News ticker: 2023-03-17
Monteverdi Festival from 13 to 19 June
The Monteverdi Festival takes place every year in the musical city of Cremona. From June 16th to 25th, 2023, the music city of Cremona will be all about Claudio Monteverdi.
We offer a music trip to the Monteverdi Festival with accommodation in Venice, Mantua, Cremona and Milan. You travel in a group from June 13th to 19th, 2023 (6 nights in Venice, Mantua, Cremona, Milan) with concerts, boat trips and cultural excursions. At the Ponchielli Theater you assist at the opening night of the Monteverdi Festival with the performance of the opera “L’incoronazione di Poppea” to the music of Claudio Monteverdi.
Music and Culture Trip to the Monteverdi Festival
We offer a music trip to the Monteverdi Festival with accommodation in Venice, Mantua , Cremona , and Milan. You travel in a group from June 13th to 19th, 2023 (6 nights in Venice, Mantua, Cremona, and Milan) with concerts, boat trips, and cultural excursions. At the Ponchielli Theater, you assist at the opening night of the Monteverdi Festival with the performance of the opera “L’incoronazione di Poppea” to the music of Claudio Monteverdi.
The music trip to the Monteverdi Festival follows in the footsteps of the composer Claudio Monteverdi from his place of death in Venice, via Mantova, where the “divine” Claudio lived at the court of the Gonzaga family, to his birthplace Cremona, where the famous violins are made. The journey ends in Milan, where Monteverdi’s operas are part of the permanent repertoire of the Teatro alla Scala.
Discover some jewels of Italian music history on this music journey from 13th to 19th June 2023
A very special journey in the footsteps of Italian opera history with outstanding musical highlights. To inaugurate the 40th Monteverdi Festival, you will experience the opera “Incoronazione di Poppea” at the Teatro Ponchielli.
Monteverdi Festival 2023
The 40th edition of the Monteverdi Festival, on the occasion of the 380th anniversary of the death of the composer Claudio Monteverdi, begins with the performance of the opera “L’incoronazione di Poppea” at the Teatro Ponchielli. The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi was a pioneer of Italian opera. He was born in Cremona in 1567 and died in Venice in 1643. L’Orfeo is considered the first opera ever.
There is still a chance to join the musical journey to the Monteverdi Festival from 13th to 19th June 2023 to experience some jewels of Italian music history. On this journey, you will be making a pilgrimage along the itinerary of Monteverdi, which the composer traveled many times in his life. The journey begins in Venice, where Monteverdi died, and travels upstream to Mantua, where the “divine Claudio” lived at the Gonzaga court. Continue to Cremona, the hometown of Monteverdi, where you will be treated to the opera “L’incoronazione di Poppea” at the Teatro Ponchielli on the opening day of the festival. A musical journey with many culinary, scenic and cultural experiences.
