Riccardo Frizza

With three weekends of performances and more than thirty diverse initiatives, the 2025 edition of the Gaetano Donizetti festival was a resounding success. Organized in Bergamo by the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti this year’s festival saw Riccardo Frizza for the first time in the dual role of artistic and musical director.

The 2025 edition confirmed the popularity of the event, with an overall attendance at performances of more than 12200 people. Those numbers reflect in the revenue generated by the festival, which was about 20% higher than in 2023,

Great focus was placed this year on reaching out to younger generations, with the Donizetti Education program involving over 6000 kids and teenagers from schools in the Bergamo area, along with their teachers and families, in theater and classroom initiatives over the festival month, adding to the 3,000 attendances at activities organized over the calendar year.

International visitors accounted for 24% of the attendance figure, coming from 33 different countries: Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Great Britain, France, United States, Finland, Japan, Austria, Romania, Belgium, Sweden, Greece, Netherlands, Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic, Israel, Norway, Hungary, Australia, Slovenia, Malta, Denmark, Portugal, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Mexico, Canada, Croatia, Latvia, Russia, and Turkey.