‘Greek theatres and Yoruba villages... contaminations’ is the subtitle of the 45th edition of the Open Papyrus Jazz Festival, which will take place mainly in Ivrea from 2 to 6 September 2025 and will conclude in Saint Vincent on Friday 26 September 2025.
The Open Papyrus Jazz Festival (OPJF) is one of the longest-running jazz festivals in Italy.
The programme prepared by the Music Studio Association brings some of the most important artists on the international jazz scene to Ivrea, and again this year to Valle d'Aosta, with a focus on one of the distinctive features that sets the OPJF apart from other major events on the national scene: avant-garde research and experimentation.
The title of this edition emphasises the element of cross-pollination, which has always been one of the Festival's primary objectives, but makes it more natural and less like a collage.
Music with names such as Roberto Gatto, Roberto Ottaviano, Odwalla, Boris Savoldelli and Karima, dance with Sellou Sordet from Paris, Rocho Fernandez from Spain and the great Baba Sissoko, and literature with book presentations, all seek to merge into one another, attempting to break down the boundaries between them.
The exhibitions by photographer Carlo Mogavero, the book presentations with Stefano Zenni and Guido Michelone, the dance performances and aperitifs aim to give a sense of unity that is not only synergistic in terms of design, but truly a product of the global village, of culture in the broadest sense, and will help to create that link between music, the arts and the city.