2019/2020 Prose Season
L’ANIMA BUONA DI SEZUANSunday 27 October at 17.00
Teatro Nuovo “Gian Carlo Menotti”In L’Anima buona di Sezuan there is a small people that inhabits a place which is all the world’s places: they look like funny, bewildered and imperious characters, truer and more precise than in the real world. My master’s influence is all out evident in this play, especially in the concept that you represent a character so that someone can understand, welcome, empathise with and possibly provide a solution. In L’Anima buona there is all the tenderness and love for the human beings forced to mutually devour each other by poverty and sufferance, narrated with understanding spirit. Only theatre can talk from the inside in these harsh times and make us aware of the snarling masks we have become. Staging Brecht’s wonderful parable answers to the civil, political mission of my job, civil, political and poetry theatre.

Monica Guerritore

by Bertolt Brecht

translation Roberto Menin
featuring Monica Guerritore
Matteo Cirillo, Alessandro Di Somma, Vincenzo Gambino,
Nicolò Giacalone, Francesco Godina, Diego Migeni and Lucilla Mininno
scenes from an idea by di Luciano Damiani
lighting Pietro Sperduti
costumes Valter Azzini
director Monica Guerritore
based upon Giorgio Strehler’s edition (Milano 1981)
an ABC Produzioni – La Contrada Teatro Stabile di Trieste production

Subscription prices – 7 plays:
€ 91 – € 77 – € 63 to be purchased at the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti box office (tel. 0743 222647). Old subscribers will be able to confirm their seats for the previous season on Friday 11 October (17 to19), Saturday 12 October (10 to 13 and 17 to 19), Sunday 13 October (10 to 13); new subscribers will be able t purchase their subscriptions Monday 14 through Wednesday 16 October (17 to 19).

A 4-show, 28€ subscription is available to students of any level.

Tickets:
€ 21 – € 18 – € 17 – € 14 – € 10.

Phone reservation
Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria Phone Box Office: Tel. 075 57542222 every weekday, h 16 to 20 tilll the day before the play.

Ticket sale

Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti box office tel. 0743 222647 on the day of the show at 16.30 for the shows at 21, 10 to 13 and 15 to 17 for the shows at 17.

Online sale from 4 November: www.teatrostabile.umbria.it

Saturday 2 November the box office at the Teatro Nuovo “Gian Carlo Menotti” will open from 17 to 19 for the tickets to all shows until March 2020.

Wednesday 30 October 2019
Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto
Dialogues / Monologues
Jailhouse, Theatre-City
Rocca Albornoziana, Associazione Teodelapio
in collaboration with the Spoleto JailhouseSala Eugenio IV, h 16.30
#Dialogues
Through words, the stories of experience. An opportunity to confront the past, the present and the future of the prison theatre, starting with the 1982 experience with Marco Gagliardo at the Rocca Albornoziana up to the company #SineNomine.
A meeting withprison workers, teachers and artists.
A presentation of the new structure with its President, thanks to the images of the company’s past theatre work #SN.

 Per mezzo delle parole, i racconti dell’esperienza. Un’occasione di confronto con il passato il presente e il futuro del teatro carcere, partendo dall’esperienza del 1982 con Marco Gagliardo alla Rocca Albornoziana fino alla compagnia #SineNomine.
Un incontro alla presenza di operatori penitenziari, docenti e artisti.
Una presentazione della nuova struttura con il suo Presidente, grazie alle immagini del lavoro teatrale passato della compagnia #SN.

Salone Antonini, h 18.00
#Monologues
Alone, on stage, the stories are born and create distant worlds, near universes.
4 inmates_actors under art 21.
5 Monologues

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Old Town, 1-3 November 2019
DOLCI D’ITALIA
Sweet Show, Typical Regional Cakes, Small Confectioners Grow, Sweet Academy, Dolce Sapere, Entertainment, Meetings, Questo l’ho fatto io and Sweet Christmas Competition

DOLCI D’ITALIA COMPLETE PROGRAMME

Info and program: http://dolciditalia.it

Organized by Confcommercio and EPTA

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.

SPOLETO CARD
GUIDED VISITS – NOVEMBER SCHEDULE
Five appointments from 1 to 24 November to discover the city’s cultural heritage
On Saturdays, meetings at the “G. Carandente” Modern Art Gallery to discover “The new face of Palazzo Collicola”

Yje themed guided visits to the city’s cultural heritage go on in November; the next appointment is on Friday 1 November at 11.30 with The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket and the Church of St. John and Paul (meeting at the Chiesa dei SS. Giovanni e Paolo).

Sunday 3 November at 11.30 it will be the turn of The Great Rocca. From the origin to the prison period (Meeting: Rocca Albornoz – ticket counter), while Sunday 10 November at 15.30 the visit will foccus on The Collicolas (Meeting: Palazzo Collicola – ticket counter).

The last two appointments in November are scheduled on Sunday 17 and 24 November at 11.30, will focus on The Roman Domus. Mosaics and Wall Painting (Meeting: Casa romana – ticket counter) and Stories of Love and Weapons. The Frescoes at the Camera Pinta (Meeting: Rocca Albornoz – ticket counter).

On Saturdays in November at 15.30, the Spoleto Card holders can join the guided visits at the “G. Carandente” Modern Art Gallery for free, to see the new face of Palazzo Collicola.

With the SPOLETO CARD it is possible to join the guided visits with a discounted fare of € 3.00 pp (€ 4,00 pp without it).

Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel and Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it
Spoleto Tourist Office – Tel 0743.218620 e-mail: front.iat@comune.spoleto.pg.it

Old Town, 1-3 November 2019
DOLCI D’ITALIA
Sweet Show, Typical Regional Cakes, Small Confectioners Grow, Sweet Academy, Dolce Sapere, Entertainment, Meetings, Questo l’ho fatto io and Sweet Christmas Competition

DOLCI D’ITALIA COMPLETE PROGRAMME

Info and program: http://dolciditalia.it

Organized by Confcommercio and EPTA

Saturday 2 November at 21.00
Teatro Caio Melisso
DOLCENERA Live 2019
Anteprima del tourFree admission, no reservation

Dolcenera’s artistic path starts in 2003 when she ranked first among the young people competing at the 53rd edition of the Sanremo Festival with the song “Siamo tutti là fuori”, winning also the prize assigned by the Press Room, Radio and TV. The song would then be included in her first album “Sorriso Nucleare” published in the same year. The Sanremese success is followed by an intense period of promotion that brings Emanuela (this is Dolcenera’s real name) to perform all over Italy from Piazza San Pietro for the “Concert in the Vatican” at the Casal del Marmo juvenile prison in Rome where she sang for the inmates.

In 2005 she participated in and won the music broadcast “Music Farm” (Raidue) with the song “Mai piu noi due” which will be included in her second album “Un Mondo Perfetto” (platinum record with over 150,000 copies sold that will remain in the ranking for a year) followed by a “Special Edition” of the album “Un Mondo Perfetto” with a live DVD where she duets with Claudio Baglioni and Loredana Bertè. 2005 ends with a positive balance for this young Salentine singer-songwriter who wins several awards during the year, including the Premio De Andrè, the prize for “Best emerging artist” at M.E.I. and the Silver Lion as “Musical Revelation of the Year”.

The following year opens with the publication of “Dolcenera canta il cinema” (February 2006), an album made exclusively for 20th Century Fox in which she reinterprets the most beautiful songs of American cinema. Still in the same year, Dolcenera decides to participate in the Sanremo Festival again and presents the song “Com’è straordinaria la vita”, then publishes her third album, “Il popolo dei Sogni”, an album that gets gold in a week and then platinum. Other awards follow (“The best voice” at the “Venice Music Awards” and a UNICEF testimonial for the global campaign “United for children, United against AIDS”), and the year goes on among concerts and the publication in Germany, Austria and Switzerland of her album “Un mondo Perfetto”.

Sales success in Germany led her to start in 2007 a two-month tour across the main German cities, a tour that ends with the publication of the new edition of the German album “Un Mondo Perfetto – Tour Edition”, with different live versions.

In 2007 she’s also involved in cinema: she signs and sings “In fondo alla notte” for the movie “La notte del mio primo amore”, readapted in Italian and interprets “Mon Amour” and “Sei tu”, for the film French “Finchè nozze non ci separino” (winner of the MIFF – Milan Film Festival) and participates as an actress in the film “Scrivilo sui muri” with Cristiana Capotondi and Primo Reggiani directed by Giancarlo Scarchilli.

The following year she undertakes a long European tour: she performed in the Deutches Theater of Monaco, at the Grand Arche à la Defense in Paris, opened the Zucchero concerts in Austria, took part in the Carthage International Music Festival in Tunis and in Expo 2008 in Zaragoza, Spain. Moreover, on the occasion of the opening of the largest rock museum in Germany (which also dedicates a space to her), she plays at the Olympiastadion. She also opens Vasco Rossi’s concerts at the Conero Stadium in Ancona.

2009 is an important year for Dolcenera. After participating in the 59th edition of the Sanremo Festival with the song “Il mio amore unico”, she publishes  “Dolcenera nel paese delle meraviglie”.

The song debuts in first place in sales and in radio airplay and for more than three months it remains in the Top 20 of the most popular radio broadcasts. In addition to being awarded by the Lunezia Award commission for the literal-musical value, “Il mio amore unico” is included in the film “Amore 14” by Federico Moccia, which also received acclaim abroad: it is transmitted both by English radios (in the version remix), both in South America in the Spanish adaptation entitled “Único” interpreted by Alejandra Guzman.

Even the second and third single taken from the album “Dolcenera nel paese delle meraviglie” became radio hits, so much so that it brought it to the “Top Radio” award of the “Venice Music Awards 2009”. The year continues with a very long tour in Italy (including the opening of the Depeche Mode world tour show at the San Siro stadium in Milan) and abroad (participates in the “Great Wide Open” Rock Festival in Mühldorf am Inn in Germany, along with Deep Purple, Status Quo and other international artists).

In 2010, after years spent studying piano and clarinet, Dolcenera let herself be fascinated by the drums, so much so that the writing of the her new songs arose from drum-and-bass rhythmic designs. This is the starting point of her new album “Evolution of the species”, released May 17, 2011 on the K6DN label – Emi Music Italy. Written and arranged by Dolcenera herself, the album uses many collaborations and represents her new courageous artistic and musical journey, characterized by an acoustic pop-rock sound dominated by rhythm with electronic elements.

 

Old Town, 1-3 November 2019
DOLCI D’ITALIA
Sweet Show, Typical Regional Cakes, Small Confectioners Grow, Sweet Academy, Dolce Sapere, Entertainment, Meetings, Questo l’ho fatto io and Sweet Christmas Competition

DOLCI D’ITALIA COMPLETE PROGRAMME

Info and program: http://dolciditalia.it

Organized by Confcommercio and EPTA

SPOLETO CARD
GUIDED VISITS – NOVEMBER SCHEDULE
Five appointments from 1 to 24 November to discover the city’s cultural heritage
On Saturdays, meetings at the “G. Carandente” Modern Art Gallery to discover “The new face of Palazzo Collicola”

Yje themed guided visits to the city’s cultural heritage go on in November; the next appointment is on Friday 1 November at 11.30 with The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket and the Church of St. John and Paul (meeting at the Chiesa dei SS. Giovanni e Paolo).

Sunday 3 November at 11.30 it will be the turn of The Great Rocca. From the origin to the prison period (Meeting: Rocca Albornoz – ticket counter), while Sunday 10 November at 15.30 the visit will foccus on The Collicolas (Meeting: Palazzo Collicola – ticket counter).

The last two appointments in November are scheduled on Sunday 17 and 24 November at 11.30, will focus on The Roman Domus. Mosaics and Wall Painting (Meeting: Casa romana – ticket counter) and Stories of Love and Weapons. The Frescoes at the Camera Pinta (Meeting: Rocca Albornoz – ticket counter).

On Saturdays in November at 15.30, the Spoleto Card holders can join the guided visits at the “G. Carandente” Modern Art Gallery for free, to see the new face of Palazzo Collicola.

With the SPOLETO CARD it is possible to join the guided visits with a discounted fare of € 3.00 pp (€ 4,00 pp without it).

Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel and Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it
Spoleto Tourist Office – Tel 0743.218620 e-mail: front.iat@comune.spoleto.pg.it

On Friday 8 November 2019 at 17.00 by the Hall of Honor in Palazzo Leti Sansi (Via Arco di Druso) RAI journalist and writer Giancarlo Trapanese presents his latest book entitled Obsolescente published by Italic Pequod. The novel is set mostly in the province of Perugia and deals with topical issues. 

Scheduled obsolescence – Retired 75-year-old Perugian engineer Inna, a failed American marriage behind his shoulders, reflects on the meaning of a life devoid of affection and perspectives; a bit misogynistic and grumpy, was perhaps the world’s greatest expert on “planned obsolescence”, IT sector in ever-increasing development, that unsoundly imposes a deadline over the functioning of mobile phones, computers and many other devices by making them fail after a given period, to allow high production rates and employment levels. A life spent “spoiling” instead of “building” till destiny finally offers him a dramatic challenge with his past and his present, a challenge that will change his own lifeviews. 

The conference will be attended by the president of the Order of Journalists of Umbria, Roberto Conticelli, and chaired by Dario Pompili, president of the Amici di Spoleto Association. Institutional greetings: Umberto De Augustinis, mayor of  Spoleto; Beatrice Montioni, Councilor for Education of the City of Spoleto. 

The “Walter Tobagi” preparatory journalism course was launched in 2005 to commemorate the figure of the journalist of the Corriere della Sera Walter Tobagi, born in San Brizio di Spoleto and killed in Milan in 1980 by the Red Brigades. The edition that will take place during this school year will coincide with the 40th anniversary of Tobagi’s death.

SPOLETO CARD
NOVEMBER GUIDED VISITS SCHEDULE
Five appointments, 1 – 24 November, to discover the city’s heritage
All Saturdays, meeting at the “G. Carandente” Modern Art Gallery
to see “The new face of Palazzo Collicola”The themed guided visits to the city’s cultural heritage go on; next appointment is on Friday 1 November at 11.30 with the Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket at the church of SS. John and Paul (Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo).

Sunday 3 November at 11.30 we’ll discover The Great Rocca. From its origins to the prison period (Rocca Albornoz), while Sunday 10 November at 15.30 the visitwill focus on the Collicola Family (Palazzo Collicola).

The other two appointments, Sunday 17 and 24 November at 11.30, will be about The Roman Domus. Mosaics and wall paintings (Casa romana) and Stories of love and weapons. The frescoes at the Camera Pinta (Rocca Albornoz).

All Saturdays in November at 15.30, the holders of the Spoleto Card enjoy free admission to the guided visits to the “G. Carandente” Modern Art Gallery, to see the new face of Palazzo Collicola.

Having the SPOLETO CARD allows for joining the guided visits for € 3.00 per person; without the card, the price is € 4.00, plus the museum ticket, where applicable.

Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel and Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it

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Ufficio Turistico di Spoleto – Tel 0743.218620 e-mail: front.iat@comune.spoleto.pg.it

IL LAGO DEI CIGNI
 “La Classique” Moscow Ballet
Thursday 14 November at 21.00
Teatro Nuovo “Gian Carlo Menotti”One of the immortal XIXth-century ballet history masterpieces signed by Marius Petipa. In spite of Tchaikovsky’s music, it was not immediately successful at its first 1877 representation at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, a succes that would later arrive in 1894, when it was staged at the Marijinsky Theater in St. Petersburg.
Swan Lake tells the enchanting love story between the young prince Siegfried and Odette, an otherworldly creature transformed into a swan by the evil wizard Rothbart for refusing his love.
The Moscow Ballet “La Classique”, one of the most acclaimed classical dance companies that has toured all over Europe for over twenty-four years, brings back the excitement of this classic with its muffled atmosphere. Drawings of lights and suggestive scenographies will immerse the audience in the candid atmosphere of the most famous swan lake in the world. 

Presale:
Ticketitalia: www.ticketitalia.com
Box 25 (Piazza Vittoria, Spoleto)

SPOLETO JAZZ SEASON
Organized by the Visioninmusica Association

Friday 4 October
Teatro Caio Melisso
NICK THE NIGHTFLY – BE YOURSELF
Nick The Nightfly vocals; Amedeo Adriano, drums; Claudio Colasazza, piano; Francesco Puglisi, bass; Jerry Popolo, saxophone

Friday 18 October
Teatro Caio Melisso
ABSOLUTE DOCKS – UNLIKELY
Jean-Philippe Koch, piano; David Kintziker, bass; Michel Mootz, drums

Friday 15 November
Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
FABRIZIO BOSSO & JAVIER GIROTTO LATIN MOOD – VAMOS
Fabrizio Bosso, trumpet and flugelhorn; Javier Girotto, saxophone and percussion; Natalio Mongalavite, piano; Luca Bulgarelli, bass; Lorenzo Tucci, drums; Bruno Marcozzi, percussions

CANTO LIBERO
A Tribute to Lucio Battisti
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Saturday 16 November 2019 at 21.00Fabio “Red” Rosso, Vocals
Giovanni Vianelli, Piano, musical conduction
Luigi Campo, Guitar
Emanuele “Graffo” Grafitti, Guitar
Alessandro Sala, Bass and programming
Luca Piccolo, Keyboards
Jimmy Bolco, Drums
Marco Vattovani, Percussions, drums
Joy Jenkins, Vocals
Michela Grilli, Vocals
Francesco Termini, Films
Ricky “Zio” Carioti, Sound engineer

Pre-sale on Ticketone

Organized by Good Vibrations Entertainment

SPOLETO CARD
GUIDED VISITS – NOVEMBER SCHEDULE
Five appointments from 1 to 24 November to discover the city’s cultural heritage
On Saturdays, meetings at the “G. Carandente” Modern Art Gallery to discover “The new face of Palazzo Collicola”

Yje themed guided visits to the city’s cultural heritage go on in November; the next appointment is on Friday 1 November at 11.30 with The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket and the Church of St. John and Paul (meeting at the Chiesa dei SS. Giovanni e Paolo).

Sunday 3 November at 11.30 it will be the turn of The Great Rocca. From the origin to the prison period (Meeting: Rocca Albornoz – ticket counter), while Sunday 10 November at 15.30 the visit will foccus on The Collicolas (Meeting: Palazzo Collicola – ticket counter).

The last two appointments in November are scheduled on Sunday 17 and 24 November at 11.30, will focus on The Roman Domus. Mosaics and Wall Painting (Meeting: Casa romana – ticket counter) and Stories of Love and Weapons. The Frescoes at the Camera Pinta (Meeting: Rocca Albornoz – ticket counter).

On Saturdays in November at 15.30, the Spoleto Card holders can join the guided visits at the “G. Carandente” Modern Art Gallery for free, to see the new face of Palazzo Collicola.

With the SPOLETO CARD it is possible to join the guided visits with a discounted fare of € 3.00 pp (€ 4,00 pp without it).

Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel and Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it
Spoleto Tourist Office – Tel 0743.218620 e-mail: front.iat@comune.spoleto.pg.it

The theatre-for-families festival La Domenica dei Sogni, conceived to offer the families the magic of the world of theatre, returns for its 12th edition.

The 2019-2020 programme includes five new shows at the Teatro Nuovo Menotti, on Sundays at 16.30, attentively chosen from the repertoires of the best Italian companies.

This year the first two scheduled showws are free, thanks to the project “Arriva il teatro!”, promoted by Fontemaggiore, Mibact and Regione Umbria, to re-establish a cultural offer in the areas struck by the 2016 earthquake in central Italy, to enhance social interaction, tourist promotion and the visibility of the cultural and environmental heritage.

But there are also confirmations along with the many new features, ie the renewed collaboration with Fontemaggiore, one of the most recognized and appreciated family theatre companies to which we owe the first two shows, and with the “Library goes to Theatre” project, which involves the loan of books as a further possibility of deepening all those emotions and suggestions experienced on the scene, in a fertile encounter between languages and arts. 

The season opens Sunday 17 November with Mago per Svago by l’Abile Teatro, that was awarded at the Festival Clown&Clown in Monte San Giusto in 2018 and at the Milano Clown Festival 2018.
FREE ADMISSION

On 1 December it is the turn of Scarpette Strette by Luna e GNAC Teatro, awarded at the Festival di Ribalta 2010, finalist at the Festival Fit in Lugano (CH), 2009 and finalist at the Festival La Rosa d’Oro in Padua, 2009.
FREE ADMISSION

On 26 January, Becco di Rame by Teatro del Buratto, which received the EOLO Award in 2018.

On 2 February it is the time for Più veloce di un raglio by CDT Cada die Teatro, also winner of an EOLO Award in 2015, Premio Padova – Amici di Emanuele Luzzati and Premjo Rosa d’Oro 2015.

The last appointment is for 22 March with L’ultimo T-Rex era un Bullo by Compagnia Gli Alcuni-Teatro.

Free admission for the underage
Adults pay 6 €.
The first two shows are free for all.

Wolf and man: animals in an environment of virtuous relationships
Open meeting at Palazzo Mauri Library
Saturday 23 November at 9.00 a.m.

Registration is compulsory: education@agrileisuretime.com or ph. 328.4669918

Those who need to stay overnight in Spoleto can take advantage of discounts and reductions by contacting Con Spoleto by email at info@conspoleto.com or by phone at 0743 220773.

2019/2020 Prose Season
UN TRAM CHE SI CHIAMA DESIDERIOSaturday 23 November at 21.00
Teatro Nuovo “Gian Carlo Menotti”Regional exclusive for this Tennessee William’s masterpiece.

The 1947 Pulitzer winning play is an internatonally known milestone of theatre and cinema, still read and represented with interest and emotion. This play in three acts unveils the family’s oppressive mechanisms, the hypocricy of prejudice and the ferocious stupidity of moral fears. 

Direction by Pier Luigi Pizzi, who along with Giorgio De Lullo, Romolo Valli and Rossella Falk, founded the “Compagnia dei giovani”.

The role of Blanche Du Bois will be entrusted to Mariangela D’Abbraccio, while Daniele Pecci will be Stanley Kowalski.

by Tennessee Williams
translation Masolino D’amico
featuring Mariangela D’abbraccio, Daniele Pecci
Angela Ciaburri, Stefano Scandaletti, Gabriele Anagni, Erika Puddu, Massimo Odierna
director Pier Luigi Pizzi

a Gitiesse Artisti Riuniti production, co-produced by La Pirandelliana and in collaboration with AMAT

Subscription prices – 7 plays:
€ 91 – € 77 – € 63 to be purchased at the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti box office (tel. 0743 222647). Old subscribers will be able to confirm their seats for the previous season on Friday 11 October (17 to19), Saturday 12 October (10 to 13 and 17 to 19), Sunday 13 October (10 to 13); new subscribers will be able t purchase their subscriptions Monday 14 through Wednesday 16 October (17 to 19).

A 4-show, 28€ subscription is available to students of any level.

Tickets:
€ 21 – € 18 – € 17 – € 14 – € 10.

Phone reservation
Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria Phone Box Office: Tel. 075 57542222 every weekday, h 16 to 20 tilll the day before the play.

Ticket sale

Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti box office tel. 0743 222647 on the day of the show at 16.30 for the shows at 21, 10 to 13 and 15 to 17 for the shows at 17.

Online sale from 4 November: www.teatrostabile.umbria.it

Saturday 2 November the box office at the Teatro Nuovo “Gian Carlo Menotti” will open from 17 to 19 for the tickets to all shows until March 2020.

SPOLETO CARD
GUIDED VISITS – NOVEMBER SCHEDULE
Five appointments from 1 to 24 November to discover the city’s cultural heritage
On Saturdays, meetings at the “G. Carandente” Modern Art Gallery to discover “The new face of Palazzo Collicola”

Yje themed guided visits to the city’s cultural heritage go on in November; the next appointment is on Friday 1 November at 11.30 with The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket and the Church of St. John and Paul (meeting at the Chiesa dei SS. Giovanni e Paolo).

Sunday 3 November at 11.30 it will be the turn of The Great Rocca. From the origin to the prison period (Meeting: Rocca Albornoz – ticket counter), while Sunday 10 November at 15.30 the visit will foccus on The Collicolas (Meeting: Palazzo Collicola – ticket counter).

The last two appointments in November are scheduled on Sunday 17 and 24 November at 11.30, will focus on The Roman Domus. Mosaics and Wall Painting (Meeting: Casa romana – ticket counter) and Stories of Love and Weapons. The Frescoes at the Camera Pinta (Meeting: Rocca Albornoz – ticket counter).

On Saturdays in November at 15.30, the Spoleto Card holders can join the guided visits at the “G. Carandente” Modern Art Gallery for free, to see the new face of Palazzo Collicola.

With the SPOLETO CARD it is possible to join the guided visits with a discounted fare of € 3.00 pp (€ 4,00 pp without it).

Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel and Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it
Spoleto Tourist Office – Tel 0743.218620 e-mail: front.iat@comune.spoleto.pg.it

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Monday 25 November A convention, a dance performance and the fountain in Piazza del Mercato lit in red: these are the initiatives that the City of Spoleto, FIDAPA BPW Italy Spoleto section, Centro Antiviolenza Crisalide and Associazione Evidanse, have organised for Monday 25 November to celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

The convention, titled Per non parlarne più… dopo, is set in Palazzo Mauri at 16.00 and will be opened by mayorUmberto de Augustinis, city councillor for Culture Ada Urbani, FIDAPA president Caterina Grifoni and Marina Antonini, president of Centro antiviolenza di Spoleto La Crisalide.

Lawyer Gian Luca Mazzocchio will then speak on Judicial Protection of Women in Difficulty, while Elena Tiracorrendo will speak of Violence Agaist Women: which protection.
Deputy mayor Beatrice Montioni will end the works.

At 18 in piazza del Mercato there will be a dance performance titled Au-delà des Maux, by Carole Magnini, Ludovica Manes, Francesco D’Oronzo. Organised by Rendez Vous – Associazione Evidanse.

Let’s meet at the Rocca. is back with two ‘special edition’ meetings to celebrate Filippo Lippi.

Both meetings will take place at the National Museum of the Duchy – Rocca Albornoziana.

29 November 2019 at 16.30
LAURA TEZA: The Umbrian experience of Filippo Lippi

On 13 December 2019, again at 16.30
FRANCESCO LUISI: Filippo Lippi and the Coronation Ball

Maurizio Battista
Papà perché lo hai fatto?
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Wednesday 30 November at 21.00Battista wrote this show together with his wife Alessandra Moretti and the collaboration of Mariano D’Angelo, in which Battista (on stage also Stefano Borgia) investigates reality with his unmistakable verve and usual irreverent irony, that daily life that he always wanted to tell and that has always marked the success of his shows starting from a distance, from the family bar in San Giovanni that the comedian has never forgotten. The show tells a hilarious life journey, in which the comedian compares past times with modern times, trying perhaps to understand when life was better, but without sparing himself in highlighting vices and virtues of every age with a desecrating, amused touch.
 
Tickets: www.ticketone.it – Box 25 (Piazza Vittoria 25, Spoleto)

SPOLETO CARD DECEMBER GUIDED VISITS SCHEDULE

Having the SPOLETO CARD allows for joining the guided visits for free; without the card, the price is € 3.00, plus the museum ticket, where applicable.

Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel e Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it

Tuesday, December 3, the Teatro Nuovo “Gian Carlo Menotti” will host Patti Smith the “high priestess of rock”, with her “Words and Music”, a reading interspersed with some of the most famous songs of the New York artist.

Tickets are already available on the Ticketone circuit www.ticketone.it : 51,75 euro for stalls and dress circle, 46 for the second and third floor balconies, 40,25 for the fourth floor balconies.

Art Meetings at Palazzo Collicola
Fabrizio Plessi: Digital LifeFriday 6 December 2019 – h 17.30
Noble Apartment – Hall of Honour
PALAZZO COLLICOLA – Spoleto

Fabrizio Plessi is considered a videoart pioneer in Italy and is certainly the first one to have used tv screens since the 1970s, as materials through which flows an unstoppable stream of digital water and fire.
His many participations in art festivals or international film and dance festivals have always showed him as an artist of innovative and anticipatory experiments. Sound performances, architecture, television and theatrical sets have formed the background on which he grafted his video sculptures, in which the use of technology is reduced to a natural element, a material to live together with, rather than struggle. Despite this, drawing still remains one of its fundamental creative and design stimuli.

Friday 6 December at Palazzo Collicola Fabrizio Plessi from 17.30 wil discuss his human and artistic experience, of his vision of art and the future of art, of the relationship between memory and innovation, past and present, starting from the assumption that technology must be a means and not an end, all the while showing images and videos that illustrate his spectacular, intense research. 

After the meeting held last September with Michelangelo Pistoletto, this one with Plessi gives continuity to a series of dialogues on contemporary art that does not deny the ancient one, but rather shows it in a new light, reflecting Palazzo Collicola’s Modern Art Gallery’s relation with its classical picture gallery at the historical apartment. 
The appointment is also part of the program of Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura.

Fabrizio Plessi was born in 1940 in Regio Emilia, but lives and works in Venice, Italy.  Countless participations in important exhibitions at national and international level include the Venice Biennale, Kassel Documenta or large anthological exhibitions held in various museums around the world: from the Guggenheim in New York to that in Bilbao, from the Civic Museum of Reggio Emilia to the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, from the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin to the IVAM in Valencia, from the MoCA in San Diego to the Ludwig Museum in Budapest and Koblenz, from the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover to the Museum of Modern Art in Mallorca, from the Kunsthistorisches in Vienna to the Foundation Mirò in Barcelona. In 2011 the Venice Pavilion of the Venice Biennale reopened after years with an impressive exhibition by Plessi entitled Vertical Seas.

Suggestive are his site-specific installations created for ancient and monumental spaces such as Piazza San Marco in Venice, the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento, the Lonja in Palma de Maiorca, the Sala dei Giganti in Palazzo Te in Mantua or the Terme di Caracalla in Rome, demonstrating a passion for classicism and spectacularity confirmed also by the electronic sets created for Titanic, Icarus, The Threepenny Opera, Romeo and Juliet, set to music by composers such as Philipp Glass and Michael Nyman.
In 2015 he represented the Belarusian Pavilion for Expo Milano with a monumental electronic sculpture and the Liquid Life / Liquid Life exhibition was held in Venice at the Arsenale and Galleria G. Franchetti Ca ’d’Oro exhibition venues; in 2017 he designed Fenix DNA for the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, a suggestive total, immersive and multisensory work of art, while in 2018 he held a solo exhibition at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

At the Brenner Pass, the futuristic Plessi Museum was inaugurated in November 2013, a huge work of architecture, sculpture and design that perfectly integrates with the naturalistic vision of the surrounding environment.
For ten years he taught “Technology Humanization” at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne.

www.fabrizioplessi.net

IL DIRITTO AD ESSERE CRESCIUTO (Italian for “The Right To Be Raised”)
Friday 6 December | cinema Sala Pegasus | h 18.00

Projection of the film CAFARNAO by Nadine Labaki, on the occasion of the International Day of Children Rights

SPOLETO CARD DECEMBER GUIDED VISITS SCHEDULE

Having the SPOLETO CARD allows for joining the guided visits for free; without the card, the price is € 3.00, plus the museum ticket, where applicable.

Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel e Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it

Immaculate Conception’s Fair

Sunday 8 December, h 8.00 – 20.00
viale Trento e Trieste (station’s approach)

SANTA AND THE RED CROSS
Sunday 8 December | via Fratelli Cervi and piazza della Libertà | h 10.00
visit to the museumm of the former Spoleto Norcia Railway and walk towards Santa’s house

Gallery Concerts
2019/2020 Season

Sunday 8 December 2019 at 11 at the Sala Pegasus in Piazza G. Bovio, Spoleto, the first concert of the new season organised by Officina d’Arte e Tessuti will take place.

As usual, curators identified a specific period and analysed it, to offer the audience a reading of the historical, artistic context, to define connections between music and visual arts in an acoustically perfect, architecturally stimulating environment, not unlike how the gallery organises its contemporary art exhibitions.
Last year’s theme was Romanticism, in particular the romantic lied, while this year the focus is on the XXth Century. “XXth-century Musical Routes” is the title of this edition, that opens on December 8 with a performance dedicated to two fundamental authors of modern and contemporary music, Alban Berg e Paul Hindemith.

PROGRAMME

PAUL HINDEMITH
Vierzehn leichte Stücke
Kanonische Variationen
ALBAN BERG
Sieben frühe Lieder
Sonata op.1

PERFORMERS

NYLA van INGEN Soprano
GUSTAVO GASPERINI Violin
MONICA PONTINI Violin
LUCIA SORCI Piano