The Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia has presented the September – December 2022 Season.

A line-up stretching across different genres of the performing arts, in a kaleidoscope of shows that will bring to the Teatro Grande di Brescia some of the most acclaimed artists in the world as well as young talents,  surely able to charm the most varied audience, with the aim of re-building together, step by step, the desire of sharing the passion for the Theatre and trusting the process of “being together” thanks to the culture.

Opera has always being the heart of the Teatro Grande’s Seasons. The work developed by the Fondazione itself and together with the Theatres of the Circuito Opera Lombardia has been focusing throughout the years on the research of emerging talents, on the enhancement of the repertoire operas, on the great attention towards the works born in the 20th century and in recent times, in addition to the revival of the those titles missing from the records of the city. In 2022, the Fondazione is back to launch the traditional Opera and Ballet autumn Season, with the schedule of the subscription campaign that will give the possibility to the 2019 subscribers to exercise the pre-emption right on their seats. The combination of tradition and contemporary will be again the cornerstone of the whole artistic offer, a mixture of opposited in which the Fondazione believes to build a new audience and perspectives for Opera.

OPERA E BALLET 2022 SEASON

Tickets, subscription e terms of sale of the Opera e Ballet Season
The Opera and Ballett 2022 Season subscription campain starts on the 26th of May. The 2019 subscriptions can be rewned for the new Season starting from the 26th May to the 4th June at the Teatro Grande ticket office and online on vivaticket.com. From the 14th to the 18th of June new subscriptions will be available. This year, there will be again the possibility to buy or renew the subscription in a single payment or by paying a deposit until the 6th – 10th September.
The tickets for the single shows of the Opera and Ballet Season will be sold starting from the 25th of June. In order to bring young people closer to Opera, the under30 reduction and the special €15 ticket for under18 students will be confirmed (stalls and balconies of I, II and III order).

The Season will then present various appointments with music, from the contemporary baroque to the great chamber composition and symphonies of the 19th and 20th century. In this path, presented under the banner of the Società dei Concerti del Teatro Grande, some of the most important artists of the Italian scenario are awaited, in addition to musicians and ensembles of international relevance, without leaving out the projects of contamination between genres, including jazz and contemporary music.

For many years, the Fondazione del Teatro Grande has been considered at a national level one of the greatest points of reference for dance, giving space every year to the excellence of the contemporary scene and contributing to the support of young emerging choreographers. It has therefore created a new loyal audience, following the offered shows and discovering every time new visions. The autumn line-up will be completing the 2022 Season with the shows by two Masters of dance and three young choreographers and dancers, bringing to the spaces of the Teatro Grande a testimony of the fascinating and fresh horizons of the international and Italian dance.

The Teatro Grande will finally welcome the children and their families taking part in the spacil project Il Grande per i Piccoli, bringing forward the always centered intention of the Fondazione to make the Teatro Grande an attractive and inclusive space.

MUSIC, DANCE AND SPECIAL PROJECTS 2022

Biglietti abbonamenti e modalità di vendita per gli appuntamenti di Musica, Danza e Progetti speciali
All the tickets for the shows of Music and Dance of the September-December 2022 Season and for the project Il Grande per i piccoli will be sold starting from Tuesday, 24th May at the Teatro Grande ticket office and online on vivaticket.com.
For the appointments Music and Dance, a special ticket will be presented with the 50% discount for students. Please note that the Fondazione del Teatro Grande is part of App18 and Carta Docente.
In addition to the usual discounts reserved to under30 and over65 spectators, the September-December 2022 Season offers two types of carnet, sold starting from the 24th of May: the Carnet Danza, €65, and the Carnet Musica, €80. The same offer with even more reduced prices is reserved to under30 spectators: the Carnet Danza Under30, €50, and the Carnet Musica, €60.

The Teatro Grande ticket office is open from Tuesday to Friday, 1.30PM – 7PM, and Saturday, 3.30PM – 7PM; closed on Sunday, Monday and holydays, except for the days of the shows. On teatrogrande.it, Facebook and Instagram news on the line-up will be presented daily.

The Festa dell’Opera is finally back again, and the Teatro Grande is looking for volunteers for the 2022 edition!

The Festa dell’Opera, scheduled for Saturday 11th of June, is a sophisticated but popular festival that takes young and adult spectators, opera lovers or not, on an evocative journey towards the Opera world, making the entire city of Brescia resonate on the notes of the most renowned melodies of the opera tradition from dawn until midnight.

Here we are at the 11th edition of an event involving hundreds of artists and more than 50 public and private spots in the city. The aim of the Festa is opening the doors of opera to everybody, taking the charm of the melodrama in direct contact with the audience of all ages also thanks to the contamination with other musical languages (jazz, electronic, swing, pop, rock, contemporary music).

Concerts and improvised events will be at the centre of this day. Volunteers and staff will be working together to manage the organization of the events and in support of singers and musicians, making their contribution also to the promotion of the program. A precious occasion to get to know the organizational machine of the Teatro Grande and to help realising this unique event.

Send your application (you have until the 23th of May) at this link.

The chosen group will be summoned in the Teatro on Tuesday, 31st of May, for a briefing with the staff of the Festa.

Take part in this beautiful event and let the Opera take you far away!

The Great Night of Jazz is back for its fifth edition, the music marathon that traditionally brings some of the most interesting musicians of the Italian and international jazz scene to the stages of the city Massimo.

Saturday 26 March from 19.00 to 23.30 the Teatro Grande will be transformed into the small citadel of jazz with three paths designed to listen to the different interpretations of this vast genre. All the itineraries will open at 7.00 pm in the Sala Grande with a concert by Eleonora Strino, Greg Cohen and Zeno De Rossi.

GROUND is the path that will be divided into the Ridotto of the Teatro Grande where Costanza Alegiani Trio and Fabrizio Sferra will perform with “Folkways” at 9.30 pm and Nazareno Caputo Phylum Trio at 10.45 pm.

AIR it is the path of the Sala Palcoscenico Borsoni where Ilaria Capalbo Quintet will perform with “Karthago” at 9.30 pm and Qaplá at 10.45 pm.

FIRE will take place in the Hall of Scenographies with the performances of ARE Andrea Ruggeri Ensemble “Musiche invisibili” at 9.30 pm and Federico Calcagno & The Dolphians at 10.45 pm.

The routes (full price 30.00 euros; reduced under 30 and over 65 20.00 euros) are on sale from 10 March at the Teatro Grande Box Office, on the website vivaticket.com (opening hours of the Teatro Grande Box Office: from Tuesday to Friday from 13.30 to 19.00 and on Saturday from 15.30 to 19.00).

The concerts will not be sold individually.

The Great Night of Jazz 2022 will also have a corollary appointment that will involve one of the guest artists of this 5th edition for a Lectio Magistralis

which will take place on the morning of Saturday 26 March at 11.00 at the Pietro da Cemmo Hall of the Luca Marenzio Conservatory in Brescia. . The meeting will feature Greg Cohen, a world-famous American double bass player who on this occasion will focus on a theme that is very close to his way of making music: the creative approach between jazz and popular music. A free appointment (with compulsory registration via the website www.teatrogrande.it starting from Thursday 16 March) with a great master of jazz music, certainly of interest for fans of the genre, but not only. The Lectio will be held in English.

The Grande Notte del Jazz is a project of the Fondazione del Teatro Grande in Brescia created with the artistic collaboration of Emanuele Maniscalco and Luigi Radassao.

LA GRANDE NOTTE DEL JAZZ 2022 – PROGRAM

In these dramatic and shocking hours, the Fondazione del Teatro Grande of Brescia expresses its solidarity with the Ukrainian artists, cultural institutions and concrete support for the courageous Ukrainian population severely affected by the war.

The Foundation has therefore decided to donate the entire proceeds of the concert with the artists Joshua Bell and Shai Wosner, scheduled for March 23 at the Teatro Grande, to the special Ukraine fund of the Croce Bianca in Brescia for humanitarian purposes.

An exceptionally talented duo of musicians Joshua Bell and Shai Wosner will perform on stage in the Great Hall. Joshua Bell is one of the most acclaimed violinists of his time and has performed with all the most important musical realities in the world. Among other accolades, he received a Grammy Award (2018) and 5 other Grammy nominations, as well as winning the Avery Fisher Prize in 2007. Pianist Shai Wosner has collaborated with the most famous conductors and throughout his career has won the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, the Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust.

The program that the duo will propose at the Teatro Grande inlcudes in the first part the execution of the Sonata n. 1 in D major for violin and piano by Franz Schubert and Sonata for violin and piano n. 7 in C minor op. 30 n. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven. After the intermission, the duo will perform Baal Shem. Three paintings of Cassidic life by Ernest Bloch and the Sonata n. 2 in G major for violin and piano by Maurice Ravel.

In the faint hope of a future of peace, March 23 will be a night addressed to all the citizens of Brescia so that with their presence the clear opposition to this war and the shared closeness to the Ukrainian population prevail.

The Teatro Grande Foundation announces that Francesco Bianconi’s concert scheduled for Wednesday 16 March has been postponed to Wednesday 25 May. The event has been moved in the face of the epidemiological situation and the entire 2022 tour will therefore touch the main Italian cities starting in May.

The concert will involve the Tuscan singer-songwriter flanked by the band composed by Angelo Trabace at the piano; Zevi Bordovach at the harmonium, Moog and Mellotron; Alessandro Trabace on violin; Sebastiano de Gennaro on percussion and vibes; Stefano Pilia on guitar; Enrico Gabrielli on saxophones, clarinet, flute and synthesizers.

Tickets already purchased are also valid for the new date. All those who have purchased a ticket for the evening and wish to request a refund can contact the Teatro Grande Box Office up to and including Wednesday 16 March.

Tickets for the concert can be purchased at the Teatro Grande Box Office and online on the teatrogrande.it/en and vivaticket.com websites. There is also a student ticket with a 50% discount on the full price. We remind you that the Teatro Grande Foundation is one of the subjects adhering to App18 and Carta Docente.

For more information, you can send an email to biglietteria@teatrogrande.it.

The Teatro Grande Foundation announces that the  dance show with the Batsheva Dance Company planned on February 18is canceled due to restrictions on international travel related to the pandemic.

All those who bought the ticket for the evening at the Box Office can request a refund at the Teatro Grande Box Office up to and including Friday 18 February.

The Box Office will be open at the usual times: from Tuesday to Friday from 13.30 to 19.00 and on Saturday from 15.30 to 19.00.

Tickets purchased online or through Vivaticket points of sale will be refunded directly from the Vivaticket.com platform.

For more information, you can send an email to biglietteria@teatrogrande.it.

The Teatro Grande Foundation presents the program for the January-July 2022 Season.

Artists among the most acclaimed in the world and promising young performers will be able to fascinate the most transversal audience, with the aim of rebuilding together, step by step, the desire to share the passion for theater and the trust in “being together” through culture.

A multidisciplinary proposal that transversally touches the wide panorama of live entertainment with Opera, dance, chamber music concerts, contemporary, jazz, indie, in addition to the meetings, special events and educational projects that will be distributed in the different spaces of the Theater and outside the walls of the Grande.

DOWNLOAD THE JANUARY-JUNE 2022 SEASON CALENDAR

Each event will be carried out safely and in compliance with the regulations related to the containment of the spread of the Covid-19 contagion. In this regard, we would like to point out that, should new regulatory provisions relating to the containment of the pandemic come into play, the methods of accessing and carrying out the shows may be subject to variations.

TICKETS AND METHOD OF SALE

Tickets for all the shows of the season will be on sale from Saturday 11 December at the Teatro Grande Box Office and on vivaticket.com. For all shows there is a 50% discounted ticket for students. We also remind you that the Teatro Grande Foundation is one of the subjects adhering to App18 and Carta Docente.

Please note the opening hours of the Teatro Grande Box Office: from Tuesday to Friday from 13.30 to 19.00 and on Saturday from 15.30 to 19.00; closed on Sundays and Mondays and holidays except for show days.

The Foundation of Teatro Grande of Brescia presents the September-December 2021 Season with the renewed commitment of an important, multidisciplinary program aimed at a transversal audience.

Despite the difficulties related to the current health emergency and after the rich summer season, also in the second half of 2021 the Foundation proposes a new billboard that can welcome its audience into the theater through a renewed artistic proposal that will recover the canceled appointments. in the previous Season. The show proposal will in fact include the rescheduling of appointments and opera titles that could not be staged in 2020, but also new proposals including chamber, baroque and contemporary music concerts, in addition to Italian and international dance shows.

CALENDAR SEPTEMBER DECEMBER 2021 SEASON

The schedule of the evening shows has been brought forward to 20.00.

Each event will be carried out safely and in compliance with the regulations related to the containment of the spread of the Covid-19 infection. In this regard, we point out that, following the latest regulatory provisions, access to the spaces of the Theater will be possible only after showing the Green Pass.

Tickets for all the performances of the season will be on sale from Friday 10th September at the Teatro Grande Box Office and on vivaticket.com.

There are no season tickets for Opera appointments, but only tickets for individual appointments. Subscribers of the 2019 Opera and Ballet Season can take advantage of a special reduction of 50% compared to the full ticket.

For all the performances of the Season (excluding the Opera events for which specific reductions are active) there is a 50% discounted ticket for students. We also remind you that the Teatro Grande Foundation is one of the subjects adhering to App18 and Carta Docente.

Please note the opening hours of the Teatro Grande Box Office: from Tuesday to Friday from 13.30 to 19.00 and on Saturday from 15.30 to 19.00; closed on Sundays and Mondays and holidays except for show days. For information biglietteria@teatrogrande,it.

On the teatrogrande.it website and on the canals Facebook and Instagram of the Theater, updates on the programming of the Season and on the activities of the Theater will be made available in real time.

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The Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia will present the complete calendar of the September-December 2021 Season on Wednesday 8th September. Where possible, the suspended performances have been recovered by designing a Season that combines national and international famous names with territorial excellence.

Waiting to know in detail the events that will range from the Opera Season to concerts, from dance to cultural meetings, the Foundation announces the avant-program.

OPERA
La Fanciulla del West by Giacomo Puccini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini
Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi – Operadomani Project

CONCERTS
Ensemble Concerto di Margherita
Ensemble del Teatro Grande
Orchestra S.T.U.D.I.O. del Conservatorio
Ensemble Zefiro
Sentieri Selvaggi
Orchestra da Camera di Brescia
Rossano Pinelli

DANCE
Compagnia Virgilio Sieni
Hofesh Shechter Company/Shechter II
Alessandro Sciarroni
Dada Masilo

CULTURAL INITIATIVES
History Lessons

The Teatro Grande Foundation announces the extraordinary openings of the Ridotto during the month of August. A real architectural jewel can be seen for free, allowing citizens to access one of the most evocative eighteenth-century spaces in the area.

Starting from Tuesday 3 August and until Friday 27, the spaces of the Theater will be freely accessible to tourists and visitors. Admission is from Tuesday to Saturday from 11.00 to 19.00, free and without the need for a reservation.

It will thus be possible to admire the magnificence of the Ridotto and the historical documents related to the Brescia debut of the opera Madama Butterfly. In addition to the original 1904 poster, the original image of the cast and an autograph letter written by Giacomo Puccini relating to the general rehearsal of the opera are also preserved in the Butterfly Room. Also not to be missed is the Sala del Teosa, a real and perfectly preserved frescoed casket.

On the days of August 3, 25, 26 and 27 there will also be live musical interludes by the young formation of the Bazzini Consort.

Waiting for the new season of performances that will inaugurate in September, the Teatro Grande Foundation therefore decides to keep the doors of one of the most visited monuments in the city open. A proposal that is part of the wider cultural tourism project that intends to enhance the potential of the Teatro Grande in its role as a historical monument.

Finally, we remind you that the Caffè del Teatro Grande Berlucchi will be open until Sunday 1 August and then reopen on Saturday 28 August, to coincide with the resumption of performances.