Since 2005, every year, “Cuore di...” (Heart of...) is dedicated to a different country, focusing on contemporary performing and visual arts, and on current items (last editions: Greece, Palestine, Brasil, Scandinavian countries, Iran). The aim is to present a different ‘face’ of countries, that often are perceived through stereotypes. The program includes theatre, dance, music, cinema, parties, workshops, meetings and “letters” from that country to our country. The location is in a theatre and in the surrounding park.

From the very beginnings of the Contemporanea Festival in 1999, organized by the Metastasio Theatre, the attention has been on research and on experimenting in the processes of theatrical production derived from the use of a variety of communicative and theatrical languages.S CONTEMPORANEA_16 confirms this vocation as a cultural project addressed to research in the world of the production of the performing arts.

Over the course of it's 40 years history the Dresden Music Festival has established itself as distinctive cultural institution in Dresden and attracts an audience far beyond Germany’s borders between May and June to this city on the River Elbe. During three festival weeks renowned orchestras, top-class soloists and ensembles come to Dresden to perform at the most beautiful venues in its historic center and surroundings and fill the city with music.