(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 16 GIU - Young artists from Italy, Croatia, Macedonia will perform in churches, villas, castles, and wineries along and across the border between Fvg and Slovenia within the 14th edition of the Piccolo Opera Festival directed by Gabriele Ribis, which will begin on June 19 in Cormòns (Gorizia) and end on July 18 18. "An original project capable of offering an authentic no-borders 'Opera Experience' - the artistic director explained - focusing on music, landscape, places of extraordinary evocative power." The program includes 24 shows in 5 sections to set up an increasingly cross-border event and involves the Brda, which was included with the Collio in the Unesco Heritage Tentative List. Among the novelties of this year's edition, seven events featuring music, natural environment, and typical food in the Collio, Brda, and Colli Orientali from June 20 to July 15. Musical routes include "Concerts of taste" involving local producers, with wine tasting. The newly formed International Crescendo Academy of Buje (Croatia) participated in shaping the musical programs.

Among the performers are the vocal ensemble "Ad Libitum" of the Italian community of Brtonigla (Croatia), the duo Lora Pavletic and Emilio Bezzi, the duo formed by soprano Federica Vinci and accordionist Boban. The preview "Bravo, bravo, Don Pasquale!" will kick off the festival on the terrace of the Enoteca di Cormòns on June 19, free entry. (ANSA).