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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

Dog beauty contest and competition for young TV hosts (4-14 yo).

Featuring the extraordinary participation of Spoleto’s Kennels.

Schedule:
8.30: exhibitors’ arrival
9.30-12: competition
14.30: Best in show

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Argentine Tango performance with maestros Lazzaro Chionne and Daniela Colasanti, starting from 18.00

Featuring Lorenzo Petrini (guitar), Vanessa Rinaldi (piano)
Reading by Marina Antonini and Maurizio Armellini
Head of Culture and Tourism Camilla Laureti will offer her greetings

19.30: aperitive with music (€ 5,00)
Milonga will follow.

Organisation: Corazon Tango and Città Nuova

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

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 #218
Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts

Participation fee:
Guided visit – full fare- € 7,00
Guided visit – reduction – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00

INFO:
Reservation is strongly encouraged, for organizative reasons, deadline is at 13:00 of Friday.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
Ph. 0743 46434

Friday 15 December, h 21.00 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
UNA VOLTA NELLA VITA (Once in a lifetime)
by Gianni Clementi, featuring Compagnia Teatrale Sipario, directed by Graziano Petrini.

Show organized in collaboration with “Comitato Soci Coop di Spoleto” and destined for fundraising in favour of the association “Donne contro la guerra”

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On the occasion of the 8th edition of “Spoleto, the city in a crib”, the lecture “The Crib” will be held at the 2nd floor in Palazzo Mauri.
Lecturer: M° Andrea Tortora.

By Pro loco Spoleto “A. Busetti”

h 17.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
(H)A SUON DI NATALE
Christmas concert by the “Alessandro Onofri” Music and Dance School

Saturday, December 16 at 6.30 pm, the Church of Sant’ Agata will host a CHRISTMAS CONCERT performed by the ensemble Canto Ergo Sum directed by maestro Mauro Presazzi.

The concert is curated by Progetto Arte association in collaboration with Spoleto’s Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre.

Saturday 16 December at h 21.00 Anselma Dell’Olio’s documentary La lucida follia di Marco Ferreri (Dangerous but necessary), will be projected at the Sala Pegasus; the documentary was featured in the 74th Venice Film Festival.

Director Anselma Dell’Olio and producer Nicoletta Ercole will attend.

Moderator: Graziella Bildesheim

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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

h 16.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
A HIP-HOP CHRISTMAS
Play produced by Compagnia Mattioli for the “La Domenica dei Sogni” season

Sunday 17 December
h 16.30 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
Catalogue presentation FRAGMENTS OF AN EXPERIENCE
by Progetto Arte, Edizioni AddArte Spoleto with Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre.

Some works by artist Gianluca Murasecchi connected to the Valnerina will be featured, and a thematic re-enactment will be performed by dancer Carole Magnini

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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

The Teodelapio theatre school organises its usual Open Lessons to students and citizens, that will take place Thursdays at the Sala Pegasus, as follows:

30 November 2017, h 18.00
Anatomy of the Plot Twist
Performing lecture featuring Giuseppe Manfridi
A reflection on how the unexpected affects human nature, in a virtuoso play of quotations: Chekhov, Pirandello, Dario Argento, Maradona.

21 December 2017, h 18.00
Reading Out Loud – The difficult art of the translator in creation
With Anna Leonardi
A devout, persnickety analysis of the relation between reading and writing.

8 February 2018, h 18.00
Diversely Beautiful:
Sarah Bernhardt’s heroic Old Age
More than Beauty, by Eleonora Duse
with Laura Mariani, professor at the University of Bologna

An investigation on the power of scene transfiguration, on the special essence of great actresses’ charm

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 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

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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #219
Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts

Participation fee:
Guided visit – full fare- € 7,00
Guided visit – reduction – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00

INFO:
Reservation is strongly encouraged, for organizative reasons, deadline is at 13:00 of Friday.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
Ph. 0743 46434

Friday 22 and Saturday 23 December
h 21.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti

PARENTI SERPENTI (Bad-Blooded Relatives)
Theatre play presented by Wood Pictures, featuring Compagnia Teatro della Mandarina. A comedy in two acts.

Ticket presale at Bar Catarinelli (Piazza Garibaldi)
every day from 17.00 to 20.00 (except Sunday)

Ticket cos:
€ 12+1 (presale fee) – parterre and first stage balconies
€ 10+1 (presale fee) – other balconies

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Friday 22 and Saturday 23 December
h 21.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti

PARENTI SERPENTI (Bad-Blooded Relatives)
Theatre play presented by Wood Pictures, featuring Compagnia Teatro della Mandarina. A comedy in two acts.

Ticket presale at Bar Catarinelli (Piazza Garibaldi)
every day from 17.00 to 20.00 (except Sunday)

Ticket cos:
€ 12+1 (presale fee) – parterre and first stage balconies
€ 10+1 (presale fee) – other balconies

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Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 December and Saturday 6 January
from h 17.00 – Ancient village of Rapicciano – Spoleto
5th edition of the NATIVITY SCENE

Organised by the Parish of San Giovanni in Baiano, Proloco Baiano, Associazione Opera Segno dell’Alta Marroggia, La Traussa theatre company, artistic direction by Danilo Chiodetti

GOSPEL CONCERT: CHERYL PORTER BAND
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
26 December – h 17.30

Mixing Spirituals, Gospel, Jazz and Classical music, Cheryl Porter stands out for his vocal talents and boasts prestigious collaborations including Paolo Conte, Katia Ricciarelli, Sugar, Tito Puente, Mariah Carey, David Crosby and Amii Stewart.

Free admission upon reservation (within December 23):
Spoleto Tourist Office
+39 0743 218620-21
info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

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

Friday 29 December
h 17.00 – San Nicolò Monumental Complex, first floor
END-OF-THE-YEAR CONCERT
Harpsichord baroque music, soloist Marco Mencoboni, organised by the Academy of the Obtuses

Baroque music and a great soloist such as Marco Mencoboni: Spoleto’s end-of-the-year Concert, entitled Touch my soul, will be held on Friday, December 29, 2017 at 17.00 at the Monumental Complex of San Nicolò. The concert is organized by the Academy of the Obtuses (formerly Spoletina) in collaboration with the Municipality of Spoleto and with the artistic direction of Francesco Corrias.

The event will be open for free to the public and will offer music by great authors such as Gerolamo and Marcantonio Cavazzoni, Susanne van Sold, Samuel Scheidt, Marcantonio da Bologna, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jacob Froberger, Louis Couperin, Georg Böhm and others.

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #220
Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts

Participation fee:
Guided visit – full fare- € 7,00
Guided visit – reduction – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00

INFO:
Reservation is strongly encouraged, for organizative reasons, deadline is at 13:00 of Friday.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
Ph. 0743 46434

Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 December and Saturday 6 January
from h 17.00 – Ancient village of Rapicciano – Spoleto
5th edition of the NATIVITY SCENE

Organised by the Parish of San Giovanni in Baiano, Proloco Baiano, Associazione Opera Segno dell’Alta Marroggia, La Traussa theatre company, artistic direction by Danilo Chiodetti

The documentary film IL MONDO IN SCENA (The World on Stage) will be screened at Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti on Saturday, December 30th at 8 p. m.

The documentary film, inspired by an idea from Giorgio Ferrara, tells the story of the Festival of Spoleto.

Directed by Benoît Jacquot and Gérald Caillat
Produced by Maurizio and Manuel Tedesco for Baires Produzioni, Françoise Gazio for Idéale Audience and Fondazione Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto in collaboration with RAI COM.
Sponsored by the Support Fund for the co-production of cinematographic works between France and Italy, and the Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’image animée

Free entrance, on reservation

Reservations:
Spoleto Tourist Office: Tel. 0743 218620/21 – info@iat.spoleto.pg.it
Box 25 (Piazza della Vittoria) Tel. 0743 47967

Spoleto will celebrate  New Year’s Eve with TRANCE CONTINENTAL EXPRESS, starting from 22.30.

In the heart of Spoleto, on the palaces’ façades and on the floor of Piazza della Libertà, a journey around the world will come to life through images and sounds. The five continents will meet and contaminate each other with incredible visual suggestions, accompanied by the compelling rhythm of Italian folk music performed by Rione Junno and then, after midnight, by a Trance live set, specially designed for the most magical night of the year.

A Danny Rose Paris project, curated by BIPEDE Booking and Production and Danny Rose Paris.

Sala Pegasus, h 11.30
Chamber music concert
by the students of the Ashley Hall School from Charleston, S.C.
featuring organist M. Angelo Silvio Rosati

Music by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky

Free admission

Wednesday  3 January
11.00 / 16.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
60 YEARS OF EMOTIONS. 1958-2017. THE CITY IN THE FESTIVAL, A FESTIVAL IN THE CITY

Guided visits to the St. Agatha monumental complex and to the exhibition curated by the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre

Wednesday  3 January
11.00 / 16.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
60 YEARS OF EMOTIONS. 1958-2017. THE CITY IN THE FESTIVAL, A FESTIVAL IN THE CITY

Guided visits to the St. Agatha monumental complex and to the exhibition curated by the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre

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

The traditional, yearly EPIPHANY FAIR will take place at Piazza Garibaldi, starting at 8.00

The true light: signs of heaven and earth

Double appointment, on 5 January at 11.00 and at 16.00 by the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum with a guided visit linked to Christmas, organised by the museum director and staff.

The true light: signs of heaven and earth

Double appointment, on 5 January at 11.00 and at 16.00 by the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum with a guided visit linked to Christmas, organised by the museum director and staff.

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #221

ALEXANDER CALDER

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, the event by Palazzo Collicola – Arti Visive and Sistema Museo, returns on Friday 5 January 2018 at 19.00.

The meeting will focus on Alexander Calder, whose artistic evolution will be shown through a video that will help retrace the extraordinary life of one among the greatest XXth-century artists.

The evening goes on with an aperitive.

The event is organised in collaboration with Con Spoleto – Hotel Managers’ Association.

Partecipation fee:
Guided tour – full fare € 7,00
Guided tour – reductions € 5,00 – for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00

Reservation is strongly encouraged, deadline at 13:00 of Friday:
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434

She will come to Spoleto on Saturday 6 January, in piazza Duomo, on a rumbling vintage car. She’s a supportive Befana who carries a tangible aid to the lesser lucky ones in her traditional stockings.

It is a charitable event organised by Scuderia Campello and by C.U.A.E. (Club Umbro Automotoveicolo d’epoca) – Terni, chaired by Liborio Libori, true “charity veteran” and vintage cars enthusiast.

The Raduno della Befana will start at 09.00 by the Spoleto Sud access to town; 40ish teams will attend aboard as many vintage cars, that’ll then stroll through downtown Spoleto, and arrive at Piazza del Duomo, one of the most beautiful squares in the world, featured in films, fictions and tv ads by great film directors.

Participants will then reach the Sala Frau on foot, to attend a concert by pianist Elena Moschetti of the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, starting at 10.00.

After the concert, participants will return to Piazza Duomo, to attend the Epiphany Mass at 11.30, celebrated by Spoleto – Norcia Archbishop and President of the Episcopal Conference of Umbria, Mons. Renato Boccardo.

The Choir of the Duomo Musical Chapel conducted by Maestro Francesco Corrias will perfom during the mass.

Archbishop Boccardo will bless the teams at the end of the celebration. From Piazza Duomo, the parade will then stroll again through downtown Spoleto, to head out toward the Fonti del Clitunno.

Included in the End-Of-The-Year’s events, the Italian Red Cross local section organises the Christmas Witch Fest on 6 January at 14.30 in Piazza Garibaldi.

At 15.30 the Christmas Witch will arrive on a “special” vehicle made available by Aleandro Piccioni, handing out candies and sweets.

The event aims at arousing children through the emotional arrival of the Christmas Witch, and to spread the knowledge on the Red Cross activities, that include public health, promotion of well-being and collective aggregation.

Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 December and Saturday 6 January
from h 17.00 – Ancient village of Rapicciano – Spoleto
5th edition of the NATIVITY SCENE

Organised by the Parish of San Giovanni in Baiano, Proloco Baiano, Associazione Opera Segno dell’Alta Marroggia, La Traussa theatre company, artistic direction by Danilo Chiodetti

Church of San Filippo, h 18.00
CHRISTMAS’ LURE with the Laudesi Umbri
Concert

The Laudesi Umbri choir ensemble proposes a concert to experience the mystery of the Saviour’s birth, featuring classical and modern Christmas chants.

Performers: LAUDESI UMBRI DI SPOLETO
Organist: M° Angelo Silvio Rosati
Conductor: P. Matteo Ferraldeschi, OFM

In collaboration with the Associazione “L’Orfeo”, Spoleto

Out-eating the planet – Agriculture and Capitalism

Sunday 7 January 2018 at 18.00
Libreria Aurora – Via Anfiteatro 12

Meeting on the economic-ecologic problems deriving from the capitalist food industry

Speakers:
Giulio Sapori
Filippo Capponi Brunetti – Spoleto Communist Party representative

How stories work:
film projection “Amahl and the nocturnal visitors” while talking about Menotti and Spoleto, Sala Pegasus h 21.00.

By Biblioteca comunale G. Carducci.