Named for the two cities involved in programming and hosting this festival (since 2007) – Milan and Turin (Torino in Italian), MITO has expanded on the latter’s original and well-regarded Settembre Musica festival (named after the month when this event take place) to offer a tantalising array of live concerts and events across theatres, piazzas, churches and courtyards in both cities. Prices are low and with an average of two or three events each day there’s lots to choose from.
The original Turin event, founded in 1978, was the first to take classical music outside of theatres and into public spaces in Italy, and it now attracts a lively mix of Italians, from young families to teenagers on dates and well-heeled empty nesters – though this being Italy, they’re all well-dressed. A wide mix of events includes Get Well Soon, aka Konstantin Gropper, the young Berlin polyinstrumentalist likened to a German Thom Yorke, playing from a new album that draws on pop, orchestral, electronic, folk and classical.
