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Monteverdi Festival

41st edition

When
From 14/06/2024
to 23/06/2024
Where
Teatro A. Ponchielli
Corso V.Emanuele II, 52, Cremona
Contacts
Biglietteria + 39 0372 022001-002
Official site

The Monteverdi Festival is an international event that celebrates the music of Claudio Monteverdi, the legendary composer and father of Italian opera, in his hometown.
For over forty years, the Monteverdi Festival has been committed to promoting Monteverdi’s work throughout Italy and globally. The festival focuses on the broader musical repertoire of the 16th and 17th centuries, encompassing sacred and secular music. It brings this ancient music to life through authentic performances and interpretations supported by thorough musicological and instrumental research. It brings this ancient music to life through authentic performances and interpretations supported by thorough musicological and instrumental research.

Claudio Monteverdi is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost innovators in music history and the creator of opera, the globally renowned Italian musical genre.
The Monteverdi Festival, organized by the Ponchielli Theater Foundation in Cremona and led by artistic director Andrea Cigni, features leading international artists and emerging young talents in its productions. Since 2021, the festival’s principal musical director has been Antonio Greco.
We deeply thank the festival’s main sponsors and invaluable partners for their indispensable support.

The more we study and perform Claudio Monteverdi’s work, and the more we strive to come closer to the original performance techniques, the more we realise how deeply it is rooted in its era. But at the same time it anticipates future eras with dizzying visionary power, and these two deepens our admiration for him and his work ‘where everything was born and everything is reborn’. In that fabulous past lie both our present and the germs of the future. Monteverdi was the father of melodrama, but also a multifaceted and complete author of sacred and profane masterpieces, vocal and instrumental, for the theatre, the church and the concert halls (which did not yet exist): in short he is our father in the heaven of music.
It is truly impossible to recount il divin Claudio and his all-embracing artistic personality: this ‘Festival 2024’, ten days of Monteverdi, always Monteverdi, emphatically Monteverdi, aims to try anyway.

Starting from a strong idea (questionable of course as everything is questionable) but, let’s say, at least a clear one: putting Monteverdi back in his own time, offering performances that comply with the philology of each text and the historically informed praxis; but the aim is also to show the links with musicians who preceded him and more so with those who followed him. It is to be aware that Monteverdi’s time is our time; that nothing is more contemporary than this man, and that the task of those who deal with him, organisers and artists, critics and intellectuals, politicians and spectators, is to seek our present in his past. Operas and masses, madrigals and canzonettas, ‘moral forests’ and Tasso’s battles: Monteverdi is like a jigsaw puzzle made up of infinite pieces that we will never be able to fit together. In the end, those pieces compose the portrait of an immense artist who, after four centuries, continues to astound and move us, exalt us and make us think. Above all he is still, and always will be, able to surprise us.


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Places

Ponchielli Theatre

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Ponchielli Theatre
53 mt

Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli

  • Art & Culture
Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli
59 mt

Palazzo Silva Persichelli

  • Art & Culture
Palazzo Silva Persichelli
112 mt

Parco al Po

The Po Park creates a filter between the city and the naturalistic area of ​​the Po river and its banks.
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Parco al Po
256 mt

Torrazzo of Cremona

Located next to Cremona Cathedral, it is the symbol of the city. It is the tallest brick belfry in the world, 112 meters
  • Art & Culture
Torrazzo of Cremona
256 mt

Antonio Stradivari House

In Corso Garibaldi 57 a fragment of the history of Cremonese violin making: Casa Stradivari
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Antonio Stradivari House
256 mt

Palazzo Roncadelli Pallavicino Ariguzzi

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Palazzo Roncadelli Pallavicino Ariguzzi
261 mt

The luthier workshops in Cremona

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The luthier workshops in Cremona
261 mt

Violin Craftmanship Cremona

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Violin Craftmanship Cremona
309 mt

Violin Museum

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Violin Museum
317 mt

Palazzo Mina Bolzesi

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Palazzo Mina Bolzesi
413 mt

Palazzo del Comune

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Palazzo del Comune
413 mt

Cripta di Sant'Omobono

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Cripta di Sant'Omobono
414 mt

From Cremona to Casalmaggiore

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From Cremona to Casalmaggiore
427 mt

Battistero di San Giovanni

Battistero di San Giovanni completes Piazza del Comune
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Battistero di San Giovanni
449 mt

Torrazzo and Vertical Museum

The symbol of the town and the museum dedicated to time-measuring
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Torrazzo and Vertical Museum
457 mt

Museo Diocesano

An amazing place of Art and Faith!
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Museo Diocesano
463 mt

Cremona Tourist Office

Serving the tourist!
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Cremona Tourist Office
466 mt

Duomo of Cremona

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Cattedrale di Cremona @inlombardia
473 mt

Pietra tombale di A. Stradivari

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Pietra tombale di A. Stradivari
484 mt

Events

Cremona Summer Festival

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262 mt

THE SOUND OF STRADIVARI

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THE SOUND OF STRADIVARI
321 mt

A new life for Stradivari’s house

Casa Stradivari
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A new life for Stradivari’s house
536 mt

Where to sleep

COSY STUDIO

Cremona
COSY STUDIO
180 mt

CASA DI NOSTRA SIGNORA

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CASA DI NOSTRA SIGNORA
189 mt

CASA DI NOSTRA SIGNORA

Cremona
CASA DI NOSTRA SIGNORA
189 mt

CASA DELLA MUSICA

CREMONA
CASA DELLA MUSICA
228 mt

CASA DEGLI ARTISTI

Cremona
CASA DEGLI ARTISTI
228 mt

HOTEL IMPERO

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HOTEL IMPERO
293 mt

ANGUISSOLA ROOMS

CREMONA
ANGUISSOLA ROOMS
293 mt

ALLOGGI DI PORTA PO 1 (PT INT 3) di NAMIK NARJAKU

Cremona
ALLOGGI DI PORTA PO 1 (PT INT 3) di NAMIK NARJAKU
344 mt

ALLOGGI DI PORTA PO 2 (P1 INT 2)

Cremona
ALLOGGI DI PORTA PO 2 (P1 INT 2)
344 mt

ALLOGGI DI PORTA PO 3 (P1 INT 1) DI NAMIK NARJAKU

Cremona
ALLOGGI DI PORTA PO 3 (P1 INT 1) DI NAMIK NARJAKU
344 mt

A CASA DI ALDA

Cremona
A CASA DI ALDA
355 mt

CASA VIDA

Cremona
CASA VIDA
371 mt

HOTEL DUOMO

Cremona
HOTEL DUOMO
378 mt

B&B IL VIOLINO

Cremona
B&B IL VIOLINO
419 mt

LA VISTA 1

Cremona
LA VISTA 1
427 mt

LA VISTA

Cremona
LA VISTA
437 mt

RESIDENZA SOLFERINO 2

Cremona
RESIDENZA SOLFERINO 2
440 mt

RESIDENZA SOLFERINO 3

Cremona
RESIDENZA SOLFERINO 3
440 mt

RESIDENZA SOLFERINO 1

Cremona
RESIDENZA SOLFERINO 1
440 mt

APPARTAMENTO TI AMO

Cremona
APPARTAMENTO TI AMO
464 mt