Spring Festival

The 2025 edition of the Spring Festival in Ascoli Piceno, titled "Rinascita in Musica" (Rebirth in Music), featured four events between the Ventidio Basso Theatre, the Filarmonici Theatre, and the Neroni Auditorium, from April 3 to May 18.

The opening concert on April 3 brought together over 240 artists on the stage of the Ventidio Basso — four soloists, about 180 choristers, and 60 orchestra members — for Mendelssohn's cantata Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, the first performance in the Marche and Abruzzo regions, along with Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre and Mussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain. The festival continued with the V Carlo Cava Memorial (April 27), a concert linked to the twinning with the German city of Trier (May 4), and the closing opera concert "Evviva Da Ponte, evviva Mozart" (May 18), featuring arias from Mozart's operas with libretti by Da Ponte.