On the evening of June 21, the audience of Teatro Donizetti will transform into a stage to welcome the public engaged in the choral performance of a pop song with Donizettian echoes
It will also be possible to visit Teatro Donizetti for free and taste the new cocktail Furioso Gaetano created by Tassino Eventi dedicated to the Donizetti festival
Only for the entire day of the Music Festival, on the occasion of the opening of ticket sales for Donizetti Opera 2025, it will be possible to purchase every order of festival seats at a special price, with a greater reduction for those who participate in the experience Donizetti Opera feat. HardCoro
Bergamo, Teatro Donizetti, Saturday, June 21, 2025
A unique choral experience in the grand hall, free guided tours of Teatro Donizetti, the new cocktail dedicated to Donizetti Opera, and special promotions to secure tickets for the 2025 festival right away: these are all the initiatives that the Teatro Donizetti Foundation is implementing to celebrate the upcoming Music Festival on June 21, opening the theater’s doors to the city and involving everyone in a great novelty for Bergamo.
It starts in the evening at 7:00 PM with Let Me Introduce You to Donizetti, the guided tour to discover the Theater, curated by Clelia Epis. The history of the monument, curiosities, masterpieces of the historic rooms, and the wonder of the theater hall will be revealed to the public, who can book for free their visit, choosing between two shifts, the first at 7:00 PM and the second at 7:45 PM, through the Eventbrite platform:
www.eventbrite.it/e/ti-presento-il-donizetti-tickets-1402463137999?aff=oddtdtcreator
From 7:30 PM to 11:00 PM the Bar of the Gavazzeni Foyer will be open and you can taste for the first time Furioso Gaetano, the new non-alcoholic cocktail dedicated to Donizetti Opera 2025, created by Tassino Eventi: the blend includes non-alcoholic bitter, red conviv, and pink grapefruit soda, which will give an intense and fragrant taste, with a coloration inspired by the velvets of the curtain and the theater.
But the great anticipation is for the “arrival in Bergamo, in the name of Donizetti, of one of the most surprising realities of recent years, which only needs a place, a date, a pop song, and many people who want to sing to create a” truly unique experience. We’re talking about HardCoro, a pop-up format part of a worldwide movement of pub choirs that is becoming popular in Milan and brings together music lovers, making them “experience being part of a choir and protagonists of the evening. Led by musician Michele Acocella, the amateur and extemporaneous choir learns the structure of a song in a few steps, harmonizes the voices, and, within” a couple of “hours, performs the” entire song in multiple voices with extreme satisfaction and enjoyment for the participants. And in the following days, the video, shot by filmmaker Alvise Tedesco, allows reliving the performance on social media.
At Teatro Donizetti on June 21, the bar will be raised: the public will be able to enter the hall from 8:30 PM and at 9:00 PM the pop song that will intertwine with some famous scores from Donizetti’s catalog will be revealed, thus unveiling the more popular soul of the Bergamo composer’s operas, thanks to the musical consultation of Alberto Zanardi, a conductor who has been collaborating with the festival for years and has taken the podium more than once. It will be a way to appreciate and discover how immediate and modern Donizetti’s music is and how opera and its arias are the matrix of all Western music. The pop soul, which breaks down barriers between genres, from Rihanna to David Bowie, from Depeche Mode to Madonna, will guarantee the freshness of the HardCoro format in the encounter with the famous Donizettian scores, to pay homage to our Gaetano on the Music Festival.
To participate, you don’t need to have studied singing or pass auditions, and there’s no performance anxiety, since there’s no audience watching, but whoever comes to the theater sings, guided by the choir master and the provided lyrics. To be part of this experience, you just need to purchase the ticket at the cost of 5 euros at the Ticket Office of Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo or on Vivaticket:
teatrodonizetti.vivaticket.it/it/event/donizetti-opera-feat-hardcoro/269813
The evening is organized in collaboration with Associazione Borgo Tasso Pignolo – Rete di Quartiere Centro Pignolo.
But that’s not all. On June 21, ticket sales will open for the Donizetti Opera 2025 performances and, on the occasion of the celebration day, from midnight until 11:59 PM on Saturday, it will be possible to purchase tickets to attend the festival’s operas Caterina Cornaro, Il furioso nell “isola di S. Domingo” and Il campanello / Deux hommes et une femme with a special 20% discount on the full price, valid for all performances and in every seating category. And for those who will participate in theexperience Donizetti Opera feat. HardCoro the promotion will be even more advantageous (equal to a 45% discount on the full price) and will exceptionally last until Sunday, June 22.
