L'will pinkenthe silences, the small villages that support the most beautiful mountains. For fifteen years, the Dolomites have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The pale mountains remain an extremely evocative landscape, but their beauty has been a source of inspiration for bold cultural projects.
In the Dolomites, the largest high-altitude festival in Italy takes place: a programme of almost 100 events covering peaks, saddles, mountain huts, Curtain and the whole Cadore. Music, inclusion, dance, opera: a whole summer of music. From sunrise to sunset.
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CortinAteatro 2024: music and dance for the summer of the Queen of the Dolomites
The Ampezzo summer program organized by Musincantus is a real show within the show. Unique artists and performances at the top of the Dolomites this year.
It begins with a cultural bridge between Venice and the Queen of the Dolomites, in the name of the celebrations of 700 years since the death of Marco Polo: hasAlexandre Girardi Room Here is “Ennio Morricone – Marco Polo Original Soundtrack”, a project byRegional Philharmonic Orchestra of Venicewith the interpretation of the music written by Ennio Morricone for the epic television series “Marco Polo” by Giuliano Montaldo produced by Rai in 1982.
Among the most popular events, the sunsets in music at high altitude. The promo “Sunset in music” will take place on Saturday July 20 At Faloria Shelter with the Duo Na Fuoia: the day will be welcomed by a repertoire of popular and folk music found in ancient manuscripts, performed on traditional instruments.
The second appointment is with the Ba(ch)rock Bassoon QuartetSunday July 28 At Dibona Shelter: The concert will range from classical to pop repertoire, accompanying the sunset in the panoramic setting overlooking the Ampezzo valley.
August will begin with another amazing high altitude sunset, the “Musical Sunset” with Brass Opera Sunday August 4th at 8:30 p.m. on the terrace of Col Drusciè Refugefrom where the famous Drusciè A track starts, home of the Olympic competitions since 1956.
A brass quintet will offer a program that describes Venice as a city of opera, a city of the Baroque and Vivaldi, but also and above all a city of cinema.
Saturday August 24 will end with “Tramonto in musica” at Squirrel Shelter on Five towers, with a program entrusted to the cello of Erica Piccotti.
There will also be an operetta with “The Merry Widow” by Franz Lehar, at the Alexander Girardi Hall on Saturday August 17 with the Corrado Abbati Company.
Finally, space for dance and accessibility in the festival. Friday August 23 At 8:45 p.m. in the Culture Room, the dancer, painter and writer will be the guest of the event. Simona Atzori, which made her “lack” (she was born without arms) her strong point. (full program on musincantus.it).
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Cadore Dolomites Music Festival 2024
It will start on Saturday July 13 the grandiose billboard of Cadore Dolomites Music Festival, that until September 7th will feature over 60 events, with 80 international guests and over 50 spectacular locations in Cadore.
Born this year from the union of three historic festivals of Cadore, Dolomiti Blues&Soul Festival, Organi Storici in Cadore and Dolomiti Più Note, it contains the largest musical offer in Italy, which ranges from Afro-American music to jazz, rock, classical music, up to the mountain musical tradition.
A shared program, which aims to communicate and promote Cadore as a “musical land”, enhancing the ancient and widespread tradition of the Cadore Dolomites.
To open the Cadore Dolomites Music Festival There will be two events: Saturday July 13 In Comelico Superior We will start with “A Jazz Journey from the East Coast to the West Coast” and Route 66.
The framework will be that of Lunelli Sheltermanaged by the Martini Barzolai family and named after Italo Lunelli (alpine, mountaineer and irredentist from Trentino), which offers a splendid view of the Popèra mountain group and was inaugurated in June 1956 by the mountain guide Bepi Martini Barzolai and built by the Regola of Casamazzagno.
Among the events to note: August 3 has Malga Giau (San Vito di Cadore) spectacular terrace of the Dolomites, the notes of Vialvdi, Mascagni, Brahms and Bizet with theLa Sorgente Orchestra Classical Ensemble.
But it will also be there Gégé Telesforo (August 3 and 4 in San Vito and Borca di Cadore) with the group Big Mama's Legacy then on August 5th at Building of Beautiful community of Pieve di Cadore a concert of sacred and popular Armenian songs with Edessa Ensemble.
Notes at dawn at Aquileia Refuge in Selva di Cadore, THE August 10 with the arches of Friuli and Veneto and the August 17 at Monte Rite, a unique trumpet concert among the peaks with the trumpet ensemble of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Poetic closure in the name of popular music Zovo Fork (San Pietro di Cadore) the August 24 with the harps of Alexander Tombesi (full program on: magnificacomunitadicadore.it).
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