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Ravello Festival 2026: William Kentridge at Villa Rufolo, and the Full Programme
The 74th Ravello Festival runs to 5 September, paired this year with a William Kentridge exhibition included in Villa Rufolo's entry ticket.
What's new this year
Ravello's summer season has a fixed point every year in the Ravello Festival, and for 2026 the villa itself carries an exhibition alongside the concerts: work by the South African artist William Kentridge, staged in Villa Rufolo's indoor rooms and gardens in collaboration with Galleria Lia Rumma, opened with a vernissage on 3 July and runs through 5 September — the same closing date as the festival. Entry to the exhibition is included in the standard Villa Rufolo admission ticket, so it's worth building into a daytime visit rather than treating it as a separate outing.
It's the kind of pairing that makes a Ravello day trip worth an extra hour: walk the gardens toward the Belvedere, the same cliff-edge terrace the evening concerts use as a stage, and the Kentridge pieces are woven through the route rather than confined to one room.
When is the Ravello Festival 2026, and how much are tickets?
The 2026 edition runs from 4 July to 5 September. The best-known single date is the Concerto all'Alba (Dawn Concert) on 11 August, staged on the Belvedere at first light with breakfast included — tickets €100, and they went on sale separately, on 7 May, well ahead of the general programme. Main evening concerts on the Belvedere stage run €60; jazz and dance programming is €40; smaller recitals in the Sala dei Cavalieri are €20. Under-26 tickets are €20 for most events (not the Dawn Concert) but are sold only at the box office, subject to availability, not online.
General booking opened on 27 April. If a specific concert matters to your trip, book before you land — the Belvedere seats a few hundred people at most, and August dates around Ferragosto sell out from Naples and Salerno as much as from abroad.
How to get there and where to book
Ravello has no train station of its own — take the SITA bus up from Amalfi (about 25 minutes) or from Amalfi's ferry dock if you're coming from Salerno or Positano by sea. Villa Rufolo, the festival's main venue, is a two-minute walk from the bus stop in Piazza Duomo. Tickets are sold online through the festival's own site and in person at the Box Office in Piazza Duomo, directly across from the villa's entrance — useful if you'd rather see what's still available than commit from home.
Where to stay
Our homes in Ravello
350 metres above the sea — Villa Cimbrone's belvedere, the summer music festival, and the calm aristocratic counterpoint to Positano's bustle.
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