Venues 2025

Arturo Toscanini Music Production Center

Viale R. and P. Barilla, 27 – Parma

The “Arturo Toscanini” Music Production Center, the new headquarters of the Arturo Toscanini Foundation, was inaugurated on March 25, 2017, on the occasion of Arturo Toscanini’s 150th birthday. The Toscanini Foundation’s operational spaces are housed within the complex of buildings located in the former Eridania Park, a vast green space just a short distance from Parma’s historic center. The “Arturo Toscanini” Music Production Center comprises a main building with two large rehearsal rooms, a conference room, archives, offices, storage areas, technical spaces, and studios. The connecting Sala Ipogea, seating 350, will soon be added.The Music Production Center is an integral part of the Parco della Musica project undertaken by the City Council. In addition to housing the entire production and administrative structure of theToscanini Foundation, the complex is able to host, alongside its predominantly cultural vocation, an intense conference activity and is the natural complement to the spaces offered by the Paganini Auditorium, namely the main hall, home to concerts by the Filarmonica Toscanini, and the adjacent rehearsal room.

Paganini Auditorium

Viale Barilla 27/A, Parma

The Sound Factory in the Heart of Greenery

Designed by Renzo Piano and inaugurated in 2001, the Paganini Auditorium is today one of the key symbols of Parma’s cultural and architectural renaissance. Born from the transformation of the former Eridania sugar refinery, the space has been reinvented as a modern “sound factory,” wherearchitecture and nature blend in perfect harmony. Since 2015, it has hosted the symphonic season of the Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic. The building preserves its original industrial structure: a centralbody 80 meters long with steel trusses, the former maintenance workshop, and a distinctive 45-meter smokestack. These historic elements have been reinterpreted to house the concert hall, rehearsal room, foyer, and technical areas, arranged over several levels connected by a strikingstaircase.

The main hall seats 780 guests on a gently sloped single-level floor to ensure optimal visibility. Large glass walls at either end establish a direct visual connection with the surrounding Parco della Musica, eliminating the boundary between interior and exterior and immersing the audience in aunique experience of music and nature. The acoustics, meticulously designed, transform the hall into a grand resonating chamber: glass and wood panels evenly distribute sound, the ceiling reflectsand absorbs sound waves, and the glazed walls feature strategically oriented reflective panels.

The Auditorium is part of the Paganini Congressi complex, an urban regeneration project that hasrevitalized an entire early 20th-century industrial area. Nestled in a 12-hectare park in the heart of the city, the center also includes CPM Toscanini, the Underground Spaces, and the Parco della Musica. Founded in 2015 through a collaboration between the Fondazione Teatro Regio and the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini, Paganini Congressi offers versatile spaces for events, conferences, concerts, training activities, and multimedia productions. Its multipurpose rooms and fully equippedvenues provide the ideal setting for any event, combining functionality with architectural elegance.