From July 17th to August 9th, 2026 great music is on stage at the Sferisterio in Macerata, a huge and suggestive open-air theatre with the Macerata Opera Festival.
The Sferisterio in Macerata was inaugurated in 1829 as the arena for the ball with bracelet game, which was very famous in the 1800s. It hosted also public shows and feasts, jousts, horse parades, political and sports events, bull hunting and circus.
In 1921, for the initiative of Count Pier Alberto Conti, the first opera debuts at Sferisterio. It was Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, and it has been played for 17 evenings and seen by 70000 opera lovers.
Thanks to its 2500 seats and 104 stages, excellent visibility, a great natural acoustic and a very big stage, Sferisterio is nowadays one of the most prestigious and appreciated open-air theatres in Italy.
Many artists performed there such as Mario Del Monaco, Luciano Pavarotti, Katia Ricciarelli, Renato Bruson, Montserrat Caballé, Placido Domingo. Also, some settings entered in history like the famous Traviata degli Specchi by Maestro Josef Svoboda in 1992 and the unforgettable Bohème by Ken Russel in 1984.
At the Macerata Opera Festival 2026, in the program 3 operas: Nabucco, Barbiere di Siviglia, Trovatore and the Carmina Burana
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