Thanks to the new three-year agreement 2025-2028 between the Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Ancona – Department of Culture, the Roman Amphitheater opens to the public with guided tours and hosts a bill of events entitled “Echoes. Voices from the past, sounds of the present,” curated by the Department of Culture and the Department of Major Events.
Thanks to the synergy with the National Archaeological Museum of the Marches, the area of the Roman Amphitheater is returned to the city for a unique visitor experience among the layers of a millennia-old history.
Why the title “Echoes?” As it is a transition year due to the three-year agreement being there are already various requests and heterogeneous festivals planned, it was necessary to identify a name and give the shows a frame and unity, while respecting the specificity of each individual festival. The choice fell on “Echoes. Voices from the past, sounds of the present,” an evocative title, in line with the suggestion of the place that hosts works conceived in the past in a classical (Antigone, Metamorphosis) and modern (Carmina Burana) context and sounds of the present from jazz to dance, from contemporary to Mediterranean sounds. The choice of the title was then joined by that, made with the Archaeological Museum, of the graphics proposed by AMAT.
ANCONA’S ROMAN AMPHITHEATER
Ancona’s Roman Amphitheater is the place to delve into the city’s layered history, from Hellenistic Ancona to the Santa Palazia prison, active until the 1970s, with its marciaronda walkway overlooking the sea. The Roman-era spectacle building was built in the space between Guasco Hill and Cappuccini Hill and could accommodate about 8,000 spectators on twenty tiers of seats: together with the arch of Emperor Trajan, it is the most important Roman monument in Ancona.
The long life of this area in the heart of the ancient city began much earlier, however, with the Hellenistic road up to the acropolis and the temple of Venus and with the Roman baths, and continued even after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Medieval buildings reused the Roman masonry, starting in the 13th century the convent of St. Bartholomew and then of the nuns of St. Palazia was built on the Amphitheater, used as a prison in the 19th century and remained in use until the 1972 earthquake. Today the Amphitheater, at the center of a new redevelopment project of the Ministry of Culture, re-emerges thanks to demolitions due to war events and the earthquake.
OPENING AND GUIDED TOURS
Friday 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
tour starts from M A N Marche, tour shifts: 2:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m.
Saturday 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
route start from M A N Marche, tour shifts: 5:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
open for booked groups and visits with independent guides
Information and reservations 071 202602
TICKETS
integrated full [Amphitheater+M A N Marche] € 8.00 with guided tour of the Amphitheater and possibility of independent tour of the Museum [also valid the following day]
full M A N Marche € 5.00
reduced [18-25 years old, also valid for the Amphitheater] € 2.00
free [minors and legal categories]
CONCERTS
JULY 10 9 p.m.
JOAN THIELE as part of Spilla
curated by Comcerto, Live Nation & AMAT
JULY 11 9 p.m.
TONY ANN as part of Spilla curated by Comcerto & Live Nation
JULY 12 HOURS 9 p.m.
CARMINA BURANA VERSION FOR TWO PIANO VOCES SOLISTS, CHOIR AND PERCUSSIONS
by Carl Orff conductor Gea Garatti Ansini
choir International Opera Choir, choirmaster Giovanni Mirabile, first piano Adamo Angeletti, second piano Davide Martelli, percussion Giole Balestrini, Ludovico Venturini, Marco Germani, Luca Ventura, soprano Ariadna Vilardaga Gómez, countertenor Stefano Guadagnini, baritone Daniele Adriani
by Frequenze&Armonici Aps – ut re mi Aps
JULY 15 9:15 P.M.
STARRY SKY
choreography and dance Stsiapan Hurski and Annalisa Palmieri Jean Laurent Sasportes, Matteo Budelli Marianna Vecchietti and Matteo Budelli, Enrico Alunni Micol Sacco, Marco Bramucci, Chiara Cingolani Simona Ficosecco, Giovanni Galeazzi, Luna Dance Collective Chiara Benedettelli, Gaia Benedettelli, Riccardo Socionovo, music Alessandro Baro as part of Conero Dance Festival
curated by La Luna Dance Center
JULY 16 9:30 PM
DANILO PEREZ – JOHN PATITUCCI – ADAM CRUZ
as part of Jazzin’ @Anfiteatro curated by Spazio Musica
JULY 17 9:30 PM
JOE LOVANO & THE MARCIN WASILEWSKI TRIO
as part of Jazzin’ @Anfiteatro curated by Spazio Musica
JULY 18 9:30 PM
SIMONA MOLINARI “THE WOMAN IS MOBILE”
as part of Jazzin’ @Anfiteatro curated by Spazio Musica
JULY 20 9:30 P.M.
WUPPERTANZ PERFORMANCE
creations curated by Malou Airaudo and Jean Laurent Sasportes
in collaboration with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch under the patronage of Goethe Institut, as part of Conero Dance Festival
curated by La Luna Dance Center
JULY 21 ORE 21
EMMA NOLDE as part of Spilla
curated by Comcerto, Live Nation & AMAT
JULY 22 HOURS 9 p.m.
ANTIGONE by Jean Anouilh, adaptation Roberto Latini, performers Silvia Battaglio, Ilaria Drago Manuela Kustermann, Roberto Latini, Francesca Mazza directed Roberto Latini
as part of TAU Teatri Antichi Uniti curated by AMAT
AUGUST 2 9 p.m.
METAMORFOSI from Ovid
performers, musicians Munedaiko Mugen Yahiro, Naomitsu Yahiro, Tokinari Yahiro,acting voice Nina Pons, adaptation and direction Andrea Baracco
as part of TAU Teatri Antichi Uniti curated by AMAT
FESTIVAL ADRIATICO MEDITERRANEO
program to be defined by Associazione Adriatico Mediterraneo
