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Rome on Stage in September
Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - July 20th, 2010
From September 5th to 15th at the Roman Culture Museum will start the “Scattered, as a sight, between Greece and Rome” project. This is a theatrical project supported and acted by TFN Company falling within the Rome on Stage events program. Scattered, as a sight, between Greece and Rome project wants to act the mixture of Roman and Greek cultures through two classical performances: the Roman “Aululariadi” written by Plauto and directed by A. Serafini and the Greek “Women at Parliament” written by Aristofane adapted by Stefania Maccari and directed by Serafini.
The Culture Roman Museum will be enlivened by the greek and the roman ancient comedies for ten days. The Museum collects everything about the development of the roman culture in 1200 square meters, within some plaster works emulating some Greeks sculptures and representing the commixture between the cultures. This is the reason that drove the TFN Company to choose this place for their representations. (more…)
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The hidden Rome unveiled by the summer sunshine
Posted in Events in Rome - July 15th, 2010
The hidden Rome, the secret Rome, the real ancient Rome, forgotten, maybe. The summer sunbeams will enlighten the invisible Rome. We are talking about some archeological wonders, often named but seldom showed.
These mysterious places will be unveiled during some daily and magical nocturnal guided tours. Everyone will be allowed to visit, for example, the Livenza Street Hypogeum, the Pomponio’s Barrow in Porta Latina, the Mitreo of the Ercole’s Ara Massima, the Cisterns and the Seven Hall along the Cristoforo Colombo’s way. This wonderful places maintained their mysterious Aura from age to age tanks to their “minor places” settlement. From today they will returned to public attention. The visitors, who will exclusively access these immeasurable archeological relevance places, will feel like discoverers. Some meetings will be set up in that places with historians, archeologist and Roman ruins specialist, to inform the visitors about the wonders their will look at.
In the ancient Rome fascination some other events will take place. The summer sunshine will bring readings, sunset concerts and Yoga lesson inside these revealed places.
This is what Roman Passion for his roots bring to his public. The Board of Culture at Rome Municipality will bring the tourists attention on his archeological estate.
Find out the archeological events timetable at the Rome Municipality events site and book your Hotel in Rome.
» Read more The hidden Rome unveiled by the summer sunshine
Villa Torlonia music festival in Rome: architecture and jazz
Posted in Events in Rome - July 6th, 2010
On July 18th and 19th 2010 Villa Torlonia Music Festival 2010 will take place at Casino Nobile of Villa Torlonia. For two day from 10 pm small shows and great jazz music dedicate to Billy Holiday and Miles Davis will enjoy the public of Villa Torlonia. Claudio Santamaria e Carolina Crescentini, two Italian actors, will present to you the show.
Villa Torlonia is an histrorical place located on Via Nomentana. At first Villa Torlonia was an agricultural estate built up by the Pamphiljs in the XVII century. Purchased by the Colonnas and the by the Torlonias families, it was renovated by Giuseppe Valadier, Giovan Battista Caretti e Stefano Japelli in the XIX century. Villa Torlonia, become the Mussolini abode during the fascism thanks to a rent-grant of the Prince of Torlonia, it still maintain the same structure of the XIX century.
Today Villa Torlonia is an estate of the Rome municipality. It can still show to the public the wonderful gardens and a great compound, composed by: (more…)
The Villa de’ Medici gardens host the summer cinefestival
Posted in Events in Rome - July 6th, 2010
From july 12th to 23rd a 10 days of cinema will take place at Villa de’ Medici Gardens. The cinefestival will be offered by l’Académie de France à Rome and it will be called Étoiles Mystérieuses: it wants to celebrate two wonderful actress, Delphine Seyrig e Claudia Cardinale, through Resnais, Monicelli,Truffault and Zurlini films.
The screenings will take place in a historical garden. As the legend says, in these gardens Messalina, the roman emperor Claudio’s wife, had been killed and her ghost still inhabits this place. At that time the gardens was called Horti Lucilliani.
In 1564 Villa de’ Medici was only a little house with a little vineyard of the Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi. This modest possession was purchased by the Giovanni Ricci di Montepulciano nephews. They committed the compound enlargement to Nanni Lippi, then to his son Annibale: someone says that Michelangelo works here too.
In 1576 the Villa was purchased by Ferdinando de’Medici. He accomplished the artworks. He committed the artifact to Bartolomeo Ammanati, who completed the gardens, burying a Roman Temple devoted to Fortuna, building the Parnaso panoramic view point and establishing an open air sculpture museum with the excavations findings. (more…)
Vivaldi at the Campidoglio in Rome: a ballet in Marco Aurelio Esedra
Posted in International events in the Capital - July 2nd, 2010
On Wednesday 7th of July at 9.30 pm the Marco Aurelio Esedra in Rome will host the Serata Vivaldi dance project. The Repertory Ensemble of the National Ballet Company’s dancers will draw a wonderful chorographical fresco of Vivaldi’s Four Season, directed by Giacomo Molinari and Vinicio Mannini. The representation will take place in the magical atmosphere of the Musei Capitolini.
The Marco Aurelio Esedra, the next stage of Vivaldi’s chorographical acts, has a great history. Built up between the Conservatori’s Palace and the Caffarelli’s Palace on Campidoglio, the Esedra represents the gateway between the oldest and the newer parts of the museum. This brightly space, realized by Carlo Aymonino and conceived as the pulsing heart of the museum, rises where at first rose the kitchen gardens of the Conservatori’s palace. (more…)
Ennio Flaiano at Ara Pacis Museum
Posted in Events in Rome - July 1st, 2010
Ara Pacis Museum will host the memory of Ennio Flaiano on Sunday July 4th. The event is called Travel Notes: a pleasant virtual journey in Rome. The wonderful Ara Pacis Museum, built by Meier one of the most important architects of this century, hosts this event within the framework of Rome on Stage, a all-summer festival.
This is one of the first meeting that Associazione Culturale Eventi Arte has setup: the cultural association decided to present Ennio Flaiano at first as his name still echoes along Rome’s ways for his writing and his screenplays. Flaiano loved and hated Rome; he lived Rome urban transformations among the 50s and the 60s, reporting roman people life style, their vices and their virtues.
What makes his notorious is his friendship and collaborationship with Federico Fellini. Whit Fellini he took part to a lot of films makings, writing screenplays and subjects for his films among which: Lo sceicco bianco, I vitelloni, La strada, 8 e mezzo, Giulietta degli spiriti. He wrote also a lot o other screenplays for other directors such as Rossellini, Damiani, Risi and Petri. Living the core of the cinematographic landscape of those years, Fellini wrote also a great number of stories, short stories and diaries: in 1947 he won the Premio Strega, the most important Italian literature prize, with “Tempo di uccidere” (Time to kill). Italian Literature environment celebrates Flaiano every year with the Flaiano Award. (more…)
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Rome celebrates Architecture
Posted in Fairs and festivals in Rome and province - May 31st, 2010
From June 9th to 12th Rome will think over herself, in occasion of the first edition of the Architecture Feast.
The Culture and Communication department of Rome, the Casa dell’Architettura and the Architects Order will present the Architecture feast as Index Urbis.
Three days of discussions, presentations, conferences, notable speeches and collateral events will find their real meaning in what Kevin Lynch wrote about Rome in The Image of the City (1960): “there isn’t a final results, just a never-ending succession of forms”. Rome will mirror herself both as the receptacle of a unique architectural estate and as a unique artistic ideas workoshop. (more…)
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Visit Coliseum by night
Posted in Events in Rome - May 27th, 2010
Would you like to visit Coliseum in his fairy under flood-lights atmosphere? This will be possible starting from June till September, on Tuesday and Saturday, from 9 pm to midnight in the occasion of the operation for the “Estate Romana” The Rome Summer Festival.
Awesome! But this is not enough. During this summer will be opened more Colosseo’s areas for the first time in this millennium. I’m talking about the Ipogeo Labyrinth and the Attic area. The labyrinth will be opened only for 10/12 person a time. The handicapped person will be allowed to access here and the Attic area thanks to a new elevator. (more…)
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Pinocchio’s Fairytale become a Broadway’s Musical at Teatro Sistina
Posted in Fairs and festivals in Rome and province - May 21st, 2010
After much waiting, the show Pinocchio – il Musical finally makes its debut in Rome at the Teatro Sistina.
Pinocchio – il Musical, as suggests the name, is a show dedicated to the famous and beloved Collodi’s fairy tale, staged by the Compagnia della Rancia. The story of the famous puppet will narrated through some songs of Phoo, which will be accompanied by dancing, sets, costumes and special effects that will leave you breathless. (more…)
Contemporary Art Fair in Rome: MACRO and MAXXI openings
Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - May 19th, 2010
The third ROMA – Road to contemporary Art lights up the Roman spring. From May 27th to 30th a week of contemporary art events and exhibitions will settle the fairs pavilions. Here will take place the MAXXI opening and the inauguration of some MACRO’s new areas.
THE FAIR
67 national and international galleries will settle the ROMA – Road to Contemporary art. MACRO Testaccio will be the unique fair centre.
MACRO Future and the Pelanda Pavilion (unequalled for his “pool structure”) will be the limelight of the fair. Outside the fair areas will be set up a big object art’s exhibition, a bar, a restaurant and a lounge area in which performances and dj-sets will take place.
Everyday open from 4 pm to 12 pm. Sunday from 11 am to 8 pm. (more…)
Rome on Stage in September
Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - July 20th, 2010
From September 5th to 15th at the Roman Culture Museum will start the “Scattered, as a sight, between Greece and Rome” project. This is a theatrical project supported and acted by TFN Company falling within the Rome on Stage events program. Scattered, as a sight, between Greece and Rome project wants to act the mixture of Roman and Greek cultures through two classical performances: the Roman “Aululariadi” written by Plauto and directed by A. Serafini and the Greek “Women at Parliament” written by Aristofane adapted by Stefania Maccari and directed by Serafini.
The Culture Roman Museum will be enlivened by the greek and the roman ancient comedies for ten days. The Museum collects everything about the development of the roman culture in 1200 square meters, within some plaster works emulating some Greeks sculptures and representing the commixture between the cultures. This is the reason that drove the TFN Company to choose this place for their representations. (more…)
The hidden Rome unveiled by the summer sunshine
Posted in Events in Rome - July 15th, 2010
The hidden Rome, the secret Rome, the real ancient Rome, forgotten, maybe. The summer sunbeams will enlighten the invisible Rome. We are talking about some archeological wonders, often named but seldom showed.
These mysterious places will be unveiled during some daily and magical nocturnal guided tours. Everyone will be allowed to visit, for example, the Livenza Street Hypogeum, the Pomponio’s Barrow in Porta Latina, the Mitreo of the Ercole’s Ara Massima, the Cisterns and the Seven Hall along the Cristoforo Colombo’s way. This wonderful places maintained their mysterious Aura from age to age tanks to their “minor places” settlement. From today they will returned to public attention. The visitors, who will exclusively access these immeasurable archeological relevance places, will feel like discoverers. Some meetings will be set up in that places with historians, archeologist and Roman ruins specialist, to inform the visitors about the wonders their will look at.
In the ancient Rome fascination some other events will take place. The summer sunshine will bring readings, sunset concerts and Yoga lesson inside these revealed places.
This is what Roman Passion for his roots bring to his public. The Board of Culture at Rome Municipality will bring the tourists attention on his archeological estate.
Find out the archeological events timetable at the Rome Municipality events site and book your Hotel in Rome.
Villa Torlonia music festival in Rome: architecture and jazz
Posted in Events in Rome - July 6th, 2010
On July 18th and 19th 2010 Villa Torlonia Music Festival 2010 will take place at Casino Nobile of Villa Torlonia. For two day from 10 pm small shows and great jazz music dedicate to Billy Holiday and Miles Davis will enjoy the public of Villa Torlonia. Claudio Santamaria e Carolina Crescentini, two Italian actors, will present to you the show.
Villa Torlonia is an histrorical place located on Via Nomentana. At first Villa Torlonia was an agricultural estate built up by the Pamphiljs in the XVII century. Purchased by the Colonnas and the by the Torlonias families, it was renovated by Giuseppe Valadier, Giovan Battista Caretti e Stefano Japelli in the XIX century. Villa Torlonia, become the Mussolini abode during the fascism thanks to a rent-grant of the Prince of Torlonia, it still maintain the same structure of the XIX century.
Today Villa Torlonia is an estate of the Rome municipality. It can still show to the public the wonderful gardens and a great compound, composed by: (more…)
The Villa de’ Medici gardens host the summer cinefestival
Posted in Events in Rome - July 6th, 2010
From july 12th to 23rd a 10 days of cinema will take place at Villa de’ Medici Gardens. The cinefestival will be offered by l’Académie de France à Rome and it will be called Étoiles Mystérieuses: it wants to celebrate two wonderful actress, Delphine Seyrig e Claudia Cardinale, through Resnais, Monicelli,Truffault and Zurlini films.
The screenings will take place in a historical garden. As the legend says, in these gardens Messalina, the roman emperor Claudio’s wife, had been killed and her ghost still inhabits this place. At that time the gardens was called Horti Lucilliani.
In 1564 Villa de’ Medici was only a little house with a little vineyard of the Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi. This modest possession was purchased by the Giovanni Ricci di Montepulciano nephews. They committed the compound enlargement to Nanni Lippi, then to his son Annibale: someone says that Michelangelo works here too.
In 1576 the Villa was purchased by Ferdinando de’Medici. He accomplished the artworks. He committed the artifact to Bartolomeo Ammanati, who completed the gardens, burying a Roman Temple devoted to Fortuna, building the Parnaso panoramic view point and establishing an open air sculpture museum with the excavations findings. (more…)
Vivaldi at the Campidoglio in Rome: a ballet in Marco Aurelio Esedra
Posted in International events in the Capital - July 2nd, 2010
On Wednesday 7th of July at 9.30 pm the Marco Aurelio Esedra in Rome will host the Serata Vivaldi dance project. The Repertory Ensemble of the National Ballet Company’s dancers will draw a wonderful chorographical fresco of Vivaldi’s Four Season, directed by Giacomo Molinari and Vinicio Mannini. The representation will take place in the magical atmosphere of the Musei Capitolini.
The Marco Aurelio Esedra, the next stage of Vivaldi’s chorographical acts, has a great history. Built up between the Conservatori’s Palace and the Caffarelli’s Palace on Campidoglio, the Esedra represents the gateway between the oldest and the newer parts of the museum. This brightly space, realized by Carlo Aymonino and conceived as the pulsing heart of the museum, rises where at first rose the kitchen gardens of the Conservatori’s palace. (more…)
Ennio Flaiano at Ara Pacis Museum
Posted in Events in Rome - July 1st, 2010
Ara Pacis Museum will host the memory of Ennio Flaiano on Sunday July 4th. The event is called Travel Notes: a pleasant virtual journey in Rome. The wonderful Ara Pacis Museum, built by Meier one of the most important architects of this century, hosts this event within the framework of Rome on Stage, a all-summer festival.
This is one of the first meeting that Associazione Culturale Eventi Arte has setup: the cultural association decided to present Ennio Flaiano at first as his name still echoes along Rome’s ways for his writing and his screenplays. Flaiano loved and hated Rome; he lived Rome urban transformations among the 50s and the 60s, reporting roman people life style, their vices and their virtues.
What makes his notorious is his friendship and collaborationship with Federico Fellini. Whit Fellini he took part to a lot of films makings, writing screenplays and subjects for his films among which: Lo sceicco bianco, I vitelloni, La strada, 8 e mezzo, Giulietta degli spiriti. He wrote also a lot o other screenplays for other directors such as Rossellini, Damiani, Risi and Petri. Living the core of the cinematographic landscape of those years, Fellini wrote also a great number of stories, short stories and diaries: in 1947 he won the Premio Strega, the most important Italian literature prize, with “Tempo di uccidere” (Time to kill). Italian Literature environment celebrates Flaiano every year with the Flaiano Award. (more…)
Rome celebrates Architecture
Posted in Fairs and festivals in Rome and province - May 31st, 2010
From June 9th to 12th Rome will think over herself, in occasion of the first edition of the Architecture Feast.
The Culture and Communication department of Rome, the Casa dell’Architettura and the Architects Order will present the Architecture feast as Index Urbis.
Three days of discussions, presentations, conferences, notable speeches and collateral events will find their real meaning in what Kevin Lynch wrote about Rome in The Image of the City (1960): “there isn’t a final results, just a never-ending succession of forms”. Rome will mirror herself both as the receptacle of a unique architectural estate and as a unique artistic ideas workoshop. (more…)
Visit Coliseum by night
Posted in Events in Rome - May 27th, 2010
Would you like to visit Coliseum in his fairy under flood-lights atmosphere? This will be possible starting from June till September, on Tuesday and Saturday, from 9 pm to midnight in the occasion of the operation for the “Estate Romana” The Rome Summer Festival.
Awesome! But this is not enough. During this summer will be opened more Colosseo’s areas for the first time in this millennium. I’m talking about the Ipogeo Labyrinth and the Attic area. The labyrinth will be opened only for 10/12 person a time. The handicapped person will be allowed to access here and the Attic area thanks to a new elevator. (more…)
Pinocchio’s Fairytale become a Broadway’s Musical at Teatro Sistina
Posted in Fairs and festivals in Rome and province - May 21st, 2010
After much waiting, the show Pinocchio – il Musical finally makes its debut in Rome at the Teatro Sistina.
Pinocchio – il Musical, as suggests the name, is a show dedicated to the famous and beloved Collodi’s fairy tale, staged by the Compagnia della Rancia. The story of the famous puppet will narrated through some songs of Phoo, which will be accompanied by dancing, sets, costumes and special effects that will leave you breathless. (more…)
Contemporary Art Fair in Rome: MACRO and MAXXI openings
Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - May 19th, 2010
The third ROMA – Road to contemporary Art lights up the Roman spring. From May 27th to 30th a week of contemporary art events and exhibitions will settle the fairs pavilions. Here will take place the MAXXI opening and the inauguration of some MACRO’s new areas.
THE FAIR
67 national and international galleries will settle the ROMA – Road to Contemporary art. MACRO Testaccio will be the unique fair centre.
MACRO Future and the Pelanda Pavilion (unequalled for his “pool structure”) will be the limelight of the fair. Outside the fair areas will be set up a big object art’s exhibition, a bar, a restaurant and a lounge area in which performances and dj-sets will take place.
Everyday open from 4 pm to 12 pm. Sunday from 11 am to 8 pm. (more…)