The “Toti Dal Monte” International Competition for Opera Singers is ready to bring Treviso to the center of the international opera scene. The competition, dedicated to opera singers under 35 from all over the world, returns to the Teatro Mario Del Monaco for its 52nd edition, with the final auditions taking place from May 18th to 23rd, 2026. For the 2026 edition, the chosen title is “La traviata”, opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. The Municipality of Treviso - Teatro Comunale Mario Del Monaco has recently opened the call for applications for young opera singers who wish to apply for the prestigious competition named in memory of Toti Dal Monte. Do you want to participate in the selection? The competition deadline is April 19th! Download the call for applications!
For one week, the Maddalene Theatre in Padua becomes a European stage dedicated to accessibility and social inclusion. The seven theatre companies, arriving from Italy, Serbia, and Poland and selected through the Creative Europe UAD call, spent 2025 exploring new artistic languages for a more inclusive theatre, able to shed light on themes such as the migrant experience, disability, and gender identity. At the conclusion of the project, the Teatro Stabile del Veneto – Teatro Nazionale hosts the UAD – Universal Art Design Festival from 2 to 8 February at the Maddalene Theatre in Padua and in other venues around the city, with 15 events including theatrical performances, workshops, conferences, and activities spread throughout the urban context. UAD is a Creative Europe project that aims to bring the principles of accessibility, originally developed in the architectural context of Universal Art Design, into the performing arts. Accessibility, which previously focused on removing physical barriers, is now expressed through the creation of spaces and artistic experiences that are addressed to as many people as possible, without the need for special adaptations during the process. Instead, the performing arts are called upon to be as inclusive as possible from the very beginning of the artistic process. The project is led by WOAK Wojewódzki Ośrodek Animacji Kultury in Toruń (Poland), with Teatro Stabile del Veneto – Teatro Nazionale participating for Italy and Kulturanova for Serbia. The three artistic production institutions have brought together 36 young artists from their respective countries. Coming from different cultures and from various contexts of marginalization and discrimination, the artists have worked side by side to bring to the stage themes such as social justice, equality, and diversity. The journey began in June 2025 in Toruń with nine days of international workshops focused on anti-discriminatory practices, inclusive languages, and artistic research. By meeting in person, the artists created common ground, a space for encounter and creative exchange, which then led them to Novi Sad in July to share ideas and artistic projects. From this process emerged the artistic proposal of the UAD Festival, which with care and awareness reflects on discrimination, identity, disability, racism, and belonging to the LGBTQIA+ community. All performances of UAD – Universal Art Design are free of charge, but reservation is recommended and can be made via this link.
The celebrations of the fourth centenary of the Goldoni Theater in Venice, the oldest of the Italian theaters still in activity, promoted by the Fondazione Teatro Stabile del Veneto - Teatro Nazionale, have concluded at the Italian Cultural Institute in London. Goldoni 400. Venetian culture and economy was the title of the evening which, starting from the extraordinary and very long history of the theatre, presented the Venetian productive excellences to economic and cultural operators in the British capital, from creative and cultural enterprises to tourism and the economic relations with the United Kingdom. After the greeting from Francesco Bongarrà, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London, representatives of the Chambers of Commerce of Padua, Venice Rovigo and Treviso – Belluno spoke | Dolomiti, of Confindustria Veneto Est, of Confcommercio Veneto and of the Association for the Heritage of the Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene. The Venetian writer Andrea Molesini and Daniele D'Anza, curator of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, were among the protagonists of the evening. D'Anza presented to the public the deed of the transfer of ownership of the theatre, a document kept at the House of Carlo Goldoni dated 3 January 1622 in which the fate of what will be a store over the theater for performing comedies is already clear. . To close the event, the lecture show Il Mestier Comico - Journey into the world of masks with Michele Modesto Casarin, Manuela Massimi and Matteo Campagnol, organized by the Teatro Stabile del Veneto. “We were pleased to host the closing of the three-year program of “Goldoni 400” at the Institute of Culture in London, the special project spread between Venice and the Mainland promoted by the Teatro Stabile del Veneto together with the Veneto Region and the Municipality of Venice with a balance of fifty-two shows in thirty-five squares in all seven provinces of the region for a total of over twenty thousand spectators, said Bongarrà, underlining how the project created to celebrate the 400 years of the Goldoni Theater was an unrepeatable opportunity to reflect on the relationship between Veneto and the theatre, between the territories and its multiple artistic vocations, along a path that spans four centuries and which finds its roots in the glorious 'State of land and sea'. “The celebrations for the four hundredth anniversary of Goldoni were an extraordinary organizational effort that we made with enthusiasm, feeling it was a privilege to be able to work for the oldest active theater in Italy – declared Giampiero Beltotto –. A commitment that we could not have completed without the trust and support of our members. Once again I thank all those who followed us in London, but also the Veneto Region and the Municipality of Venice who accompanied us during this three-year period of celebrations. Thanks also to the Venetian Civic Museums who made the archives of Carlo Goldoni's House available to us, thus allowing us to rediscover the founding act of our theatre, that document from which it all began. The balance sheet of the three-year “Goldoni 400” project Thus ends in London the three-year program of “Goldoni 400”, the special project spread between Venice and the Mainland promoted by the Teatro Stabile del Veneto together with the Veneto Region and the Municipality of Venice with a balance of fifty-two shows in thirty-five squares of all and seven provinces in the region for a total of over twenty thousand spectators. Thanks to the contribution of the Municipality of Venice, the Veneto Region and the Ministry of Culture, the TSV presented a program full of proposals that feed on the past, but at the same time find in the present, in contemporary authors, other looks and points of view capable of photographing our time. An extraordinary organizational effort with which the Stabile del Veneto not only created productions for large stages, but thanks to the collaboration with the regional multidisciplinary circuit Arteven it also gave life to the Teatro Viaggiante project, a mobile theater with which an attempt was made to revive the ancient tradition of the Tespi floats is contemporary and eco-sustainable, which physically brought a reproduction of the entrance to the Goldoni Theater to 14 municipalities in all 7 provinces of Veneto with as many shows staged by local companies selected through a public tender. The program also involved the Metropolitan City of Venice, identifying in addition to the historic buildings such as Palazzo Grimani and the Casa dei Tre Oci and the M9 Museum, also two new locations, in terms of environmental context and type of language, such as the Arterminal of the Port of Venice which welcomed The Render by the New York company Big Art Group, and the Arsenale Tower inside which Alonso an immersive project was created thanks to the use of virtual reality technology. A schedule full of shows, but also of collateral events including workshops for the little ones, conversations and workshops, and which reached its peak last September 30th with the evening of reopening to the public of the Goldoni Theatre, which had been closed for a few months for allow the carrying out of extraordinary maintenance interventions by the Municipality of Venice which led to the safety of the theater and the restyling of the stalls. An extraordinary effort, therefore, which led to the start of the recovery of the Goldoni Theater and which the TSV carried out with enthusiasm with the aim of contributing to the national and international relaunch of the oldest theater in Italy still in operation. First signs of a recovery also confirmed by the data for the current season, which despite the demographic decline seen in the city, recorded an increase in season ticket holders, 767 compared to 729 in the 2022/2023 season, and a total number of attendances equal to 30,000 spectators. Around 20% of the performances reached sold out, a percentage that confirms the pre-pandemic numbers. Secondary school students also returned to Goldoni, with 900 of them attending the programming dedicated to the schools, as well as university students attracted by the ESU theater fares. A theater always in activity, thanks also to the presence of some lessons of the two-year period of the Carlo Goldoni Theater Academy, to the guided tours which brought over 400 visitors, to the theater workshops for all ages, but also to collateral activities such as the exhibition “Back to art” which presents a tapestry created by the artist Olimpia Biasi and created in collaboration with McArthur Glen Noventa of Piave Designer Outlet which is still ongoing. Furthermore, the international vocation of the Goldoni is increasingly affirmed, which for the third consecutive year hosted the Asteroide Amor festival, promoted by the Teatro Stabile del Veneto in collaboration with the Cà Foscari University, Iuav and the Venice Foundation, hosting companies from all over the world and producing the shows of Irina Brook and Big Art Group, but above all it is preparing to open its doors to the international public that lives in the city: from 18 July to 13 October, for a total of 52 performances, in fact, it will be staged Titize. A Venetian Dream, an acrobatic theater show co-produced by TSV with the Finzi Pasca Company, which after the Venetian summer will tour Italy and Europe. A project conceived starting from the Venetian tradition of commedia dell'arte and prose theater to stage a show suitable for an intergenerational audience thanks also to the use of the universal language of clowning, dance, music and acrobatic theatre.
Dear audience, from April the opening hours of our theater ticket offices will change as follows: Verdi Theatre of Padua -from Tuesday to Saturday: 10.30 am - 1.00 pm and 3.00 pm - 6.30 pm -Sunday and Monday: closed (in case of a show the ticket office opens 1 hour before the show) Holiday closures: Saturday 30 March, Thursday 25 April and Wednesday 1 May Del Monaco Theatre in Treviso -from Tuesday to Saturday: 10.30 am - 1.00 pm and 4.30 pm - 6.30 pm -Sunday and Monday: closed (in case of a show the ticket office opens 1 hour before the show) Holiday closures: Saturday 30 March, from 25 April to 1 May (included) Goldoni Theatre in Venice -Tuesday and Wednesday: 10.30 am - 1.00 pm -Thursday, Friday and Saturday: 10.30am - 1pm and 4.30pm - 6.30pm -Sunday and Monday: closed (in case of a show the ticket office opens 1 hour before the show) On Wednesdays 3, 17, 24 April and 8 May the ticket office will be open extraordinarily also in the afternoon from 4.30pm to 6.30pm Closing for holidays: Saturday 30 March and Sunday 1 May
McArthurGlen Noventa di Piave Designer Outlet reaffirms its commitment to the circular economy, art and sustainability with a new project: the installation exhibition Come un manto per le lucciole by the artist Olimpia Biasi. Presented in Venice, in the foyer of the Goldoni Theatre, the work, commissioned by McArthurGlen Noventa of Piave Designer Outlet thanks to the collaboration with the Fondazione Teatro Stabile del Veneto – Teatro Nazionale, is an impressive tapestry made with a weave of recycled fabrics on mesh industrial 7 meters long and 1.20 meters high. The project is part of the #backtoart initiatives with which the Group combines artistic valorisation and environmental awareness: a way to channel the energy and regenerative power of art into its world of labour, production and commerce to restore a new form of beauty. Sustainability is a key value for McArthurGlen which, aware of its impact and responsibility, is committed through its Evolve platform to driving real change for a more equitable and responsible future. A responsibility that starts from the Centres, concretely committed to reducing their footprint, but which also extends to visitors, partners and local communities. This initiative also draws inspiration from the Recycle your fashion project, in which visitors are involved in a collection of garments intended for upcycling or donation, with the aim of contributing to a circular economy system and inviting guests of the McArthurGlen outlets to do the same to promote a better quality of life and a more equitable use of the resources offered by the territories in which the centers themselves are present. Olimpia Biasi's tapestry is made by hand weaving, on a malleable metal mesh, various and colorful bands of recycled fabrics, offered to the artist by McArthurGlen Noventa of Piave Designer Outlet and collected as part of Recycle your fashion. The artistic curation is by the art critic Annamaria Orsini who has followed Biasi's work for some time. The challenge was to go beyond re-use and re-cycle, even in their more ethical meanings, favoring the artist's creative act in carrying out a more powerful experience, generating re-birth and re-generation. As the curator Annamaria Orsini observes, this work by the artist is generated by a healing vision of nature and the desire to regain contact with an ancient and feminine gesture such as weaving and Biasi conceives it as a creature that comes to light by carrying out a saving rite of regeneration; a re-birth that gives new life and beauty to what had been abandoned. Olimpia Biasi's work will be exhibited primarily at the Goldoni Theater in Venice, until April 29, in conjunction with the major art events that contaminate the lagoon city. Afterwards he will be in Padua, in the foyer of the Teatro Verdi, on the same days in which the artist exhibits at the Eremitani Museums. Finally, it will be exhibited in Treviso, Biasi's hometown, from May 18th at the Teatro Del Monaco. The opportunity materialized thanks to an important and profitable territorial partnership between McArthurGlen Noventa di Piave Designer Outlet and the Fondazione Teatro Stabile del Veneto – Teatro Nazionale which will make the foyers of its three theaters available for the exhibition. Anyone who goes to purchase a ticket or attend a show will be able to admire and appreciate the tapestry of the artist who paid homage to the places that host his work by also recovering in the weave some fabrics from old armchairs and curtains from the Goldoni theater in Venice, recently renovated. A reference to the work of Olimpia Biasi is also present at McArthurGlen Noventa by Piave Designer Outlet, with a reproduction of the tapestry accompanied by the key words of the project, in an original game of references and allusions. As Daniela Bricola, the General Manager of Noventa di Piave Designer Outlet, declared: “The artistic vocation and the attention towards the territories where we have developed our activities represent two elements of great characterization for McArthurGlen. Three years after the previous #backtolife project which had brought together the Noventa di Piave outlet, the designer Carla Plessi and the Casa Famiglia Pio later declining the themes of environmental responsibility in the codes of art to generate new sensitivity and new beauty.” “We joyfully welcomed the proposal from McArthurGlen, a partner with whom we have already worked with satisfaction, to host in our theaters this opera by Olimpia Biasi dedicated to a theme that is particularly dear to us such as environmental sustainability – declared Claudia Marcolin, general director of the TSV Foundation – National Theater –. As Teatro Stabile del Veneto we have long been committed to actions that reduce our environmental impact, from paper saving to energy efficiency. Promoting, even through an art form other than the theatrical one, a message of care towards the environment and therefore encouraging the diffusion of a culture that contributes to creating public value is an essential objective for us.