from 13th September to 24th October 2009

The 15th edition of ‘The places of Baldassare’’ Galuppi and Music Festival started on 13th September 2009. It is a Music Festival which offers us the opportunity to listen to sublime classical music concerts, of the Eighteenth century repertoire but not only that, in very particular places in Venice and its estuary. Among the new locations to be visited there is the Sanctuary of the Madonna dell’Apparizione on the island of Pellestrina, the Hotel Ausonia and Hungaria, which will offer the ideal

29th August 2009 / 10th January 2010
Diocesan Museum, Cloister of S. Apollonia

Last 29th August a magnificent exhibition was opened, with the aim of celebrating one thousand years of history of one of the most extraordinary monuments around the Venice lagoon: the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta on Torcello, which was built, in its original structure in 1008, and which represents an artistic and cultural destination that is constantly visited by tourists. We are speaking about ‘Torcello. At the origins of Venice, between West and East’, which has been

25th September – 3rd October 2009

The program started under Luca Francesconi’s new direction last year is going on in 2009 too, for the Music Biennale in Venice, from 25th September to 3rd October 2009. The 53rd International Festival of Contemporary Music wants to be a stage for the different musical languages going through our time, by comparing them with the experiences of the recent past which have left a long-lasting mark. Two are the trends which intertwine, in the alternation of the different expressions inside the