by InTrieste
As August draws to a close, Trieste Estate continues with six evenings of concerts, theater and multidisciplinary performances in the gardens of the Sartorio Museum, offering a final celebration of the city’s summer cultural season.
The program opens on Wednesday, Aug. 26, with the Nuovo Auricorale Vivavoce choir, marking its 25th anniversary. Titled Non canto perché son felice, ma son felice perché canto (“I Don’t Sing Because I’m Happy; I’m Happy Because I Sing”), the concert explores the theme of friendship through Italian and international folk music under the direction of Monica Cesar.
On Thursday, the Accademia Lirica Santa Croce di Trieste presents Sette colori, sette volti di donna, a musical portrait of womanhood spanning operetta, musical theater, folk tradition and Italian songwriting. The performance features the academy’s soloists and choir, with pianist Fabio Zanin and conductor Alessandro Svab.
Friday’s program welcomes Dutch classical guitarist and singer Irene Kalisvaart for her Trieste debut alongside local guitarist Anna Garano. Their duo combines original compositions with works by Egberto Gismonti, Sona Jobarteh and John Zorn, blending classical, flamenco and contemporary influences.
On Saturday, actress Isabel Russinova brings James Joyce’s world to life in Joyce, il mare e le sue sirene, a multimedia performance that intertwines theater, live music and projected imagery while exploring the women who shaped the Irish writer’s life between Trieste and Dublin.
Science and art meet on Sunday in Icone imperfette, created by Diana Höbel in collaboration with the University of Trieste. The production introduces audiences to iconodiagnostics, an emerging field that examines whether celebrated figures in classical artworks may reveal signs of genetic conditions, inviting painted icons to reflect on their own humanity with wit and irony.
The festival concludes on Monday, Aug. 31, with L’altro viaggio di Rainer Maria Rilke, a theatrical reading directed and performed by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory to mark the centenary of the poet’s death. Excerpts from the Duino Elegies are accompanied by live violin music performed by Giada Visentin, concertmaster of the Busoni Orchestra.
