Sunday night’s electrifying dance party beats at the Alcatraz club in Milano marked the close of the sixth edition of MITO SettembreMusica; while on the Torino side, the festival lowered this year’s curtain to the strains of Bach conducted by Helmuth Rilling before an enthralled audience. Running from September 5 – 23, the MITO SettembreMusica music festival once again brought a stunning array of concerts, theatrical and dance performances, conferences, debates and film screenings to the cities of Torino and Milano, to the delight of ever-growing and ever more passionate audiences whose enthusiasm for the events on the program was truly contagious.

The 19 days of this year’s festival brimmed with a total of 190 events – 89 of which featured free admission – and the participation of over 4,100 artists from 28 nations, performing at 88 different venues in Milano and Torino.
Also bolstering the musical supply line were two adjunct series: MITOFringe in Milano, featuring outdoor performances in June and July; and MITO About Town alongside the main events scheduled in September in Torino – for an additional 203 concerts featuring a total of 484 artists at 149 different venues throughout the two host cities.

Once again, indicative of MITO SettembreMusica’s continued success are the attendance stats, confirming our audiences’ belief in their music festival, with some 136,000 total admissions.

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