The Best Artists of the Third Reich for the First Film on Antonio Stradivari

It was November 1936 when, in anticipation of the Stradivarian bicentennial celebrations to be held the following year, the committee that had been specifically formed, among other initiatives, proposed the idea of making a film about Antonio Stradivari,...

A Sea of Talents, with Yuki Serino and the Mediterranean Women's Orchestra

This is what Charles Burney wrote about his journey to Venice in August 1770:“The city is famous for its conservatories, or music schools, of which it has four: the Ospedale della Pietà, the Ospidaletto of San Giovanni e Paolo, the Mendicanti,...

Stauffer Academy Opens the Season at the Auditorium with “Winter Harmony” and an Internationally Inspired Program

Winter Harmony is the title of the opening concert of the Stauffer Concerts series, an artistic project by the Accademia Stauffer that brings its young musicians to the stage—at the Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium of the Museo del Violino—under the...

At Teatro Ponchielli, a Season of Music and Dance That Speaks to the Present

Teatro Ponchielli steps into 2026 with a breath of fresh air. The arrival of the young superintendent Andrea Nocerinomarks the debut of a bold and vibrant vision that, at first glance, clearly breaks with the previous administration—not only in...

In 1951, a star-studded cast featuring Silvana Pampanini for the film about Giuseppe Guarneri

A long-cherished dream that almost came true in the spring of 1951: a major film about Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù featuring the finest actors from the golden era of Italian neorealism. Then, for reasons still unknown, the project was ultimately...

Violin and Cinema. Girard's "The Red Violin," starring Carlo Cecchi and Irene Grazioli

With some surprise, the people of Cremona who, on the morning of Wednesday, May 14, 1997, passed through Piazza del Duomo, witnessed two farm carts pouring hundreds of kilos of manure onto the cobblestones, which had been covered with dirt the night...