List of music festivals in Italy

Italian music festivals Below is a list of music festivals in Italy :

Festivals

• 10 Pianos Street is a charitable festival held in different cities each year.
• Agglutination Metal Festival in Sant'Arcangelo Founded in 1995, it is the oldest Metal Music Festival in Italy. ^[1]
• Arena di Verona Opera during the summer months in the Roman amphitheater in Verona. ^[2]
• Arezzo Wave in Arezzo Pop and Rock music founded in 1987. ^[3]
• Dissonanze focused on electronic music, ran from 2000 to 2010. ^[4]
• Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the two Worlds) in Spoleto Held since 1957, it has a program of symphonic music, opera, dance and jazz. ^[5]
• Festival della canzone italiana or the San Remo Festival is a popular song contest held in Sanremo since 1951 ^[6]
• Festival di Napoli was a Neapolitan song contest which ran from (1952–1971, 1981, 1998–2004)
• Festival Verdi, mainly in Parma, is dedicated to the music of Verdi.
• Folkest in Spilimbergo ^[7]
• Gods of Metal in Milan ^[8]
• Heineken Jammin Festival in Venice is a pop/rock festival founded in 1998. ^[9]
• Independent Days Festival is a pop/rock festival in Bologna and Milan founded in 1999. ^[10]
• InterHarmony International Music Festival is a classical music festival in Acqui Terme, Piedmont, Italy and InterHarmony was founded in 2007. ^[11]
• Liri Blues Festival Is a Blues festival founded in 1988 held in Isola del Liri, near Rome. ^[12]
• Live Arts Week in Bologna - founded in 2011 when audio visual festival Netmage and contemporary arts festival F.I.S.Co. were combined.
• Mandrea Music Festival in Trento. Four day festival of Folk, Reggae, Rock and Electronic music in the Italian Alps overlooking Lake Garda. ^[13]
• Maggio Musicale Fiorentino a selection of classical concerts generally from October through April in Florence.
• Music Fest Perugia Classical music in Perugia,
• Pescara Jazz Jazz music Festival in Pescara (from 1969).
• Piccola Accademia di Montisi in Montisi, Tuscany takes place every year in July. A festival devoted to the music of the harpsichord and early music/instruments ^{[14] [15]}
• Pistoia Blues Festival is a blues festival that takes place every July in Pistoia, Tuscany. The first edition was held in 1980 ^[16]
• Play It Loud! Festival in Orzinuovi
• Porretta Soul Festival in Porretta Terme
• Ravello Festival
• Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro is dedicated to the music of Rossini. ^[17]
• Rototom Sunsplash started as a two-day reggae music festival in Gaio di Spilimbergo in 1995, before moving to Benicàssim in Spain in 2009. ^[18]
• Sagra Musicale Malatestiana in Rimini ^[19]
• Surfer Joe Summer Festival is a four-day surf music festival founded in 2003 at Livorno. ^[20]
• Tempo Reale ^[21]
• Umbria Jazz Festival In Perugia, generally in July.
• Zephyr International Chamber Music Festival ^[22]

External links

Top 10 Most Important Music Festivals in Italy in 2025

References

1. "Comune di Chiaromonte (Pz): il sindaco risponde alla minoranza sull'"Agglutination Metal Festival"". Oltre Free Press (in Italian). 8 September 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
2. Bain, Andrew (28 February 2020). "A night at the opera". The Australian. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
3. Bardi, Silvia (4 April 2020). "Dallo stadio a casa, la storia di Arezzo Wave in tv sul canale 214. Trent'anni di musica" [From the stadium to home, the story of Arezzo Wave on TV on channel 214]. La Nazione (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2020.
4. Damir, Ivic (27 December 2016). "Dissonanze, in memoriam". Red Bull (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2020.
5. Ferrara, Maria Domenica (3 April 2020). "Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto: sospesa l'edizione 2020". Teatro (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2020.
6. "Sanremo Music Festival kicks off tonight". Ecs Today. 12 March 2011. Archived from the original on 12 March 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
7. "Loreena McKennitt in Castello a Udine per Folkest". Il Friuli (in Italian). 17 July 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
8. DiVita, Joe. "Rammstein Unveil New Song at Gods of Metal Festival". Loudwire. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
9. Mancinelli, Marco (24 February 2020). "Vasco Rossi, Imola 1998: la nascita della rockstar". Shockwave Magazine (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2020.
10. "I days 2020: Vasco, Foo Fighters, Billie Eilish. Programma e biglietti". Donne Sul Web (in Italian). 27 November 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
11. "InterHarmony International Music Festival" (in Italian). 15 May 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
12. "Veroli – Liri Blues Festival, ecco il programma della XXXI edizione". TG24 (in Italian). 16 June 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
13. Coldwell, Will (5 May 2015). "10 of the best festivals in Europe ... that you've probably never heard of". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 18 April 2020.
14. "- Domenico Scarlatti wiederentdeckt". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 25 April 2020.
15. "Montisi Festival". Goldberg Magazine. 11 July 2007. Archived from the original on 27 July 2008. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
16. "Pistoia Blues Festival, presentata a Roma una proposta di legge a favore della manifestazione" [Pistoia Blues Festival, a bill presented in Rome in favor of the event]. Nove da Firenze (in Italian). 12 April 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
17. "Three dream holidays for music lovers". The Telegraph. 8 April 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
18. "Rototom Sunsplash Reveals Full List of 2018 Performers, Looks Back on 25 Years: Exclusive". Billboard. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
19. "Venerdì 28 giugno l'anteprima della Sagra Musicale Malatestiana con 300 giovani musicisti". Altarimini.it (in Italian). 26 June 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
20. "The largest gathering of surf music fans in the world". Indie Voyager. 10 May 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
21. "'AUNDICI': musica underground fra Firenze, Prato, Pistoia, Pisa". Intoscana (in Italian). 11 February 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
22. "Zephyr Music Festival".