The Virtuoso & Belcanto festival presents The Area Quartet at Convictus MORE INFO

What place in the world, if not Lucca, custodian of timeless music, could give birth and see the Virtuoso & Belcanto Festival establish itself internationally?

Lucca, therefore, city of music: for having given birth to extraordinary musicians and composers such as Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Boccherini and Alfredo Catalani, and for having found space and magnificent time for the transformation of the talent of the most famous interpreter of virtuosity and music romantic, the young Niccolò Paganini who became a Maestro in the Tuscan city at the beginning of the 19th century, knew love and notoriety. The place where his art and his concert training became mature and acclaimed has become the stage for a worldwide experience, in which teaching, competition and romantic music are harmoniously modulated in a two-week-long event.

After 9 years, more than one thousand students and teachers of excellence have chosen the Festival as an expressive space of choice.