Experience World-Class Opera Under the Stars
Summer Opera Festival • 2,000 Years of History • Perfect Acoustics
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15,000 spectators
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Piazza Bra
A Roman amphitheater that never retired — 2,000 years old and still staging opera under the stars for 15,000 a night, candles lit at dusk across the stone tiers. Aida here is one of the great nights of a traveling life.
Built around 30 AD — decades before the Colosseum — the Arena survived earthquakes, quarrying, and every era's neglect because Verona kept using it: tournaments, theater, and since 1913 the summer opera festival born for Verdi's centenary.
The opening-night tradition of audience candles ('mocoleti') turns the tiers into a constellation before the overture. The Arena's pink-tinged limestone comes from Valpolicella — the wine hills and the monument share the same stone.
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