Carnival of Venice
This yearly festival, which ends with Lent, is essentially a Mardi Gras celebration, and is famous for its enchanting costumes and masks. Book well in advance as this is one of Italy's most popular events!
Loris Cecchini: Leaps, Gaps, and Overlapping Diagrams
From 9/21/2024 - 3/31/2025
Immerse in the brilliance of Loris Cecchini's new art installation, elegantly mingling traditional and modern art perspectives with accessible sculptural interactions. Absorb the abstract geometry with shadowing elements of Baroque and Rococo; the intricate transition between continuous and discrete tones in the structure made from steel and cast aluminum uncannily mirrors natural microscopic and macroscopic patterns.
Marina Apollonio: Beyond the Circle
From 10/12/2024 - 3/3/2025
Dive into the heart of Optical and Kinetic art by engaging with the award-winning Italian artist Marina Apollonio's monumental retrospective that includes nearly 100 significant pieces loaned from national and international art museums. The spectrum of paintings, sculptures, and chromatic experiments showcased allows participants to thoroughly absorb Apollonio's broad, diverse stylistic journey that beautifully spun through the duration of an awe-inspiring six-decade career.
Exhibition Donation Carlo and Giovanni Moretti 1958-2013
From 12/6/2024 - 6/30/2025
Dive into the marvelous world of Carlo and Giovanni Moretti's striking glass masterpieces and groundbreaking techniques. Visitors can expect an exclusive showcase of collections characterized by incredible simplicity, pure lines, two-tone glassware, and pioneering methods that ascend conventional Murano crystal into sleek sophistication.
Venice Carnival
From 2/22/2025 - 3/4/2025
The Venice Carnival is expected to showcase a multitude of elaborate masks and costumes, attracting a diverse crowd from around the globe. Event-goers will encounter these fabulously garbed individuals mingling not just in the iconic Saint Mark's Square but elsewhere in the quintessential Venice environment too.
Barber of Seville
On 2/26/2025
The Barber of Seville is an opera consisting of two acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. It was first premiered in 1816 and is still one of the greatest masterpieces in comedy musicals of all time. Pensacola Opera presents it in Italian with projected English supertitles.
