Arena di Verona Opernfestival 2025 - Rigoletto

Experience Verdi's masterpiece Rigoletto at the 2025 Opera Festival in the Arena di Verona! The gripping story of the court jester Rigoletto, who is torn between his role as father and victim, returns to the famous stage over four evenings.

With some of the most famous opera melodies and a thrilling plot, Rigoletto promises a rousing opera experience that will leave audiences spellbound.

Make sure you get your tickets for this unforgettable event!

The package includes:

• Admission to the opera performance in the seating category of your choice
• Guided city tour of Verona in German or English

Information Guided tour of Verona

Our guided tour takes you to the most important sights of Verona, the historic city centre and other impressive monuments. Our professional guides are available in different languages: German and English. Please let us know which language you would like in the comments field when booking. This way you can enjoy the tour in your favourite language and learn even more about the history and culture of Verona.

Meeting point: Archway 7 at 17:45 - start at 18:00

Important note:

If you would like to take part in the tour, please indicate in the comments field during the booking process in which language (German or English) you would like to take part.

Only with this information can we make a binding reservation for you.

Place

The Verona Arena (Arena di Verona) is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy, which is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there. It is one of the best preserved ancient structures of its kind.

The building itself was built in AD 30 on a site which was then beyond the city walls. The ludi (shows and games) staged there were so famous that spectators came from many other places, often far away, to witness them. The amphitheatre could host more than 30,000 spectators in ancient times.

The round façade of the building was originally composed of white and pink limestone from Valpolicella, but after a major earthquake in 1117, which almost completely destroyed the structure's outer ring, except for the so-called "ala", the stone was quarried for re-use in other buildings. Nevertheless it impressed medieval visitors to the city, one of whom considered it to have been a labyrinth, without ingress or egress. Ciriaco d'Ancona was filled with admiration for the way it had been built and Giovanni Antonio Panteo's civic panegyric De laudibus veronae, 1483, remarked that it struck the viewer as a construction that was more than human