Verona Arena restarts: live events with 6,000 spectators. Full-capacity trial under consideration

The mayor of Verona and president of the Arena Foundation, Federico Sboarina, together with Gianmarco Mazzi, managing director of the company Arena di Verona s.r.l. and artistic director for live concerts and television events at the Arena, had launched an appeal to extend the capacity to six thousand spectators and the duration of performances to midnight. The appeal was endorsed by Regional Councillor for Culture Cristiano Corazzari, who said, “It is a request that is absolutely in line with guaranteeing and protecting the safety of spectators, and I totally support it. In this way we restore oxygen and life to the Arena of Verona.”

According to anti-Covid restrictions, the Arena could accommodate no more than a thousand spectators at the moment, although overall it can reach a capacity of fifteen thousand.

After the approval of the Conference of Regions, the Scaligera Asl 9 also gave the green light to the maximum capacity exemption. The Arena of Verona will therefore open up to six thousand spectators for the Opera Festival and extra-opera events: this was announced by Culture Undersecretary Lucia Borgonzoni during a streaming meeting with the city’s mayor. The latter concluded that “all that is missing is the formal acknowledgement by the Region.”

Full-capacity experimentation is also being considered: undersecretary Borgonzoni said she had approval from the Technical Scientific Committee for an experiment involving a quick swab of spectators entering the Arena and repeating the test a week after the event for possible tracking.

Verona Arena restarts: live events with 6,000 spectators. Full-capacity trial under consideration

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