Wiss" Bulgin, Albert "Apple Gabriel" Craig, and Cecil "Skelly" Spence all suffered from childhood polio, and went on to be a Jamaican roots reggae grou ..., The Banyans and The Gladiators. The festival also organizes many sporting activi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netmage
Netmage is an international festival dedicated to electronic art curated by Xing and produced annually—in the city of Bologna—as a multidisciplinary program of works, investigating and promoting contemporary audiovisual research. The festival was born in 2000 with funds provided by the European Union, when Bologna represented one of the nine major European capital of culture. The festival concentrates on an amalgam of Happenings, environments, and audio/visual installations, it does through a concentration on creative scenes and subcultural communities. The experience of Netmage (eleven editions from 2001 to 2011) was merged into the annual Live Arts Week. Mission The mission of Netmage is to investigate the relationship between the "liveness" and the "ambient space". At the crossroads of these two terms is situated the notion of "post-cinema": defined as an environmental construction capable of gathering widely diverse attitudes in a public space. Post Cinema/Postmemory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Arts Week
Live Arts Week is a project by Xing, born in 2012 out the fusion of the experiences of the two Bologna festivals (2000>2011): Netmage - International Live Media Festival and F.I.S.Co. - Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo. Live Arts Week takes place in Bologna, Italy, once a year, and it is developed throughout one week in different locations and settings in town. Mission Event dedicated to live arts, it hosts a blend of artworks and productions that revolve around the presence, performance and perceptual experience of sounds and visions, with a program of live works (performances, environments, concerts, live media, expanded cinema) presented by important personalities in the international and contemporary research scene. The set-up suggests a citywide event, involving several spaces, organizations and institutions active in the field of contemporary arts in Bologna. History Edition 2012 Venues: Palazzo Re Enzo • Teatro Duse • Spazio Carbonesi • Hotel P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isola Del Liri
Isola del Liri (simply known as ''Isola Liri'', Campanian: ) is an Italian town of Lazio, Italy, in the province of Frosinone. As its name implies, Isola is situated between two arms of the Liri. The many waterfalls of this river and of the Fibreno are used by factories. History Of Volscan origin, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire Isola del Liri was ruled by the Byzantines and then the Lombards. In the early Middle Ages the town was, alternatively, under the rule of the Byzantines and the Lombards, until it became part of the county of Sora in the Principality of Capua. Isola del Liri was the feud of the dell'Isola (de Insulae) family from the 12th century to the 14th century. Members of the family include Roffredo dell'Isola, Abbot of Monte Cassino, Count d'Arce, and Bartholomew dell'Isola who enjoyed the honors in the seat of Capuano Naples. At the end of the 14th century, Isola del Liri was ceded to the Cantelmo family. Later it was part of the Duchy of Sora, beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liri Blues Festival
The Liri Blues Festival, founded in 1988, is one of the main blues music festivals in Italy. It takes place every year in July near Rome in Isola del Liri, a small town twinned with the city of New Orleans since 1997. Festival The Liri Blues Festival, known as "Liri Blues", has been taking place since 1988 in Isola del Liri, a small Italian town famous for its waterfall, which is 90 feet (28 m) high and situated in the centre. The festival is a free, annual event and usually occurs during the month of July. Concerts are held in the main square (Piazza Boncompagni), in the streets and jam sessions happen late at night. Following its initial success in the first few years, the Liri Blues Festival was shared with neighbouring towns, in particular Ferentino and Veroli. However, since the early years of the 21st century, Isola del Liri is once again the central location for the festival. Boncompagni Square plays host to the main events just as it did for the very first gig in 1988. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
InterHarmony International Music Festival
The InterHarmony International Music Festival is a summer Music Festival in Germany and Italy. The Festival is an annual intensive summer performance festival, which includes a concert series of international solo musicians and young performers, and an institute for students of solo, chamber music, and orchestral playing. The festival hosts three sessions in two locations: Acqui Terme, in the Province of Alessandria in Piedmont, Italy, and Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany in Bavaria. History The InterHarmony International Music Festival was conceived in 1997, when cellist Misha Quint, the Music Director and Founder, started his first International Music Festival in Blonay, Switzerland. This festival, the Intensive Cello Studies Abroad, was held at the Hindemith Foundation in Chalet de lacroix. Quint then opened the Soesterberg International Music Festival in Soesterberg, Netherlands in 1998. His festival in the Netherlands was a success and lasted for nine years. In the midst of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its metropolitan area is home to more than 1,000,000 people. It is known as the Fat City for its rich cuisine, and the Red City for its Spanish-style red tiled rooftops and, more recently, its leftist politics. It is also called the Learned City because it is home to the oldest university in the world. Originally Etruscan, the city has been an important urban center for centuries, first under the Etruscans (who called it ''Felsina''), then under the Celts as ''Bona'', later under the Romans (''Bonōnia''), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality and later ''signoria'', when it was among the largest European cities by population. Famous for its towers, churches and lengthy porticoes, Bologna has a well-preserved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Days Festival
Independent Days Festival was an Italian music festival that took place every September in Bologna. In June 2017, the festival was held in Monza. About History Statistics: *20.000 revellers in 1999 *40.000 revellers in 2000 *40,000 revellers in 2001 The site The Stages Arena Parco Nord is the location of the main stage – a grass field with a curved banking giving an amphitheatre shape. ''TENDA ESTRAGON'' is the tent which houses the second stage. The festival takes place as part of Festa de l'Unità – a popular outdoor festival full of restaurants, beer tents, and entertainment. Although the two stages are not connected, you are allowed to move between the two, enabling festival goers to enjoy all the attractions of the Festa de l'Unità. Traditionally the festival has had a punk theme, but in recent years, more mainstream acts have played, such as Franz Ferdinand, Editors, Maxïmo Park, and The Bravery. The billing 2012 Angels & Airwaves, Social Distortion, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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