This summer, for its 27th consecutive concert season, the International Chamber Ensemble will once again treat Rome audiences to 15 unforgettable evenings featuring musical masterpieces from the instrumental and operatic repertory in the courtyard of one of the eternal city’s most splendid examples of Renaissance architecture.

 Located in the heart of ancient Rome just a short walk from Piazza Navona, the Courtyard of S. Ivo alla Sapienza (hallowed halls of the original 15th century university of Rome) will lend its architectural and acoustical excellence, as it has for the past eleven years, to the International Chamber Ensemble’s 2008 summer series.

The season’s repertory highlights a stimulating array of immortal music ranging from Mozart to Tchaikovsky, from Vivaldi to Piazzolla, from the celebrated melodies of Frank Sinatra to those by the Beatles. The series also includes four fully-staged and costumed performances of Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute”, presented in collaboration with the Opera Academy company of international singers.

Under the exceptional direction of Francesco Carotenuto, this twenty-seventh season guarantees, as always, to please both veteran and novice concert and opera goers alike.

The internationally renowned International Chamber Ensemble, now in its 28th consecutive year of activity, continues to present every year to Rome audiences a popular series of concerts, recognized and appreciated in particular for its artistic excellence, which utilize the many varied formations from within the Ensemble and which offer a delightfully diversified panorama of the last three centuries of instrumental music.

The Ensemble’s activities are not confined to the eternal city either. Beginning with an American debut in 1987, and with 2 well-received CDs, the orchestra has since been invited to perform throughout the world (repeated visits to the US, Canada, Japan, Russia, throughout Europe and Scandinavia, Greece and Turkey) with increasing success and critical acclaim.