Back in Città di Castello from 26 August to 6 September 2024 is the Festival delle Nazioni, the historic and prestigious music festival, which this year reaches its 57th edition. 
The homage will be paid to Portugal, for the first time present at the Festival. The Portuguese Republic is the culmination of a precise project idea undertaken three years ago by the Festival, namely the search for the cultural weave that is woven between colonising and colonised states, with a continuous cross-reference between what is rooted in the territory and what the 'invaded' territory returns and irradiates over a long range.
A fitting tribute will be paid to the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, which took place on 25 April 1975. This epochal turning point for the Portuguese Republic was one of the main inspirations for the artistic choices, considering the strong impact the event had on the political, social and cultural fabric of the country.
The Festival's programme manifesto will unfold along a route that crosses not only geographical latitudes and longitudes, but also touches on the great periods in the history of music, culture and the social history of Portugal; a landscape traced over four centuries, from the Baroque to the present day, where renowned artists, prestigious ensembles and programmes with original and varied layouts will pass the baton.
The Americantiga Ensemble, a group specialising in the Portuguese baroque repertoire and coming to Italy for the first time, will be on stage on 27 August; on 3 September, the multi-ethnic multi-lingual music group Ayom with SA.LI. VA music from the Black Atlantic; on 4 September, the famous singer Carminho with a concert entitled Portuguesa where she interprets and reinterprets Fado; on 5 September, Iaia Forte, accompanied by the singing of Cristina Renzetti and the SonoraCorda Soloists, will be the narrator of As Três Marias, a performance symbolising the protest of three women writers against the Estado Novo regime; and again, pianists Vasco Dantas will be heard with a programme devoted mainly to 19th and 20th century fado composers, and Alexander Gadjiev on 26 August; Caterina Casini will premiere the project Radio Renascença Transmits Grândola, Vila Morena, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, and actor Enrico Paci with a tribute to Mozambican poetess Noémia de Sousa; chamber ensembles such as the David Trio, the Sheliak Trio, the Hermes Trio, the Pegreffi Quartet, the Giacomo Puccini Philharmonic conducted by Nolito Bambini, the Ceque Philharmonie Pardubice conducted by Vahan Mardirossian.
For more information and full programme:
website: Festival delle Nazioni 
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