Parma city of Music

In Parma

Parma - City of Art and City of Music - it instantly evokes the name of Giuseppe Verdi. Just to say he was the "Swan of Busseto " would be untrue, the presence of his music in the story of Parma is enriching and extensive.

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Other celebrated Musicians and personalities connected to Parma include:

• Giuseppe Verdi
• Arturo Toscanini
• Niccolò Paganini
• Alessandro Paer
• Ildebrando Pizzetti

Among contemporary artists:

• Carlo Bergonzi
• Renata Tebaldi

A musical itinerary to Parma consequently includes the following sights:

• Farnese Theatre
• Teatro Reggio (Maria Luigia’s Royal Theatre)
• Auditorium Paganini
• Casa della Musica Palazzo Cusani (The Home of music, The Cusani Palace): The Opera Museum and The Home of Sound
• The Birthplace of Arturo Toscanini
• The "Arrigo Boito" Academy of Music

The Memorials which watch over the graves of the great Maestros Niccolò Paganini and Ildebrando Pizzetti are also to be found in the Villetta Cemetery in Parma.

Busseto and the haunts of Giuseppe Verdi

We offer you an itinerary that comprises the area of the Padana plain between the River Po and the Via Emilia: to North West of Parma, this is known as “la BASSA”.  We will pause in the hamlet of Roncoles where we visit the birthplace of Verdi and the Church of St. Michael the Archangel where you can see the organ on which Giuseppe played his first notes as a child.



Six km further on we come to the town of Busseto where the young Verdi with the patronage and encouragement of Antonio Barezzi took the decision to further his musical studies. In the historical centre of Busseto are the “Giuseppe Verdi Theatre, the Verdi Museum - in the home of Barezzi, the Franciscan Abbey of Santa Maria degli Angeli and the Giuseppe Verdi National Museum in Villa Pallavicino.

Roncole Verdi

• The birthplace of Giuseppe Verdi and the Church of St Michael the Archangel

Busseto

• Giuseppe Verdi Theatre
• The Verdi Museum in the home of Antonio Barezzi
• Franciscan Abbey of Santa Maria degli Angeli 
• Giuseppe Verdi National Museum in Villa Pallavicino.

S. Agata

• Verdi’s House

For further information please contact:
E-mail: info@itineraemilia.it
Tel. +39 327 7469902

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