Free concert by the Italian Army Band at the Spoleto Festival. As of at 12:00 a.m. Monday, June 12, reservations open.

June 10, 2023 - It is as always highly anticipated the appointment with the Italian Army Band, which returns to Spoleto for its usual concert at Teatro Romano on Tuesday, July 4 at at 20, conducted by Maestro Maj. Filippo Cangiamila. The concert is free and ticket reservations, maximum four to person, open Monday, June 12, at at 12:00 noon, online at www.festivaldispoleto.com, at Vivaticket national outlets and at to Spoleto outlets: Festival Box Office (Via Saffi, 12 - open daily 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 3-6 p.m.) and Box Office Vivaticket (Viale Trento e Trieste, 78).

The program titled Fourth of July... in the Two Worlds weaves together European and American music, from James Barnes' Symphonic overture to Paul Hindemith's Symphony in Bb, from An American to Paris by George Gershwin to Huntingtower by Ottorino Respighi, ending with pieces from the Star Wars Saga written from John Williams.

Founded in 1964, the Army Band is the representative musical ensemble of the Armed Force. It is made up of from one hundred and two orchestral musicians, an archivist, a Master Conductor and a Master Deputy Conductor, all of whom graduated from Italy's leading music institutions and were recruited through selective national competition. It is active both for institutional services and in an intense concert activity that has seen it play a leading role in the most prestigious theaters in Italy and abroad (France, Holland, Malta, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Egypt, Germany, in the Balkan area and the United States of America). Notable activities include participation in the National Verdi Celebrations, the "Feste Musicali" in Bologna, the International Festival of Military Bands in Modena and - with other artists including Placido Domingo - the Gala Concert for the 90th birthday of Giancarlo Menotti (Spoleto, 2001). He took part in Spoleto's "Festival dei due mondi" in the 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2019 editions and gave the inaugural concert of the 2002 edition. In 2005, at the invitation ofAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, she took part, at the Parco della Musica in Rome, in the opening evening of the "K Festival," a triennial review dedicated to Mozart. In 2006 she was included in the Settembre Musica to Turin playbill and in the symphonic season of the GOG in Genoa. In 2015 she participated in the final evening of the Sanremo Festival, and in the years 2021 and 2022 she was the protagonist of the closing of the "Regio Opera Festival" at the beautiful courtyard of Palazzo Arsenale to Turin. It has collaborated with world-renowned soloists such as Daniela Dessì, Placido Domingo, Steven Mead, Jacques Mauger, Katia Ricciarelli and Gianluca Terranova, and is the first Italian military ensemble to have had "guest conductors" on the podium, including Daniele Carnevali, Thomas Fraschillo and David Gregory.