When, about 2000 years ago, an amphitheatre was also built in Verona to satisfy the Roman people eager for ludus, it was clear that something magnificent was being built, but no one could ever have imagined that this monument, originally used for gymnastic competitions, for spectacular sacrificial ceremonies, for hunting, wrestling and fighting games including beasts, would have survived along the centuries and would have always kept its outstanding status within the public and the cultural life of the city.

During the first decade of the 1900s, the audience of the Arena was showing a lot of sympathy and affection to the circus people, those of the "salti in rena", but, for the amphitheatre, the year 1913 meant a remarkable improvement with the performance of Aida to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's birth.
This event was the beginning a long series of opera seasons which, still today, are considered an outstanding event for operatic music lovers.

Over the years, the Arena has become one of the most important opera theatres in the world and, the way the Arena is now being used -with no doubt the most noble, in tune with today's sensibility- has allowed to both fulfil the needs to keep this special atmosphere for popular performances and, at the same time, to protect the integrity of this monument.

Aida 19/Jun/2010 Saturday 25/Jun/2010 Friday 03/Jul/2010 Saturday 08/Jul/2010 Thursday 13/Jul/2010 Tuesday 18/Jul/2010 Sunday 22/Jul/2010 Thursday 25/Jul/2010 Sunday 27/Jul/2010 Tuesday 31/Jul/2010 Saturday 08/Aug/2010 Sunday 10/Aug/2010 Tuesday 15/Aug/2010 Sunday 17/Aug/2010 Tuesday 22/Aug/2010 Sunday 26/Aug/2010 Thursday 29/Aug/2010 Sunday		Carmen 10/Jul/2010 Saturday 15/Jul/2010 Thursday 20/Jul/2010 Tuesday 23/Jul/2010 Friday 29/Jul/2010 Thursday 12/Aug/2010 Thursday 18/Aug/2010 Wednesday 21/Aug/2010 Saturday 24/Aug/2010 Tuesday 27/Aug/2010 Friday
Il Trovatore 07/Aug/2010 Saturday 11/Aug/2010 Wednesday 14/Aug/2010 Saturday 19/Aug/2010 Thursday 25/Aug/2010 Wednesday 28/Aug/2010 Saturday 29/Sep/2010 Wednesday		Madama Butterfly 26/Jun/2010 Saturday 02/Jul/2010 Friday 09/Jul/2010 Friday 14/Jul/2010 Wednesday 17/Jul/2010 Saturday 21/Jul/2010 Wednesday 28/Jul/2010 Wednesday 06/Aug/2010 Friday
Turandot 18/Jun/2010 Friday 01/Jul/2010 Thursday 16/Jul/2010 Friday 24/Jul/2010 Saturday 30/Jul/2010 Friday 13/Aug/2010 Friday 20/Aug/2010 Friday