Trame Sonore in Mantua, the chamber music festival kicks off

The thirteenth edition of Trame Sonore, Europe's largest chamber music festival, kicks off in Mantua. Over 300 artists, 150 concerts, 12 sound "plots", red threads guiding, 15 hours a day of events in a continuous cycle from early morning to late evening in 30 different art spaces. In Vicenza, a very special opportunity to hear one of the cornerstones of instrumental chamber music literature, the Quintet op. 34 by Brahms, with exceptional performers. In Milan, the Mi Ami Festival at Idroscalo.

From 29 May to 2 June, the thirteenth edition of Trame Sonore, the largest chamber music festival in Europe, has for years been pursuing an inverted and utopian logic with respect to the practice of all other events, upholding a very strong centrality of the ethical sense of artistic community. The festival, which transforms great classical music into a progressive happening stream, returns to make the frescoes and architectural perspectives of Mantua, whose historic centre is part of the Unesco World Heritage. For a full immersion in the Beautiful with innovative ways of offering and enjoying it, to bring everyone closer to Classical music so that the music itself wins out over the concert ritual. The city, far from setting itself up as a mere container, contributes to defining its substance, with the places that symbolise its history and culture. More than 300 artists, 150 concerts, 12 'plots', red threads that guide, 15 hours a day of events in a continuous cycle from early morning to late evening in 30 different art spaces: Palazzo Ducale, Palazzo Te, Palazzo Castiglioni, Rotonda di S. Lorenzo, Teatro Bibiena, Santa Barbara, Palazzo D'Arco, Biblioteca Teresiana and even private historical residences, squares, alleys and cloisters. The artist in residence is pianist Alexander Lonquich.