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Florence’s classical ReGeneration: how one outdoor music festival thought big under lockdown – The Guardian
The team behind the Italian city’s New Generation festival needed a larger stage if they were to host a socially distanced event – so they created one in the famous Boboli Gardens
Roger Granville, Max Fane and Frankie Parham are not men to let a worldwide pandemic get in their way. Plans for the fourth New Generation festival in Florence were well underway when Covid-19 shut down Italy, then the rest of Europe and beyond. All of Europes summer festivals were cancelled, many reinventing themselves digitally, streaming live or prerecorded concerts. Some have been able to stage events outdoors for a reduced audience with strict social distancing measures in place. The New Ge…
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