Live Performance entertainment in Venice
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Collegium Ducale
Spend a perfectly enjoyable evening in prison with this six-member chamber orchestra, whose grace notes in Bach and Albinoni performances escape through the high, barred windows of the converted cell. Opera singers occasionally perform arias with the group, which can get loud in the reverberating stone chamber; ears not trained by blasting MP3 players might prefer concerts in nearby Chiesa diSanta MariaFormosa, where the acoustics are kinder.
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Interpreti Veneziani
Everything you knew of Vivaldi from elevators and mobile ring-tones is proved fantastically wrong by Interpreti Veneziani, which plays Vivaldi on 18th-century instruments as a soundtrack for living in this city of intrigue – you’ll never listen to The Four Seasons again without hearing summer storms gathering over the lagoon, or echoing footsteps hurrying over footbridges to a late-night winter rendezvous.
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Suziecafé
This happy student bar picks up in buzz in the summer months as punters crowd the outdoor tables on the square hidden back a short stumble from the waterfront. Together with the nearby El Chioschetto , it creates a lively summertime corner in Dorsoduro. From May to June it organises occasional concerts of anything from blues to ska.
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Teatro Fondamenta Nuove
Expect the unexpected in Cannaregio’s experimental corner: dances inspired by water and arithmetic, freeform jazz and improvised electronica, British performance art in Italian, and a steady stream of acclaimed artists from Brazil to Finland playing to a full house of 200.
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Piccolo Teatro delle Melodie Veneziane
There's nothing very Venetian about the melodies, and the entertainment consists of half-hearted striptease and a little louche lap-dancing. Casanova and Byron would have been mortified!
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Teatro Malibran
In the off-season look for symphonies and chamber music concerts at La Fenice or operas staged at the charming, diminutive 17th-century Teatro Malibran.
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