Italian and international partners: Ente Nazionale Sordi (ENS) – Sezione di Macerata; Museo Statale Tattile Omero di Ancona; Unione Italiana Ciechi e Ipovedenti (UICI) – Sezione di Macerata; Municipality of Macerata; University of Macerata; University of Pittsburgh, USA.
What is an inclusive festival? Expanding and diversifying Opera audience through accessibility: we have been leading the way since 2009. The average audience is now around 400 participants, from all over Italy and Europe, aged between 5 and 85. The InclusivOpera project, coordinated by Prof. Elena Di Giovanni since its onset, is aimed at people with sensory and cognitive impairments, with a special focus on young people. All opera performances are audio described for blind or partially sighted people, with Italian and English pre-recorded introductory descriptions also available online. We also provide fully guided multisensory tours, sign-language-interpreted tours, personal hearing assistant, live surtitles in Italian and English for all opera performances.