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 21 July to 6 August 2023 in Lerici, just 40 minutes by car or 30 minutes by boat from Portovenere. The concert venues 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,
- Rotonda Vassallo, in the city center on the seafront,
- The Council Chamber of the Municipality of Lerici
- Piazza Santa Croce, in the fraction of La Serra di Lerici.
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 2023 edition of the Lerici Music Festival represents a truly special opportunity for me. The anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas inspired me to create a program entirely dedicated to women in music. The “protagonists” will therefore be great performers, composers, icons of theatre, literature and cinema. […]
Maestro Gianluca Marcianò, Artistic Director
It will be a festival full of surprises, and with a varied artistic offer. Evenings dedicated to opera, symphony concerts, chamber concerts, jazz, crossover and musical theater performances are in the program to enrich the magical setting of the Gulf of Poets. This confirms the growth of a festival that is becoming an important reality in the Italian and international music scene».
You can see the program, buy tickets and find more information about the Lerici Music Festival here.
