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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 2010 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.
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The schedule for the 2010 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 19th, Friday 25th
July: Saturday 3rd, Thursday 8th, Tuesday 13th, Sunday 18th, Thursday 22nd, Sunday 25th, Tuesday 27th.
August: Sunday 8th, Tuesday 10th, Sunday 15th, Tuesday 17th, Sunday 22nd, Thursday 26th, Sunday 29th.
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Turandot:
June: Friday 18th.
July: Thursday 1st, Friday 16th, Saturday 24th, Friday 30th.
August: Friday 13th, Friday 20th.
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Carmen:
July: Saturday 10th, Thursday 15th, Tuesday 20th, Friday 23rd, Thursday 29rd
August: Thursday 12th, Wednesday 18th, Saturday 21st, Tuesday 24th, Friday 27th.
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Madame Butterfly:
June: Saturday 26th
July: Friday 2nd, Friday 9th, Wednesday 14th, Saturday 17th, Wednesday 21st, Wednesday 28th.
August: Friday 6th
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Il Trovatore:
August: Saturday 7th, Wednesday 11th, Saturday 14th, Thursday 19th, Wednesday 25th, Saturday 28th
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