2025 Program
51st Festival della Valle d’Itria
2025 Program
The Festival of the Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, one of the oldest summer events dedicated to opera and vocal music, and the first in Southern Italy, continues to be a point of reference for enthusiasts. Always attentive to the bel canto repertoire and rarely heard works, the Festival enriches its offerings with a dialogue between the past and the present, also giving space to music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
In this edition, the theme of war and peace runs through the program, offering a musical journey through conflicts, tensions, and hopes for reconciliation. Contemporary relevance is reflected in masterpieces of the past and modern languages, in a sonic narrative that explores the scars of history and the universal desire for harmony.
OPERAS
TANCREDI
by Gioachino Rossini
Heroic melodrama in two acts libretto by Gaetano Rossi
Ducal Palace, Martina Franca
OWEN WINGRAVE
by Benjamin Britten
Director Andrea De Rosa
Cloister of San Domenico, Martina Franca
L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES
by Maurice Ravel
Director Rita Cosentino
CONCERTS
Basilica di San Martino, Martina Franca
SACRED CONCERT
Conductor Maurizio Lomartire
*World premiere performance
Ducal Palace, Martina Franca
SYMPHONIC CONCERT
Conductor Fabio Luisi
IN-CHIOSTRO: BETWEEN NOTES AND WORDS
Dialogues about war and peace
Cloister of San Domenico, Martina Franca
DEGENERATED MUSIC
Reflections by Lucrezia Ercoli
Masseria Palesi, Martina Franca
WAR AND PEACE
Reflections by Paolo Nori
Piano Viviana Lasaracina
Cloister of Carmine, Martina Franca
WAR HAS A WOMAN’S FACE
Reflections by Bianca Sorrentino
Music by Fauré, Strauss, Gluck, Manfroce, Marzocchi*
*World premiere performance
Cloister of Carmine, Martina Franca
MY STRUGGLING THOUGHTS
Reflections by Luca Della Libera
Music by A. Scarlatti
TRAME IN MUSICA
Meetings with the authors in Valle d’Itria
Cloister of Agostiniane, Martina Franca
LUCREZIA ERCOLI – THE SPECTACLE OF EVIL
With the participation of the Adorno Quartet
Chiostro del Carmine, Martina Franca
PAOLO NORI – I CLOSE THE DOOR AND SCREAM
With the participation of the Adorno Quartet
Leonardo Trulli Resort, Locorotondo
BIANCA SORRENTINO – THINKING LIKE MEDEA
With the participation of the Artists of the Accademia di Belcanto “Rodolfo Celletti”
Chiesa Madre San Nicola, Cisternino
LUCA DELLA LIBERA – THE LETTERS OF SCARLATTI
With the participation of the Ensemble De Finibus Terrae and the Artists of the Accademia di Belcanto “Rodolfo Celletti”
CONCERTI DEL SORBETTO
Chiostro di San Domenico, Martina Franca
THE OTHER RAVEL
With Sandro Cappelletto
Chiostro del Carmine, Martina Franca
THE OTHER TANCREDI
With Ilaria Narici
Chiostro del Carmine, Martina Franca
THE OTHER BRITTEN
With Alessandro Macchia
INSIGHTS
WAR AND PEACE IN THE OPERA
Conference
IN ORBITA
