Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo

The Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival is a music festival held over four weekends from March to April in various venues in and around the Principality. Founded in 1970 by Princess Grace of Monaco, the Spring Arts Festival has been chaired by H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover since 1984, with composer and conductor Bruno Mantovani appointed artistic director in May 2021.

The Spring Arts Festival celebrates all instruments, repertoires, periods, countries and genres. The diversity of the works and styles presented is what makes the event what it is, with open dialogue being the key feature of the Principality's cultural offerings: a dialogue between pieces composed several centuries apart, between learned music and improvised music or music from oral tradition, between music and other forms of expression (literature, film, the visual arts and even gastronomy), and between the audience and the artists during the post-concerts (known as "after"). The Spring Arts Festival gives audiences a chance to embrace a different perspective on the history of music, explore the links between the great composers and offer a more in-depth understanding of the mysteries of inspiration, all thanks to the various conferences and round tables (known as "before" events).