OPENING NIGHT – LA CENERENTOLA
Join us on the opening night for Rossini’s jubilant adaptation of Charles Perrault’s Cinderella fairy tale - indisputably one of his most beautiful and comic of operas. What better place for Prince Charming and true love to find our Cenerentola than on a summer’s evening at the Palazzo Corsini in Florence. Enjoy dinner during the long interval and continue partying late into the night with jazz and swing.
SYMPHONY NIGHT
Hao Zhou, young virtuoso and first-prize winner of the Montreal International Violin Competition, performs Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D minor with the Orchestra Senzaspine under the baton of Maestro Maximilian Fane. Elgar’s Enigma Variations follow a long interval of dining in the gardens. Music continues with the traditional midnight concert at the church of Ognissanti with a programme of spiritual and choral music.
FLORENCE FOLLIES
The roaring twenties come to Florence with iconic moments of Broadway and Hollywood, led by the dazzling Veronica Swift. The New Generation Festival (NGF), in co-production with the Catskill Jazz Factory, delivers this homage to the roaring 20s led by 25-year-old vocalist, "an adept lyrical interpreter" with "tremendous tonal command" (JazzTimes), Veronica Swift. Florence Follies: From The Big Easy to Broadway stars some of the world’s best young jazz musicians who pay tribute to New Orleans’ influence on Broadway. The show features music by, among others, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, George Gershwin and Jerome Kern.
FESTIVAL FINALE
The unmissable Festival Finale celebrations – enjoy the best of everything on one unforgettable night of opera, feasting and partying. Rossini’s opera La Cenerentola is followed by swing dancing in the gardens and late-night DJ sets.