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The Verona Opera Festival - ticket types and a guide to seating arrangements in the arena
(Please see further down the page for the complete 2009 schedule and booking links, and may we recommend ahotelinitaly.com should you be looking for hotels in Verona.)
Every year, come Verona Opera Festival time, the arena is transformed into a homage to Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, Bizet, Strauss, Donizetti - and scaffolding. The floor of the arena is turned into a gentle, stage-sloping platform, as is the lower half of the outer stone steps (as can be seen in the photograph below), and both of these areas are covered in 'proper' chairs with backs to them.
The best seats in the house are marked in gold and blue on the plan below (they're the darker red ones in the photograph), and are sold as 'Poltronissime'. The 'Potronissime Gold' occupy the central seats of the first 20 rows. The seats marked in pink on the plan (and showing as lighter red in the photograph) are still on the main floor of the arena, albeit slightly more peripheral - these are sold as 'Poltrone'.
The seats marked in green on the plan (sold as 'Gradinata Numerata') are found on the first tier of the surrounding steps. Again, these are proper seats, with backs, and can be seen ranging up from the arena floor in the photograph below. The seats marked in orange and on sale as 'Gradinata num. laterale' are the same thing again, just with a slightly less centred view of proceedings. The area full of people in the photograph below (marked in grey on the plan) is the non-reserved area, where you sit straight onto the stone seating (hence the cushion rentals) - tickitaly are currently not selling tickets for this area of the arena.
The schedule for the 2009 Verona Opera Festival (you may already book your tickets on this site) is as follows:
Timings: All June and July performances begin at 9.15 PM (21.15), all August ones at 9.00 PM (21.00)
Aida:
June: Saturday 20th, Thursday 25th, Sunday 28th.
July: Saturday 4th, Sunday 12th, Thursday 16th, Wednesday 22nd, Sunday 26th, Tuesday 28th, Friday 31st.
August: Wednesday 5th, Saturday 8th, Sunday 16th, Tuesday 18th, Friday 21st, Thursday 27th, Sunday 30th.
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Turandot:
June: Friday 26th.
July: Friday 3rd, Friday 10th, Friday 17th, Wednesday 29th.
August: Tuesday 4th, Friday 7th.
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Tosca:
June: No performances.
July: No performances.
August: Saturday 15th, Wednesday 19th, Saturday 22nd, Wednesday 26th, Saturday 29th.
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Carmen:
June: Friday 19th, Saturday 27th.
July: Thursday 2nd, Thursday 9th, Tuesday 14th, Saturday 18th, Thursday 23rd, Thursday 30th.
August: Sunday 2nd, Thursday 13th, Thursday 20th, Sunday 23rd, Tuesday 25th, Friday 28th.
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Barber of Seville:
June: No performances
July: Saturday 11th, Wednesday 15th, Saturday 25th.
August: Saturday 1st, Thursday 6th, Friday 14th.
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