Opera and music.
The calendar of old money has a soundtrack. The houses, the festivals and the nights that fill them.
The calendar of old money has a soundtrack. The houses, the festivals and the nights that fill them.
1778La Scala opens in Milan
La Scala opened in Milan in 1778, and its season opens every December 7, the feast of Sant'Ambrogio. The Vienna State Opera opened on the Ringstrasse in Vienna in 1869, and every February its stage becomes the floor of the Vienna Opera Ball.
In Paris, Charles Garnier's opera house opened in 1875. The same architect built the opera hall of the Casino de Monte-Carlo, the Salle Garnier, which opened in 1879.
1920The first Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival was founded in 1920 and fills the city every July and August. Lucerne Festival dates from 1938, when Arturo Toscanini conducted a gala concert at Tribschen.
In the mountains, the Verbier Festival has been held every July since 1994, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival since Yehudi Menuhin founded it in 1957, and Montreux has held its jazz festival on the lake every July since 1967. All 3 towns, Verbier, Gstaad and Montreux, are on the board.
1958Andrea Bocelli is born in Lajatico
Andrea Bocelli was born in Lajatico, in the hills of Tuscany, in 1958. Every summer he sings at the Teatro del Silenzio, an open-air theater in the fields outside the village that stays silent the rest of the year.
The Arena di Verona, a Roman amphitheater, has held an opera festival every summer since 1913.
Vienna🇦🇹 Austria
Milan🇮🇹 Italy
Verbier🇨🇭 Switzerland
Gstaad🇨🇭 Switzerland
Montreux🇨🇭 Switzerland
Lucerne🇨🇭 SwitzerlandSources. Teatro alla Scala · Wiener Staatsoper · Salzburger Festspiele · Lucerne Festival · Verbier Festival · Andrea Bocelli. Read October 2026. A record of places, houses and dates, published as research. Patrician.ch has no commercial relationship with any house named here.
Every December 7, the feast of Sant'Ambrogio, Milan's patron saint.
Every February, on the stage of the Vienna State Opera.
At the Teatro del Silenzio, an open-air theater outside Lajatico, the Tuscan village where he was born in 1958.
Every July and August.
It was founded in 1920.
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