Music with a View - Magnani Rocca Foundation

A widespread festival that combines music and historic residences

Music with a View is an open-air chamber music festival that every year, between June and September, travels across Italy bringing concerts to the gardens, cloisters, and courtyards of exceptional historic residences, villas, and palaces. Conceived and organized by the AMUR Committee and Le Dimore del Quartetto, the festival intertwines the country's architectural and landscape heritage with the talent of young quartets and chamber musicians and with the support of Italy's leading concert institutions.

On a national level, the festival features dozens of concerts distributed across numerous regions: the 2025 edition brought together 24 national institutions, a hundred artists, and 37 concerts in 12 regions, accompanied by hundreds of collateral activities. The Emilia-Romagna leg takes place in the Municipality of Traversetolo, in the province of Parma, within the Emilia-Romagna Region.

The Villa dei Capolavori and the Magnani Rocca Foundation

The Parma evenings are set against the backdrop of the Villa dei Capolavori, home to the Magnani Rocca Foundation, in the hamlet of Mamiano di Traversetolo. The villa houses one of Italy's most important private art collections - with works by masters such as Titian, Goya, Renoir, Monet, and Morandi - and is surrounded by a large romantic park. The combination of evening concerts, architecture, and art collection is the distinctive feature of this stop: the music is literally listened to "with a view" of the garden and the masterpieces in the collection.

The 2026 Concerts

For 2026, the Magnani Rocca Foundation is hosting two events, both at 9:15 PM:

• Thursday, August 20, 2026 - Il Giardino delle Fate (The Garden of the Fairies): the Duo Alberto Miodini and Pier Paolo Maurizzi on piano four-hands, with music by Schubert, Casella, and Ravel.
• Thursday, August 27, 2026 - La Maja de Goya: the Dorè Quartet with Emanuele Pauletta on guitar, in a program that pairs Granados, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Boccherini, and Ravel.

More than a concert: art, park, and dinner

The Music with a View experience in Traversetolo goes beyond listening. Before the concerts, you can participate in a guided tour of the Foundation's collection, and complete the evening with dinner at the villa's restaurant. It is this formula - music, art, and hospitality in one place - that makes this stop particularly appreciated by the public from Parma and visitors to Emilia-Romagna.