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May 2026

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  3. Rigoletto. Il mistero del teatro Opera Domani
    For its XXX edition, Opera Domani presents one of the most thrilling titles in the repertoire, Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi. With lights, voices, and a few props, the Compagnia del Duca brings to the stage each evening the story of Rigoletto—full of love, deception, and revenge—where everything is staged, yet nothing is false. The story comes alive with the old actor in the role of Rigoletto, the court jester marked by a curse. His daughter Gilda, longing for freedom, falls in love with the Duke, but deceived and kidnapped by the courtiers, she ultimately sacrifices herself for love, leaving Rigoletto in despair. For the company, every …
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  5. Juilliard415 | Yale Schola Cantorum Grete Pedersen Conductor
    A monographic program dedicated to Haydn’s The Creation—one of the most important oratorios in the history of music—is presented by Juilliard415, the Juilliard School’s principal period instrument ensemble, accompanied for the occasion by the Yale Schola Cantorum, a chamber choir specializing in sacred music. The program is conducted by the award-winning Norwegian conductor Grete Pedersen, one of the most renowned figures on the international choral scene.PROGRAM Franz Joseph Haydn, Die Schöpfung 
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June 2026

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  2. Festa dell'Opera 2026
    Festa dell’Opera is a cultural project conceived and organised by the Fondazione del Teatro Grande, which has been held annually in the city of Brescia since 2012.A widespread, entirely free event that takes adults and children, opera lovers and newcomers alike on evocative journeys through the world of Opera: from dawn until midnight, Festa dell’Opera fills the whole city with the sounds of traditional Opera and new contemporary music.The 15th edition will take place in Brescia on 6th June 2026 (with a preview on 5th June)
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September 2026

  1. Le classique c’est chic! Anna Basti
    Le classique c’est chic! is a project platform born as a research path with the aim of decolonizing the imagination of classical technique and providing as many people as possible with tools to understand and reclaim their own bodies. The classes for non-professionals constitute the core of this project. Bringing this practice into public spaces, attempting to traverse inhabited and lived-in places, triggers a sense of disorientation: one encounters an unidentified object while simultaneously receiving an invitation to participate. This creates an improvised, colorful, and intergenerational community: those who had planned to join, those who …
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  2. Death in Venice by Benjamin Britten
    The opening production of the 2026 Opera and Ballet Season will be Death in Venice, a two-act opera by Benjamin Britten, which will be staged for the first time at the Teatro Grande. An artistic and creative testament to the English composer, the opera is based on the novella of the same name by Thomas Mann, to which librettist Mary Myfanwy Piper remained fairly faithful, preserving the typical nuances of the psychological drama.
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  3. Death in Venice by Benjamin Britten
    The opening production of the 2026 Opera and Ballet Season will be Death in Venice, a two-act opera by Benjamin Britten, which will be staged for the first time at the Teatro Grande. An artistic and creative testament to the English composer, the opera is based on the novella of the same name by Thomas Mann, to which librettist Mary Myfanwy Piper remained fairly faithful, preserving the typical nuances of the psychological drama.
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  4. Death in Venice by Benjamin Britten
    The opening production of the 2026 Opera and Ballet Season will be Death in Venice, a two-act opera by Benjamin Britten, which will be staged for the first time at the Teatro Grande. An artistic and creative testament to the English composer, the opera is based on the novella of the same name by Thomas Mann, to which librettist Mary Myfanwy Piper remained fairly faithful, preserving the typical nuances of the psychological drama.
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October 2026

  1. Sonoma La Veronal
    Sonoma combines the Greek term soma (body) and the Latin term sonum (sound) to create a work born from the need to return to the origin, to the body, to flesh. From that flesh and organic matter, one can lose oneself in a journey flowing between dreams and fiction, where the human meets the incredible. The surrealism of Luis Buñuel, along with references to an almost medieval dimension, creates a setting straddling Jesuit faith and surrealist freedom, forming the basis of a choreography in which 9 dancers take center stage: almost always united, they change costumes according to imaginative forms that reference Spanish culture, religious …
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  2. Musical Friendship Caroline Shaw
    Attacca Quartet
    Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw reveals the full range of her dynamic musicality in this collaboration with the Grammy-winning New York-based Attacca Quartet. Her art engages with the music of the past without shying away from experimentation.PROGRAM Music by Caroline Shaw and Felix Mendelssohn.
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  3. Brescia Storia Festival Giorni Fatali
    The first edition of the Brescia Storia Festival, organized by the Fondazione del Teatro Grande and Editori Laterza, is dedicated to the fateful days that have shaped and left an indelible mark on societies throughout history. The festival will explore the upheavals and pivotal moments of these events, while also devoting equal attention to their causes and consequences—which often stem from the very fabric of communal life that underlies them.
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  4. Brescia Storia Festival Giorni Fatali
    The first edition of the Brescia Storia Festival, organized by the Fondazione del Teatro Grande and Editori Laterza, is dedicated to the fateful days that have shaped and left an indelible mark on societies throughout history. The festival will explore the upheavals and pivotal moments of these events, while also devoting equal attention to their causes and consequences—which often stem from the very fabric of communal life that underlies them.
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  5. Brescia Storia Festival Giorni Fatali
    The first edition of the Brescia Storia Festival, organized by the Fondazione del Teatro Grande and Editori Laterza, is dedicated to the fateful days that have shaped and left an indelible mark on societies throughout history. The festival will explore the upheavals and pivotal moments of these events, while also devoting equal attention to their causes and consequences—which often stem from the very fabric of communal life that underlies them.
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  6. Il nuovo sentimento. La musica nel ‘600 attorno a Venezia Ensemble Domani L'Aurora
    The Baroque ensemble Domani l’Aurora—led by Giulio Francesco Togni, who also plays the harpsichord—presents a concert entirely dedicated to the musical landscape that developed in the 17th century around the Serenissima, a dynamic cultural hub where the talents of musicians of the time such as Giovanni Legrenzi, Dario Castello, Claudio Merulo, as well as the more famous Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Cavalli, and many other exponents of the 17th-century Baroque movement.PROGRAM Giovanni Legrenzi, da La morte del cor penitente, Sinfonia Biagio Marini, Passacalio à 3 & à 4 Dario Castello, Sonata Decima Quinta à 4 Claudio Merulo, Toccata …
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  7. Turandot by Giacomo Puccini
    To mark the centenary of its premiere, Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot will be staged during the 2026 Opera and Ballet Season. Set in a fictional China, the opera depicts the clash between the icy princess and the hero who seeks to win her heart by solving the three riddles she sets him. Turandot – absent from the Grande’s stage for ten years – is undoubtedly one of the most beloved titles and, following La Traviata in 2022 and La Bohème in 2024, continues the series of masterpieces entrusted to young directors selected through the under-35 directing competition.
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  8. Turandot by Giacomo Puccini
    To mark the centenary of its premiere, Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot will be staged during the 2026 Opera and Ballet Season. Set in a fictional China, the opera depicts the clash between the icy princess and the hero who seeks to win her heart by solving the three riddles she sets him. Turandot – absent from the Grande’s stage for ten years – is undoubtedly one of the most beloved titles and, following La Traviata in 2022 and La Bohème in 2024, continues the series of masterpieces entrusted to young directors selected through the under-35 directing competition.
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  9. Cassette vol. 1 A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
    Is nostalgia not perhaps the mental sweater that wraps around the memories dancing in our minds?Over the years, I have created works that recall the intersection between classical music and the birth of hip hop in my life, but the voices of ’80s and ’90s pop and New Wave have deeply intertwined with my interests and experiences. I wanted to create a work that paid tribute to another side of my influences, highlighting a very particular aspect of what it meant to dance on the back of the yellow and black school buses of my elementary and middle school years, to music made equally by M/A/R/R/S, Suzanne Vega, Salt-N-Pepa, The B-52’s, LL Cool J, …
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  10. Star Wars fra musica e scienza Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano
    Luca Perri | Astrophysicist and science communicator
    Giovanni Marziliano | Conductor
    A symphonic journey through distant galaxies, science and the magic of cinema.In 1977, the world was catapulted into a distant galaxy, populated by exotic planets, futuristic technologies and a mysterious force that binds every living being. With Star Wars, cinematic science fiction ignited the imagination of millions of people, but also the curiosity of scientists. How much truth is there in science fiction? Can we really build a lightsaber? Are there planets similar to Tatooine? Is it possible to travel through hyperspace? And above all: to what extent is science inspired by fantasy?Guiding the audience at the Teatro Grande on this journey …
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  11. Ti ricordi il futuro? YOY Performing Arts
    In a possible future, kneeling in a circle in an undefined field and waiting for a return to life, a group of children come alive in a dance. From this image, inspired by Berruti’s solo exhibition “C’è troppa luce per non credere nella luce” (Belgrade 2011), the YoY Performing Arts project comes to life. Do you remember the future? stems from the idea of exploring the multiple interpretative possibilities of the future and utopia, understood as spaces in which hopes, ideals, uncertainties, and fears intertwine and surface in human life, becoming traces of forgotten thoughts. Utopia, a fantastical representation, is something fragile and …
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  12. Madeleine Stefania Tansini
    Inspired by Marcel Proust’s famous Madeleine passage, Tansini explores how sensory experiences can collapse past and present, awakening untamed bodies. At the heart of the project is Tansini’s distinctive physical language, an exploration of the body as an unstable and transformative organism. His work draws the audience into a state of heightened perception, where the seemingly ordinary becomes charged with intimacy and intensity. The performance space serves not only as a backdrop, but as an integral part of the choreography. The result is an experience that lies “between the raw and the refined, between the formal and the wild,” …
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  13. Ti ricordi il futuro? YOY Performing Arts
    In a possible future, kneeling in a circle in an undefined field and waiting for a return to life, a group of children come alive in a dance. From this image, inspired by Berruti’s solo exhibition “C’è troppa luce per non credere nella luce” (Belgrade 2011), the YoY Performing Arts project comes to life. Do you remember the future? stems from the idea of exploring the multiple interpretative possibilities of the future and utopia, understood as spaces in which hopes, ideals, uncertainties, and fears intertwine and surface in human life, becoming traces of forgotten thoughts. Utopia, a fantastical representation, is something fragile and …
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November 2026

  1. Brahms e Milhaud Ensemble del Teatro Grande
    On November 3, the Teatro Grande Ensemble will once again tackle a “late” Brahms, the String Quintet Op. 111, where the material is sublimated with extreme refinement and maximum depth. Preceded by the very young Milhaud, in one of his early works: fresh, deliberately naive, with the desire to make a clean sweep of the old masters, almost parodying tradition.PROGRAM Johannes Brahms, Quintetto per archi, op. 111 Darius Milhaud, Quartetto n. 1, op. 5
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  2. Coppélia Ballet de l’Opéra national du Capitole
    As is traditional, the Opera and Ballet Season is enriched by a classic ballet: Coppélia, a ballet in three acts set to music by Léo Delibes, performed in its Italian premiere by the Ballet de l’Opéra national du Capitole, choreographed by Jean-Guillaume Bart, the renowned étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet.
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  3. Coppélia Ballet de l’Opéra national du Capitole
    As is traditional, the Opera and Ballet Season is enriched by a classic ballet: Coppélia, a ballet in three acts set to music by Léo Delibes, performed in its Italian premiere by the Ballet de l’Opéra national du Capitole, choreographed by Jean-Guillaume Bart, the renowned étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet.
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  4. Chamber Orchestra of Europe Sir Antonio Pappano Conductor
    Alexandre Kantorow Piano
    One of the most renowned orchestras on the international scene, led by one of the world’s most beloved and admired conductors. A program dedicated to the music of Brahms, accompanied by the notes of Antonín Dvořák, and the participation of an award-winning pianist make this event one of the most important of the Teatro Grande season.PROGRAM Johannes Brahms, Concert n. 1, op. 15 Antonín Dvořák, Symphony n. 7, op. 70
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  5. Il Grande per i Piccoli Laboratori, performance e installazioni per l'infanzia
    Sabato 14 novembre alle 15.00 è in programma Il Grande per i piccoli, l’attesa iniziativa che trasforma per un giorno il Teatro Grande in uno spazio multidisciplinare con laboratori, aree gioco, attività tematiche, narrazioni per i più piccoli, concludendosi con uno spettacolo in Sala Grande. Per l’occasione, professionisti di diverse discipline vengono chiamati a ideare progetti specificamente destinati al mondo dell’infanzia. Un modo insolito e divertente per avvicinare bambine e bambini under11 e le loro famiglie ai linguaggi della contemporaneità.
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  6. Brahms e Kancheli Ensemble del Teatro Grande
    For its final concert of the 2026 season, the Teatro Grande Ensemble will perform the powerful Quartet Op. 60 with piano. The ultimate expression of chamber music and rich sound, it goes hand in hand with the realm of silence and rarefaction: Giya Kancheli, a Georgian composer, preferred to take another path, while maintaining the same pleasure for beautiful sound and perfect proportions, and ventured down a different path to purify our listening.PROGRAM Gyia Kancheli, Quartetto in l’istesso tempo Johannes Brahms, Quartetto con pianoforte, op. 60
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  7. L'italiana in Algeri by Gioachino Rossini
    The 2026 Opera and Ballet Season features Gioachino Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri on the programme, returning to the stage in Brescia after fourteen years with a contemporary setting that will not aim for realism but rather for an unstable backdrop against which the action – as is well known – is set: the abduction of a Milanese lady by pirates, her subsequent transfer to an Algerian harem and, finally, her return home.
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  8. L'italiana in Algeri by Gioachino Rossini
    The 2026 Opera and Ballet Season features Gioachino Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri on the programme, returning to the stage in Brescia after fourteen years with a contemporary setting that will not aim for realism but rather for an unstable backdrop against which the action – as is well known – is set: the abduction of a Milanese lady by pirates, her subsequent transfer to an Algerian harem and, finally, her return home.
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December 2026

  1. Canti scuciti Beatrice Sberna
    Emanuele Maniscalco
    Attraverso il recupero di perle nascoste della canzone italiana e un approccio personale all’improvvisazione e alla sperimentazione, la voce di Beatrice Sberna e il pianoforte di Emanuele Maniscalco danno nuova vita a storie che rischierebbero di essere dimenticate, ma che meritano di essere ancora ascoltate. La scelta del repertorio è caratterizzata da un filo conduttore che unisce epoche e stili diversi (dal canto di protesta al cantautorato indie, toccando il jazz e la tradizione popolare), a cui il duo conferisce una forte coerenza narrativa ed espressiva, facendo anche ricorso a momenti estemporanei che mantengono sia la componente …
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  2. Il canto degli alberi Giulia Peri
    Gregorio Nardi
    The two Florentine artists will present a program entirely dedicated to the delicate relationship between music and nature. In particular, to masterpieces that speak of woods, forests, and trees. Pieces ranging from Mozart to Poulenc will illustrate the most varied aspects of the green universe: the welcoming majesty of German forests in the Lieder of Robert Schumann, Robert Franz, Joseph Marx, and Alban Berg; the solitude of the Norwegian Alps in a mysterious piece by Grieg, and that of the Bohemian forest in the music of Dvorak; the spirituality of midday or the unknown night, brilliantly defined by Max Reger; the wind among the tops of …
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  3. Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci by Pietro Mascagni/Ruggero Leoncavallo
    The 2026 Opera and Ballet Season programme concludes with the verismo diptych comprising Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Set in southern Italy, in Sicily and Calabria respectively, the two operas will engage in a dialogue as two opposing poles, through a directorial vision that explores the relationship between verismo and theatrical language, and between reality and fiction in our daily lives.
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  4. Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci by Pietro Mascagni/Ruggero Leoncavallo
    The 2026 Opera and Ballet Season programme concludes with the verismo diptych comprising Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Set in southern Italy, in Sicily and Calabria respectively, the two operas will engage in a dialogue as two opposing poles, through a directorial vision that explores the relationship between verismo and theatrical language, and between reality and fiction in our daily lives.
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  5. Barocco & Other stories Raffaele Pe e Saturnino
    Baroque and Other Stories… is a brand-new project by Raffaele Pe, born out of his collaboration with Saturnino, a bassist, producer and multi-talented artist. For the first time, the countertenor takes his place at the piano, offering the Baroque repertoire an unexpected yet deeply coherent sound. A free dialogue between eras and musical languages, in which Monteverdi and Purcell coexist with Alec Wilder and George Harrison, tracing an intimate, cross-genre and surprising musical journey.
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