La Serenissima: Music and Arts from The Venetian Republic

Carnegie Hall celebrates La Serenissima: Music and Arts from The Venetian Republic. Learn more: Venice stands as a monument to the improbable paradise where city meets sea: a collection of noble and magical isles that are home to architectural marvels that seem to have appeared from a fantasy. As a present-day holiday hub, Venice may be difficult to imagine in its early days as an unlikely refuge from hostile invaders in the midst of a series of islands surrounded by mudflats and marshes. The Venetian Republic—also known as La Serenissima, or “the Most Serene Republic”—not only survived, but reached levels of maritime supremacy, democratic progressiveness, financial prosperity, and both cultural achievement and innovation, flourishing for 1,000 years before its fall to Napoleon in 1797. With key ports and territories in and around the Eastern Mediterranean, Venice bridged East and West, linking the Byzantine and Ottoman empires and other civilizations with Eur