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The New Year’s Concert 2026 at Teatro La Fenice welcomes the new year with the Venetian debut of Michele Mariotti, conducting the Theatre’s Orchestra and Chorus. Featuring soloists Rosa Feola and Jonathan Tetelman, a programme entirely devoted to the great Italian operatic tradition celebrates opera in one of Europe’s most emblematic musical landmarks.

On Sunday, 18 January 2026, the fifteenth edition of the Filarmonica della Scala Open Rehearsals will open, marking a milestone that confirms the cultural and especially social value of a project that has become an integral part of the life of the city of Milan.

In the baroque splendour of the Palácio Nacional de Mafra, one of the most fascinating monumental complexes in Portugal, VCR Classica+ presents the concert dedicated to the Stabat Mater and Salve Regina by Domenico Scarlatti and José de Nebra, recorded on 8 October 2025 with the ensemble La Grande Chapelle conducted by Albert Recasens.

VCR Classica+  Tuesday 2 December 2025 - 9:00 PM

In Milan, inside the Deposito of Fondazione Prada, one of the most anticipated events of the musical autumn is underway: the new edition of the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy, this year entirely dedicated to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 'Don Giovanni'. Until 30 November 2025, the public has the opportunity to attend lessons, rehearsals and sessions led by Maestro Muti, experiencing from within the interpretative process behind one of the great masterpieces of opera.

From 11 to 25 October 2025, Verona will host the second edition of the Undiscovered Music Festival, a concert series devoted to 20th-century instrumental music and its connections with earlier repertoires. Curated by Mattia Marsala and organized by Harmony Hub, the Festival features free-admission performances in some of the city’s most fascinating churches, with the participation of leading ensembles and soloists. The initiative is held under the patronage of the Holy See for the 2025 Jubilee.