Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Auditorium Parco della Musica

Auditorium music park in Rome

There is no shortage of reasons to go to Rome and, for those who live there, just as many to enjoy their city to the fullest in every season, even when it comes to music.

Numerous events renew the pleasure of experiencing the capital, in the continuous discovery of its historical and cultural riches and which attract not only tourists, but which also represent real opportunities for those who live there, to learn about, learn more about and spend truly intense moments in contact with the most interesting musical proposals.

Among the places that host some of the most important international musical events in Rome, theAuditorium Parco della Musica and theNational Academy of Santa Cecilia.

In the Flaminio district, in Viale Pietro de Coubertin, the Parco della Musica Auditorium, managed by the Musica per Roma Foundation and inaugurated in 2002, which owes its design to one of the greatest exponents of contemporary architecture, Renzo Piano, who combined his genius and talent with that of sound professionals and technicians, adapting his choices to those indispensable to guarantee high quality acoustics.

The Auditorium is composed of three main elements: the room dedicated to Saint Cecilia, patroness of musicians, designed for symphony concerts, the one dedicated to the Maestro Giuseppe Sinopoli, designed for chamber music, and the room dedicated to the Maestro Goffredo Petrassi, where workshops, courses and small events take place. Furthermore, a central "cavea", an amphitheater dedicated to concerts and open air shows, overlooked by the three rooms.

One of the largest multifunctional centers in the world dedicated to music, which Renzo Piano himself defined as a true "culture factory", where the best talents in the world are called to perform, in whose spaces both permanent and permanent exhibitions are always active. temporary buildings, also home to the MUSE, the Museum of Musical Instruments of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded in 1585, which today finds its artistic, administrative and museum structure right in the Auditorium.

Today a modern academy and symphonic concert body of international fame in which as many as one hundred of the major academics of the musical art provide their high-level training, theAcademy of Santa Cecilia Of Rome boasts an orchestra that has been directed by great masters such as Mahler, Debussy, Strauss, Stravinsky, Tostanini, Karajan, and a choir among the best known in the world, which supports the orchestra in the performance of great symphonic works. classical and modern chorales.

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