This summer, Mascarade Opera invites opera lovers with a desire to support young talent and new thinking to its four-day Festivalino. The event takes place across Florence – at the Palazzo and Giardino Corsini, Villa I Collazzi in the nearby Tuscan Hills and at the Teatro della Pergola, the city’s oldest working theatre and opera house. The programme includes Gala dinners and balls, spectacular al fresco meals and drinks receptions, a ballet performance, an instrumental recital, late-night jazz, an opera recital and an opera showcase production directed by Jean-Romain Vesperini with the La Filharmonie di Firenze orchestra conducted by Wyn Davies...

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