From April to October, eight major concert series will bring music to every corner of Bologna, from museums to churches, from traditional venues to breweries, spanning from early music to folk influences.
With fourteen events and a program richer and more diverse than ever, inspired by new choices, original proposals, and unusual, sometimes provocative combinations, Pianofortissimo & Talenti 2024 is coming from June 3rd to July 8th. This series is the result of the renewed collaboration between Inedita and Bologna Festival.
This year’s calendar includes nine festival series, marked by some small but significant innovations compared to the past. Notable among these is the inclusion of a series tailored for the challenging adolescent audience and a new opening to non-Western repertoire in the autumn programs. Bologna Festival evolves within the framework of its significant past but with remarkable attention to the needs and curiosities of the present.
A new spectacular event in one of the most fascinating squares of Bologna, dominated by the monumental towers by Kenzo Tange. In the evenings from 18 to 20 July, the towers designed by the famous Japanese architect, with their height of 83 meters, become a majestic setting for a site-specific performance that combines music, dance and video mapping.
Pianofortissimo&talents2023 – eleven concerts, from 6 June to 6 July, of young international talents in the city center of Bologna.
A music festival under the stars, Pianofortissimo&Talents starts on the 7th of June and continues until the 6th of July in historical and culturally significant venues in the city.
A cycle of free conferences to introduce the audience to the programmes of the Great Performers concerts. At the end of the talks, there will be some time for a convivial moment at the Café Letterario in Palazzo Fava.
We have decided to devolve 2% of the entire box office revenue of Bologna Festival 2022 season to the International Red Cross for their actions in Ukraine.
Bologna Festival 2022, now in its 41st edition, follows its traditional trajectories in the series Great Performers, Talents, The Ancient and the New. Music that leaves a mark: the names of the greatest stars of the musical universe join those of young and brilliant promises.
Saturday 12 February at 11 a.m., at the headquarter of Confindustria Emilia Area Centro, the press conference introducing the new season of Bologna Festival.