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.

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”.

Audio introduction in Italian

Audio introduction in English

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

Audio introduction in Italian

Audio introduction in English

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“

Audio introduzione in Italiano

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

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

Sferisterio Arena (Tosca)

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

Sferisterio Arena (Tosca)

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

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

Sferisterio Arena (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)

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

Sferisterio Arena

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