A long summer of pop will celebrate Italian Capital of Culture 2023: hundreds of events in Bergamo and Brescia to fill the summer days and nights with life, music and colour.
“The Harlequin’s Cloak“, a theatre and participatory art festival by Bergamo’s Teatro Tascabile until September 30, features international artists like Kaarina Kaikkonen and Vero Cendoya.
The Centro Teatrale Bresciano marks the centenary of Italo Calvino’s birth with “The invisible cities. The future is a duty”, where 20 artists will perform from June 27 to July 9 in a visionary show.
Thousands of local artists will take part in Festa della Music in Bergamo on June 21 and Brescia on June 24. Bergamo hosts “Lazzaretto Estate 2023”, fifteen evenings from June 27 to July 30 starring great artists such as Madame, Snarky Puppy, Pat Metheny, Francesca Michielin, Jethro Tull. The Cipiesse review will bring to Brescia Mr Rain, Coma Cose and Dardast, Steve Hackett.
International artists will perform in Brescia’s Festival Jazz on the road (July 10-14): Jonathan Coel & Artchipel Orchestra; Dave Holland “New Quartet”; Bill Frisell “Four”; Serena Brancale Quartet. Also, the Sub Limen festival (on July 21 in both cities) offers six contemporary performances between electronic, pop and experimental music.
Art takes centre stage on June 23 in Bergamo atGAMeCwith “Rachel Whiteread… And the animals were sold”, where the celebrated English artist examines relationships between present and past – and “Vivian Suter. Home”, the first exhibition by the Argentinian artist in an Italian museum. Meanwhile, Accademia Carrara is staging “Peaks of light. Naoki Ishikawa on the Bergamesque Alps,” displaying nineteenth-century paintings and contemporary photographs.
Hundreds of films by major contemporary directors and Italian and foreign productions will be screened in outdoor film festivals: at the “L’Eden d’Estate” from June 9 to September 8 in the Parco del Viridarium of Brescia’s Santa Giulia Museum; at the “Esterno Notte” from June 15 to September 6 in Bergamo’s Biblioteca Caversazzi.
