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Ippodromo SNAI San Siro

MACBETH

From 17 June to 8 July

Teatro alla Scala

One of the best-loved summer festivals is back for a brand new edition. Unmissable performances include Florence + The Machine (22 June), Paolo Nutini (24 June), Travis Scott (30 June), The Black Keys, Liam Gallagher and Nothing But Thieves (1 July), Red Hot Chili Peppers (2 July) and Arctic Monkeys (15 July). 3

Giuseppe Verdi’s 10th opera, with a libretto based on the original by William Shakespeare, has enchanted audiences for many years, and now returns to Milan, directed by Davide Livermore and choreographed by Daniel Ezralow. The cast includes two alternating Macbeths, Luca Salsi and Amartuvshin Enkhbat, and the same arrangement for Lady Macbeth, played by Ekaterina Semenchuk on the first two dates in June, and Anna Netrebko thereafter.

BEN HARPER

11 July

Circolo Magnolia di Segrate

An unmissable concert that also features special guest John Butler. Four Italian dates for Ben Harper, the world-famous multi-talented artist and winner of three Grammy Awards. With him are the Innocent Criminals, performing tracks from their latest album, Bloodline Maintenance.

KURIOS. CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Until 25 June

Piazzale Cuoco

Cirque du Soleil presents a show that invites the audience to reflect on the possibility of using their own imagination to alter reality. 49 performers from 17 countries create a series of 13 acts that are variously spectacular and poetic, breathtaking and mind-boggling.

ROMEO AND JULIET

From 24 June to 7 July Teatro alla Scala

A story of everlasting love, a classic of choreography to the immortal music of Prokofiev, packed with emotion, deeply theatrical and moving. Kenneth MacMillan’s is one of the most thrilling and beautiful versions of Romeo and Juliet, and has been on the Scala repertoire for many years. It returns seven years after the last performance, in a staging designed for the theatre in 2010 by Mauro Carosi and Odette Nicoletti.

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MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO. THE PREVENTIVE PEACE

Until 4 June

Palazzo Reale

An exhibition-installation by Michelangelo Pistoletto designed specifically for the scenic Sala delle Cariatidi, which immerses the visitor in a fluid environment within which spaces open to contain some of the key works created by the artist during his career.

LEANDRO ERLICH. OVER THE THRESHOLD

Until 4 October

Palazzo Reale

For the first time in Europe, a major solo show dedicated to one of the most prominent figures on the international art scene, Leandro Erlich. An artist who takes us to a magical elsewhere, with buildings we can climb virtually, houses suspended in mid-air, escalators that go nowhere and surreal sculptures.

DALÌ, MAGRITTE, MAN RAY E IL SURREALISMO.

CAPOLAVORI DAL MUSEO BOIJMANS VAN

BEUNINGEN DI ROTTERDAM

Until July 30

Mudec