Our major donors through their philanthropic contributions will be recognised throughout the year and highlighted during the Festival alongside the prestigious public and private supporters in Italy that have been supporting Donizetti Opera Festival. Friends enjoy many benefits during the Festival, including rare privileges at opera and musical performances, exhibitions and symposia, as well as invitations to private social gatherings and exclusive behind-the-scenes visits. Friends are recognised before and after the Festival through on-going communications and social gatherings in many cities around the world, with a strong focus in the U.S.A.
The Donizetti Opera Festival is an international music festival held in November of each year in Bergamo, the birthplace of the composer Gaetano Donizetti. Its aim, in addition to studying the musical heritage of the composer, is to revive and perform his works in a unique setting that allows collaboration of scholars, artists, and Donizetti devotees.
Among our best composers, the one who needs more than others a festival is also the most humanly sympathetic and, at the same time, artistically undervalued: Gaetano Donizetti.
La Stampa
So should a festival be organized, with rare titles, original and not recycled essays on the theatre programmes, with young and famous singers together. For Donizetti, in Bergamo, you are spoilt for choice.
Il Sole 24 Ore
Along the streets of Bergamo Alta Donizetti's music is diffused, in the shopwindows t-shirts and pictures of the Festival Donizetti shine red, even on the square, the Christmas tree is glittering with Donizetti's icons
Corriere della Sera
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