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.
InclusivOpera is also part of “Marche for all. Percorsi di Arte e Spettacolo per un turismo culturale accessibile” project carried out by the Municipality of Jesi, in collaboration with Pergolesi Spontini Foundation, Arena Sferisterio Association and Fondazione Rete Lirica delle Marche, with the support of Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri – Ministro per le Disabilità and the co-financing of the Marche region.
