Welcome to IKO. We are the leaders in Italy in Opera Productions and Opera Tours, specializing in the organization of Opera Festivals, Concerts, International Tours, and Audio - Video recordings.

On our website, you can find the TOSCANA OPERA FESTIVAL program and related information, and will also find RESERVING A PRODUCTION, with information for those wishing to book tours or individual productions.

The Toscana Opera Festival of Tuscany, is an authentic "Circuito Lirico Regionale Estivo" (Summer Opera Circuit), unique of its kind, in Italy.
It is the most important and prestigious "Festival Itinerante di Produzioni Liriche" – Opera Festival Itinerary – present in Italy, not only due to the large number of cities throughout Italy which host these event, but also because of the historical, cultural and touristic importance which characterizes these cities.

14 June 2006, PRESS CONFERENCE. Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Founded by the IKO, Italia Konzert Opera, in 1997, the Festival offers "Open Air" performances, in historic cities of notable tourist interest, with sets especially created to further enhance charming places such as medieval squares, amphitheatres and historic parks. Places which make Italy unique in all the world.

Since its beginnings, the Festival has not only seen a steady increase not only in audience participation and attention from the mass media, but also sin the contributions made by local public institutions and administrations. This support has helped the Festival grow and expand to many other cities in Italy.

The STAGIONE LIRICA di SAN GIMIGNANO (SAN GIMIGNANO SUMMER OPERA SEASON), now in its 73rd season and is the oldest Summer opera season after the Arena in Verona. Since 2001, it has become an integral part of the Summer Opera Circuit.
In the romantic setting of piazza Duomo in Sam Gimignano, not far from Siena, there can be found a particularly cultivated and expert audience.
Other places of extraordinary beauty both architecturally and panoramically have also become hosts to the Opera Circuit, such as the piazza dei Priori in VOLTERRA, a scenic hillside town a few kilometers from Pisa; piazza Signorelli in CORTONA, an Etruscan town well frequented by foreign tourists, and Villa di Scornio in PISTOIA, a city well known for its opera heritage.

The other towns on the itinerary are no less enchanting and include SERAVEZZA, a historic village in Versilia, situated between the sea and the Apuan Alps, and also MONTERSPERTOLI, a peaceful town on the hills of Florence.

The itinerary continues on to the province of Arezzo to include BIBBIENA, in the piazza Tarlati, SAN GIOVANNI VALDARNO, the birthplace of Masaccio, and MONTEVARCHI.

The Festival has gone beyond the confines of the region in which it began and for which it remained for the first years of its existence, bringing its operas to many other regions: Umbria, Marche, Emilia Romagna, Veneto and Lazio. In 2006 it has added Lombardia, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Puglia to its itinerary as well.