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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
Hiking, tasting, entertainement and games to discover local landscapes and excellences
Spoleto participates in the XXth edition of Frantoi Aperti, with a rich schedule of appointments that celebrate Umbria and her oil-mills, farms, and smallest museums.
From Sunday 29 October to Wednesday 1 November, hikes, tasting, readings and games will help participants dive into the most charming and typical landscapes and discover the true flavour of Umbrian extra-virgin olive oil and other local products. Besides, restaurants in downtown Spoleto will offer a bruschetta with new oil before any meal.
The opening will be on Sunday 29 October with a Camminata tra gli Olivi (a stroll through the olive groves) organized in collaboration with the Spoleto section of Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) and MTB Club Spoleto. The meeting will be at the Ponzianina Parking at 8.15, the start being at 8.30ish. The 9-km hike includes the Giro dei Condotti toward San Ponziano, San Salvatore (UNESCO WHL), a part of the former Spoleto-Norcia railway, and a tasting by the Tenuta le Casselle. The return to Spoleto will be on the former Spoleto-Norcia railway. A 30-km bike route will take place on the Spoleto-Assisi bike path and on unsurfaced roads toward Campello, Bazzano, Poreta, Eggi, Colle Marrozzo. Participation is free of charge, reservation by Saturday 28 October is required (subject to availability). To reserve, please e-mail or call: info@iat.spoleto.pg.it; ph. 0743 218631 / 218620.
Still on Sunday 29 October at 17, by the Public Library in Palazzo Mauri, Olive Trees, Trees of Peace by and with Sabina Antonelli. Animated storytelling and workshops, also included in the project “Born To Read”.
Tuesday 31 October, in the frame of the XIVth Urban Trekking National Day 2017, there will be a 3-km hike featuring guided visits and called “From the Legend of the Star to Lucretia Borgia’s Intrigues”. The meeting will be at 9 in Piazza Garibaldi. A visit to the Auditorium della Stella and to the Roman Amphitheatre are included, as well as to the Ponte Sanguinario (Piazza della Vittoria) and to the church of San Ponziano. At the end of the Urban Trek, there will be a tasting of new oil in Largo Ferrer, offered by ConSpoleto. Information: tel. 0743 218620 – e-mail: front.iat@comunespoleto.gov.it
Reservation is encouraged: tel. 0743 218620.
Tuesday 31 at 16, at the Public Library in Palazzo Mauri, there will be the presentation of a series of 4 brochures on local products to be promoted among the users of the City of Spoleto public schools’ cafeterias and canteens, in the frame of the project “Ma che Bontà” (How tasty!), in collaboration with Consorzio ABN.
Wednesday 1 November there will be two appointments: Roman House, 11.00, are the place and time for “Cibus, vestes ludi: uses and costumes among the Romans”. How did ancient Romans live? What did they eat? What was their free-time like? Various aspects of their daily life will be taken into consideration in the visit to the Ist-century Roman House, with a particular attention to food.
Info and reservations, please call Sistema Museo 0743.46434
At 16 in Largo Ferrer there will be ULIVO ULIVELLO – Fairy tales, myths and short stories on oil and olive trees, featuring storyteller Mirko Revoyera. A tasting offered by Consorzio ConSpoleto will take place during the event.
On 28 (from 12.30) and 29 October (from 10.30), the Frantoio del Poggiolo – Monini (ss. Flaminia km. 129) will be open to visits and will offer a tasting of new oil.
Sunday 29 October at 15.00: live concert by Western Country Band at the frantoio.
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.
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.
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
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
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”).
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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
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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
Day of Unification of Italy and of Armed Forces
San Ponziano, h 15.00
All Souls’ Day – mass celebrated by S.E. Mons. Renato Boccardo
Monumental Graveyard, h 15.45
A wreath of flowers will be placed in honour of those who fell in war
Thanks to: Archidiocesi Spoleto-Norcia, 1° RGT “Granatieri di Sardegna”/ 2° BTG Granatieri “Cengio”, Representatives of the Armed Forces, Italian Red Cross, Volunteers of the Protezione Civile, Banda Musicale “Città di Spoleto”.
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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
The 23rd Convention on Mushrooms and Wild Herbs will take place on November 4th and 5th, 2017 at the Complex of San Nicolò. The event is organized by Pro Loco di Spoleto in collaboration with the Mycology Group “Valle Spoletana”.
The focus will be on the knowledge and use of mushrooms and wild herbs in cooking, medicine and cosmetics. Discussions on herbs and mushrooms, typical produce, exhibitions, traditional and non-traditional art shows and an open tavern for tastings will be among the highlights.
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Day of Unification of Italy and of Armed Forces
Piazza Garibaldi, h 11.00
– Flag-hoisting ceremony
– Honours by the 1 ° Reggimento ‘Granatieri di Sardegna’ I 2° Battaglione Granatieri ‘Cengio’
– Reading of the message by the Head of State and greetings by the Mayor of Spoleto
Colle Attivoli, h 11.15
– Deposition of a flowers wreath at the Monument to Fallen Soldiers
– Military honours by a picket in arms of the 1° Reggimento Granatieri di Sardegna / 2 Battaglione Cengio.
Thanks to: Archidiocesi Spoleto-Norcia, 1° RGT “Granatieri di Sardegna”/ 2° BTG Granatieri “Cengio”, Representatives of the Armed Forces, Italian Red Cross, Volunteers of the Protezione Civile, Banda Musicale “Città di Spoleto”.
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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
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
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 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
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LIBRO D’ INGRESSO (Entrance Book) is a special event’s formula inaugurated last spring, in collaboration with the direction of Cinema Sala Pegasus and with the support of Spoleto’s Department of Culture. Its creators, V. Maticora and L. G. Santiago, present three new evenings of shows combined with three books.
The recipe is always the same: the entrance “ticket” is the book from which the performance of words, music and everything else is based.
The successful public participation of the previous edition encouraged organizers to repeat the experiment and involve even more subjects in the attempt to create a real creative workshop around the idea of “short literature”.
The performances will take place in November, on the stage of Sala Pegasus, with three different forms of staging.
On NOVEMBER 10 the series of events will be inaugurated by #SIneNOmine company, an art project involving the prison in Maiano. The company will present LA LETTERA U, with a performance taken from the work of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, scapigliato writer of the second half of the nineteenth century. Interpreters: Diletta Masetti and Roberto di Sibbio for
On NOVEMBER 16, Italian actor and dubber Pietro Biondi will bring on stage CREATURE NON PERVENUTE, an imaginary bestiary that collects stories of absurd and improbable living beings written by Luis Gabriel Santiago.
On NOVEMBER 23, AI PIEDI DELLA NOTTE, a collection of poetry and prose by Rutilio Clivi, will conclude the cycle of the Entrance Book. The show will be played by actors Cristina Antonini and Maurizio Armellini together with the singer Nyla van Ingen, who will perform the lieder composed by maestro Stefano Taglietti – also on stage – taken from the volume’s poems.
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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
LIBRO D’ INGRESSO (Entrance Book) is a special event’s formula inaugurated last spring, in collaboration with the direction of Cinema Sala Pegasus and with the support of Spoleto’s Department of Culture. Its creators, V. Maticora and L. G. Santiago, present three new evenings of shows combined with three books.
The recipe is always the same: the entrance “ticket” is the book from which the performance of words, music and everything else is based.
The successful public participation of the previous edition encouraged organizers to repeat the experiment and involve even more subjects in the attempt to create a real creative workshop around the idea of “short literature”.
The performances will take place in November, on the stage of Sala Pegasus, with three different forms of staging.
On NOVEMBER 10 the series of events will be inaugurated by #SIneNOmine company, an art project involving the prison in Maiano. The company will present LA LETTERA U, with a performance taken from the work of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, scapigliato writer of the second half of the nineteenth century. Interpreters: Diletta Masetti and Roberto di Sibbio for
On NOVEMBER 16, Italian actor and dubber Pietro Biondi will bring on stage CREATURE NON PERVENUTE, an imaginary bestiary that collects stories of absurd and improbable living beings written by Luis Gabriel Santiago.
On NOVEMBER 23, AI PIEDI DELLA NOTTE, a collection of poetry and prose by Rutilio Clivi, will conclude the cycle of the Entrance Book. The show will be played by actors Cristina Antonini and Maurizio Armellini together with the singer Nyla van Ingen, who will perform the lieder composed by maestro Stefano Taglietti – also on stage – taken from the volume’s poems.
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
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
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
Wednesday 22 November at 21.30, at the Sala Pegasus, film director Sandro Baldoni will introduce his documentary La botta grossa – Storie da dentro il terremoto.
It is the story of the 30 October 2016 earthquake that hit Central Italy with the strongest shock in 40 years. Baldoni was born and grew in the area of the Sibillini Mountains, devastated by the seismic event.
Starting from his own pulled-down house, and from his own mood, Baldoni travels across the deep fears, traumas, states of anxiety, rage and hopes of the people, in what is a travel from the interior. The meeting will be moderated by Roberto Lazzerini.
The evening will be opened by the short movie Mi vedrai correre (You’ll See Me Running) by independent film-makers ‘The Stairway Production‘ that aims at sending out a message to all those who suffered many a great loss, yet keep on struggling. The short movie was realized by film director Duccio Brunetti and features Riccardo Pompili, Nicolò Marchi, Alessandro Elisei, Diletta Masetti, Mirko Peruzzi, Nicolas Mari. It was selected for participation in the 2018 David di Donatello short movies competition.
Info and reservation: 339.4012680 / cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
La botta grossa – Storie da dentro il terremoto is a story made by those who were forced out of their homes, like its director himself. The story is the same that was told by the media, but it has a different tone that swerves away from the Breaking News. It faithfully talks of what happens in a year to those who lost almost everything. It teaches how to survive while waiting for the recovery. It is not only a matter of pain, loss or dismay; it also includes a flash of the will, of humanity and self-organization. There is no rhetoric, replaced by irony, the warmth of a pun, of a smile. “Stop surviving, start to live!” Let’s all shake up, after the shocks.
Thus Baldoni undertakes his road-movie among dismal roads, forced stayings by the sea in winter, jury-rigged schools, gyms turned to psychologist studios and stories told by the elders, or a hermit who does something that represents thousands. In La botta grossa you cry and you laugh, while rebuilding a sustainable Newmanity. A film that talks of some people somewhere, to all Italian citizens.
Presentation of the book ” Tu con me” by Roberta Salvati and Veronica Fermani, preface by Catena Fiorello.
LIBRO D’ INGRESSO (Entrance Book) is a special event’s formula inaugurated last spring, in collaboration with the direction of Cinema Sala Pegasus and with the support of Spoleto’s Department of Culture. Its creators, V. Maticora and L. G. Santiago, present three new evenings of shows combined with three books.
The recipe is always the same: the entrance “ticket” is the book from which the performance of words, music and everything else is based.
The successful public participation of the previous edition encouraged organizers to repeat the experiment and involve even more subjects in the attempt to create a real creative workshop around the idea of “short literature”.
The performances will take place in November, on the stage of Sala Pegasus, with three different forms of staging.
On NOVEMBER 10 the series of events will be inaugurated by #SIneNOmine company, an art project involving the prison in Maiano. The company will present LA LETTERA U, with a performance taken from the work of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, scapigliato writer of the second half of the nineteenth century. Interpreters: Diletta Masetti and Roberto di Sibbio for
On NOVEMBER 16, Italian actor and dubber Pietro Biondi will bring on stage CREATURE NON PERVENUTE, an imaginary bestiary that collects stories of absurd and improbable living beings written by Luis Gabriel Santiago.
On NOVEMBER 23, AI PIEDI DELLA NOTTE, a collection of poetry and prose by Rutilio Clivi, will conclude the cycle of the Entrance Book. The show will be played by actors Cristina Antonini and Maurizio Armellini together with the singer Nyla van Ingen, who will perform the lieder composed by maestro Stefano Taglietti – also on stage – taken from the volume’s poems.
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
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 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
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #215
Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts
Sumptuous clothes and precious lace
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, the event by Sistema Museo, returns on Friday 24 November 2017 at 19.00.
It is a trip through the history of costumes, shown through the works of art at the Piano Nobile in Palazzo Collicola; the protagonists are the paintings in which noble Spoletans flaunt their sumptuous clothes and precious lace.
The evening will go on with a tasting of typical local products. Thanks go to Con Spoleto – Spoleto Hotel Managers’ Association.
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 24 November.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
Ph. 0743 46434
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
Confrerence on post-earthquake reconstruction
A meeting among engineers, architects and surveyors to reason together on the post-earthquake reconstruction.
Featured speeches include those by Spoleto Mayor Fabrizio Cardarelli, Head of City Planning Antonio Cappelletti, Special Office for Reconstruction coordinator Alfiero Moretti, USR manager for private reconstruction Francesca Pazzaglia and USR manager for public reconstruction Filippo Battoni.
On Tuesday 28th November at 9 pm The St. Petersburg Ballet will perform in The Nutcracker at the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti in Spoleto.
Music by P. I. Tchaikowsky, Choreographies by M. Petipa.
Tickets:
www.ticketitalia.com
Ticketitalia in Spoleto: Box 25 (music store in Piazza della Vittoria)
Tel. 074347967
Infoline: 334.1891173
Claudio Monteverdi, the invention of modern music
The Academy of the Obtuses presents the lecture on the occasion of Claudio Monteverdi’s 450th birth anniversary.
Lecturer will be musician and musicologist Walter Testolin.
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
THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD. THE GAZE OF CHILDREN ON THE EARTHQUAKE
The exhibition features pictures taken by the children of the Agrinido Agri-infanzia della natura just after the earthquake of 30 October, 2016 in Contrada Vallato di San Ginesio (MC).
Workshops for children aged 0-6 will also be organised in the afternoon when the exhibition is open.
Opening: Thursday 30 November at 17.30
Opening times: 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 December from 17.00 to 19.00
2 and 9 December from 8.30 to 12.30 and from 17.00 to 19.00
Info: 0743-218732 0743-220050
email: mariapaola.fedeli@comunedispoleto.gov.it
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
PROGRAMME
Friday 1 – Sunday 3 December
from 10.00 to 20.00 – Corso Mazzini
SPOLETO CHOCOFEST – Feast of Craft Chocolate
A long weekend featuring chocolate in all its shapes, workshops for children, animation and music, organised by Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”, featuring the special presentation of sapphrane flavored chocolate
Friday 1 December
h 17.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
NARRATING HISTORY
By Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Enrico Benelli (Ancient Mediterranean Study Institute – CNR Rome): The Sabines: an Italian people among myth, history and archaeology. New lights from the excavations in Colle del Forno
h 20.00 – Zengoni Restaurant
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER… FEATURING DON MATTEO
An evening to say hello and goodbye to the Don Matteo tv cast, by Con Spoleto – Hotel Managers’ Association
Saturday 2 December
h 17.00 – Salone d’Onore, Palazzo Leti Sansi (Via Arco di Druso 37)
Book presentation: SPOLETO CINEMA, 1969 – 1971. MYTH AND MYTHS OF THE SEVENTH ART IN THE CITY OF THE FESTIVAL by Antonella Cristina Manni, preface by Gian Luigi Rondi and afterword by Marco Rambaldi, by Associazione Amici di Spoleto
Sunday 3 December
h 9.00 – start from the Museum of the Railway (via Fratelli Cervi 10), toward the Caprareccia Station
SANTA IS A TRAINMAN
Photographic excursion on the former Spoleto – Norcia railroad, organized by the Italian Red Cross, Spoleto Section, in collaboration with Umbria Mobilità and CO.MO.DO. Elders and children will be allowed to reach Caprareccia on board the Dotto train, that’ll leave from the Museum at 11.00
11-00 – 16.00 Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
VIETATO NON TOCCARE!! (Please do touch!!)
By: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre – Tactile guided visits ath the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre, on the occasion of the World Day for the Rights of Challenged People
Monday 5 December
h 16.00 – Rocca Albornoz
NEW VISIT ITINERARIES AT THE MUSEUM OF THE DUCHY
Project presentation by Polo Museale dell’Umbria and Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
Thursday 7 December
h 17.00 – Public Library
GIUFÀ’s STORIES
Born To Read Fest
Meetings featuring animated readings dedicated to children, parents, grandparents, teachers, featuring storyteller Mirko Revoyera
By Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci” and Sistema Museo
Friday 8 December
h 8.00 – viale Trento e Trieste
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION FAIR
By Associazione culturale L’Arte e La Terra
h 9.30 – Track-and-field plants, piazza d’Armi
RUNNING COMPETITION
15-km-long running race, start and arrive at the track-and-field plants in piazza d’Armi, organized by Atletica Spoleto 2010 and Spoleto Run Event
h 17.00 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
The concert is by the “Città di Spoleto” music ensemble, including AVIS Grand Gala, featuring baroque, opera, film and pop music. Conductor: maestro Angelo Rosati
Saturday 9 – 16 / Sunday 10 – 17 – 24 December
from 15.30 to 18.30, Corso Garibaldi 23 (Palazzo Antonelli)
ELVES’ WORKSHOP – LET’S BUILD CHRISTMAS TOGETHER
A project by cultural associations “Spoleto A Colori” and “Il Borgo”
A parade of industrious elves will welcome children to their workshop, where they will learn how to creatively wrap Christmas gifts; joinery, robotics, painting, theatre, dressmaking and cribmaking along Corso Garibaldi, Via dei Gesuiti and Via Portafuga. The best Christmas of all is that we make together. Bring your used toys with you and take part in the great gift exchange of 24 December. Info on www.spoletoacolori.it
from 16.00 to 19.00, from piazza Torre dell’Olio to piazza del Mercato
The former newsstand becomes Santa’s Post Office
The natural prosecution of the Elves’ work, children will find special hints along the streets in downtown Spoleto, that’ll finally lead them to discover Santa’s house; by Cittadinanzattiva, Associazione Be Human and Associazione Orizzonti
Saturday 9 December
h 16.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre and church of St. Agatha
60 YEARS OF EMOTIONS. 1958-2017. THE CITY IN THE FESTIVAL, A FESTIVAL IN THE CITY
Guided tour by Sistema Museo for Spoleto Card holders
h 16.30 – Spoleto Public Library, Congress Hall, 2nd floor
SERTORIUS’ PARCHMENTS – THE ROMAN WHO CHALLENGED ROME
Book presentation featuring author Nelson Martinico, alias Giuseppe Elio Ligotti
h 18.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
RENDEZ-VOUS DANSE FRANÇAISE
French dance exhibition by Carole Magnini and Francesco d’Oronzo
h 21.00 Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
UN BORGHESE PICCOLO PICCOLO (An Average Little Man)
By Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, 2017/2018 Prose Season
Sunday 10 December
from 8.00 to 21.00, Piazza della Libertà, Corso Mazzini and around
ANTIQUES MARKET
h 15.30, Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, Carandente Library
PLOT AND PLOTS… THE LONGOBARDS
Readings and weaving workshop for families and children (8 yo and above)
By Public Library and Sistema Museo
h 8.30 – Rocca Albornoz, Courtyard of Arms
CHRISTMAS DOG SHOW
Beauty competition for pedigree and non pedigree dogs, by C.S.A.A. and ARCI CACCIA
Tuesday 12 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
DANCING WITH CHILDREN
The reading that turns into movement, giving word to the body.
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
For children aged 3-5
Featuring Carole Magnini, organized by the City Library
Friday 15 December
h 21.00 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
ONCE IN A LIFETIME
by Gianni Clementi, organized by the Compagnia Teatrale Sipario, directed by Graziano Petrini. Shows organized in collaboration with “Comitato Soci Coop di Spoleto” and intended for fundraising in favour of the Association “Women Against War”
from Saturday 16 December
Inauguration at 14.30 – Downtown Spoleto
Collicola onthewall presents URBAN SCREENS
Curated by Gianluca Marziani
This highly innovative project consists of works by some of the artists who have been featured the last few years at Palazzo Collicola, printed on panels and installed over the windows and shutters of some rooms at the ground floor of currently unused buildings in downtown Spoleto. Workshops with schools: the students meet the artists.
Saturday 16 December
h 17.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
(H)AS CHRISTMAS SOUND
Christmas concert of the “Alessandro Onofri” Music and Dance School
h 18.30 – Church of St. Agatha
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
by the ensemble Canto Ergo Sum conducted by maestro Mauro Presazzi, organized by the Associazione Progetto Arte in collaboration with the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre.
Sunday 17 December
h 16.30 – National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto
Catalogue Presentation: FRAGMENTS OF AN EXPERIENCE
curated by Progetto Arte, Edizioni AddArte Spoleto with National Archaeological Museum and Teatro Romano. Some works by the artist Gianluca Murasecchi linked to the Valnerina will be re-proposed and a performative re-enactment will be held on the theme, curated by Carole Magnini
h 16.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
A HIP-HOP CHRISTMAS
Show produced by Compagnia Mattioli as part of the family theatre festival “La Domenica dei Sogni”
Monday 18 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
SANTA’S SLEDGE
Party for children
Thursday 21 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIFT
Animated reading meeting on Christmas for children, parents, grandparents, educators.
By Francesca Cenciarelli and Maria Luisa Morici
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library
18.00 – Sala Pegasus
OPEN LESSONS. READING ALOUD, THE DIFFICULT ART OF THE TRANSLATOR WHO CREATES
Meeting with Anna Leonardi, organised by the Teodelapio Association
Friday 22 December
h 17.00 – National Archaeological Museum
RECOUNTING HISTORY
The necropolis of Piazza d’ Armi, new readings, restoration and reconstructions. Presentation of copies of the bronze and iron sceptres made thanks to the contribution of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto.
Curated by: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Saturday 23 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
A HOUSE MADE OF CLOUDS
Fairy tale by Sabina Antonelli
Followed by A small workshop
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library
Friday 22 and Saturday 23 December
h 21.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
BAD-BLOODED RELATIVES
Theatre performance presented by Wood Pictures, curated by the Company Teatro della Mandarina. A Comedy in two acts
Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 December and Saturday 6 January
from 17.00 – Old village of Rapicciano – Spoleto
5th edition of the LIVING NATIVITY SCENES
Curated by the Parish of San Giovanni in Baiano, the Proloco di Baiano, the Opera Segno dell’Alta Marroggia Association, the La Traussa theatre company and with the artistic direction of Danilo Chiodetti
Tuesday 26 December
h 17.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
GOSPEL CONCERT, CHERYL PORTER BAND
Cheryl Porter’s unique voice for a concert full of emotions
Thursday 28 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
THE MOON IS A SILVER GIRL TOO
Fairy tale by Sabina Antonelli
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library
Friday 29 December
h 17.00 – First floor of the Monumental Complex of San Nicolò
END-OF-THE-YEAR CONCERT
Baroque music for harpsichord, soloist Marco Mencoboni, organized by the Academy of the Obtuses
Saturday 30 December
h 20.00 – Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
THE WORLD ON STAGE
Projection of documentary film on the history of the Spoleto Festival – curated by the Fondazione Festival dei Due Mondi. Directed by Benoît Jacquot and Gérald Caillat, on a concept by Giorgio Ferrara, the film is 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 and is realized with the contribution of the Fund to support the development of co-productions of cinematographic works between France and RAI COM.
Sunday 31 December
from 22.30 – Piazza della Libertà
NEW YEAR’ S EVE
TRANCE CONTINENTAL EXPRESS
In the heart of Spoleto, on the façades of the palaces and on the floor of Piazza della Libertà, a journey of images and sounds in the colours of the world will take place on the night of December 31.
A Danny Rose Paris project, curated by BIPEDE Booking and Production and Danny Rose Paris
Wednesday 3 January
h 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 tours to the Monumental Complex of St. Agatha and to the Exhibition.
Curated by: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Thursday 4 January
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
FRIENDS UNDER THE SUN
Animated reading meetings dedicated to children, parents, grandparents, educators, with live music with Sabina Antonelli
Curated by: G. Carducci City Library and Sistema Museo
Friday 5 January
from 8.00 to 21.00 – Piazza Garibaldi
EPIPHANY FAIR
h 11.00 / 16.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
THE TRUE LIGHT: SIGNS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
Guided tours linked to the themes of Christmas holidays, organized by the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Saturday 6 January
h 15.00 – Piazza Garibaldi
FEAST OF CHRISTMAS WITCHES
Organized by the Italian Red Cross – Spoleto Section in collaboration with young CRI volunteers. Paint-Your-Face for children, lots of games, balloons and surprise arrival of the Befana at 16:30
Monday 8 January
h 21.00 – Sala Pegasus
HOW STORIES WORK
Projection of the film “AMAHL AND THE NIGHT GUESTS”
by Gian Carlo Menotti
Something about Menotti, something about Spoleto
Curated by the City Library “G. Carducci”
Monday 8 through Wednesday 10 January
Mon at 21.00 – Tue at 21.00 – Wed at 18.00 – Teatro Caio Melisso – Spazio Carla Fendi
TODI IS A SMALL TOWN IN THE CENTER OF ITALY
Curated by Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria for the 2017/2018 Prose Season of the City of Spoleto
Tuesday 9 January
VOICE AND BODY IN THEATRE – Workshop for kids
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
Featuring Carole Magnini
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library
Friday 12 January
h 18.00 – Sala Pegasus
HOT ANTHOLOGY – THE ILLUSTRIOUS EXTINCT
Pirandello read by Claudio Trionfi
Organised by the Teodelapio Association
Saturday 13 January
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
Book presentation: GAIA E I FRULLI
i.e. the earthquake explained to children
Featuring the author Maria Luisa Morici and Francesca Cenciarelli
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library
Sunday 14 January
from 8.00 to 21.00 – Piazza della Libertà, Corso Mazzini and surrounding streets
ANTIQUES’ MARKET
EXHIBITIONS
LIGHTQUAKE 2017 BLACK LIGHT ART
from 6 December 2017 to 25 February 2018 – Rocca Albornoz and Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto.
Curated by Polo Museale dell’Umbria, MIBACT
Opening: Tuesday 5 December 2017 at 18.00, Rocca Albornoz
THE GAME OF PAINTING. PAOLA MASINO’S COLLECTION OF PAINTED CARDS
from 7 December 2017 to 2 April 2018 – MAG Palazzo Bufalini Piazza Duomo
Curated by: Cultural association Metamorfosi Art Gallery
Opening: Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 17.00
Attendees will include exhibition curators Marinella Mascia Galateria and Patrizia Masini
ENRICO CORTE / ANDREA NURCIS EXCERPTA
from December 16 – Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, Piano Nobile and Exhibitions’ Floor
Curated by Gianluca Marziani
Opening: Saturday 16 December 2017 at 11.30
2017 VALNERINA REPORT
from December 16 – Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, Sala Sten&Lex
curated by Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia
Lecturer: Agostino Lucidi (Cedrav Researcher)
Project: Studio A’ 87 / Curated by Viaindustriae – Studio A’ 87
Opening: Saturday 16 December 2017 at 11.30
SPOLETO, THE CITY IN A CRIB
from 8 December 2017 to 14 January 2018
Nativity scene exhibition: Church of San Simone – Sala degli Ori – Former Monte di Pietà – Auditorium della Stella
Curated by: Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”
Inauguration: Friday 8 December at 12.00, Church of St. Simon
ARTISTIC CRIBS
Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Curated by: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in collaboration with the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “Sansi – Leonardi – Volta” – Liceo Artistico Leoncillo Leonardi di Spoleto.
Opening: Friday 8 December 2017
COLLICOLA ON THE WALL PRESENTS URBAN SCREENS
Street art evolved on the city windows and displays
curated by Gianluca Marziani
Opening: Saturday 16 December at 11.30
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBITION
THE SIGN OF COMMAND
from December 22nd – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Made in collaboration with Associazione Astra Onlus and Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “Sansi – Leonardi – Volta” – Liceo Classico Pontano Sansi di Spoleto, with the contribution of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto.
Opening: Friday, December 22nd at 18.30