Outdoor Concerts and Festivals: Italian Capital of Culture 2023

Outdoor concerts in Italy this summer are about to go into full swing in Bergamo and Brescia. The outdoor concerts are part of the Italian Capital of Culture 2023 celebration with hundreds filling the days and nights with life, music and color this summer.

Outdoor concerts and events mean thousands of local artists taking part in Festa della Music in Bergamo from June  21 and Brescia from June 24. 

Bergamo hosts “Lazzaretto Estate 2023”, fifteen evenings from June 27 to July 30 starring such known artists as Madame (July 7), Snarky Puppy (July 10), Pat Metheny (July 19), Francesca Michielin (July 28), Jethro Tull (July 28). The Cipiesse review will bring to Brescia Mr Rain (July 15), Coma Cose (July 24) and Dardast (July 26), Steve Hackett (July 6).

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 (from July 21 in both cities) offers six contemporary performances between electronic, pop and experimental music.

Along with outdoor concerts, art takes center stage from June 23 in Bergamo at GAMeC with “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 concert 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 14 to September 6 in Bergamo’s Biblioteca Caversazzi.

For more details: https://bergamobrescia2023.it/