Arena di Verona Opera Festival 2025
Famous as the location for Shakespeare’s tale of the young lovers Romeo and Juliet, Verona also stages the summer highlight of the Italian Opera festival calendar in the splendid Roman Arena, built in the 1st century AD to accommodate 20,000 spectators and used for opera since the 19th century. Located in the Piazza Bra in the heart of the ancient city on the river Adige, the Arena di Verona provides a huge performance space, the stage erected in it every summer is the biggest in the world. The configuration for Opera accommodates an audience of up to 16,000 people. The first Opera season opened on 10 August 1913 in commemoration of the centenary of Verdi’s birth and many famous singers have been discovered there, including Maria Callas and Placido Domingo. The 2025 summer Opera season starts on 13 June and runs until the 06 September. The season is built around the work of Giuseppe Verdi and other famous composers.
2025 sees five Opera performances - Nabucco, Aida, La Traviata, Carmen and Rigoletto, and three Gala events - Roberto Bolle & Friends (22&23/07) , Jonas Kaufmann in Opera (03/08) and Carmina Burana (15/08).
The summer Opera Festival in Verona is unique, up to two thousand performers present grand opera at its most sumptuous in the unforgettable ambience of the open air Roman amphitheatre which has been in use for nearly two thousand years. IfC has tickets and ticket/accommodation packages for every performance in the 2025 Verona season. IFC would be delighted to help tailor-make an Verona Opera Break to meet your personal specification. We will help you choose a hotel to your budget, book your opera tickets, excursions and restaurants to register your interest, simply call one of our Verona Experts today on 01 888 7840 or email [email protected] and for 2025, we will once again run two group tours also offering you the opportunity to travel with like-minded lovers of opera.
