The 55th edition of the Stresa Festival offers a whole new series of events along the banks of Lake Maggiore. The 24 concerts organized by the Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore for Summer 2016 will, as usual, be held in exclusives sites in and around Stresa.

Building Bridges is how Gianandrea Noseda, the Artistic Director, has named this year’s season, saying: “Today as always – or possibly more than ever – it is vital to seek links between different cultures, traditions, and religions [...]. Understanding oneself and interest in others are the building blocks of a mature, aware civil society. Building bridges instead of walls must be our goal and music, with its language without borders, can help us succeed”.

From August 23 to September 6 a series of stars will be ‘on stage’. Please see the full programm on the official website.

For the traditional prologue "Meditations in Music", on July 26 and 27, Bach’s Suites for violoncello solo will be played by Enrico Bronzi, in the captivating atmosphere of the Eremo di Santa Caterina del Sasso at Leggiuno, and on July 28 we shall be treated to a concert by the Quartetto Noûs in the Chiesa Vecchia in Belgirate.

The fifth edition of the Midsummer Jazz Concerts runs from 19 to 24 July. The six concerts, which are part of the Stresa Festival, will once again be held mostly along the Lake Maggiore, in the Promenade La Palazzola, an open-air enclosure overlooking the Borromeo Islands. As a novelty, however, we shall hold the first two concerts in the newly opened Centro Eventi Il Maggiore in Verbania.