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Sonisphere Crowns Pieroni’s Success
Selling out the 30,000-capacity Sonisphere at Rome’s Ippodromo Capannelle July 1 rounded off two weeks’ worth of sold-out rock shows by Live Nation Italy’s Andrea Pieroni.
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The Rome lineup had Metallica, Alice In Chains, Volbeat, and Kvelertak.
On June 18, Pieroni’s summer program started with Black Sabbath, Black Label Society, and Reignwolf selling out the 10,000-capacity Unipol Arena in Bologna.
On the following two days he also filled Turin’s 7,000-capacity Palaolimpico and Rome’s 8,500-capacity Pala Olimpico with Thirty Seconds To Mars.
On June 25, there was another 30,000-capacity sellout at Milan’s Fiera De Milano for Aerosmith, Alter Bridge, Extreme, Walking Papers, and Treatment.