Arena di Verona flies to New York!

On November 9^th and 10^th Fondazione Arena di Verona will be in New York for the highlight of a lengthy global tour that began in Bucharest and will continue until May 2023, for the promotion of the 100th season of the Arena Opera Festival, scheduled from June 16th to September 9th 2023. 

The American tour will begin on Wednesday November 9th at 3.30 pm, with a presentation hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute, organised in collaboration with the Institute, Enit and the Italian Embassy in Washington DC., with the support of Veneto Region.

On this occasion, representatives of the Fondazione Arena di Verona will meet the press and tour operators, with the participation of the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Fabio Finotti. To enrich the event, the Arena pianist Federico Brunello will accompany young soprano Monica Conesa.

The highlight of the two-day program will be a tribute concert presented by Fondazione Arena di Verona for over 500 guests, which will be held on Thursday November 10th at 7:30 p.m. in the Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall. The protagonist of the event will be Opera, an expression of the Art of Italian Opera Singing, which is a candidate for inclusion in the UNESCO intangible world heritage list.

Famous arias from the operas on the 2023 Festival bill will be performed, accompanied by Maestro Federico Brunello on the piano, and interpreted by sopranos Monica Conesa and Gilda Fiume, mezzo-soprano Olesya Petrova and, courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera, by tenor Brian Jagde, baritone Luca Salsi, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn. 

The world tour

In view of the 100th Arena Opera Festival, Fondazione Arena has organised an international tour that began in the capital of Romania and will continue until May 2023 with 10 events worldwide. True to its vocation to promote Italian culture in the world, Arena di Verona has always been an accessible, popular and universal home to musical theatre, but also a venue that is very dear to international stars, personalities and spectators as well as a powerful location of art’s inclusiveness.

Anticipation is high for the 2023 Opera Festival at the Arena di Verona, which will mark the 100th season. An event that has attracted countless spectators from all over the world every year since its first edition in 1913 and was only interrupted by the two World Wars and the pandemic. A resource for the city and the Region, thanks to the revenue from related activities generated each year, which is estimated to be around 500 million euros according to university studies.  

The 100th Arena Verona Opera Festival 2023 will take place from June 16th to September 9th, with 50 evenings that alternate eight opera titles, four galas and, for the first time, an extraordinary concert with the Orchestra and Chorus of Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. The inauguration is entrusted to a new production of Aida, which will be followed by the richest and most diverse program in the history of the Festival, bringing together the most popular opera productions of the last twenty years and some of the finest artists on the international opera scenario. 

Carnegie Hall's website

Special thanks to the Italian Cultural Institute of New York