Sezione longitudinale dell’auditorium © Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Abbado’s Mozart Orchestra to inaugurate Piano’s Park Auditorium in L’Aquila

5 October 2012

On Sunday, 7 October 2012, Claudio Abbado’s Mozart Orchestra is set to perform at the inauguration of Renzo Piano’s Park Auditorium in the central Italian town of L’Aquila. Three years and a half after the Abruzzo region was hit by a devastating earthquake in April 2009, L’Aquila’s people will celebrate a new venue for concerts […]

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Quake-hit theatre in Ferrara to reopen with concert by Lucerne Festival Orchestra

11 September 2012

Three months after a series of earthquakes hit several cities and town in northern Italy, killing 27 and injuring hundreds, the people of Ferrara, one of the main cultural centers in the Emilia-Romagna region, are finally celebrating the return to normal, through music. Declared unfit for use since late May, the eighteen-century Teatro Comunale is […]