Tickets for the Verona Opera Festival

Verona is celebrating its popular carnival until February 20, 2010. But shortly afterwards, preparations begin for the annual event, the Verona Opera Festival. The festival is famous and much sought-after far beyond Italy’s borders.

Magnificent operas, voices filling the ancient monument, famous tenors and internationally acclaimed musicians, choreographers and performers, as well as the Verona Arena, draw several thousand visitors to the “Arena di Verona” every year. Maria Chiara, for example, performed as early as 1969 in works such as Turandot and as Micaëla in Bizet’s “Carmen.” This year, Verona is celebrating the Opera Festival for the 88th time. The festival’s popularity is evident, and tickets for the Verona Opera Festival are already available from Eventim. The price of these tickets for the Verona Opera Festival depends on the seating within the ancient arena. The more “expensive” prices apply to the stalls and to the corresponding weekends, when short-break visitors and opera lovers prefer to travel to Verona. The lowest prices are for unreserved seats. Visitors who have attended the Verona Opera Festival several times report that the stone steps can become quite uncomfortable over the course of a performance, but this has little or no effect on the impact of the shows. At the same time, holiday apartments in Verona or, to match the atmosphere of the opera festival in Verona, hotels should be booked. Many of these hotels are already located near the “Arena di Verona.” Alternative options for excellent holiday apartments in Verona can be found in the province of the same name. This year, from June 18, audiences can once again look forward to works by Bizet, Verdi and Puccini. The opening work is Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, and just one day after the opening, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Aida” will be performed for the first time this season. With all the works performed at the “Arena di Verona” in 2010 being repeated throughout the season, it will once again be “Aida” that brings the open-air opera festival in Verona to a close on August 29, 2010. The program for the 2010 Verona Opera Festival also includes Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” Bizet’s “Carmen,” and Giuseppe Verdi’s “Il trovatore.” Each performance can last up to four hours, and unfortunately there is no money-back guarantee if rain brings an evening at the Verona Opera Festival to an end after the first few bars and acts have been performed.

Tickets for the opera festival are available not only from Eventim, but also at the evening box office at Via Dietro Anfiteatro 6. However, there is no guarantee that tickets will be available at the box office on the evening.