The Opera Barga festival hosts a local and International audience and is now an important cultural event with the medieval town of Barga in its center, also if animating summer in the entire valley of the Serchio river side by side side with a festival of chamber music organized with dedication by famous musicians.
The festival has been created in 1967 on the initiative of Peter Hunt and Gillian Armitage, an actor and a British production designer who moved to Barga some time ago. The couple had the idea of using the Teatro dei Differenti of Barga to found an opera school that could give the opportunity to young singers, orchestras, conductors and stage designers to realize performances put on stage.
The 2021 season will be presented in Barga and Lucca.
The complete program of the festival is available on the oficial website www.operabarga.it
