The Lerici Music Festival is a classical music festival founded in 2017 by Gianluca Marcianò, the event’s artistic director.
This year’s edition takes place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in Lerici, just 40 minutes by car or 30 minutes by boat from Portovenere.
Among the concert venues of the VIII edition are:
- The historic Villa Marigola from the second half of the 13th century, built on top of the promontory that separates Lerici and San Terenzo,
- Castello di Lerici, built in the 1200s.
- Fortezza Firmafede, an ancient military fortification in Sarzana.
- Rotonda Vassallo, in the city center on the seafront,
For centuries, Lerici hosted intellectuals and artists from around the world who blended with the local population and its sea and sailing traditions. The festival aims to promote music and the culture of the Gulf of the Poets, celebrating the history of sailors and artists, its international atmosphere, and the diversity of musical and artistic experiences.
Born in Lerici, Gianluca Marcianò made his debut in 2007 at the Zagreb Opera House and has been working with opera houses worldwide ever since. He was praised by the Sunday Times “for his unfailingly theatrical and idiomatic conducting”. He founded the Suoni dal Golfo dei Poeti Festival in his hometown in 2017, and renamed it Lerici Music Festival in 2020.
«The theme of this edition, very dear to me, is that of Memory. A theme around which a refined program is structured, reaching its “climax” in the staging of Der Kaiser von Atlantis, an opera composed by Viktor Ullmann. The opening of the Festival is entrusted to Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps, from which the artist Carlos Garaicoa draws inspiration for the installation entitled Abismo, which will be presented on the same day. Music thus becomes an instrument of Memory not to forget the horrors of dictatorships and wars, but also an instrument of dialogue and hope. Through its universal language that knows no barriers».
Maestro Gianluca Marcianò, Artistic Director
You can see the program, buy tickets and find more information about the Lerici Music Festival here.
