La Notte della Taranta

The 2025 edition of La Notte della Taranta, the twenty-eighth, brought the title "Under the Same Sky" to Melpignano. Directing the Popular Orchestra as Maestro Concertatore was David Krakauer, a world-renowned clarinetist in jazz and klezmer music, accompanied by choreography by Fredy Franzutti. The Concertone took place on Saturday, August 23, in the square of the former Augustinian Convent before a packed crowd: the television broadcast reached an 8% share with peaks of 11% after midnight and about 777,000 viewers connected, confirming La Notte della Taranta as one of the symbolic events of the Salento summer.

The 2025 Concertone — "Under the Same Sky"

Concertone on August 23, 2025, in Melpignano, with the La Notte della Taranta Popular Orchestra conducted by Maestro Concertatore David Krakauer and choreography by Fredy Franzutti.

Guests on stage: Giuliano Sangiorgi, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, Antonio Castrignanò, Ermal Meta, TÄRA, Serena Brancale, Settembre, and Anna Castiglia.

The evening was preceded, in the weeks of August, by numerous stages of the itinerant festival in the squares of Grecìa Salentina and Salento.