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Sep
24
Sun
71st Opera Season – CARMEN @ Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Sep 24 @ 17:00
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71st Spoleto Opera Season
8 – 30 September /previews: 11 and 12 August
5 new settings – 22 plays

Mahagonny Songspiel, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, and Eine Kleine Domplatz Musik, a selection of European, XXth-century music, will be featured in the August preview of the next Spoleto Opera Season. On 8 September the Season will start with the premiere of Adriano Guarnieri’s new work Fammi udire la tua voce, inspired by the Song of Songs, conducted by Marco Angius and directed by Federico Grazzini. Domenico Sarri’s L’impresario delle Canarie will also be premiered in its new edition curated by Claudio Toscani, conducted by Pierfrancesco Borrelli and directed by Giorgio Bongiovanni. Further plays include the concert-recital Schubertiade 2017 and Georges Bizet’s Carmen, which will be later performed in Perugia, Assisi, Città di Castello, Orvieto, conducted by Laurent Campellone and directed by Stefano Monti (scenes and costumes by the latter).

The Spoleto Opera Season represents the debut for the winners of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale’s yearly competition, and features music dating to various periods, from the XVIIIth century to nowadays, in various genres: opera, intermezzo buffo, lirical actions, opera comique.

INFO AND TICKETS
It will be possible to buy tickets starting from 29 June 2017 on www.ticketitalia.com or at the Box 25 in Piazza della Vittoria n. 25, Spoleto, Monday through Saturday from 10.00 to 13.00 and from 16.00 to 20.00 (Saturday afternoon closed in August), tel. 0743 47967 / 0743 222889 – mob. 329.8529053.
Other Ticketitalia sale points are located elsewhere in Umbria and Lazio, please call 0743 47967 for info.

Teatro Lirico Sperimentale: 0743 221645 – mob. 327.2174453 www.tls-belli.it
Further info: segreteria@tls-belli.it

PROGRAMME

EINE KLEINE DOMPLATZ MUSIK
11 and 12 August (h 18.00)
Ex Museo Civico and Teatrino delle Sei Luca Ronconi
Concert featuring European, XXth-century music by Poulenc, Britten, Berio Satie, Bartók, Ravel, De Falla, Skrjabin.
Piano: Diego Moccia and Marco Simionato
Soloists: Federica Livi, Daniela Nineva and Noemi Umani

MAHAGONNY SONGSPIEL
11 and 12 August (following the above concert)
Teatro Caio Melisso
The representation is a co-production with Festival delle Nazioni, Città di Castello
Piano: Corrado Valvo
Director: Giorgio Sangati
Scenes: Alberto Nonnato
Singers: Mariangela Marini, Annapaola Pinna, Paolo Ciavarelli, Amedeo Di Furia, Giordano Farina, Marco Rencinai.

FAMMI UDIRE LA TUA VOCE
8 September (h 20.30), 9 September (h 20.30) and 10 September (h 17.00)
Teatro Caio Melisso
Premiere of the new work by Adriano Guarnieri. Lyrical actions for voice and ensemble, lyrics inspired by the Song of Songs.
Conductor: Marco Angius
Director: Federico Grazzini
Choreography: Pieradolfo Ciulli
Stage settings: Andrea Stanisci
Lighting: Alessandro Carletti
Singers: Annalisa Ferrarini, Federica Livi, Alec Avedissian and Marco Rencinai, accompanied by the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale Instrumental Ensemble.

L’IMPRESARIO DELLE CANARIE
15 September (h 21.00), 16 September (h 21.00) and 17 September (h 17.00)
Teatro Caio Melisso
XVIIIth-century Intermezzo buffo on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, music by Domenico Sarri. This is an important recovery in musicology, thanks to the new critical edition by musicologist Claudio Toscani.
Conductor: Pierfrancesco Borrelli
Direction and stage setting: Giorgio Bongiovanni
Singers: Zdislava Bocková and Noemi Umani (soprano), Paolo Ciavarelli (baritone)

SCHUBERTIADE 2017
20 September (h 21.00)
Complesso di San Nicolò
Direction: Giorgio Bongiovanni
Singers: Maria Bagalà, Zdislava Bocková, Federica Livi and Daniela Nineva

CARMEN
Teatro Nuovo
Preview: 19 September at 18.00
Recitals for schools: 20 and 21 September at 10.00
Premiere: 22 September at 20.30
Repeat performances: 23 September at 20.30 and 24 September at 17.00
The traditional work that will be featured in this Opera Season edition wil be Georges Bizet’s masterpiece, Carmen, that returns to Spoleto after 17 years.
Conductor: Laurent Campellone
Direction, scenes and costumes: Stefano Monti
Singers: Maria Bagalà, Zdislava Bocková, Giulio Boschetti, Paolo Ciavarelli, Emanuele Fagotti, Giordano Farina, Ferruccio Finetti, Sara Intagliata, Max Jota, Thomas Kiechle, Mariangela Marini, Giulia Mazzola, Ivaylo Mihaylov, Daniela Nineva, Annapaola Pinna, Rachele Raggiotti, Emanuela Sgarlata, Lin Zihao.
O.TLi.S, Orchestra del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, Coro dell’Ente Lirico Umbro and Coro delle voci bianche conducted by Mauro Presazzi.

Repeat performances:
Perugia – Teatro Morlacchi, 25 September at 20.30 and 26 September at 20.30
Assisi – Teatro Lyrik, 27 September at 20.30
Città di Castello – Teatro degli Illuminati, 28 September at 20.30
Todi – Teatro Comunale, 29 September at 20.30
Orvieto – Teatro Mancinelli, 30 September at 20.30

Sep
29
Fri
(Italiano) Il Mondo della Nascita – Convegno @ Complesso Monumentale San Nicolò
Sep 29 @ 09:00 – Sep 30 @ 13:00
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RECOUNTING HISTORY – Meetings at the Spoleto Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre @ Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano
Sep 29 @ 17:00
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The Spoleto Archeological Museum and Roman Theatre is hosting the second cycle of conferences Recounting History, a project in collaboration with GraficArte Severini and Astra Onlus.

Intruduced on 24 September by the conference Acqua Aria Fuoco Terra: l’arte di plasmare i metalli by Fabio Fazzini, this second cycle also proposes history, archaeology, archaeometry and art, encompassing a timespan from Protohistory to the Middle Ages.

At each meeting, participants will receive didactic kits and an ebook will be created, featuring last year’s conferences’ contents.

Friday 29 September
THE TRASIMENO CULTS
Paolo Bruschetti – Accademia Etrusca di Cortona – Già Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria

On the occasion of the conference, admission to the Museum is free. All conferences are in Italian.

Future meetings:

Friday 27 October
LIGHTNING STRIKES… TODI
Dorica Manconi – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria
Stefano Spiganti – Archaeologist

Friday 10 November

SETTLING DYNAMICS IN PRE-ROMAN UMBRIA

Laura Bonomi Ponzi – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria

Friday 24 November
THE MAID OF PLESTIA, HER FUNERARY OUTFIT AND THE FUNERARY RITUALS IN THE NECROPOLIS AT SERRAVALLE DI CHIENTI
Nicoletta Frapiccini – Polo Museale delle Marche, Director at Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche and Musei Archeologici Statali of Ascoli Piceno, Arcevia, Cingoli, Numana and Urbisaglia

Friday 1 December
THE SABINES: A PEOPLE OF ITALY AMONG MYTH, HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY. NEW LIGHTS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT COLLE DEL FORNO
Enrico Benelli – Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico – CNR Rome

Friday 22 December
THE NECROPOLIS AT PIAZZA D’ARMI, NEW INTERPRETATIONS, RESTORATIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS
Nicola Bruni – Associazione Astra
Joachim Weidig – Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
Fabio Fazzini – Archaeologist

Friday 19 January
ROMAN ASSISI 
Laura Manca – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria

Friday 9 February
THE ABBEY OF SASSOVIVO: ARISTOCRACIES AND RELIGIOUS CONGREGATION UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE LATE OSTEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Roberta Taddei, Lia Barelli, Maria Romana Picuti – Università La Sapienza, Rome

Friday 23 February
THEATRES AND POLITICAL POWER: THE SPOLETO CASE
Giulia Rocco – Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Storia, Patrimonio Culturale, Formazione e Società

Friday 9 March
THE EXCAVATIONS AT THE SPOLETO TEATRO NUOVO: THE LATE-ANCIENT BUILDING IN THE CITY’S URBAN FABRIC
Matelda Albanesi – Archaeologist
Moreno Orazi – Architect

Friday 23 March
CARSULAE: RESULTS OF THE LATEST EXCAVATION CAMPAIGNS
Luca Donnini, Massimiliano Gasperini – Associazione Astra

Friday 13 April
THE CHARIOT OF MONTELEONE DI SPOLETO
Francesco Roncalli – Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli

Friday 16 May
THE ANCIENT CITY OF GUBBIO: NEW DATA FOR ITS KNOWLEDGE
Luana Cenciaioli – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Musei Archeologici Nazionali di Perugia e Orvieto

Friday 1 June
TOMBS FROM THE VALNERINA AT THE SPOLETO ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Chiara Procacci – Archaeologist
Maria Angela Turchetti – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano di Spoleto

(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – 60 ANNI DI EMOZIONI – 1958 – 2017 La città nel Festival, un Festival nella città @ Ex Chiesa Sant'Agata
Sep 29 @ 19:00
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Sep
30
Sat
(Italiano) Finale Campionato Italiano Tiro con l’Arco Storico – Torneo assoluto per squadre @ Spoleto
Sep 30 – Oct 1 all-day

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(Italiano) Incontro Associazione Fare Cultura @ Biblioteca G. Carducci - Palazzo Mauri
Sep 30 @ 16:30 – 17:30
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Oct
1
Sun
GRANDPARENTS’ DAY @ Spoleto
Oct 1 – Oct 2 all-day
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Grandparents’ Day
1-2 October 2017 – Spoleto

On 1 and 2 October, the historic center of Spoleto will host the Grandparents’ Day, an event organized by the Associations 50&PIU Perugia and 50&PIU Terni, created within Confcommercio to represent, protect and assist its members in support of active ageing and the enhancement of the role of the elderly within society.

Two days to celebrate the importance of grandparents in families and society by involving children, adults and elderly people in a rich program of initiatives that will animate different places in the city.

Visit the official website of the event to discover the programme.

Spoleto Card Guided Tours @ Spoleto
Oct 1 – Oct 29 all-day

Purchase the SPOLETO CARD and you will be able to join special guided tours for free.

With the SPOLETO CARD small groups can reserve thematic tours at the special rate of € 25,00.

DISCOVERING UMBRIA
visit to the exhibition Treasures from the Valnerina
Sunday  1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October h. 15.30
Meeting place: Rocca Albornoz – ticket office

*****

Other activities for Spoleto Card holders:

Guided visits to the Rocca’s Chemins de Ronde
Saturday and Sunday at h. 10.45 and h. 11.30
Meeting place: Rocca Albornoz – ticket office

Guided visits to Santo Chiodo Cultural Heritage repository
Thursday 5, 12, 19, 26 October at h. 15.00 and h. 16.00
Meeting place: Santo Chiodo cultural heritage repository

*****

CREATIVE WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILIES

Sunday 1 October
h. 17.00
SUMMER LAB – THE ROOM OF WONDERS
Tactile workshop

Meeting place: Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts – ticket office
Free for Spoleto Card holders

THEMATIC GUIDED TOURS

Friday 6, 13, 20, 27 October
MEZZ’ORA DOPO LA CHIUSURA
Reductions for Spoleto Card holders

Information and reservation: Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Piazza Collicola – Tel. 0743 46434 – 0743 224952 – e-mail: info@spoletocard.it

Information: IAT di Spoleto – Tel. 0743 218620 info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

Further info on www.spoletocard.it

(Italiano) Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive SUMMER LAB 2017 @ PALAZZO COLLICOLA
Oct 1 @ 17:00
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Oct
6
Fri
LECTURAE DANTIS 2017 @ Biblioteca Comunale "G. Carducci"
Oct 6 @ 17:00
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LECTURAE DANTIS 2017 
From 6 October to 21 December at the Public Library, Palazzo Mauri

After the success of the last years, the integral reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy resumes from October 6 to December 21, each Friday afternoon at 17 by the Public library in Palazzo Mauri; this leg includes the reading of 11 cantos from the Paradise, from the XIIth to the XXIInd.

Readings will be by actor Claudio Trionfi, with comments by academics co-ordinated by professor Rodney John Lokaj.

During the event, (October through December) some editions of the Divine Comedy owned by the Public Library will be on display, including the 1484 Venetian incunabulus commented by Cristoforo Landino (1424 – 1498).

Nine cycles of reading have already taken place, that featured the first two canticas, and Hell’s first 11 cantos. The experience shows the modern interest in Dante and his work.

Lectura Dantis is a specific form of divulgation à haute voix, historically well defined and codified, which originated in the XIVth century thanks to Giovanni Boccaccio, and evolved through the ages, yet respecting the traditional interconnection between verse reading and exegetical comment.

READING SCHEDULE
(date, canto and commentary)

6 October, canto 12, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society

13 October, canto 13, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna

20 October, canto 14, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna

27 October, canto 15, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

3 November, canto 16, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society

10 November, canto 17, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

17 November, canto 18, Elio Pecora, poet, essayist, literary critic

24 November, canto 19, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

1 December, canto 20, Sonia Gentili, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza

15 December, canto 21, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society

21 December, canto 22, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – The King’s Scepters @ Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Oct 6 @ 19:00
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #208
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theater of Spoleto

THE KING’S SCEPTERS
Symbols of power in Pre-Roman Spoleto 

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, the event organized by Sistema Museo in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and the Roman Theater of Spoleto, is back on Friday October 6, 2017 at 19.00 with a thematic visit dedicated to the origins of Spoleto and the ancient Umbrian people.

Through the analysis of extraordinary and recently discovered grave goods, we will discover customs and traditions of Spoleto’s oldest “élites” and their relations with Italic peoples from central and Eastern Italy.

The guided tour will be held thanks to the special collaboration of archaeologist Nicola Bruni (ASTRA – Association for the Study of Territory, Research and Archeology)

The evening continues with a tasting of local products.
The event is organized in collaboration with Con Spoleto – Spoleto hotel managers’ association.

Participation fee
Museum admission ticket
Reduced fare € 2,00
Free for habitués

Guided visit – € 5,00
Aperitif: € 5,00

INFO
For organizational reasons, reservation is strongly encouraged, deadline: h 13:00 of Friday, October 6.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743 46434

(Italiano) UNDER 35 – III Edizione @ Cantiere Oberdan
Oct 6 @ 21:30
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Oct
7
Sat
(Italiano) 5° edizione della Festa della Croce Rossa Italiana @ Piazza Garibaldi
Oct 7 – Oct 8 all-day
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(Italiano) Simposio Letterario: Carlo Cassola narratore del ‘900, a 100 anni dalla nascita @ Caffè Letterario - Biblioteca Comunale G. Carducci
Oct 7 @ 16:30

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Oct
8
Sun
(Italiano) Famiglie al Museo @ Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano
Oct 8 all-day
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(Italiano) Il diritto al lavoro a Spoleto, dall’artigianato all’impresa – Incontro e mostra documentaria @ Archivio di Stato sez. Spoleto
Oct 8 – Oct 18 all-day
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(Italiano) Dalla lotta di Peppino Impastato negli anni Settanta alla mafia 2.0 – Incontro pubblico con Giovanni Impastato @ Cinema Sala Frau
Oct 8 @ 18:00
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(Italiano) UNDER 35 – III Edizione @ Cantiere Oberdan
Oct 8 @ 18:30
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Oct
9
Mon
Meet Goffredo Fofi at Sala Pegasus @ Sala Pegasus
Oct 9 @ 18:00
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One of the most influential Italian intellectuals, Goffredo Fofi, a film, literary and theater critic, will be a guest at Sala Pegasus, Monday 9 October at 6 p. m., for a conversation on cinema, entitled Carta Bianca a Goffredo Fofi.

Entrance is free, seats are limited.
Reservation: 339 4012680 or cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com

A essayist, theater, literary and film critic, Goffredo Fofi, born in Gubbio in 1937, is one of the sharpest critical consciences of our present time, one of the most active and combative personalities of Italian culture.

Over time he has become an authoritative voice in the national cultural panorama and his critical activity has focused above all on the relationship between social reality and its artistic representation. He has contributed to the birth of important magazines such as the Quaderni Piacentini, La Terra vista dalla Luna, Ombre rosse, Linea d’ombra, Lo straniero. He currently directs Gli Asini magazine; he is an editorial consultant and collaborates with Panorama and Internazionale magazines.

Oct
11
Wed
Not as it seems #Spoletolegge @ Bilblioteca Comunale G. Carducci
Oct 11 @ 21:00
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From Wednesday, October 11, 2017 the #Spoletolegge reading group’s meetings will be held every Wednesday at the Library of Palazzo Mauri, at 9 pm. The event is organized by Carducci and Carandente libraries in collaboration with Andrea Tomasini.

This year’s readings program is entitled Not as it seems, and will be dedicated to crime and mystery stories.

Readings will be in Italian.

Program:

La fine è nota by Geoffrey Holiday Hall
L’assassinio di Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie,
Sei problemi per don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges e Adolfo Bioy Casares
Uno studio in rosso by Arthur Conan Doyle
Il segreto di padre Brown by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirk Gently, agenzia investigativa olistica by Douglas Adams
NOW READING: 
Quer Pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Il club dei mestieri stravaganti by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Il detective cieco by Bramah Ernst
Requiem per il romanzo giallo by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Omicidio a Road Hill House, ovvero invenzione e rovina di un detective by Kate Summerscale

Oct
13
Fri
(Italiano) 80° Anniversario della Guerra Civile Spagnola (1936-39) – Mostra @ Caffè Letterario - Palazzo Mauri
Oct 13 – Oct 21 all-day

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LECTURAE DANTIS 2017 @ Biblioteca Comunale "G. Carducci"
Oct 13 @ 17:00
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LECTURAE DANTIS 2017 
From 6 October to 21 December at the Public Library, Palazzo Mauri

After the success of the last years, the integral reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy resumes from October 6 to December 21, each Friday afternoon at 17 by the Public library in Palazzo Mauri; this leg includes the reading of 11 cantos from the Paradise, from the XIIth to the XXIInd.

Readings will be by actor Claudio Trionfi, with comments by academics co-ordinated by professor Rodney John Lokaj.

During the event, (October through December) some editions of the Divine Comedy owned by the Public Library will be on display, including the 1484 Venetian incunabulus commented by Cristoforo Landino (1424 – 1498).

Nine cycles of reading have already taken place, that featured the first two canticas, and Hell’s first 11 cantos. The experience shows the modern interest in Dante and his work.

Lectura Dantis is a specific form of divulgation à haute voix, historically well defined and codified, which originated in the XIVth century thanks to Giovanni Boccaccio, and evolved through the ages, yet respecting the traditional interconnection between verse reading and exegetical comment.

READING SCHEDULE
(date, canto and commentary)

6 October, canto 12, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society

13 October, canto 13, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna

20 October, canto 14, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna

27 October, canto 15, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

3 November, canto 16, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society

10 November, canto 17, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

17 November, canto 18, Elio Pecora, poet, essayist, literary critic

24 November, canto 19, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

1 December, canto 20, Sonia Gentili, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza

15 December, canto 21, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society

21 December, canto 22, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – A WALK THROUGH HISTORY @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Oct 13 @ 19:30
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #209
Palazzo Collicola – Arti Visive

A WALK THROUGH HISTORY
New streets… new stories

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive’s event organized by Sistema Museo, returns on Friday, October 13, 2017 at 7.30 pm. with the second meeting dedicated to Spoleto’s history.

Participants will continue to discover some streets of the historic center named after prominent Spoleto citizens and some city’s historical events.

Historical facts, biographies, anecdotes and legends are the thread of the event: stories that intertwine with some important characters and events of Italian history.

The evening continues with a tasting of local products.
The event is organized in collaboration with Con Spoleto – the Spoleto hotel managers’ association.

Participation fee
Guided visit – full fare  € 7,00
Guided visit – reduced fare € 5,00 (for Spoleto Card holders and habitués)
Aperitive-dinner – € 5,00

INFO
For organizational reasons, reservation is strongly encouraged, deadline: h 13:00 of Friday, October 13.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743 46434

Oct
14
Sat
(Italiano) Campionato Italiano Trial Outdoor @ Spoleto
Oct 14 – Oct 15 all-day

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(Italiano) Le cure palliative a Spoleto – Convegno @ Rocca Albornoziana
Oct 14 @ 09:00 – 17:00

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(Italiano) AMACI – XIII Giornata del Contemporaneo @ Chiesa di Sant'Agata
Oct 14 @ 10:00 – 19:00
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(Italiano) AMACI – XIII Giornata del Contemporaneo @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Oct 14 @ 17:00
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Oct
15
Sun
(Italiano) AMACI – XIII Giornata del Contemporaneo @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Oct 15 @ 17:00
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Oct
16
Mon
(Italiano) TERREMOTI E TETTONICA ATTIVA IN ITALIA CENTRALE Settimana del Pianeta Terra – 5a edizione @ Biblioteca Comunale Palazzo Mauri
Oct 16 – Oct 17 all-day
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Oct
18
Wed
Literary discussion: La fine è nota, by Geoffrey Holiday Hall @ Palazzo Mauri
Oct 18 @ 21:00

Meeting dedicated to the first 12 chapters of “La fine è nota” by Geoffrey Holiday Hall.

In collaboration with Andrea Tomasini.

Not as it seems #Spoletolegge @ Bilblioteca Comunale G. Carducci
Oct 18 @ 21:00
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From Wednesday, October 11, 2017 the #Spoletolegge reading group’s meetings will be held every Wednesday at the Library of Palazzo Mauri, at 9 pm. The event is organized by Carducci and Carandente libraries in collaboration with Andrea Tomasini.

This year’s readings program is entitled Not as it seems, and will be dedicated to crime and mystery stories.

Readings will be in Italian.

Program:

La fine è nota by Geoffrey Holiday Hall
L’assassinio di Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie,
Sei problemi per don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges e Adolfo Bioy Casares
Uno studio in rosso by Arthur Conan Doyle
Il segreto di padre Brown by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirk Gently, agenzia investigativa olistica by Douglas Adams
NOW READING: 
Quer Pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Il club dei mestieri stravaganti by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Il detective cieco by Bramah Ernst
Requiem per il romanzo giallo by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Omicidio a Road Hill House, ovvero invenzione e rovina di un detective by Kate Summerscale

Oct
19
Thu
È questo un piccolo grande amore – theatre play @ Cantiere Oberdan
Oct 19 @ 21:30

The company Gli Instabili presents a theatre play at the Cantiere Oberdan, È questo un piccolo grande amore, by Silviano Ragni, directed by Giuseppina Bisaccioni and Silviano Ragni.

The play is scheduled on 19, 20 and 21 October at 21.30, on 22 October at 17.00.

Protagonists: Silviano Ragni, Massimiliano Caporaletti, Rosella Proietti, Samuele Bonanni, Giusi Bisaccioni, Maria Luisa Fogliani, Enrico Ricciarelli, Alessia Mosca Proietti.

Admission by free offer (in favour of “Dopo di noi”)

Reservations start on 9 October 2017: please call Cooperativa Il Cerchio tel. 0743 221300

Oct
20
Fri
Meeting with MAARTEN VAN AALDEREN – by Associazione Amici di Spoleto @ Palazzo Leti Sansi
Oct 20 @ 17:00

Friday 20 October 2017 at 17 by Palazzo Leti Sansi (Via Arco di Druso), Dutch journalist Maarten van Aalderen will present his books Il bello dell’Italia and Talenti d’Italia (Albeggi ed.).

While Italy is facing a dire crisis, Il Bello dell’Italia (Italian for: “The Beauty of Italy”) tries to unleash the energy to cheer up. Maarten van Aalderen asked a group of fellow foreign journalists what do they like best of Italy. A passionate collective “chant” of opinions, sensations and experience is the outcome, the story of a wonderous country by the many resources. Il Bello dell’Italia is a book that Italians can be proud of. Talenti d’Italia is also a trip through the excellent emergences of Italy, through 21 interviews, 21 stories of passion, 21 lives consecrated to cinema, music, sport. These young talents, mostly in their twenties and thirties, describe their staircase to success and to international acknowledgement.

A careful observer of the Bel paese, 52 yo Dutch journalist Maarten van Aalderen has been living in Italy since 1990, working for the main Dutch newspaper, De Telegraaf, which also assigned him to Turkey and Greece. His main distress about Italy is that Italy just cannot promote herself or even nurture her own talents, and this is the reason that led him to write his Il bello dell’Italia on such theme. But with his second work, Talenti d’Italia, he went even farther.

Attendees include journalists Italo Carmignani and Roberto Conticelli, Amici di Spoleto president Dario Pompili, Spoleto mayor Fabrizio Cardarelli, head of Instruction and Formation Maria Elena Bececco, head of Culture Camilla Laureti, Bonifica Umbra director Candia Marcucci, CaRiSpo president Sergio Zinni, and president of the “Francesca, Valentina e Luigi Antonini” Foundation Camillo Corsetti Antonini.

Organization:

Associazione Amici di Spoleto Onlus
Tel. 0743 44960.
Press Info: Antonella Manni aciemmearte@gmail.com, 339.5993281

LECTURAE DANTIS 2017 @ Biblioteca Comunale "G. Carducci"
Oct 20 @ 17:00
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LECTURAE DANTIS 2017 
From 6 October to 21 December at the Public Library, Palazzo Mauri

After the success of the last years, the integral reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy resumes from October 6 to December 21, each Friday afternoon at 17 by the Public library in Palazzo Mauri; this leg includes the reading of 11 cantos from the Paradise, from the XIIth to the XXIInd.

Readings will be by actor Claudio Trionfi, with comments by academics co-ordinated by professor Rodney John Lokaj.

During the event, (October through December) some editions of the Divine Comedy owned by the Public Library will be on display, including the 1484 Venetian incunabulus commented by Cristoforo Landino (1424 – 1498).

Nine cycles of reading have already taken place, that featured the first two canticas, and Hell’s first 11 cantos. The experience shows the modern interest in Dante and his work.

Lectura Dantis is a specific form of divulgation à haute voix, historically well defined and codified, which originated in the XIVth century thanks to Giovanni Boccaccio, and evolved through the ages, yet respecting the traditional interconnection between verse reading and exegetical comment.

READING SCHEDULE
(date, canto and commentary)

6 October, canto 12, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society

13 October, canto 13, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna

20 October, canto 14, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna

27 October, canto 15, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

3 November, canto 16, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society

10 November, canto 17, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

17 November, canto 18, Elio Pecora, poet, essayist, literary critic

24 November, canto 19, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

1 December, canto 20, Sonia Gentili, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza

15 December, canto 21, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society

21 December, canto 22, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – POMODORO – Arnaldo & Giò @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Oct 20 @ 19:30
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #210
Palazzo Collicola – Arti Visive

POMODORO
Arnaldo and Giò

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive’s event organized by Sistema Museo, returns on Friday, October 20, 2017 at 7.30 pm. with a meeting dedicated to two great protagonists of twentieth century Italian and international art: brothers Arnaldo and Giò Pomodoro.

From their common beginnings in Milan in the fifties, to the achievement of an independent language through which they asserted themselves in the field of sculpture.

The evening continues with a tasting of local products.
The event is organized in collaboration with Con Spoleto – the Spoleto hotel managers’ association.

Participation fee
Guided visit – full fare  € 7,00
Guided visit – reduced fare € 5,00 (for Spoleto Card holders and habitués)
Aperitive-dinner – € 5,00

INFO
For organizational reasons, reservation is strongly encouraged, deadline: h 13:00 of Friday, October 20.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743 46434

È questo un piccolo grande amore – theatre play @ Cantiere Oberdan
Oct 20 @ 21:30

The company Gli Instabili presents a theatre play at the Cantiere Oberdan, È questo un piccolo grande amore, by Silviano Ragni, directed by Giuseppina Bisaccioni and Silviano Ragni.

The play is scheduled on 19, 20 and 21 October at 21.30, on 22 October at 17.00.

Protagonists: Silviano Ragni, Massimiliano Caporaletti, Rosella Proietti, Samuele Bonanni, Giusi Bisaccioni, Maria Luisa Fogliani, Enrico Ricciarelli, Alessia Mosca Proietti.

Admission by free offer (in favour of “Dopo di noi”)

Reservations start on 9 October 2017: please call Cooperativa Il Cerchio tel. 0743 221300

Oct
21
Sat
(Italiano) Incontri di mediazione ed educazione teatrale @ Biblioteca Comunale G. Carducci
Oct 21 @ 11:00 – 12:00
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Book presentation “Jacopo Siculo nella Chiesa della Madonna di Loreto a Spoleto” @ Museo Diocesano
Oct 21 @ 11:00
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Saturday 21 October at 11, at the sala Barberini by the Diocesan Museum, Monica Paggetta’s book dedicated to the frescoes by Jacopo Siculo at the church of Madonna di Loreto in Spoleto will be presented. Book curator Sergio Carrivale will lead the discussion, that’ll feature speeches by publisher Jean Luc Bertoni, art historian Giordana Benazzi and journalist Anna Maria Petrova-Ghiuselev.

Jacopo Siculo nella Chiesa della Madonna di Loreto a Spoleto is published by Bertoni Editore, in collaboration with the Spoleto Diocesan Museum and the Premio Minerva Etrusca Perugia.

Restoration of “Madonna with Child” from Savelli, Norcia @ Rocca Albornoziana – Museo Nazionale del Ducato
Oct 21 @ 17:00
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Two weeks remain, to visit the exhibition “Tesori dalla Valnerina” at the Rocca Albornoziana – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto; till 5 November, 30 already restored extraordinary works rescued from the 2016 earthquake will be on display.

The last in line is the splendid XVIth-cen wooden sculpture Madonna con il Bambino, previously at the church of San Michele Arcangelo in Savelli, Norcia. The restoration was made possible by donations gathered by FAI Umbria.

The restoration and the work itself will be explained Saturday 21 October at 17, in a conference at the Rocca in Spoleto.

Featured speakers include restorer Giovanni Manuali, Rocca Albornoziana director Paola Mercurelli Salari, FAI Umbria president Nives Maria Tei Coaccioli, Monsignor Giampiero Ceccarelli, and mayors Fabrizio Cardarelli and Nicola Alemanno.

Next meetings dedicated to the “Madonna con il bambino” include “Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura” of Friday 27 October at 18.30, and  guided visits on October 22 and 29, and November 5 (all at 15.30), and on November 1 at 11.30. Guided visits are available for 3 € (free for Spoleto card holders).

Thousands of objects recovered after the 2016 earthquake are also still visitable, upon reservation, at the Santo Chiodo Cultural Heritage Depot, already seen by hundreds of admiring, emotional visitors.

Info and reservations: please call Sistema Museo tel. 0743 224952 – 340 5510813

spoleto@sistemamuseo.it – www.scoprendolumbria.it

Book presentation: La solita vera luna, by Valentina Brogli @ Palazzo Mauri
Oct 21 @ 17:00
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Presentation of the book La solita vera luna by Valentina Brogli

Presentation by Cristina Granata, at the presence of the author.

È questo un piccolo grande amore – theatre play @ Cantiere Oberdan
Oct 21 @ 21:30

The company Gli Instabili presents a theatre play at the Cantiere Oberdan, È questo un piccolo grande amore, by Silviano Ragni, directed by Giuseppina Bisaccioni and Silviano Ragni.

The play is scheduled on 19, 20 and 21 October at 21.30, on 22 October at 17.00.

Protagonists: Silviano Ragni, Massimiliano Caporaletti, Rosella Proietti, Samuele Bonanni, Giusi Bisaccioni, Maria Luisa Fogliani, Enrico Ricciarelli, Alessia Mosca Proietti.

Admission by free offer (in favour of “Dopo di noi”)

Reservations start on 9 October 2017: please call Cooperativa Il Cerchio tel. 0743 221300

Oct
22
Sun
LA DOMENICA DEI SOGNI – Theatre for families @ Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Oct 22 @ 16:30 – 17:30
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The series of theatre plays for families La Domenica dei Sogni returns again to promote love for theatre among the young. Conceived by Vincenzo Cerami in 2009, it offers children and their families cheerful Sunday afternoon theatre plays by nationwide-famous, award-winning, world-touring Italian companies.

Plays will all be staged at the Teatro Nuovo “Gian Carlo Menotti” on Sundays at 16.30.

The seven plays on schedule will deal with themes including juvenile social disease, family relations and school. The series is conceived for various ages, from children in kindergarten to kids at the primary school.

Theatre mediation at Palazzo Mauri is also part of the project. The day before the play there will be a meeting at the Public Library at 11.00, led by teachers Lorella Natalizi and Mauro Pietrini of the Associazione Teodelapio.

The meetings will offer the occasion to highlight the themes of the plays, ie friendship, relations, differences, lack of self-confidence, lust for poetry.

Tickets
free under the age of 18
€ 6,00 (adults only)
subscriptions available

length: 60 min ca

Box Office
on the day of the play 15.45 – 16.30

INFO and RESERVATIONS
Comune di Spoleto – Direzione Sviluppo – Assessorato alla Cultura
Via Brignone, 11
Tel. 0743 218615 – 20 – 21
scuola.musicadanza@comunespoleto.gov.it info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

PROGRAMME

Sunday 22 October, 2017 at 16.30
PERCHE’

Sunday 5 November, 2017 at 16.30
HO UN LUPO NELLA PANCIA

Sunday 17 December, 2017 at 16.30
NATALE A SUON DI HIP HOP

Sunday 21 January, 2018 at 16.30
HENSEL E GRETEL. LA STRADA NEL BOSCO

Sunday 18 February, 2018 at 16.30
SE IO FOSSI TE

Sunday 25 February, 2018 at 16.30
FUORI CLASSE

Sunday 4 March, 2018 at 16.30
TUTTO IN UNA BOLLA

È questo un piccolo grande amore – theatre play @ Cantiere Oberdan
Oct 22 @ 17:00

The company Gli Instabili presents a theatre play at the Cantiere Oberdan, È questo un piccolo grande amore, by Silviano Ragni, directed by Giuseppina Bisaccioni and Silviano Ragni.

The play is scheduled on 19, 20 and 21 October at 21.30, on 22 October at 17.00.

Protagonists: Silviano Ragni, Massimiliano Caporaletti, Rosella Proietti, Samuele Bonanni, Giusi Bisaccioni, Maria Luisa Fogliani, Enrico Ricciarelli, Alessia Mosca Proietti.

Admission by free offer (in favour of “Dopo di noi”)

Reservations start on 9 October 2017: please call Cooperativa Il Cerchio tel. 0743 221300

Oct
25
Wed
Not as it seems #Spoletolegge @ Bilblioteca Comunale G. Carducci
Oct 25 @ 21:00
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From Wednesday, October 11, 2017 the #Spoletolegge reading group’s meetings will be held every Wednesday at the Library of Palazzo Mauri, at 9 pm. The event is organized by Carducci and Carandente libraries in collaboration with Andrea Tomasini.

This year’s readings program is entitled Not as it seems, and will be dedicated to crime and mystery stories.

Readings will be in Italian.

Program:

La fine è nota by Geoffrey Holiday Hall
L’assassinio di Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie,
Sei problemi per don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges e Adolfo Bioy Casares
Uno studio in rosso by Arthur Conan Doyle
Il segreto di padre Brown by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirk Gently, agenzia investigativa olistica by Douglas Adams
NOW READING: 
Quer Pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Il club dei mestieri stravaganti by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Il detective cieco by Bramah Ernst
Requiem per il romanzo giallo by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Omicidio a Road Hill House, ovvero invenzione e rovina di un detective by Kate Summerscale

(Italiano) Conversazione con Andrea Segre, regista de “L’ordine delle cose” @ Sala Pegasus
Oct 25 @ 21:30
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Oct
27
Fri
LECTURAE DANTIS 2017 @ Biblioteca Comunale "G. Carducci"
Oct 27 @ 17:00
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LECTURAE DANTIS 2017 
From 6 October to 21 December at the Public Library, Palazzo Mauri

After the success of the last years, the integral reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy resumes from October 6 to December 21, each Friday afternoon at 17 by the Public library in Palazzo Mauri; this leg includes the reading of 11 cantos from the Paradise, from the XIIth to the XXIInd.

Readings will be by actor Claudio Trionfi, with comments by academics co-ordinated by professor Rodney John Lokaj.

During the event, (October through December) some editions of the Divine Comedy owned by the Public Library will be on display, including the 1484 Venetian incunabulus commented by Cristoforo Landino (1424 – 1498).

Nine cycles of reading have already taken place, that featured the first two canticas, and Hell’s first 11 cantos. The experience shows the modern interest in Dante and his work.

Lectura Dantis is a specific form of divulgation à haute voix, historically well defined and codified, which originated in the XIVth century thanks to Giovanni Boccaccio, and evolved through the ages, yet respecting the traditional interconnection between verse reading and exegetical comment.

READING SCHEDULE
(date, canto and commentary)

6 October, canto 12, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society

13 October, canto 13, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna

20 October, canto 14, Roberto Deidier, professor of Comparative Literatures, Kore University, Enna

27 October, canto 15, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

3 November, canto 16, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society

10 November, canto 17, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

17 November, canto 18, Elio Pecora, poet, essayist, literary critic

24 November, canto 19, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

1 December, canto 20, Sonia Gentili, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza

15 December, canto 21, Rodney Lokaj, professor of Italian Philology, Kore University, Enna; member of the Italian Dante Society

21 December, canto 22, Roberto Mercuri, professor of Italian Literature, Roma Sapienza; member of the Italian Dante Society

RECOUNTING HISTORY – Meetings at the Spoleto Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre @ Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano
Oct 27 @ 17:00
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Second cycle of conferences Recounting History, a project in collaboration with GraficArte Severini and Astra Onlus.

At each meeting, participants will receive didactic kits and an ebook will be created, featuring last year’s conferences’ contents.

On the occasion of the conference, admission to the Museum is free. All conferences are in Italian.

Future meetings:

Friday 27 October
LIGHTNING STRIKES… TODI
Dorica Manconi – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria
Stefano Spiganti – Archaeologist

Friday 10 November

SETTLING DYNAMICS IN PRE-ROMAN UMBRIA

Laura Bonomi Ponzi – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria

Friday 24 November
THE MAID OF PLESTIA, HER FUNERARY OUTFIT AND THE FUNERARY RITUALS IN THE NECROPOLIS AT SERRAVALLE DI CHIENTI
Nicoletta Frapiccini – Polo Museale delle Marche, Director at Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche and Musei Archeologici Statali of Ascoli Piceno, Arcevia, Cingoli, Numana and Urbisaglia

Friday 1 December
THE SABINES: A PEOPLE OF ITALY AMONG MYTH, HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY. NEW LIGHTS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT COLLE DEL FORNO
Enrico Benelli – Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico – CNR Rome

Friday 22 December
THE NECROPOLIS AT PIAZZA D’ARMI, NEW INTERPRETATIONS, RESTORATIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS
Nicola Bruni – Associazione Astra
Joachim Weidig – Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
Fabio Fazzini – Archaeologist

Friday 19 January
ROMAN ASSISI 
Laura Manca – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria

Friday 9 February
THE ABBEY OF SASSOVIVO: ARISTOCRACIES AND RELIGIOUS CONGREGATION UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE LATE OSTEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Roberta Taddei, Lia Barelli, Maria Romana Picuti – Università La Sapienza, Rome

Friday 23 February
THEATRES AND POLITICAL POWER: THE SPOLETO CASE
Giulia Rocco – Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Storia, Patrimonio Culturale, Formazione e Società

Friday 9 March
THE EXCAVATIONS AT THE SPOLETO TEATRO NUOVO: THE LATE-ANCIENT BUILDING IN THE CITY’S URBAN FABRIC
Matelda Albanesi – Archaeologist
Moreno Orazi – Architect

Friday 23 March
CARSULAE: RESULTS OF THE LATEST EXCAVATION CAMPAIGNS
Luca Donnini, Massimiliano Gasperini – Associazione Astra

Friday 13 April
THE CHARIOT OF MONTELEONE DI SPOLETO
Francesco Roncalli – Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli

Friday 16 May
THE ANCIENT CITY OF GUBBIO: NEW DATA FOR ITS KNOWLEDGE
Luana Cenciaioli – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Musei Archeologici Nazionali di Perugia e Orvieto

Friday 1 June
TOMBS FROM THE VALNERINA AT THE SPOLETO ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Chiara Procacci – Archaeologist
Maria Angela Turchetti – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano di Spoleto

(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – LA MADONNA CON IL BAMBINO DI SAVELLI DI NORCIA @ Rocca Albornoziana - Museo Nazionale del Ducato
Oct 27 @ 18:30
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OCCIDENT EXPRESS – 2017/2018 Prose Season @ Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Oct 27 @ 21:00
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2017/2018 Prose Season
27 October 2017 – 8 March 2018

Ottavia Piccolo, Massimo Dapporto, Monica Guerritore, Francesca Reggiani, Asia Argento, Filippo Dini, David Coco, Liv Ferracchiati are but some of the protagonists of the Spoleto 2017-2018 Prose Season that includes 7 plays, six at the Teatro Nuovo and one at the Caio Melisso.

The start is on Friday 27 October at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo “Menotti” with Occident Express (Haifa è nata per star ferma). Written by Stefano Massini, it features Ottavia Piccolo and the Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo. In 2015 an old woman from Mosul flees with her 4-yo granddaughter, covering 5.000 Km from Iraq to the Baltic Sea, across the so-called Balcan Route. This is her story.

Friday 24 November at 21, at the Teatro Nuovo, it’s the turn of Mariti e Mogli, adapted and directed by Monica Guerritore who is also in the cast along with Francesca Reggiani. The play is freely adapted from Woody Allen’s much praised film.

Saturday 9 December at 21, again at the Teatro Nuovo, Massimo Dapporto is the protagonist of Un borghese piccolo piccolo, extraordinary novel by Vincenzo Cerami who inspired Monicelli’s cinema masterpiece, a tragic comedy that offers hilarious moments. Adaptation and direction by Fabrizio Coniglio.

Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 January at 21 and Wednesday 10 January at 18 at the Teatro Caio Melisso – spazio Carla Fendi, it is the time of Todi is a small town in the center of Italy, written and directed by Liv Ferracchiati. What is life like in an Italian small town? Michele, Stella, Elisa and Caroline are four guys from Todi. A fifth character, a documentarist, connects fiction to reality observing and noting the features of the city and its inhabitants. What is life like in a place where everybody knows everyone? What should you rather avoid doing in Todi? These are but some of the questions that were actually asked to more than a hundred people in Todi, that the play aims at giving back through a collage that supports the story of the four protagonists.

Saturday 20 January at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo, the Györ Ballet Company (one of the oldest, most praised European contemporary dance companies) will stage two masterpieces, Maurice Ravel’s  Bolero and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.

Friday 9 February at 21, Teatro Nuovo, Il Giuramento by Claudio Fava, directed by Ninni Bruschetta and featuring David Coco. Heads, you can count them or cut them. The fascist regime didn’t choose one. It counted 1238 and cut twelve, casual heroes of those who only have left an extreme resource of dignity, that of refusal. This happened on 13 November 1931. The theatre play tells the story of one of them.

Thursday 8 March at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo, the closing play will be Rosalind Franklin. Il segreto della vita by Anna Ziegler, directed by Filippo Dini, featuring Asia Argento, Filippo Dini. The Great History, the discovery of DNA, and the extraordinary tale of scientist Rosalind Franklin’s last years, facing one of the most important, debated discoveries in the history of scientific research.

Tickets
On the day of the plays, starting from 16, please call the Botteghino Teatro Nuovo GIAN CARLO MENOTTI – tel. 0743 222647

Online
www.teatrostabile.umbria.it

phone reservation
weekdays, from 16 to 20, till the day before the play

Botteghino Telefonico Regionale del Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria – tel. 075 57542222
Reserved tickets shall be picked up at the theatre’s box office not any later than 20.00 on the day of the play

subscriptions
Botteghino del Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti – tel. 0743 222647
from Monday 16 to Monday 23 October, from 17.00 to 19.00

pre-emption for last season’s subscribers
from Monday 16 to Wednesday 18 October

new subscriptions
from Thursday 19 to Monday 23 ottobre

Subscription prices
€ 91 – € 84 – €77 – € 63 depending on the age and the chosen seat

Ticket prices
€ 21 – € 18 – € 17 – € 14 – €10 depending on the age and the chosen seat

Oct
28
Sat
Marconi Vintage @ Via Guglielmo Marconi
Oct 28 – Oct 29 all-day
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Marconi Vintage returns on 28 and 29 October, 2017.

The most important news of the 2017 edition seems to be the Muscle Car exhibition of Saturday night.

Street food will be under the spotlights, as well as street market, photographic exhibits, tastings of local products and music performances.

Art exhibitions include a one-time display curated by architect Maria Emilia Ciannavei, by the Torti exhibiting space.

Sport and dance exhibitions will also be featured, all along the whole viale Marconi, among the many stands.

Each shop or bar in Viale Marconi will organize a show, ie dj sets, group dances, children shows or live music.

Soccer: Actors’ National Team vs Earthquaked Areas’ Selection @ Stadio Comunale
Oct 28 @ 15:30
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A CHAMPION’s HEART
Spoleto Soccer Stadium, 28 October at 15.30

Actors’ National Team vs Earthquaked Areas’ Selection
A charity match to support the reconstruction.

Some ninety famous actors volunteer themselves on the occasion of days dedicated to sport and solidarity, trying to give their contribution to noble causes and campaigns.

The Earthquaked Areas’ Selection features players trained by Amatrice mayor Pirozzi, a professional coach in his own right.

Revenues from the match will be used to support facing the emergencies in the seism-struck areas.

A charity dinner in favour of AVIS will follow, featuring the actors who played for the match.

Match ticket € 8,00
Dinner € 35,00
Dinner and match € 40,00

Pre-sale: Bar Catarinelli, piazza Garibaldi.

(Italiano) Incontro con il regista LEONARDO DI COSTANZO #visionidautore @ Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Oct 28 @ 21:00

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Oct
29
Sun
1st WALK AMONG OLIVE TREES @ lungo il Sentiero degli Ulivi
Oct 29 @ 08:30

Sunday 29 October 2017
1st WALK AMONG OLIVE TREES
Walk along stretches of the cycle path Assisi-Spoleto-Norcia and the Olive Grove Path.

Organized by Città dell’Olio Association and Spoleto Municipality, in collaboration with the Spoleto Section of CAI – Italian Alpine Club and MTB Club Spoleto

The event, organized by Spoleto Municipality in collaboration with the Italian Alpine Club and MTB Club Spoleto, includes two itineraries, by foot and by bicycle, along stretches of the cycle path Assisi-Spoleto-Norcia and the Olive Grove Path.

We will walk along the “Giro dei Condotti” towards San Ponziano, San Salvatore (UNESCO World Heritage Site), then follow a stretch of the former Spoleto-Norcia railway, detour to the Casselle estate with tasting and illustration of the techniques of olive harvesting. Then we will return to Spoleto always along the former Spoleto-Norcia railway.

The bike itinerary will cover a stretch of the Spoleto-Assisi cycle path and then on dirt roads towards Campello, Bazzano, Poreta, Colle Marrozzo.

Information:
Travel time: 2h30m / 3h
Length of the trail: 9 km (by foot) 30 km (by bike)
Difficulty: Average
Meeting and departure point: Ponzianina parking
Departure time: h. 8:30

Reservation is required (by October 28th)
Info: info@iat.spoleto.pg.it
Telephone: +39 0743 218 631 / 620 / 621

Tracce itinerari

Chestnuts and Mushrooms Day @ Montebibico
Oct 29 @ 10:00
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A day entirely dedicated to the harvesting of chestnuts and mushrooms, walking under the centuries-old plants. Experts of the Micological Group “Valle Spoletana” will be present. The participants will be offered bruschettas and sliced meats, and the chestnuts collected will be roasted.

Lunch will be held at La Luna Piena restaurant for € 20,00 each. Lunch will also take place in case of rain, going directly to La luna piena restaurant in Montebibico, at 13.00, where there will be mycologists who will talk about mushrooms. The chestnuts collected will be paid to the owner.

Participants will meet at 10.00 a. m. on Sunday, October 29th, at the street junction to Montebibico (S. S. Flaminia direction Terni, first junction on the right).

Cost of participation
Adults € 20,00
children under 10 years € 10,00 – child under 4 years free of charge

Information and Reservation:
Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”
Via Minervio, 2 – Spoleto
Ph. 331/8855493 – 349/3722424
e-mail prospoleto@gmail.com

Olive Trees, Trees of Peace @ Biblioteca Comunale G. Carducci
Oct 29 @ 17:00

Sunday 29 October at 17, by the Public Library in Palazzo Mauri, included in the schedule of Frantoi Aperti 2017:

Olive Trees, Trees of Peace, animated storytelling and workshops.
by and with Sabina Antonelli.

The event is also included in the project Nati per leggere (Italian for “Born to read”).

Oct
30
Mon
(Italiano) Le politiche per il recupero ed il ripristino dei beni culturali messe in atto in Umbria dopo il sisma del 1997 @ Rocca Albornoziana - Museo Nazionale del Ducato
Oct 30 @ 15:00

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(Italiano) Infoday Europa Creativa | Programma europeo di sostegno ai settori culturali e creativi @ Palazzo Mauri
Oct 30 @ 17:45 – 19:15

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(Italiano) Infoday: Europa Creativa. Il programma europeo di sostegno ai settori culturali e creativi @ Palazzo Mauri, Sala Convegni II piano
Oct 30 @ 17:45
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Oct
31
Tue
XIVth National Day of Urban Trekking – Among Mysteries and Legends @ Spoleto
Oct 31 @ 09:00
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As part of the XIV National Urban Trekking Day, whose theme will be Trekking amidst mysteries and legends, the city of Spoleto proposes an itinerary entitled

FROM THE LEGEND OF THE STAR TO LUCRETIA BORGIA’S INTRIGUES

Many legends populate Spoleto’s age-old history, related to local facts and characters. Among the most mysterious ones you certainly find the Miraculous Star, which originated one of the first orphanages on European soil, ruled by Augustinians Nuns. Following the nuns you will reach the church of St. Pontianus, with a first stop at the Roman Ponte Sanguinario, beheading place of Spoleto’s patron saint. The legend mentions it as the arrival point of an underground tunnel from the Rocca that was never found. The ancient fortress’ highest tower is also known as “the possessed one”; the remembering of charming Lucretia Borgia still lingers there; after coming to Spoleto aged 19, she was appointed city governor by her father, pope Alexander VI.

ITINERARY

Meeting is at Piazza Garibaldi (see technical file). Visit to the Auditorium della Stella and Roman Amphitheatre area. Visit to the Ponte Sanguinario (Piazza della Vittoria) – Through Via Cacciatori delle Alpi, Via Micheli and Via della Basilica you will reach the church of St. Ponziano – Return to Via delle Lettere, Via Ponzianina, Via delle Mura Ciclopiche (or the Ponzianina escalator), Piazza della Signoria, Piazza del Duomo (Cathedral), Via dell’Arringo, Via Saffi, Via del Ponte (Ponte delle Torri), Via Gattaponi and the rise to the Rocca (or via the elevator).

TECHNICAL FILE

Route information:
– time: 4 hours ca
– length: 3 km ca
– difficolty: average/low, rises can be avoided through the use of escalators/elevators
– where: Spoleto – Piazza Garibaldi, in front of Garibaldi’s monument
– when: meet at 8.45, start at 9.00
– Info: Comune di Spoleto – Tourist Office IAT – Via Brignone, 14 – tel. 0743 218620 – mail: info@iat.spoleto.pg.it
Reservation is encouraged, please call 0743 218620

Official website: www.trekkingurbano.info

(Italiano) Scheletri dall’Armadio @ Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano
Oct 31 @ 17:00 – 19:00
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