Name: Creative Musical Performance
Start: 2026-07-26T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-26T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Conservatorio Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco

July 2026
Registration – Help Desk

July 20 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Welcome Reception

July 20 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Palazzo Verità Poeta Vicolo San Silvestro, 6, Verona, Italy

REC: Reception
Verona Shakespeare Fringe

July 20 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Palazzo Verità Poeta Vicolo San Silvestro, 6, Verona, Italy

VSF: Verona Shakespeare Fringe
The Distributed Performance of ‘Character’ in “Antony and Cleopatra”

July 21 @ 3:45 am - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-07 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

W: Workshop
Shakespeare: The Stuff of Dreams. An Installation Journey through Power, Magic, and the Human Voice

July 21 @ 3:45 am - 5:00 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch
Registration – Help Desk

July 21 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Exhibits

July 21 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Open Space (in front of T1, T2, T3) Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

E: Exhibits
Jason Allen-Paisant

July 21 @ 9:30 am - 10:40 am

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

K: Keynote
Shows and Q&A

July 21 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Società letteraria Piazzetta Scalette Rubiani,1, Verona, Italy

C: Conversation with the actors
Asian Shakespeares

July 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-A Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
Comedians Sans Frontieres: Theatre beyond Borders in Early Modern Europe

July 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-B Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
Cosmopolitan Shakespeare

July 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-C Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
Ecophilia and Ecophobia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet from the Global South

July 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-D Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
“Walking Shadow”

July 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch
The End(s) of Global Shakespeare

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-11 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Dramaturgies of Disruption: Shakespeare in the Age of Algorithmic Alienation

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-10 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Crisis and Resilience in the Roman Plays

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-08 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Contemporary Shakespeare Fiction

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-09 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Caliban and the (Inter-)Planetary: the In, the Out and the Beyond

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-03 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
“Antony and Cleopatra” as Cosmos

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-02 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Anthropocene Shakespeare: Research, Practice, Transformations

July 21 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-01 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Verona Shakespeare Fringe

July 21 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Teatro Scientifico-Teatro Laboratorio

VSF: Verona Shakespeare Fringe
Registration – Help Desk

July 22 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Exhibits

July 22 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Open Space (in front of T1, T2, T3) Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

E: Exhibits
Expending Spirit: Energy and Waste

July 22 @ 9:30 am - 10:40 am

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

L: Plenary Roundtable
Macbettu (Alessandro Serra’s film)

July 22 @ 11:15 am

Polo Zanotto | T1 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch
Fostering Critical Hope: Creative Engagements with Shakespeare in Times of Environmental and Political Crisis

July 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-A Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
Grounding Shakespeare, Responding to Ecological Crisis: Land, Soil, and the Inappropriable

July 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-B Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
My Place, My Shakespeare: Making Decentred Shakespeare(s) Through Site-Based Digital Performance in Brazil, Ghana and India

July 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-C Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
Painted with Unnumber’d Sparks: Sign Language Translation Ideologies for Shakespeare’s Works

July 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-D Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
AIRS and AIRSR (Shakespeare Reprints)

July 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch
Blue Shakespeares

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-01 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Lunar Intersections

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-09 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
“More … than fancy’s images”: Shakespearean Characters in Their Context

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-10 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Geopolitical Dynamics in Shakespeare Adaptations: Perspectives on the New Cold War

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-02 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
International Shakespeares: Soft Power and National Cultural Identities

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-03 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Perfect Bodies, Perfect Worlds: Proto-Eugenics and Fantasies of the Human in Early Modern Utopias

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-11 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
Planetary Plenitude: Nature and Multiplicity in Shakespeare

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-08 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
Found in Translation: Elevating the Global Accessibility of Shakespeare in Research and Practice

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-07 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
“Nothing from Nothing” (David Swartz’ film)

July 22 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch
Verona Shakespeare Fringe

July 22 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Teatro Santissima Trinità Via Santissima Trinità, 4-8, Verona, Italy

VSF: Verona Shakespeare Fringe
William Shakespeare and the Dramaturgical Power of Music Madrigal Music Concert

July 22 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Santissima Trinità Church Via Santissima Trinità, 4-8, Verona, Italy

SH: Show
Registration – Help Desk

July 23 @ 9:00 am

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Exhibits

July 23 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Open Space (in front of T1, T2, T3) Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

E: Exhibits
Shormishtha Panja

July 23 @ 9:30 am - 10:40 pm

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

K: Keynote
“New Variorum” Shakespeare

July 23 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Museum of Natural History Lungadige Porta Vittoria, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch
Shows Q&A

July 23 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Società letteraria Piazzetta Scalette Rubiani,1, Verona, Italy

C: Conversation with the actors
Interview with Director Alessandro Serra

July 23 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Polo Zanotto | T1 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

C: Conversation with the actors
“Arden’s Shakespeare and Adaptation Series”

July 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch
Shakespeare and Artificial Intelligence

July 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-D Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
Rescripting Shakespearean Worlds Through the New York Shakespeare Festival

July 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-C Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
Reconstructing Shakespeare’s Globe around the Planet

July 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-B Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
Planet Kott: Opening up the Archives of the 20th-Century Shakespeare Critic

July 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-A Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
“Early Theatre”

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch
Shakespeare and Early Modern Theatre Wikipedia Editing Workshop

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-07 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

W: Workshop
Without Words: Dance Adaptations of Shakespeare

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-10 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Theorizing Global Shakespearemes

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-11 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Shakespeare and the Musical Planet

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-09 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Shakespeare and the Luso-Hispanic Planet

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-03 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
The Planetary and the Sacred in Asian Shakespeares

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-02 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
New Worlds of Words: Shakespeare’s Language, Near and Far

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-08 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
The Natures of Shakespeare, Ecological Shakespeare or Environmental Shakespeare

July 23 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-01 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Verona Shakespeare Fringe

July 23 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Teatro Santissima Trinità Via Santissima Trinità, 4-8, Verona, Italy

VSF: Verona Shakespeare Fringe
Creative Musical Performance

July 23 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Conservatorio Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco Via Abramo Massalongo, 2, Verona, Italy

SH: Show
Registration – Help Desk

July 24 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Exhibits

July 24 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Open Space (in front of T1, T2, T3) Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

E: Exhibits
From Fair Verona to the Great Globe Itself: “Romeo and Juliet” and the Reformation of Cultural Traditions

July 24 @ 9:30 am - 10:40 am

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

L: Plenary Roundtable
Publishing with Shakespeare Quarterly

July 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch
Shakespearia: A Comparison Between Teenagers

July 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-D Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Shakespeare’s Sonic World: Sound Studies and Early Modern Theatre

July 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-C Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Shakespeare and Eco-Romance

July 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-A Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Shakespeare’s Planetary Roots and Routes: African Oral Literature as a Re*source of Shakespeare’s Trans*Textuality

July 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-B Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
SENSible Games: Shakespeare’s Narrative Sources and Gamification

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Juliet’s Tomb | Sala Galtarossa Via Luigi da Porto, 5, Verona, Italy

B: Book Launch
Shakespeare in Veneto: Unveiling Historical Heritage and Culture Acting Shakespeare Works

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-07 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

W: Workshop
“There is no world without Verona walls”: Exile in Shakespeare, Now and Then

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-03 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Storms, Tides, Floods: Shakespeare and the Power of Climate

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-11 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Shakespeare’s Tragedies and their Twenty-First-Century Reverberations

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-10 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Shakespeare’s Sonic Galaxies and Constellations of Emotional Response

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-09 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Shakespeare in the Global Musical Opera: From Stage to Sound

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-02 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Shakespeare in the Cloud(s)

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-08 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
The Rhetoric of Ecology and Racial Difference on Page and in Performance

July 24 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-01 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Verona Shakespeare Fringe

July 24 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Teatro Santissima Trinità Via Santissima Trinità, 4-8, Verona, Italy

VSF: Verona Shakespeare Fringe
“Arden 4” Bloomsbury Reception

July 24 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Santissima Trinità Cloister Via Santissima Trinità, 4-8, Verona, Italy

REC: Reception
Registration – Help Desk

July 25 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Exhibits

July 25 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Open Space (in front of T1, T2, T3) Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

E: Exhibits
Exploring Shakespeare’s Worldview: Seeing the Plays through Elizabethan Eyes

July 25 @ 9:30 am - 10:40 am

Teatro Scientifico-Teatro Laboratorio

B: Book Launch
“Julius Caesar: An Infinite Loop”: Interview with Wu Hsing-kuo

July 25 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

C: Conversation with the actors
Shows Q&A

July 25 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Società letteraria Piazzetta Scalette Rubiani,1, Verona, Italy

C: Conversation with the actors
Training Your Large Language Model for Shakespeare Research

July 25 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Polo Zanotto | T1 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

O: Open Sessions
Revisiting the Galaxies of (Post-)Soviet Shakespeare

July 25 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-D Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
A Translational Approach to Shakespeare’s Transnational Sources

July 25 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-C Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
“To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores”: Shakespeare, Language and Learning in Oceania

July 25 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-B Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
Thinking Like a Planet-Shakespeare’s New/Old Ecologies

July 25 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SP-A Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

P: Panel
Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation in Action

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-07 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

W: Workshop
World, Fate, Time, and Space in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-11 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
“Vindicta mihi!” The Performance of Revenge from Classical and Italian Drama to Shakespeare

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-09 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Sport on Stage: Playing across Difference

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-02 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
The Skirts of the Forest: Re-placing Arden

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-01 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

S: Seminar
Planetary Poets

July 25 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Polo Santa Marta | SMT-08 Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

W: Workshop
SaM: Devised Performance Inspired by Romeo and Juliet

July 25 @ 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

O: Open Sessions
Verona Shakespeare Fringe

July 25 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Teatro Santissima Trinità Via Santissima Trinità, 4-8, Verona, Italy

VSF: Verona Shakespeare Fringe
Social Dinner

July 25 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

SD: Social Dinner
Exhibits

July 26 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Open Space (in front of T1, T2, T3) Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

E: Exhibits
Registration – Help Desk

July 26 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Polo Zanotto | Quad Via San Francesco, 22, Verona, Italy

R: Registration
Thinking through Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare’s (Re)Sources

July 26 @ 9:30 am - 10:40 pm

Polo Zanotto | T2 & T3 Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

L: Plenary Roundtable
“BIOphelia”

July 26 @ 10:40 am - 11:00 am

Polo Zanotto | Garden Viale Università, 4, Verona, Italy

O: Open Sessions
ISA General Meeting

July 26 @ 11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Polo Santa Marta | Aula Magna Via Cantarane, 24, Verona, Italy

GM: General Meeting
Guided Tours

July 26 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

GT: Guided Tours
Creative Musical Performance

July 26 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Conservatorio Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco Via Abramo Massalongo, 2, Verona, Italy

SH: Show

July 2026