The home-town pride that sparks off many of the foodFestivals also expresses itself in some of the artsFestivals spread across Italy, particularly in the central part of the country - based in ancient amphitheatres or other ruins or marking the work of a natie composer, and sometimes going on for as long as a month. Perhaps the most prestigious is the enice film festial in August and September. Spoleto 's summer Festial dei Due Mondi (Festial of the Two Worlds) is also well known, a two-month-long event of classical concerts, films, ballet, street theatre and performance art, with its enue the open spaces of the ancient walled town, that is the biggest arts festial in the country nowadays.

The Sferisterio in Macerata in Marche and the Roman arena in erona are two equally dramatic places to hear music in the summer months. Similarly there's the Panatenee Pompeiane music festial, held in the ruins of Pompeii during the last week of August. Bologna 's summer festial often tries something different, with lie bands playing in its medieal palace courtyards and screvenings of soap opera or art movies in unexpected places.

OtherFestivals remember a particular composer: Puccini's music is celebrated from the end of July to mid-August in Torre del Lago, near iareggio, Rossini's in Pésaro from mid-August to September. And it's worth noting the dates of the Italian opera season, which begins in December and runs through until May or June. The principal opera houses are La Scala in Milan, the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, La Fenice in enice (currently closed after fire, but there is a temporary replacement), the Teatro Comunale in Florence and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. But there are also other, more modest enues that have regular performances of opera throughout these months.

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