L’Osservatore Romano talks about Babel
In a comprehensive review published on August 13, 2026, on page 7, L’Osservatore Romano discusses the exhibition Babel by Marco Toso Borella. In the article written by journalist Alvise Sperandio, the Vatican’s international newspaper, distributed worldwide, highlights how the exhibition is in perfect harmony with Leo XIV’s encyclical “Magnifica humanitas”, of which it seems to […]
BABEL: An exhibition by Marco Toso Borella at the Murano Glass Museum
The lack of communication in the era of social media and AI told through the ancient art of sgraffito on gold leaf. From June 12, 2026, to March 30, 2027 The inability to communicate in a world of hyper-communication takes shape in the works of Marco Toso Borella, a versatile Murano Glass artist, in a […]
THE BIG VOCAL ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT AT THE BASILICA DEI FRARI
Sacred music and Franciscan words Saturday, May 9 at 8:30 PM The over 200 voices of the Big Vocal Orchestra in an entirely sacred repertoire interspersed with Franciscan words and reflections curated by the friars of the Frari community in Venice: the over 400 available reservations were snapped up in a couple of hours for […]
Concert in the Church of Santa Maria del Pianto in Venice
The Church of Santa Maria del Pianto is a small gem of the Lagoon, a church that remained closed and inaccessible to the public for over 60 years and which today, thanks to the efforts of the Fondazione Museo della Scuola Grande di San Marco e della Sanità, will undergo a major restoration project and […]
APRIL 25, ETERNAUTI: FREEDOM AND AI
The dialogue between man and artificial intelligence, power in the age of drone strikes, the “Eternauti” (Eternauts) imagined by the pen of Marco Toso Borella on the stage of the Teatro Goldoni in Venice are navigators of the ether in search of the current meaning of the word “Freedom”. A journey that traverses various musical […]
A sung Mass by the Big Vocal Orchestra
Not a concert, but a true liturgical celebration enlivened by the singing voices of the Big Vocal Orchestra. On Sunday, March 15, the 10:30 AM community Mass of the Frari parish will be accompanied by the singing of the Venetian voices of the choir directed by Marco Toso Borella, with a selection of sacred pieces […]
The Big Vocal Orchestra welcomed the Paralympic flame to St. Mark’s Square in Venice
The full Big Vocal Orchestra, positioned on and around the official Paralympic stage, brought St. Mark’s Square to life with its music while awaiting the arrival of the Paralympic Torch on its journey from Cortina to Venice. The event, which took place on Wednesday, March 4, was part of the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Flame […]
First time in the square in Jesolo for the BVO
Free concert in Piazza Aurora on January 4 at 5 PM First time in concert in Jesolo for the Big Vocal Orchestra. After the success with the public at the Teatro Goldoni and the huge crowds in the squares of Mestre and Venice, the Christmas tour stops in Piazza Aurora in Jesolo at 5 PM, […]
Success for Christmas concerts in the theater and Venetian squares
Huge public response for the Big Vocal Orchestra’s Christmas appointments: great participation in the three performances of the show “THE SHOW MUST GO ON” for the Teatro Stabile del Veneto at the Teatro Goldoni in Venice last December 20 and 21, followed by massive crowds in the squares with concerts on December 27 in Piazza […]
The polyptych “NATIVITÀ – The True Man Show” presented to the public
The public presentation of the new work by Marco Toso Borella took place on Tuesday, December 23, 2025. It will remain on free display at the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista until January 11, 2026: “NATIVITÀ – The True Man Show”, a significant contemporary example of the thousand-year-old Byzantine artistic technique of “Graffito on 24k […]