Perfect Settings

In Italy, like in many other countries, the Christmas / New Year season provides the opportunity for concerts, ballet and opera. In many towns the baroque churches are the perfect setting for instrumental and choral music. The opera houses normally give priority to ballet — a family entertainment. In this report, I focus only on four events to give the flavor of holiday music in Italy to Music & Vision readers, especially to those who may think of spending a few days between Christmas and New Year in this country in future years...