Besides the official program there is also a recital by Luciano Pavarotti, who will not sing Rossini arias as they do not suit his voice, but who will perform accompanied by the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Torino in some of his favorite arias, to help the San Gaudiano Foundation of Pesaro and those dying of AIDS.

The concert will be held on August 18 ion the new Palazzo dello Sport.

TAGLIACOZZO FESTIVAL - A MONTH OF DANCE, MUSIC AND THEATER

The Festival di Tagliacozzo, now 22 years in the running, is presenting from July 25 to August 25 a program full of interesting suggestions. 40 shows including Italian and foreign artists.

One of the most important shows, is the first night with the Kiev Ballet; the Russian Soloists on August 3, with the biggest starts in classical ballet, and the Georgian National Ballet.

Italian dance will also be represented by the MDA company with Rosso Venezia by A. Gatti on July 29, the Teatro Nuovo company of Turin with the Trittico di Danza on August 16 and Romeo e Giulietta on August 20.

On July 28 Grazia Galante will dance with the Euroballetto company in Dracula, whilst André De La Roche will interpret Ravel's Bolero on August 5.

The Festival will close with the La Moreria Flamenco Music and Dance Company on August 25.

The concerts are also worth noting with on July 30 the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, on the 28th the chamber music Orchestra Benedetto Marcello, on 31 the Gypsy Orchestra of Budapest.

Of particular interest is the execution in modern times of the musical intermezzo L'Avaro (1720) by Francesco Gasperini, performed by the Romabarocca Ensemble directed by Vera Bertinetti.

RICCARDO MUTI DIRECTS "COSI FAN TUTTE"

Rich in rendezvous, Ravenna Festival, which unites Opera, Classical and other music, dance and theater. The review, which begun on June 26, is dedicated to the Mediterranean, crossroads of cultures and thousand-year civilizations, In the context of the Festival and in collaboration with the Vienna Opera a very Neapolitan version of Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart will be directed by Roberto De Simone.

On the stage, directing the Wiener Philarmoniker there will be the maestro Riccardo Muti. The show will be repeated on July 5, 6, 7 and 8.

The Teatro Comunale di Bologna for the other appointment with the Opera Cavalleria will be on show on July the 14, 16, 18, 20.

BOHEME AND ANDREA CHENIER AT PIAZZA SIENA

Rome, having abandoned the Caracalla Thermae has moved to Piazza di Siena, inside the park Villa Borghese.

This years' works are Boheme by Puccini and Andrea Chenier by Umberto Giordano.

Boheme is a romantic classic: The life of young artists who do not want to accept rules and conventions, paying through the nose for their anti-conventional choices. A theme which cannot but move audiences and which is currently very actual. Miriam Gauci will direct the protagonist Giuseppe Sabbatini in the role of P. Fournellier. The Opera will be shown on July 4, 6, 14, 18, 26 and August 6 and 10.

Andrea Chenier is set during the French Revolution. The protagonists are Aprile Millo and Nicola Martinucci. Directed by G. Rath on August 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13.

MUSIC IN THE ROMAN AMPITHEATER

After 14 years the ampitheater of Cagliari is to host cultural events. The ampitheater dates back to the 2nd century and was, in part restored and from July to 27 September it will host a wide range of cultural events,from theater to dance to classical music to jazz.

An Opera Organization in Cagliari will take part by showing Turandot by Puccini it will be repeated the 25,27,29 and 31of July.There are two recitals the first by Raina Kabaivanska and Giuseppe Sabbatini on August 2 the second by Giusi Devinu on August 4.

The classic representations will be Lysistrata by Aristophane and Dyskolos by Meander and the playPenziere mije directed by Luca De Filippo.The balets will be Phiadanco by the Philadelphia Dance Company and Ex Machina by the Compagnie Charleroi Danses from Belgium.

SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL AT THE ARENA OF VERONA

Three shows will be offered at the 48th edition of the Festival, in the impressive setting of the Teatro Romano. On the program, a drama and two comedies, Richard II , The Merchant of Venice and The Comedy of Errors.

THE 1996 SEASON OF THE VERONA ARENA

The Ente Arena proposes for the 1996 season a most attractive program. Verdi, Bizet, Rossini and Prokofiev are the chosen authors for exhibitions of artists of international fame. There are also the orchestra, the chorus and the dance company of the Ente Verona. Information office, tel. +39-45-590109/590726; box office +39-45-8005151, fax +39-45-8013287.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUSIC AND POETRY AT THE SIENESE WEEK

The 53rd "Settimana Senese" music festival will take place from July 9 to 16, a prestigious festival organized by the Accademia Chigiana, which since 1932 holds post-graduate courses for young musicians from all over the world As in the last edition, the theme will be the relationship between drama, poetry and music. The series of concerts will open on July 9 with the Italian première of Evgenij Onegin by Prokofiev from the novel by Puskin, a dramatic play for unaccompanied musicians, actors and orchestra performed by the RAI (Italian Television) Symphonic Orchestra directed by Frank Shipway in the church of St. Agostino.

THE FESTIVAL DEI DUE MONDI

The festival of two worlds will take advantage of the eighty-fifth birthday of Giancarlo Menotti, its founder and symbol, to celebrate its 39th edition.

From June 26 to July 14 there will be a variety of activities taking place in honor of Menotti. This splendid Umbrian city will come alive with concerts, shows and films long into the night.This edition will have a new feature, a concert at midnight,"The Mystic Hour". It will take place at Saint Eufemia's church from June 27 to July 13. An hour will be dedicated to holy music from every time and place complete with choruses and vocal groups from Italy and all over the world.

Ample space will be dedicated to concerts, opera, dance, and prose.

THE CORO DA CAMERA ITALIANO PERFORMS BACH

On Friday and Saturday, 7 and 8 June 1996, at 9 p.m. at the church of St. Paul's-within-the Walls, Via Nazionale, Rome, will be held a concert of choral music of Johann Sebastian Bach: cantatas BWV 131 "Ausder Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir" and BWV 150 "Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich" and the Mass in G Major BWV 236.

The choir, of 27 mixed voices, will be the Coro da Camera Italiano; it will be companied by the orchestra Accademia per Musica and conducted by Paolo Capirci. The soloists will be Antonella Tatulli, soprano, Rosanna Rossoni, mezzosoprano, Paolo Fanciullacci, tenor, and Furio Zanasi, bass. Admission will be Lit. 12,000, at the door only.

The program presents a rare (possibly even the first) performance in Rome of three of J.S. Bach's most beautiful choral works. The first half of the concert will consist of the two cantatas (BWV 131 and 150), written in the composer's youth, whose interest lies in the fact that they represent a transition between the archaic models of Renaissance and 16th-century polyphony and the mature cantata of the eighteenth century, but also in the extreme emotionalism with which the texts of the psalms (130 "De profundis" a 25, respectively) are setto music. The second part of the concert will be the Mass in G Major, BWV 236. Constructed using the baroque procedure of the parody, it joins excerpts drawn from the composer's mature cantatas which Bach himself chose from among his best work, adapting them to the Latin text of the Mass.

The Coro da Camera Italiano has for some years organized and produced concerts of symphonic and choral masterpieces especially of the Baroque period, inexplicably neglected by the Rome's best-known concert seasons. This concert is part of an informal series, launched in 1994, of the complete cantatas of Bach's youth together with other masterpieces of both Bach and the masters of German Baroque. To this end, the choir (which is completely autonomous and does not have a permanent artistic director) calls on soloists, instrumentalists (who use original instruments and techniques) and conductors recognized internationally among the best exponents of the Italian revival of so-called Early Music.

For further information, telephone 06-70476477.

FABBRICA EUROPA - A CENTER FOR ARTS

The Stazione Leopolda in Florence from May 23 to June 15 is the seat of Fabbrica Europa, a multidisciplinary project already presented in Rome, whose aim is to realize a center of creation and contemporary culture through a place in which artists and operators coming from all over Europe can meet and produce.

Every day since 6 p.m., shows, meetings, master classes and workshops will be held.

Many the dance events: May 27-28 and June 10-11 Trisha Brown and Emma Carlson will held master classes. Emma Carlson will dance on May 29, Trisha Brown on June 8 and 9. May 25 the performer Augusto Omolù in an unusual show.

Many the Italian choreographers: May 26 and 30 Raffaella Giordano and Giorgio Rossi, May 28 Ariella Vidach and Claudio Prati, June 6 Marinella Salerno and Angela Torriani Evangelisti, and Charlotte Zerbey and Alessandro Certini, June 7 Virgilio Sieni. The Balletto di Toscana will conclude on June 14 and 15.

59th EDITION OF THE "MAGGIO FIORENTINO": CONCERTS OPERE and BALLETS

The Maggio Fiorentino (May in Florence) festival, at its 59th edition, is a music and ballet review held in the city. The main orchestra conductor for the event is Zubin Mehta, and Semyuon Bychov is the main guest conductor. As always there will be many prestigious guests in the program, which includes concerts, operas and ballets, from the Berliner Philarmoniker directed by Claudio Abbado to the Tokyo Ballet.

CIAJKOVSKIJ'S MUSIC AT THE ACCADEMIA DI SANTA CECILIA

MERANO - FESTIVAL AND CLASSES FOR YOUNG PIANO PLAYERS

INCONTRI IN TERRA DI SIENA

MACERATAOPERA

DOMENICO MODUGNO IS BACK

LEGGERA BY MINA

THE COSTUMES OF THE TEATRO DELL'OPERA ARE TOURING SOUTH AMERICA

A SET OF 25 COMPACT DISKS TO CELEBRATE ALFRED BRENDEL 65TH. BIRTHDAY

MUSIC IN THE ROMAN AMPITHEATER