⭐ Live in Milan is a journey through the city's live music history, exploring vintage photographs, legendary concerts, and iconic venues. It's a visual story that spans over seventy years of Milanese music and culture.
🎟 Dive even deeper into the Live in Milan experience with our side events—special gatherings dedicated to true connoisseurs!
Highlights
🎸 Over 70 years of live music depicted through around 100 photographs
📸 Signature shots and unpublished materials from major archives
🎤 Artists, concerts, and iconic venues of the Milanese music scene
🏙 From clubs to theatres, including the large spaces that shaped music history
🎧 Sound installations, archival video, and interactive content
General Info
📅 Dates and times: choose your date & time directly in the ticket selector
📍 Location: Palazzo Morando, Milan
⌛ Duration: approximately one hour
👤 Age: everyone is welcome
♿ Accessibility: the exhibition is on the ground floor
❓ For more information, you can consult the FAQs here
Upcoming events:
“Photography Takes the Stage” curated by Roberto Mutti (October 24, 4:00 PM)
What happens when the curtain rises and photographers are tasked with capturing the action on stage? “Photography Takes the Stage” explores, through a historical journey, the work of authors who have immortalized great performers of music, theatre, dance, and performance. It reveals the fascinating interplay between moving subjects and the photographers who freeze them in a frame, capturing their vitality.
San Siro is Rock. The History of Concerts at Milan’s Stadium (November 1, 4:00 PM)
San Siro is not just about football: it is also one of the great temples of live music in Italy. In the book “San Siro is Rock,” Massimiliano Mingoia recounts fifty years of concerts, stories, and personalities that have passed through Milan’s stadium. Over 500 pages of journalistic chronicles, unpublished interviews, anecdotes, and memories. A journey from Bob Marley to Vasco Rossi, stopping by Bruce Springsteen, U2, and many other artists who have made music history. The presentation will be an opportunity to meet the author and rediscover San Siro through the story of its most memorable concerts.
Memories from a Press Pass with Marta Blumi Tripodi and Marco Sideri, editor at Blow Up (November 7, 4:00 PM)
Concerts are played, seen, photographed, and told. Marta Blumi Tripodi has done all this in Milan for many years, across numerous pages and publications [Corriere della Sera, Rockol, Rolling Stone, Musica Jazz]. Stages seen for work and passion. We talk about them between memories and deadlines. In discussion with Marta: Marco Sideri, editor at Blow Up, an outsider and concert-goer who has been travelling Milan's ring roads for decades.
Seeing Music. How Great Photographers Have Interpreted the World of Music. Lectio by Marianna Santoni (January 15, 6:00 PM)
Marianna Santoni, photographer, author, and one of the most awarded digital imaging experts in the world, a reference point in image culture for over twenty years, will explore the ways in which photography has interpreted music, its protagonists, and its events. Not only concerts and portraits, but projects in which great authors have transformed music into visual storytelling through personal sensibilities, unexpected points of view, and framings often far from the most conventional representations. A journey to discover how much the story of an artist, a concert, or an entire musical universe can change when what changes, first and foremost, is the gaze of the person behind the camera.
These are just a few of the upcoming events, discover them all here!
