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Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia

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The Fondazione del Teatro Grande presents the 2026 Season, a rich and varied program of performances that, embracing different genres of live entertainment, aims to continue the path undertaken over the years, characterized by the ability to bring some of the most important international artistic excellence to Brescia, while promoting emerging talent and giving space to projects aimed at increasing the well-being of the community. A wide-ranging international program featuring artists, dance companies, and orchestras from seventeen countries around the world.

The common thread linking many of the events in the 2026 Season is the theme of duality, understood both as affinity and contrast: from music to dance, the Season brings together and compares contemporary artists as well as artists from different histories, geographies, and eras. In a contemporary society increasingly dominated by conflict, violence, and separation, the Fondazione del Teatro Grande feels the need to weave together artistic and social affinities and harmonies, to seek what unites rather than what divides, entrusting art and culture with the task of mending the bonds and hopes of the community.

The entire season program is available online.
Tickets go on sale December 12 online and at the Teatro Grande box office.

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With great satisfaction, the Fondazione del Teatro Grande announces the awarding of the CULTURA + IMPRESA Award to the project OPEN. IL GRANDE ACCESSIBILE.

The CULTURA + IMPRESA Award is the national recognition wanted by Federculture and The Round Table communication projects that since 2013 selects, rewards and shares the best projects implemented that see the collaboration of companies with public and private cultural institutions. Today, it is considered the most important observatory in Italy that each year also indicates the scenarios and new trends in the relationship between Culture and Corporate Communication.

For the 2023-2024 edition of the Award, the project OPEN. IL GRANDE ACCESSIBILE is the winner for the SPONSORSHIPS AND CULTURAL PARTNERSHIPS category, and the official press release issued to announce the winners stressed that “OPEN. IL GRANDE ACCESSIBILE is the project of the Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia reserved for people with sensory disabilities, sponsored by EssilorLuxottica that, through the Eyes on Art initiative born in 2020, supports projects for democratization and accessibility of art in all its forms. Since 2017, the Fondazione has been opening theater spaces and improving the enjoyment of performances for audiences from blind and deaf communities. In the year of Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023 Culture as Care has become a tool for prevention and socialization that influences people’s well-being.”

As part of the same Award, OPEN. IL GRANDE ACCESSIBILE also wins the Special Mention DIGITAL INNOVATION IN ARTS. The Special Mentions of the Prize are dedicated to Projects that have most distinguished themselves in interpreting new trends in the relationship between Culture and Business. In the motivation for the special mention awarded to the project OPEN. IL GRANDE ACCESSIBILE reads, “In 2023, more than 200 people attended four Opera performances and one ballet performance with facilitated enjoyment through the use of Sennheiser’s innovative Mobile Connect technology: the app, installed free of charge on mobile devices, allowed hearing-impaired spectators to autonomously modulate sound frequencies by tuning them according to their hearing abilities and blind and visually impaired users to follow the performances accompanied by an audiodescription transmitted through headphones.”

For this 11th Edition of the CULTURA + IMPRESA Award there are 8 winning projects, selected from 123 projects received from 14 Italian regions. The winners, including the Teatro Grande, will be awarded on June 26 in Turin, Italian Capital of Enterprise Culture 2024.

For more information on OPEN. IL GRANDE ACCESSIBILE read the dedicated page.

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Between 2013 and 2023, the Teatro Grande underwent extensive restoration work that brought to light more than a thousand square metres of paintings and frescoes, hidden for more than a century, in the Sala delle Statue, the Ridotto and the adjoining rooms.

On the occasion of the end of the works and the nomination of Bergamo Brescia Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2023, the Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia commissioned the photographer Paola Pansini to write the volume Il Teatro Grande. A photographic portrait, published in September 2023 by Silvana Editoriale, edited by Massimo Torrigiani and with a text by Francesco Zanot.

The Teatro Grande di Brescia is one of the city’s most prestigious and oldest cultural institutions and is considered by artists and audiences to be one of the most beautiful theatres in the world. The theatre gave rise to the universal success of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, presented here for the first time in May 1904 in a new version, after the fiasco of its debut at La Scala only three months earlier.

Paola Pansini, through her photographs and the adoption of a frontal and close-up point of view, takes the readers inside the theatre, but instead of watching a performance, they find themselves looking, in admiration, at the theatre itself.

In Paola Pansini’s photographs, composition, light and colour find balance in a natural, silent sharpness. The images of the Theatre are made of matter, spatiality, exactitude and harmony. A reflection of her studies in sculpture and visual communication, of a precise and original gaze, and of technical perfection.

The volume Il Teatro Grande. A Photographic Portrait can be purchased from the Bookshop and the Box Office of the Teatro Grande, in the main bookshops in Brescia, Milan and the main Italian cities.

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For the project Agorà. Le città vicine and as part of Bergamo Brescia Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2023, Virgilio Sieni is looking for two assistants residing in Lombardy – preferably in the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia – to be integrated into the artistic staff.

The aim of the project will be to create a physical and symbolic journey in the territories that make up the surroundings of the two cities, involving groups of citizens in collective choreographic actions.

The call for applications is open to interested dancers, choreographers and choreographers with previous experience in the work of transmitting movement to non-professionals.

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