MusicMediale Festival
The Piacenza festival where sound becomes space, image, and vision
About MusicMediale
When Music Becomes a Total Experience
In the heart of Emilia-Romagna, the MusicMediale Festival is now an anticipated event in Piacenza's June calendar. Promoted by the Composition and New Languages Departments of the Nicolini Conservatory of Piacenza along with the Teatri Foundation of Piacenza, the festival was born with a clear idea: to bring contemporary music out of classrooms and concert halls, into the city, transforming it into an experience that engages all senses. Here, music "ceases to be mere listening and becomes a total experience: light, matter, movement, sonic architecture."
A Widespread Celebration in the Municipality of Piacenza
MusicMediale is a distributed festival, inhabiting the most beautiful locations in the capital of the Province of Piacenza. It ranges from the Ricci Oddi Gallery to the spaces of the contemporary arts center XNL Piacenza, from the Conservatory Auditorium to Palazzo Rota Pisaroni, up to the solemn setting of the Municipal Theater on Via Verdi. Each venue becomes an integral part of the work: music dialogues with architecture, with artworks, with light, and with space.
Between Research, Technology, and New Languages
The program intertwines electroacoustic concerts, sound sculptures, immersive audiovisual installations, videomapping performances, and true multimedia works. The dimension of training and discussion is also present, with workshops held by international artists, masterclasses, and panels dedicated to applied musical research and the relationship between sound, technology, and visual arts. The artistic direction is entrusted to Riccardo Dapelo, with technical coordination by Gianmarco Romiti.
A Quality Cultural Network
The strength of MusicMediale also lies in the network of collaborations that supports it: in addition to the Nicolini Conservatory and the Teatri Foundation of Piacenza, the festival is realized with the Municipal Theater, the Fondazione di Piacenza e Vigevano, and XNL Piacenza. A project that grows year by year, expanding languages, audiences, and collaborations, and confirming the Conservatory's vocation to be a place of research, vision, and dialogue with the present. For lovers of contemporary music and artistic cross-pollination, it is one of the most original offerings in all of Emilia-Romagna.
MusicMediale — edition 2026
The 2026 edition of MusicMediale explores the intersections between music, technology, and visual arts over ten days spread across Piacenza's most evocative venues. From the preview at the Ricci Oddi Gallery to the grand finale at the Municipal Theater, the program alternates piano and electronics concerts, electroacoustic works, sound sculptures and installations, videomapping performances, and moments of research and training. A journey culminating in the multimedia opera dedicated to the "Invisible Angel," a synthesis of music, stage, and digital languages.
Programme MusicMediale 2026
June 6 — Preview · Ricci Oddi Gallery
- 8:30 PM — "Transfigured Echoes – Sonic Memories of Women", a preview event intertwining memory, voice, and contemporary soundscapes
June 12 — XNL Piacenza
- 8:30 PM — "Frontiers", concert for piano and electronics
- 10:00 PM — Videomapping performance in the spaces of the Nicolini Conservatory and XNL
June 13 — XNL Piacenza
- 8:30 PM — Electroacoustic concert
June 13-14 — Ricci Oddi Gallery and Conservatory Auditorium
- "Res Sonantes – Sound Sculptures", a trail of sound sculptures and installations (including "Strings in the Gallery," "Xanthos," "Kydoimos," "The Red Winter")
- Audiovisual installation "Organic Weaves"
- June 14, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM — exhibition opening at the Ricci Oddi Gallery
June 15 — Nicolini Conservatory
- 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM and 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM — Workshop with Rodrigo Constanzo, dedicated to improvisation, self-built instruments, and electroacoustic research
- 8:30 PM — Evening concert
June 16 — Salone d'Onore, Palazzo Rota Pisaroni
- 4:00 PM — Panel on applied musical research: dialogue between artistic experiences, technological innovation, and contemporary production perspectives
June 21 — Teatro Municipale di Piacenza
- 9:00 PM — "The True Story of the Invisible Angel", a multimedia opera blending music, staging, and digital languages in an immersive narrative (with a repeat performance at Teatro Parenti in Milan on June 23)
Highlights MusicMediale 2026
Practical information — MusicMediale
Where
The festival is spread across multiple venues in the center of Piacenza: Teatro Municipale (via Verdi 41), Conservatorio Nicolini (via Santa Franca 35), Galleria Ricci Oddi, XNL Piacenza, and Palazzo Rota Pisaroni. Each event has its own venue: check the daily program for locations.
Getting Here
Piacenza is easily reachable by train (Piacenza station on the Milan-Bologna line, a few minutes' walk from the historic center) and by car via the A1 and A21 highways. The festival venues are located in the heart of the city, easily accessible on foot.
Tickets
For access details, updated times, and potential booking for individual events, consult the websites of the Nicolini Conservatory and the Teatri Foundation of Piacenza.
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Where does it take place — MusicMediale
Teatro Municipale, Conservatorio Nicolini, XNL Piacenza
Via Verdi 41, 29121 Piacenza