Tuscan Early Music Festival at the Teatro dell'Olivo in Camaiore

Early music stops in Camaiore

The Tuscan Early Music Festival is one of the longest-running and most prestigious events dedicated to the early music repertoire in Italy. Reaching its 31st edition in 2026, the festival offers a widespread calendar of approximately twenty-four concerts distributed between Pisa, Vicopisano, Calci, and Camaiore, from June 6th to July 10th. The artistic direction is entrusted to Carlo Ipata, founder of the Auser Musici ensemble, the association that organizes and drives the entire event.

Among the most significant stops of the festival is the one hosted in Camaiore, in the heart of Versilia, in the Province of Lucca. The choice is no coincidence: Camaiore is, in fact, the birthplace of Francesco Gasparini (1661-1727), one of the most important Italian Baroque composers, who was a teacher to figures such as Domenico Scarlatti and Benedetto Marcello.

The concert at the Teatro dell'Olivo

The 2026 Camaiore event is held at the Teatro dell'Olivo, a historic town theater with origins dating back to the 17th century. The program, titled "Nana – Francese – Armena (Intermezzo Buffo)", is performed by the Auser Musici Orchestra conducted by Carlo Ipata, featuring soprano Chiara Ramello and bass Pasquale Greco.

The evening is a tribute to Francesco Gasparini and is part of the broader Gasparini 2027 project, a series of initiatives designed to celebrate the anniversary of the Camaiore composer's passing. The program spans works by Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni Bononcini, Michelangelo Jerace, Gasparini himself, and Antonio Vivaldi, bringing the theatrical and operatic flair of the early 18th-century Italian style back to the audience.

A festival that celebrates Tuscany

The Tuscan Early Music Festival represents a jewel of the Tuscan territory in the landscape of classical music. Its philosophy is that of a journey through different eras, cultures, and musical traditions: each edition focuses on research in archives and libraries, recovering unpublished scores from the 17th and 18th centuries and entrusting them to performers specialized in original instruments and historical performance practice.

Bringing the festival to Camaiore means uniting the great musical tradition of the event with the rediscovery of a local figure of international importance like Gasparini, within a historic theater that makes Versilia an exceptional stage.

Why attend

• Listen to a refined Baroque program featuring solo voices and period instruments at the Teatro dell'Olivo in Camaiore.
• Discover the figure of Francesco Gasparini, the Camaiore composer who is the protagonist of the Gasparini 2027 project.
• Experience the high quality of Carlo Ipata's direction and the Auser Musici ensemble.
• Include the evening in a wider itinerary of the festival's concerts, from Pisa to Versilia.