Pontedera Music Festival

The Pontedera Music Festival returns with a programme of concerts at the Auditorium of the Pontedera Musical Academy and the Piaggio Museum.

Pontedera Music Festival celebrates its first five years of life with a renewed edition that confirms the synergy between the Pontedera Music Academy and the Piaggio Foundation. A programme of 19 events that, from January to June, will enliven the usual locations: the Auditorium of the Piaggio Museum, the “Marco Papiani” Auditorium of the Pontedera Music Academy, in its new premises in the ex-Cinema Roma, the ERA Theatre and Villa Crastan. Free admission with voluntary donation.

Saturday 6 May at 9.00 p.m. at the Piaggio Museum Auditorium, the concert Dall’opera al tango: passione, seduzione, mistero. The greatest immortal melodies tell of great loves and passions, in a transversal journey from ancient music to the expression of pop music, but never before has music been able to express sensuality, passion and drama as in the genres of Tango and opera. Booking required at

The concert Dall’ Opera al Tango is a musical journey that unites the deepest emotions of the human soul expressed in two musical forms that are distant but extremely united in the passion of the performance. M° Scilla Lenzi’s piano and M° Massimo Signorini’s accordion will accompany the splendid voices of Josephina Louise Hoogstad, soprano, and Giacomo Medici, baritone, creating an emotional and moving atmosphere. Music by A. Piazzolla, C. Gardel, W. A. Mozart, G. Puccini, U. Giordano

New in this fifth edition of the Festival is a pathway, highlighted within the playbill: (S)composizioni (S)concertanti: a fil-rouge uniting eight appointments on early 20th century musical Europe, between crisis and avant-garde