four musicians who performed the works. The Musica nei Borghi project run by Opera Barga in collaboration with Simone Bernardini and the Ensemble Le Musiche, produces a series of concerts that are performed in various corners of the Councils of Barga and Bagnone featuring famous classical works alongside lesser known pieces, as a way of gratifying but at the same time stimulating audiences. Vivaldi's operas play an important role in this festival. In 2005, his totally unknown opera, Motezuma, was due to have been performed. The score had been discovered in Kyiv, Ukraine, as part of the collection of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin which had been looted towards the end of World War II. Due to a complex copyright dispute, a German court issued an injunction to prevent the performance, and substitute music from other Vivaldi operas was presented along with the original text. See also List of opera festivals References Notes Sources Agence France-Presse. Planned Stagings of Vivaldi's Long-Lost Opera Motezuma Derailed by Copyright Claim and Court Injunction Agence France-Presse, 12 July 2005. Accessed 28 April 2009. Mourby, Adrian, Dennis O'Neill: Barga - the town that changed my life, The Independent, 25 November 2007. Accessed 28 April 2009. Wilson, Annasue McCleave, Puccini's Stage: All of Lucca, New York Times, 15 March 1998. Accessed 28 April 2009. "Obituary: Peter Gellhorn" in Daily Telegraph (London), 25 February 2004. Accessed 28 April 2009. External links Opera Barga official website Opera festivals Recurring events established in 1967 July events 1967 establishments in Italy