Barocco Festival Leonardo Leo

The 28th edition

The Barocco Festival Leonardo Leo 2025 opened on August 23 at the Castello Dentice di Frasso in San Vito dei Normanni with Una Tempesta!, a concert featuring violinist Stefano Montanari with La Confraternita de' Musici conducted by Cosimo Prontera, preceded on August 4 by the preview Buon compleanno Maestro.

The program spanned numerous historic sites: Pergolesi's La serva padrona at the Svevo Castle of Brindisi, Händel's Water Music & Royal Fireworks at the Norman-Swabian Castle of Mesagne, and concerts in the Cloister of the Dominicans and the churches of Lecce and Mesagne. The festival concluded on October 19 at the Basilica of Santa Maria della Vittoria in San Vito dei Normanni with Leonardo Leo's oratorio In lode della Beatissima Vergine del Rosario (1730).

The edition was promoted by the City of San Vito dei Normanni in collaboration with the Municipality of Brindisi, the Ministry of Culture, and the Puglia Region.

2025 Calendar: August 4 "Buon compleanno Maestro" (preview, Castello Dentice di Frasso, San Vito); August 23 "Una Tempesta!" with Stefano Montanari (Castello Dentice di Frasso); August 26 "La serva padrona" by Pergolesi (Svevo Castle, Brindisi); August 28 "Fiato alle trombe" (former Santa Chiara convent gardens, Brindisi); August 31 "The Meeting" - Jazz Convention Quartet (port quay, Brindisi); September 2 "Il soffio di Partenope" with Paolo Faldi (Cloister of the Dominicans, San Vito); September 5 "Bona Nocte" - La Bona Hora (prison and San Biagio caves); September 7 "Water Music & Royal Fireworks" by Händel (Castle of Mesagne); September 14 "Passaggi napoletani e londinesi" (Castello Dentice di Frasso); September 21 "Le guerre... quelle musicali!" (Palazzo Montenegro, Brindisi); September 24 and 28 concerts in the church of Sant'Anna in Lecce; September 27 organ concert in the Mother Church of Mesagne; October 4 "Twenty, Thirty & Forty Fingers" - Bach (Nuovo Teatro Verdi, Brindisi); October 19 oratorio "In lode della B.ma Vergine del Rosario" (Basilica Santa Maria della Vittoria, San Vito).

Inauguration with Stefano Montanari on violin; Pergolesi's "La serva padrona" at the Svevo Castle; Händel's "Water Music & Royal Fireworks" in Mesagne; final concert with Leonardo Leo's oratorio at the Basilica of Santa Maria della Vittoria.