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.

Audio introductions

Italian and English pre-recorded introductory descriptions include details provided by the artists themselves in order to highlight the style of and the ‘philosophy’ behind the productions.

Tosca

Melodrama in three acts by Giacomo Puccini
on a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
based on Victorien Sardou’s dramatic play “La Tosca”.

Donato Renzetti and the Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini orchestra

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor op. 95
George Gershwin
An American in Paris
John Williams
Star Wars Suite

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Melodrama in two acts by Gioachino Rossini on a libretto by Cesare Sterbini
based on Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’ comic play “Le barbier de Séville

INCLUSIVOPERA

MACERATA OPERA FESTIVAL

thursday, july 14

11:00 am – (ANFFAS) An inclusive workshop inspired by the music of Il Barbiere di Siviglia 

wednesday, july 27

11:30 am – (Cooperativa Sociale Di Bolina) An inclusive workshop inspired by the music of Il Barbiere di Siviglia 

friday, july 29

Sferisterio Arena (Tosca)

6:30 pm –  Multisensory tour: discovering the set and props

sunday, july 31

Sferisterio Arena (Tosca)

6:30 pm –  Italian Sign Language tour: discovering the set and props

thursday, august 11

Cooperativa sociale Di Bolina

4:00 pm – From Workshop to Stage
Together with Cooperativa Sociale Di Bolina Onlus
we will stage a performance at arena Sferisterio based on The Barber of Seville

6:30 pm – (Sferisterio Arena) Multisensory tour: discovering the world of the circus

friday, august 12

Sferisterio Arena (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)

6:30 pm – Multisensory tour: discovering the instruments and orchestra

venerdì 19 agosto

Sferisterio Arena

6:30 pm – Multisensory tour: discovering the voices of Il Barbiere di Siviglia

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