A mezza voce - Early Music Festival

The second edition of A mezza voce expanded the festival calendar, spreading early music concerts between late December 2024 and the first days of January 2025, in the setting of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Manduria. For this edition, artistic direction was again led by Gabriele Natilla, with the Ensemble Orfeo Futuro guided by Gioacchino De Padova.

Among the most acclaimed events were the concert "Schietto come perla - The 17th Century in plucked instruments in Italy, Spain, and France", dedicated to the repertoire for plucked strings, and "Scherzi musicali alla napolitana - The three violins and the foundation instruments", a tribute to the Neapolitan instrumental school. The free concerts confirmed the festival's vocation to combine philological rigor with accessible listening, bringing great early music into an intimate and evocative context in the heart of Messapian Puglia.