The exhibition The Hidden Theatre. A story in images is a collection of unpublished photographs dating back to the years of the discovery of the Roman Theatre of Spoleto and its unearthing, from 1938 to 1960.
The exhibition, promoted by the Polo Museale dell’Umbria – Museo Archeologico e Teatro Romano di Spoleto, in collaboration with Astra onlus and the Archivio di Stato di Perugia, section of Spoleto, shows photographs coming from the Accademia Etrusca di Cortona and from the archive of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale dell’Umbria. The exhibition reveals unpublished aspects of the discovery of the Roman theatre and the transformation of the complex of S.Agata from a judicial prison (1867-1957) to a museum.
The history of the monastery of S. Agata – already known thanks to the research of G. Curti, S. Di Sante Coaccioli, S. Gubbiotti, resulting in the 2011 documented book “The Roman Theatre and the former monastery of S.Agata. Chronicle of its transformations” – is now enriched by photographs taken by the then inspector archaeologist Umberto Ciotti, who documented every step of the demolition and excavation work.
Polo Museale dell’Umbria
Piazza Giordano Bruno 10 – Perugia – tel. 075 5759612
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto
Via Sant’Agata 18A – tel. 0743 223277
National Museum of the Duchy (Spoleto) and Temple of Clitunno (Campello sul Clitunno)
The intentional reuse of Roman worked stone in the Lombard Period
Organized by Associazione Italia Langobardorum and Polo Museale dell’Umbria
Opening: Tuesday, December 18 at 12:00 at the Temple of Clitunno and at 15:00 at the National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto.
The respect and emulation of the ancient, very widespread in the Lombard period, is one of the most obvious phenomena of that process of acculturation and integration of Lombards, very important for their affirmation. It is along the Flaminia Nova, in the stretch between Spoleto and Campello, that one can find numerous monuments that testify to the reuse of ancient materials in buildings of the early Middle Ages and Romanesque age, many of which arose near cemetery areas outside the city.
The exhibition is part of the cycle of events entitled Longobardi in vetrina (Lombards in the limelight), a project within a series of activities promoted by the Associazione Italia Langobardorum – management structure of the UNESCO site Longobards in Italy. The places of power (568-774 A.D.) of which the municipalities of Spoleto and Campello are founding members – for the dissemination of knowledge of Lombard culture.
The exhibitions will be accompanied by educational and training activities and conferences that makes this project the first nationwide exhibition dedicated to the Lombard people, the largest in terms of extension and involvement of institutions and archaeological heritage. The 15 exhibitions will all be inaugurated by the end of January 2018 and will be collected in a single printed catalogue and in a single virtual exhibition created with MOVIO, the multifunctional open source platform promoted by MiBAC, used to create and publish exhibition guides, digital extensions of real and virtual exhibitions.
www.longobardinvetrina.it
Longobardi in vetrina is part of the project Exchange and sharing between museums to enhance the Lombard heritage for which the Association has obtained from MiBACT the admission to funding under Law 77/2006 ‘Measures for the protection and use of UNESCO sites’.
between innovation and tradition
27 June-8 October 2019
State Archives – Spoleto Section
Largo G. Ermini
SPOLETO
The exhibition Spoleto 1960, il terzo Festival dei Due Mondi (Spoleto 1960. The third Festival of Two Worlds), curated by the Spoleto Section of the State Archives and open until September 30, 2019, presents archival documents, posters and photographs of the time.
“At the beginning of the ’60s – wrote Giovanni Toscano and Sandro Morichelli – the Festival was already a consolidated reality. Of course there were some difficulties, especially economic ones, but there was a common desire to move forward. One evening, in the town council, the doors were ideally closed: we won’t leave here until we find the money for the Festival. Spoleto was becoming an important point of reference for Italian and international culture and we could not go back.”
The third Festival dei Due Mondi has been the longest in the event’s history (8 June – 10 July 1960), and the final concert in Piazza del Duomo was among those shows that for the first time RAI will decide to broadcast live, along with the opera “The Prince of Homburg” by Hans Werner Henze at the Teatro Nuovo. RAI also chose, for recorded television footage, the opening opera “La Bohème”, broadcast nationwide on June 9 at 21.05, and the “chamber concerts given at Caio Melisso”, also known as aperitif concerts and then “Concerti di Mezzogiorno”, considered the main innovation of that year. The city is committed with all its strength to improve its image and services and, in order to achieve the third edition of the Festival, the City Council of Spoleto unanimously decides a contribution of 2,000,000 lire. In the same way, the role of the local tourist promotion agency turns out to be decisive at that stage. Finally, people of Spoleto living in Rome decide to establish an association of “Amici di Spoleto” (Friends of the Festival), which will later be called “Amici di Spoleto” (Friends of Spoleto).
Press info: aciemmearte@gmail.com, mob. 339.5993281.
Section State Archives of Spoleto – Largo G. Ermini – 06049 Spoleto (Pg) – tel. 0743. 43789 – e-mail: sass.aspg@gmail.com
Comune di Spoleto – Piazza del Comune, 1 – 06049 Spoleto (PG) – Office +39(0)743.218.249 – +39(0)743.218.276 – email: ufficio.stampa@comunespoleto.gov.it
New setting and exhibitions
Modern Art Gallery “G. Carandente”
Side events
Loris Cecchini
Hypermeasures
Bruno Ceccobelli
MarmoriiMarmorei
curated by Marco Tonelli
Artistic Director at Palazzo Collicola
Opening
Saturday 29 June – 11.00 a.m.
PALAZZO COLLICOLA
Spoleto
Almost twenty years after its inauguration as the seat of the permanent collection of the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Spoleto, dedicated to the figure of curator and art historian Giovanni Carandente (1920-2009), Palazzo Collicola starts a new chapter under the direction of art critic Marco Tonelli.
The collection was completely redesigned, brought to the second floor of the building and rearranged according to a new museum criterion, and enriched with educational facilities and works.
The starting point of the collection will be the strong presence of modern art in the city of Spoleto, to which some thematic rooms have been dedicated, starting with the one on the 1962 exhibition Sculptures in the city (participated by the most important sculptors of the time), through the various editions of the Spoleto Prize (1953-1968), and works by Pascali, Ceroli, Uncini, Moreni, Turcato, Morlotti, Vacchi, and the Group of 6 from Spoleto.
There is a consistent presence of 30 among sculptures and drawings by Leoncillo, born in Spoleto in 1915, from his initial period to the naturalistic, neo-Cubist and especially informal one, with emblematic works including Affinità patetiche, Pietà or Corpo dolente set up in the long and bright gallery at the second floor of the building.
The itinerary is composed of various rooms displaying works that will be periodically subject to rotation, includes sections dedicated to the Forma 1 group or to the Scuola di San Lorenzo, to abstract art (from Melotti to Biggi, Verna, Bendini and Asdrubali), to figuration (including Ontani, Di Stasio and Barni), with particular attention to works by modern sculptors such as Caro, Chadwick, Arnaldo and Giò Pomodoro, Franchina and Cuschera.
Also important is the presence of works by conceptual artists such as Dibbets, Mochetti, Patella, Garutti and above all Sol Lewitt, who lived in Spoleto and in 2000 created the spectacular walldrawing Band of Color n.951 in Palazzo Collicola.
Alexander Calder (present with mobiles, wire sculptures and gouaches) and Beverly Pepper, especially in light of their relationship with Carandente (to whose donation we owe, among other things, a large part of the collection, that also includes the acquisitions of the Premio Spoleto, and bequests of artists and individuals), have their own sections, which significantly open and close the exhibition.
On the occasion of the re-design, the collection has been enriched with new works, including Gianni Asdrubali, Gastone Biggi, Stefano Di Stasio, Paola Gandolfi, Leoncillo, Francesco Lo Savio, Afranio Metelli, Nunzio, Pizzi Cannella and Francesco Somaini.
The three inner rooms of the Gallery are dedicated to drawings and graphic works by Leoncillo and Burri, by Italian artists (including Guttuso, Melotti, Raphael, Lo Savio, Gnoli, Accardi, Capogrossi) and foreign artists (including David Smith, Chillida, Scarpitta, Moore, Chadwick).
Finally, the nucleus of about 100 photographs by Ugo Mulas taken in 1962 during the exhibition Sculture nella città (Sculptures in the City) is important, works that, due to the delicacy of the supports, will be exhibited following periodic rotations.
SIDE EVENTS
Loris Cecchini: Hypermeasures
The new setting of the Spoleto Modern Art Gallery will be accompanied by two temporary interventions designed specifically for this occasion and for the external and internal spaces of Palazzo Collicola.
The first of the two is Loris Cecchini’s Hypermeasures, a special base in front of the museum entrance with a sculpture built with modules of light metal, while inside the gallery at the Piano Nobile three sculptures made with the same principle of the Alfa Alfa and Waterbones series will be suspended, linking the mechanical and technological naturalness of these ramifications and rhizomatic hyperfetations with the floral motifs of the gallery’s frescoes, typical of the so-called Spoleto baroque of the early XVIII century.
With the support of the Galleria Continua (San Gimignano/Bejing/LesMoulins/Habana)
Bruno Ceccobelli: MarmoriiMarmorei
In the fifteen rooms of the gallery at the Piano Nobile, Bruno Ceccobelli has also created a route consisting of sculptures in marble and stone, a sort of journey entitled MarmoriiMarmorei, which invites visitors to cross the rooms and meditate on the sense of Fortune and its circularity. The very symbolism of the works and the route (with a beginning and a point of return following the same itinerary), the presence of fragmentary sculptures that seem to be finds and discoveries, are proposed as an initiatory journey and clue in search of meanings and truths, which can never be given in an absolute and clear sense, but evocative and spiritual.
With the support of the company “I Sassi” from Assisi.
Protte, August 12-18, 2019
19th Village Feast
Music and dance shows, food stands, folk games.
Organization: Proloco Protte
Info: Facebook page Proloco Protte
THE FORTRESS AT DAWN: CONCERTS
Sunday 18 August, 06:20 a.m.
Cinema, Jazz and Tango: Summer Emotion.
Sax by Federico Mondelci with UmbriaEnsemble
Saturday 24 August, 06:30 a.m.
“Paganini’s Follies”, at the roots of instrumental virtuosity
Performed by UmbriaEnsemble
Free entrance
Courtyard of Palazzo Collicola
Imaginary & Imaginations
Readings at dusk for Maggio d’Estate
Our dreams
Centro Civico di San Nicolò
Notes and Letters | French Colours
with Maria Rosaria Omaggio and Andrea Tomasini
Organised by the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale TLS
FEAST OF TYPICAL SPOLETO MEAT AND “FRITTELLA”
Dancing evenings, shows, excursions, food stands.
Opening of the tavern at 19.30
Organization: Pro Loco di Baiano
Facebook: Sagra delle Carni Tipiche Spoletine e della Frittella
THE FORTRESS AT DAWN: CONCERTS
by UmbriaEnsemble
Sunday 18 August, 06.20 hrs.
Cinema, Jazz and Tango: Summer Emotion.
Federico Mondelci’s Sax with UmbriaEnsemble
Saturday 24 August, 06.30 hrs.
“Paganini’s Follies”, at the roots of instrumental virtuosity
Free entrance
Mid-August Events
9/15 August
Sunday 25 August
TO THE DISCOVERY OF TRADITIONS – “Potatoes: dug up, cooked and eaten”
10:00 a.m. Meeting along the SS3 towards Terni, at the intersection of Torrecola; we will then continue towards Acquaiura.
Arrival on the field, potato harvesting and, hopefully, chicory!
During the harvest bruschetta and bread rubbed with tomato will be offered
12:30 pm Lunch at Restaurant La Luna Piena di Montebibico
Menu: Starter – Tagliatelle alla Contadina with vegetables – Gnocchi with goose sauce
Mountain Roast – Peasant Potatoes – Mixed Salad – Dessert – Water – Wine – Coffee
Participation fee: Children up to 5 years free – Children up to 10 years € 12,00
Adults Members € 20,00 – Non Members € 22,00
INFO AND RESERVATIONS:
Ph. 0743/46484 – Mob. 331/8855493 – 349/3722424
E-mail: prospoleto@gmail.com
Imaginary and Imaginations.
OUR MOON
Tuesday, August 27th, 7 p.m.
Courtyard of Palazzo Collicola
After nightmares and science fiction, the third appointment of “Imaginary and imaginations” readings at dusk are dedicated to OUR MOON.
Readings will begin at 7 p.m. in the courtyard of Palazzo Collicola and they will end at 11.30 p.m. A short break with a snack is scheduled at 8.45 p.m.
“Imaginary and Imaginations” readings at dusk are organized by the municipal libraries Carducci and Carandente with the collaboration of Andrea Tomasini.
Words and music of the Neapolitan tradition
Palazzo Collicola, Wednesday 28 August, 7 p.m.
Included in the Spoleto d’Estate 2019 programme, Neapolitan Contaminations: Words and Music is scheduled on Wednesday, August 28 at 19 at Palazzo Collicola.
Music and writing, the two complementary souls of Neapolitan culture, will meet in this show to make us think while having fun.
“Contamination between words and music, respecting the Neapolitan tradition, this is the show of and with Maria Rosaria Omaggio accompanied by Maestro Mirco Bonucci’s guitar and mandolin. The most beloved and known songs of the Neapolitan repertoire will alternate with readings from the writings of great Neapolitan authors such as Eduardo De Filippo, Matilde Serao and Anna Maria Ortese.
La SpoletoNorcia… in mtb, the largest cycling event in central Italy, which attracts every year thousands of experienced cyclists and non-experts, families and lovers of nature and slow tourism, will be back from August 30 to September 1, 2019.
There will be 5 routes available to participants, to be chosen according to your technical skills:
FAMILY 14 Km, 250 mt+ dsl
CLASSIC 38 Km, 900 mt+ dsl
HARD 60’s 62 Km, 1.390 mt+ dsl
HARD 80’s 78 Km, 1.850 mt+ dsl
RANDONNÈE 200 Km, 3.000 mt+ dsl
Info and inscriptions: www.laspoletonorciainmtb.it
With the Spoleto Card you can participate in guided tours of the cultural heritage of the city of Spoleto at a reduced rate of € 3.00 per person.
Those who do not have a Spoleto Card can still participate in the guided tours at a cost of € 4 per person (in addition to the museum ticket, where it is provided).
The Spoleto Card is the integrated ticket that allows you to visit 5 museums and 1 church.
The Spoleto Card can be purchased at city museums and hotels.
Red Card: € 9.50
Green Card: € 8,00 (from 15 to 25 years old, over 65 years old, groups of at least 15 people)
Edited by: Sistema Museo, in collaboration with the Municipality of Spoleto.
For information: www.spoletocard.it
urban trekking and activities for families
from 7 April to 4 October 2019
The intentional reuse of Roman worked stone in the Lombard Period
18 December 2018 I 6 October 2019
Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto and Tempietto sul Clitunno – Campello sul Clitunno
Manual Intelligence: Craft Production and Techniques in the Lombard Period
24 January I 21 July 2019
Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
On the occasion of the exhibitions The intentional re-use of Roman worked stone in the Lombard period and Manual Intelligence: Craft Production and Techniques in the Lombard Period included in the project Longobardi in vetrina by the Associazione Italia Langobardorum and with the contribution of Mibac, the City of Spoleto and the City of Campello sul Clitunno, Sistema Museo offers a program of free activities, guided tours, urban trekking and activities for families, aimed at spreading the knowledge of Lombard culture.
From Sunday, April 7 to Friday, October 4, 2019, eleven events are scheduled that allow you to deepen many aspects, from the techniques of metalworking, customs and traditions, to the intentional reuse of ancient material by the Longobards, thanks to the precious artifacts exceptionally exposed in the rooms of the National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto.
Calendar
Sunday 7 April, 15:30 – Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
Guided tour_Manual Intelligence. Metallurgy in the Lombard period.
Monday, April 22, 11:00 – Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
Trekking in the city_On the trail of the Lombards. The intentional reuse of Roman worked stone in the monuments of the Lombard period.
Thursday 25 April, 11:00 – Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
Trekking in the city_On the trail of the Lombards. The intentional reuse of Roman worked stone in the monuments of the Lombard period.
Sunday 28 April, 11:00 – Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
Trekking in the city_On the trail of the Lombards. The intentional reuse of Roman worked stone in the monuments of the Lombard period.
Sunday 5 May, 16:00 – Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
Activity for families_A jump back in time. Laboratory on metalworking.
Sunday 26 May, 16:00 – Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
Activities for families_Giving shape to Lombard art. Sculpture workshop.
Sunday 2 June, 15:30 – Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
Guided tour_Weapons, long beards and precious jewels . . the Lombards! Customs and traditions in the Lombard period.
Sunday 9 June, 16:00 – Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
Activities for families_At the table of King Rotari. Lombard food and eating habits
Sunday 7 July, 12:00 – Temple on Clitunno – Campello on Clitunno
Guided tour_The Temple on the Clitunno… a little Lombard treasure!
Sunday 1 September, 15:30 – Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
Guided tour_Weapons, long beards and precious jewels . . the Lombards! Customs and traditions in the Lombard period.
Friday 4 October, 15:30 – Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
Guided tour_The Lombards and intentional reuse of Roman worked stone.
Appointments are free of charge, except for the museum’s admission fee, in accordance with current regulations.
Meet at the ticket office of Rocca Albornoz in Spoleto and at the Tempietto sul Clitunno (Sunday, July 7).
Reservation is always recommended.
For information and reservations: Museum System I 0743.224952 I museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
Sunday September 1, 4.30 p.m.
Monteluco – Sacred Forest
St. Francis and the Sacred Forest
Monologue by Stefano de Majo, with live music by Fabrizio Longaroni (keyboard, trumpet and vocals) and Gustavo Gasperini (violin)
A play for actor and musical duo in the unique setting of the Sacred Forest of Monteluco, where the conversion of the Poor Man of Assisi took place. It is Francis himself, alive and real in his humble habit and barefoot, who personally recalls his frantic and dissolute earthly experience until his dazzling encounter with the Sacred Forest of Monteluco, where he heard the voice of God for the first time.
Fabrizio Longaroni: his artistic experiences include collaborations with Ennio Morricone, Franco Zeffirelli and Amy Stewart
Gustavo Gasperini: numerous international collaborations, already in the staff of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and currently engaged with Gino Paoli and the Chamber Orchestra of Perugia.
Author and actor Stefano de Majo trained at the Theatre School of Anna D’Abbraccio; he acted with Gastone Moschin, Edoardo Siravo, Ben Gazzara, Francesco Salvi, Vanessa Gravina, Fabio Bussotti, Eleonora Giorgi, Serena Grandi. He wrote two novels, two collections of short stories and poems.
+++POSTPONED TO 27-28-29 SEPTEMBER+++
BOOPER – BEER’N’ROLL FEST
Craft beer festival
Piazza Pianciani, Corso Mazzini, Piazza della Libertà
Included in the Spoleto d’Estate 2019 programme, following the success of last years, the experience of the Bat Night at Monteluco is back on Friday, September 6, a day dedicated to bats and celebrated throughout Europe.
The event, organized by the Pro Loco of Monteluco and the City of Spoleto in collaboration with Hyla Nature Studio, was created to raise awareness about the only mammals capable of flying.
Participants will meet in the meadows of Monteluco at 6 pm.
Several activities will begin and continue until 8 pm: construction of bat boxes, small shelters for bats, a workshop for children with toy bats, excursion to the Sacred Forest to discover the treasures of Natura 2000, visit to the exhibition on bats and monitoring of bats in bat boxes.
From 8.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. Dinner with fixed-price menu (euro 18).
Following the convivial moment, after the greetings from the Councillor for the Environment Maria Rita Zengoni, the night excursion will begin.
The monitoring and recognition techniques illustrated in the afternoon will be put into practice: a bat-detector will be used to listen to ultrasounds emitted by bats, bats will be captured and released using a mist-net, individual species will be identified and their biology and habits will be illustrated.
For information and reservations:
Studio Naturalistico Hyla Emi Petruzzi 3492254072 and Ufficio Ambiente del Comune di Spoleto Federica Andreini 3351646004
Friday, 6 September 20.30 | Saturday, 7 September 20.30 | Sunday, 8 September 17.00
73rd SEASON OF THE EXPERIMENTAL OPERA THEATRE IN SPOLETO
Caio Melisso Theatre
RE DI DONNE (WOMEN’S KING)
Absolute first execution
Chamber opera in five scenes for 4 singers, instrumental and electronic ensemble to a libretto by Cristina Battocletti and music by John Palmer.
The opera was specially commissioned by the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale of Spoleto.
“The theme is feminicide, which is explored within a fatal triangle that will lead to the final tragedy. The characters’ different psychological aspects are treated in a musical dialectic where the singers’ dialogues are also the instruments’ dialogues. Word and sound become two aspects of the same human dimension” (John Palmer). Moreover, says director Pizzech: “The scenic design conceived with Stanisci is based on the body not as an element of sacredness, not as an important element of the individual, but as “the image”, which determines violent impulses and intentions: possess without love. Costumes by Clelia De Angelis.
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli”
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it
www.tls-belli.it
For reservations and ticket sales
Ticket Italia 0743.222889
www.ticketitalia.com Spoleto Box 25 – Piazza della Vittoria, 25 0743.47967
For information: 338.8562727
+++POSTPONED TO 27-28-29 SEPTEMBER+++
BOOPER – BEER’N’ROLL FEST
Craft beer festival
Piazza Pianciani, Corso Mazzini, Piazza della Libertà
Friday, 6 September 20.30 | Saturday, 7 September 20.30 | Sunday, 8 September 17.00
73rd SEASON OF THE EXPERIMENTAL OPERA THEATRE IN SPOLETO
Caio Melisso Theatre
RE DI DONNE (WOMEN’S KING)
Absolute first execution
Chamber opera in five scenes for 4 singers, instrumental and electronic ensemble to a libretto by Cristina Battocletti and music by John Palmer.
The opera was specially commissioned by the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale of Spoleto.
“The theme is feminicide, which is explored within a fatal triangle that will lead to the final tragedy. The characters’ different psychological aspects are treated in a musical dialectic where the singers’ dialogues are also the instruments’ dialogues. Word and sound become two aspects of the same human dimension” (John Palmer). Moreover, says director Pizzech: “The scenic design conceived with Stanisci is based on the body not as an element of sacredness, not as an important element of the individual, but as “the image”, which determines violent impulses and intentions: possess without love. Costumes by Clelia De Angelis.
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli”
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it
www.tls-belli.it
For reservations and ticket sales
Ticket Italia 0743.222889
www.ticketitalia.com Spoleto Box 25 – Piazza della Vittoria, 25 0743.47967
For information: 338.8562727
+++POSTPONED TO 27-28-29 SEPTEMBER+++
BOOPER – BEER’N’ROLL FEST
Craft beer festival
Piazza Pianciani, Corso Mazzini, Piazza della Libertà
The Antiques Market takes place every second Sunday of the month.
On Sunday September 8, the market will take place in Via Benedetto Egio, Piazza Carducci and Viale G. Matteotti’s gardens, from early morning to sunset.
It offers different types of objects, handicrafts, antiques, furniture, jewelry, books, paintings etc.
With the Spoleto Card you can participate in guided tours of the cultural heritage of the city of Spoleto at a reduced rate of € 3.00 per person.
Those who do not have a Spoleto Card can still participate in the guided tours at a cost of € 4 per person (in addition to the museum ticket, where it is provided).
The Spoleto Card is the integrated ticket that allows you to visit 5 museums and 1 church.
The Spoleto Card can be purchased at city museums and hotels.
Red Card: € 9.50
Green Card: € 8,00 (from 15 to 25 years old, over 65 years old, groups of at least 15 people)
Edited by: Sistema Museo, in collaboration with the Municipality of Spoleto.
For information: www.spoletocard.it
Friday, 6 September 20.30 | Saturday, 7 September 20.30 | Sunday, 8 September 17.00
73rd SEASON OF THE EXPERIMENTAL OPERA THEATRE IN SPOLETO
Caio Melisso Theatre
RE DI DONNE (WOMEN’S KING)
Absolute first execution
Chamber opera in five scenes for 4 singers, instrumental and electronic ensemble to a libretto by Cristina Battocletti and music by John Palmer.
The opera was specially commissioned by the Experimental Opera Theatre in Spoleto.
“The theme is feminicide, which is explored within a fatal triangle that will lead to the final tragedy. The characters’ different psychological aspects are treated in a musical dialectic where the singers’ dialogues are also the instruments’ dialogues. Word and sound become two aspects of the same human dimension” (John Palmer). Moreover, says director Pizzech: “The scenic design conceived with Stanisci is based on the body not as an element of sacredness, not as an important element of the individual, but as “the image”, which determines violent impulses and intentions: possess without love. Costumes by Clelia De Angelis.
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli”
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it
www.tls-belli.it
For reservations and ticket sales
Ticket Italia 0743.222889
www.ticketitalia.com Spoleto Box 25 – Piazza della Vittoria, 25 0743.47967
For information: 338.8562727
Maria Rosaria Omaggio reads Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio’s love poems accompanied by fourteenth-century music performed by the Ensemble Compendium Musicum
The Mystery of Love: Laura, Beatrice and Fiammetta Rocca Albornoz. Sunday, September 8th. at 17.00
“The Mystery of Love: Laura, Beatrice and Fiammetta”, starring Maria Rosaria Omaggio, is a show of medieval music – performed with faithful copies of instruments of the time – and poems/songs chosen and recited by Maria Rosaria Omaggio. The event, scheduled at the Rocca Albornoz on Sunday 8 September, is scheduled at 17.00.
“The Mystery of Love: Laura, Beatrice and Fiammetta” celebrates those poets and writers who taught us to love; above all, those fathers of Italian language who have established the fundamental references of human sensitivity: Petrarch, Alighieri and Boccaccio. Music and ancient love songs recovered from the medieval tradition and performed by the Ensemble Compendium Musicum to create the ideal atmosphere of a journey that will culminate in the verses dedicated by the three Master poets to perfect love, which is the one dedicated to the Madonna.
The instruments presented, faithful copies of fourteenth-century iconography, range from plucked strings, rubbed strings, wind instruments, percussions, to voice, the Instrument par excellence. The musical part is entrusted to the Ensemble Compendium Musicum – composed of Valeria Puletti (Voice, Harp and Vielle) and Daniele Bernardini (Bagpipes, Straight Flutes, Tabor-Pipe, Double Flute, Percussion) – who will provide, the artists explain, “the soundtrack to the deep and sacred voice of Maria Rosaria Omaggio proposing the most evocative pages of the 14th century manuscripts through an emotional journey with unusual sounds. The musical program will retrace poetic and literary events through a mixture of sacred, profane, contrapuntal and monodic pieces, offering a wide, majestic and sometimes irreverent, timbral cross-section.
Laura and Beatrice embody the conflict that can be internal to each soul: the conflict between Petrarch’s carnal passion and Dante’s divine love. Boccaccio gives voice directly to woman character: Fiammetta is no longer an “object of love” told by a male voice, but she is a talking subject, an abandoned and desperate lover who seeks compassion from other women. Boccaccio’s woman – from a remote and unreachable idol and object of worship, as she was in the courteous tradition – becomes either the object of a male desire that must legitimately be realized, or a subject of legitimate carnal desire.
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Spoleto, 13 – 15 September – Piazza Garibaldi, Auditorium della Stella
Yet another stage for iStreet Food Gusto Solidale, the first Italian brand to organize events in which food and solidarity go hand in hand. The caravan will be in Spoleto from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 September, in Piazza Garibaldi, in front of the Auditorium della Stella.
Some among the best Italian food trucks will be present, offering various types of food, from the Ascoli olives to fish from the Adriatic sea, from hamburger to roasted mutton skewers, Argentinian meat, hot-dogs, and more. The best beer brands will also be featured.
In this Spoletan stage, iStreet Food will gather funds for the onlus “Gocce d’amore per l’Africa” (Love drops to Africa) for a construction of a school in Tanzania.
A rich musical programm will enliven the evenings: Friday 13 there will be a “Summer’s End” feast featuring dj Stefano Rinaldi and speaker Yuri Urbani. Saturday 14 at h 21 “Noche Latina”, featuring exhibitions of Cuban and Caribbean, followed by dj set ti late night. Sunday 15 at h 21 the unmissable “Banda dei Secchio”, followed by a dj set till the event will close.
Two workshops will be organised inside the Auditorium: one dedicated to children and comics, the other dedicated to make-up for both children and women, held by the Rinaldi bros: Giuseppe and Maria Rachele. A fair-trade stand by the association “Gocce d’amore per l’Africa” will also be present.
Admission to iStreet Food is free.
Bruno Ceccobelli – MormoriiMarmorei (Marble Murmuring)
Palazzo Collicola – Noble Apartment
On Friday 13 September, the opening of Scolpire la scultura della vita (Sculpting the Sculpture of Life) curated by Artistic Director Marco Tonelli is scheduled at Palazzo Collicola, at 17.30.
Besides ancient art, the museum of Palazzo Collicola hosts the “G. Carandente” Modern Art Gallery and the Noble Apartment’s Picture Gallery. MormoriiMarmorei is the exhibition of stone and marble sculptures by Bruno Ceccobelli that will end on September 29.
Starting from this occasion, the artist will explain the reasons of his making, living and thinking sculpture as a historical and private fact, lanked by the exhibition curator Marco Tonelli and by art historian and expert of ancient art Lorenzo Principi – Marignoli di Montecorona Foundation.
The occasion will be useful to identify the threads that tie the times of ancient and contemporary art in a single existential flow, in which sculpture does not arise as just a simple language or material tecnique, but as an affirmation of subjectivity and thought that goes beyond the forms to become concrete history, a perspective of a further future.
At 19.30, the artist himself will lead a visit to his own MormoriiMarmorei exhibition in the frame of the guided tour series Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura.
Bruno Ceccobelli was born on September 2, 1952 in Montecastello di Vibio (PG). He lives and works in Todi.
Artistically, he owes much to Toti Scialoja, with whom he graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, completing his eclectic youth formation studying Zen and Taoism.
A member of the “Nuova scuola romana” group of artists in the late 1970s, he initially follows a conceptual research, to head out then toward a pictorial abstraction that would land on a ground of true spiritual symbolism.
He held personal exhibitions at the Galleria Ferranti in Roma, Yvon Lambert in Paris, Salvatore Ala, Sperone Westwater and Jack Shainman in New York, Akira Ikeda in Nagoya, Studio Marconi in Milan, L’Attico in Rome and was featured in a number of collective exhibitions at home and abroad, such as the Quadriennale in Rome two editions of the Venice Biennale; other exhibitions took place in ancient archaeological and Renaissance spaces such as Villa Adriana in Tivoli, the Museo Nazionale Classense and Basilica di Sant’Apollinare in Classe in Ravenna, the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, the Palazzo Podestarile in Montelupo Fiorentino and at the Caffè Florian in Venice. In 2007 he performed a sugggestive intervention for the Fondazione Volume di Roma called Longa marcia post-temporale (Post-temporal Long March) while in 2018 he was invited by Barbara Rose to join the collective exhibition Painting After Post-Modernism at the Reggia di Caserta. He authored thick essays on art and philosophy, including Color bellezza, Tempo senza tempo della pittura and Gratiaplena: economia della grazia.
Friday, 13 September 21.00 | Saturday, 14 September 21.00 | Sunday, 15 September 17.00
73rd OPERA SEASON
Caio Melisso Theatre
DROSILLA AND NESSO
Comic interludes
Comic scenes by Carlo De Palma for L’Orismene, staged in 1726 in Naples, at the Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo, music by Leonardo Leo in the new edition curated by Lorenzo Tunesi in collaboration with the University of Milan – Centro Studi Pergolesi directed by Claudio Toscani (the show is made possible thanks to the support of the Francesca, Valentina and Luigi Antonini Foundation). Davide Gasparro, a young actor and director from the Piccolo Teatro School in Milan, and former assistant to Damiano Michieletto, will manage disguising, stage inventions, love skirmishes and entanglements; scenic design is by Elena Zamparutti, another young artist from Trieste, former assistant to Paolo Fantin and winner of the important Dutch National Design Award 2017-DNO Amsterdam (set design and concept). Maestro Pierfrancesco Borrelli, a specialist in the eighteenth century and Baroque repertoire, will conduct the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale’s singers and orchestra.
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “A. Belli” in Spoleto
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it
www.tls-belli.it
For reservations and ticket sales
Ticket Italia 0743.222889
www.ticketitalia.com Spoleto Box 25 – Piazza della Vittoria, 25 0743.47967
For information: 338.8562727
Spoleto, 13 – 15 September – Piazza Garibaldi, Auditorium della Stella
Yet another stage for iStreet Food Gusto Solidale, the first Italian brand to organize events in which food and solidarity go hand in hand. The caravan will be in Spoleto from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 September, in Piazza Garibaldi, in front of the Auditorium della Stella.
Some among the best Italian food trucks will be present, offering various types of food, from the Ascoli olives to fish from the Adriatic sea, from hamburger to roasted mutton skewers, Argentinian meat, hot-dogs, and more. The best beer brands will also be featured.
In this Spoletan stage, iStreet Food will gather funds for the onlus “Gocce d’amore per l’Africa” (Love drops to Africa) for a construction of a school in Tanzania.
A rich musical programm will enliven the evenings: Friday 13 there will be a “Summer’s End” feast featuring dj Stefano Rinaldi and speaker Yuri Urbani. Saturday 14 at h 21 “Noche Latina”, featuring exhibitions of Cuban and Caribbean, followed by dj set ti late night. Sunday 15 at h 21 the unmissable “Banda dei Secchio”, followed by a dj set till the event will close.
Two workshops will be organised inside the Auditorium: one dedicated to children and comics, the other dedicated to make-up for both children and women, held by the Rinaldi bros: Giuseppe and Maria Rachele. A fair-trade stand by the association “Gocce d’amore per l’Africa” will also be present.
Admission to iStreet Food is free.
Saturday 14 settembre at 17, the book by Roberto Di Sante Corri dall’Inferno a Central Park (Run From Hell To Central Park) will be presented.
The book is on the story of a man who recovers from a very serious illness preparing to run at the New York Marathon.
Journalist Moreno Carlini will moderate the presentation at the Sala affrescata della Pastorale Giovanile in Piazza Garibaldi.
Free admission
A man falls from the fourth floor, the only choice he has left to stop suffering. As he falls he expresses his last wish. His body hangs a few inches above the ground. A thread of light descends from above, he clings to it and tries to escape from the dark well that has swallowed him: depression. Aldo Amedei is a successful journalist who has lost everything, even his own dreams. The past is regret, the present is populated by monsters and ghosts, but he tries to follow that thread, that mad desire that had kept him alive: running the New York marathon. He doesn’t even know why he expressed it, he who takes the car just to cover one hundred meters. He begins to run like a fugitive hunted by his nightmares. He falls and gets up again. He falls again and gets back on his feet, and every time it hurts more and more. But he doesn’t give up. For love and with the love of Teresa, his young companion. Spitting his soul out along streets full of fatigue, angels and vultures and returning to life, to passion, to dreams with the help of a traveling doctor, an unexpected coach and a crazier grandson than he. Becoming another one, imprinting the others in his own heart. Between laughter, surprises and new emotions. But his enemies do not give up, they pursue him, determined to bring him back to the well. Everything comes back into play, in the last challenge, between life and death: 42 kilometers and 195 meters. Against the wind and everything. From Hell to Central Park.
Roberto Di Sante is a journalist who works for Il Messaggero. Twice the winner of the Premio Nazionale Cronista in 1994 and 1997, he also authored theatre works, including his “Tassinar in Love”, that has been staged for four seasons in Rome.
Friday, 13 September 21.00 | Saturday, 14 September 21.00 | Sunday, 15 September 17.00
73rd OPERA SEASON
Caio Melisso Theatre
DROSILLA AND NESSO
Comic interludes
Comic scenes by Carlo De Palma for L’Orismene, staged in 1726 in Naples, at the Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo, music by Leonardo Leo in the new edition curated by Lorenzo Tunesi in collaboration with the University of Milan – Centro Studi Pergolesi directed by Claudio Toscani (the show is made possible thanks to the support of the Francesca, Valentina and Luigi Antonini Foundation). Davide Gasparro, a young actor and director from the Piccolo Teatro School in Milan, and former assistant to Damiano Michieletto, will manage disguising, stage inventions, love skirmishes and entanglements; scenic design is by Elena Zamparutti, another young artist from Trieste, former assistant to Paolo Fantin and winner of the important Dutch National Design Award 2017-DNO Amsterdam (set design and concept). Maestro Pierfrancesco Borrelli, a specialist in the eighteenth century and Baroque repertoire, will conduct the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale’s singers and orchestra.
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “A. Belli” in Spoleto
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it
www.tls-belli.it
For reservations and ticket sales
Ticket Italia 0743.222889
www.ticketitalia.com Spoleto Box 25 – Piazza della Vittoria, 25 0743.47967
For information: 338.8562727
Spoleto, 13 – 15 September – Piazza Garibaldi, Auditorium della Stella
Yet another stage for iStreet Food Gusto Solidale, the first Italian brand to organize events in which food and solidarity go hand in hand. The caravan will be in Spoleto from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 September, in Piazza Garibaldi, in front of the Auditorium della Stella.
Some among the best Italian food trucks will be present, offering various types of food, from the Ascoli olives to fish from the Adriatic sea, from hamburger to roasted mutton skewers, Argentinian meat, hot-dogs, and more. The best beer brands will also be featured.
In this Spoletan stage, iStreet Food will gather funds for the onlus “Gocce d’amore per l’Africa” (Love drops to Africa) for a construction of a school in Tanzania.
A rich musical programm will enliven the evenings: Friday 13 there will be a “Summer’s End” feast featuring dj Stefano Rinaldi and speaker Yuri Urbani. Saturday 14 at h 21 “Noche Latina”, featuring exhibitions of Cuban and Caribbean, followed by dj set ti late night. Sunday 15 at h 21 the unmissable “Banda dei Secchio”, followed by a dj set till the event will close.
Two workshops will be organised inside the Auditorium: one dedicated to children and comics, the other dedicated to make-up for both children and women, held by the Rinaldi bros: Giuseppe and Maria Rachele. A fair-trade stand by the association “Gocce d’amore per l’Africa” will also be present.
Admission to iStreet Food is free.
With the Spoleto Card you can participate in guided tours of the cultural heritage of the city of Spoleto at a reduced rate of € 3.00 per person.
Those who do not have a Spoleto Card can still participate in the guided tours at a cost of € 4 per person (in addition to the museum ticket, where it is provided).
The Spoleto Card is the integrated ticket that allows you to visit 5 museums and 1 church.
The Spoleto Card can be purchased at city museums and hotels.
Red Card: € 9.50
Green Card: € 8,00 (from 15 to 25 years old, over 65 years old, groups of at least 15 people)
Edited by: Sistema Museo, in collaboration with the Municipality of Spoleto.
For information: www.spoletocard.it
Friday, 13 September 21.00 | Saturday, 14 September 21.00 | Sunday, 15 September 17.00
73rd OPERA SEASON
Caio Melisso Theatre
DROSILLA AND NESSO
Comic interludes
Comic scenes by Carlo De Palma for L’Orismene, staged in 1726 in Naples, at the Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo, music by Leonardo Leo in the new edition curated by Lorenzo Tunesi in collaboration with the University of Milan – Centro Studi Pergolesi directed by Claudio Toscani (the show is made possible thanks to the support of the Francesca, Valentina and Luigi Antonini Foundation). Davide Gasparro, a young actor and director from the Piccolo Teatro School in Milan, and former assistant to Damiano Michieletto, will manage disguising, stage inventions, love skirmishes and entanglements; scenic design is by Elena Zamparutti, another young artist from Trieste, former assistant to Paolo Fantin and winner of the important Dutch National Design Award 2017-DNO Amsterdam (set design and concept). Maestro Pierfrancesco Borrelli, a specialist in the eighteenth century and Baroque repertoire, will conduct the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale’s singers and orchestra.
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “A. Belli” in Spoleto
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it
www.tls-belli.it
For reservations and ticket sales
Ticket Italia 0743.222889
www.ticketitalia.com Spoleto Box 25 – Piazza della Vittoria, 25 0743.47967
For information: 338.8562727
15 September at 21.00
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Visioni d’Autore
Presentation of STILL RECORDING by Saeed Al Batal and Ghiath Ayoub
Documentary on the war in Syria, winner of the 33rd International Critics’ Week, autonomous and parallel section organized by the National Association of Italian Film Critics during the 75th Venice International Film Festival.
The film, distributed in Italy thanks to Reading Bloom with a tour that will start from the Macro Museum in Rome, will be presented by Milad Amin, one of the protagonists and director of photography for the film. At the end of the screening the Q&A will be held by Simone Rossi.
The Film
Saeed is a young cinema enthusiast who tries to teach the rues of cinema to the young people of Ghouta, Syria, but the reality they face is too hard to follow any rules. His friend Milad lives on the other side of the barricade, in Damascus, under the regime’s control, where he is completing his art studies. One day, Milad decides to leave the capital and join Saeed in besieged Douma. Here the two set up a radio station and a recording studio. They hold the video camera in their hands to film everything around them, until the day will come that it will be the video camera to film them instead…
Info and reservations:
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
339.4012680
Wednesday 18 September at 21.00
73rd OPERA SEASON
Villa Redenta – Sala Monterosso
Operalieder – LIEBESLIEDER
Directed by Davide Gasparro
Singers of the Experimental Opera Theatre
Music by Brahms, Schubert and Schumann
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “A. Belli” in Spoleto
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it
www.tls-belli.it
For reservations and ticket sales
Ticket Italia 0743.222889
www.ticketitalia.com Spoleto Box 25 – Piazza della Vittoria, 25 0743.47967
For information: 338.8562727
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Friday, 20 September 20.30 | Saturday, 21 September 20.30 | Sunday, 22 September 17.00
73rd OPERA SEASON
Teatro Nuovo “Gian Carlo Menotti”
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
by Gioachino Rossini
Two companies of singers (even, in some cases, three performers for a role), actors from Paolo Rossi’s company and mimes will all be involved.
“The rhythm of the perfect clock created by the great Rossini will be the leitmotif of our group work,” says famous actor and director Paolo Rossi, perfectly in agreement with the interpretative intentions of young director Salvatore Percacciolo, who nevertheless boasts international experience and directions in major theaters. Rossi returns to the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto with great pleasure – as he himself declares – for this fourth experience as a director (after the successes in Il Matrimonio Segreto by Cimarosa, Gianni Schicchi by Puccini and Alfred Alfred by Donatoni) and will be supported for scenes and costumes, respectively, by Andrea Stanisci and Clelia De Angelis.
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “A. Belli” in Spoleto
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it
www.tls-belli.it
For reservations and ticket sales
Ticket Italia 0743.222889
www.ticketitalia.com Spoleto Box 25 – Piazza della Vittoria, 25 0743.47967
For information: 338.8562727
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Friday, 20 September 20.30 | Saturday, 21 September 20.30 | Sunday, 22 September 17.00
73rd OPERA SEASON
Teatro Nuovo “Gian Carlo Menotti”
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
by Gioachino Rossini
Two companies of singers (even, in some cases, three performers for a role), actors from Paolo Rossi’s company and mimes will all be involved.
“The rhythm of the perfect clock created by the great Rossini will be the leitmotif of our group work,” says famous actor and director Paolo Rossi, perfectly in agreement with the interpretative intentions of young director Salvatore Percacciolo, who nevertheless boasts international experience and directions in major theaters. Rossi returns to the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto with great pleasure – as he himself declares – for this fourth experience as a director (after the successes in Il Matrimonio Segreto by Cimarosa, Gianni Schicchi by Puccini and Alfred Alfred by Donatoni) and will be supported for scenes and costumes, respectively, by Andrea Stanisci and Clelia De Angelis.
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “A. Belli” in Spoleto
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it
www.tls-belli.it
For reservations and ticket sales
Ticket Italia 0743.222889
www.ticketitalia.com Spoleto Box 25 – Piazza della Vittoria, 25 0743.47967
For information: 338.8562727
Saturday, September 21, 9:00 p.m.
Rocca Albornoz
Poems and melodies for Lucrezia
Compendium Musiciwith readings by Teodelapio School of Theatre
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
With the Spoleto Card you can participate in guided tours of the cultural heritage of the city of Spoleto at a reduced rate of € 3.00 per person.
Those who do not have a Spoleto Card can still participate in the guided tours at a cost of € 4 per person (in addition to the museum ticket, where it is provided).
The Spoleto Card is the integrated ticket that allows you to visit 5 museums and 1 church.
The Spoleto Card can be purchased at city museums and hotels.
Red Card: € 9.50
Green Card: € 8,00 (from 15 to 25 years old, over 65 years old, groups of at least 15 people)
Edited by: Sistema Museo, in collaboration with the Municipality of Spoleto.
For information: www.spoletocard.it