The 6th season of 'Music with a View' opens in Venice

The 6th Season of Musica con Vista kicks off, thirty-six concerts animating gardens, cloisters and historic residences - an integral part of Italy's identity and cultural heritage - from Trento to Palermo, in a musical journey and more. A slow, passionate and curious tourism to discover a hidden Italy, creating an ecosystem made up of cultural operators, bodies that preserve the historical heritage and local communities, within which resources and needs interact in a circular economy. Even in Rome, music in the gardens, those of the Accademia Filarmonica, on the slopes of Villa Borghese. And in Milan radically different music, with Massive Attack, but always in the green, near Linate.

On the 21st, the Belinfante Quartet at the Orto Giardino del Redentore kicks off the Musica con Vista festival, this year with 36 concerts scheduled in Italy's most beautiful cities and villages. The aim of the Festival is, as always, to support the new generation of young talents in chamber music, enhance the Italian cultural heritage, and at the same time create a widespread tourist activity, offering activities not only related to music. The Festival promotes a slow, passionate and curious tourism, bringing a heterogeneous public closer to the discovery of a hidden Italy, creating an ecosystem made up of cultural operators, bodies that preserve the historical heritage and local communities.

19 June sees the start of I Giardini della Filarmonica, the summer festival of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, with music and traditions from around the world; until 2 July, in the green space of the Giardini dell'Accademia, a reserved corner in the heart of Rome, on the slopes of Villa Borghese and a few steps from Piazza del Popolo. From Alaska to Mare Nostrum, traversed for millennia by a melting pot of cultures, music will resonate with rhythms and sounds from Japan, Armenia, Germany, Iran, the United States, Austria, Argentina and Colombia, transforming the Gardens into a space open to the exchange and meeting of different cultures, with attention also paid to the environment and its delicate balance.

Giardini della Filarmonica

On 18 June, Massive Attack will open Milan's Parco della Musica, a 70,000 square metre area surrounded by greenery near Linate, with refreshment facilities. The bands that have chosen it as their only Italian date are Nine Inch Nails (24 June) and Kool & The Gang (29 June); while opening their Italian tour in Milan, in addition to Massive Attack, will be Ozuna (20 June) and The Smashing Pumpkins (30 July). Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey's The Who(22 July), absent in Milan since 2016.