In 1958 Spoleto welcomed the first great multidisciplinary art and performance review of the twentieth century, conceived by Gian Carlo Menotti as an opportunity for cross-cultural contamination between Europe and the United States of America.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of this fantastic creation, the City promotes a major exhibition entitled 1958-2017 – The City in the Festival a Festival in the City.
The exhibition itinerary ideally starts from Rocca Albornoz, with section 1958: alle radici della storia, and concludes in the former church of Sant’Agata, reopened for the occasion, where visitors are plunged into an evocative story of the art events of the last 60 years. This long and suggestive tale unravels across the city along the mechanized paths leading to the Old Town and in commercial activities.
A project conceived and carried out by Emaki Immagine e comunicazione, with the organization and coordination of Stefano Bonilli and Mario Brunetti’s artistic direction.
The section of the exhibition 1958: alle radici della storia is edited by Antonella Manni and Rosaria Mencarelli with the collaboration of Spoleto State Archive Department. The section 1958/2017 set up in the Church of S. Agata has been organized in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum – Roman Theater of Spoleto.
Inauguration: Thursday 29 June at 5.30 pm at Palazzo Mauri
The exhibition venues:
Church of S. Agata 1958/2017
Casa Menotti – Festival of the Two Worlds Documentation Center
Mechanized routes
Ponzianina / Rocca – 1958: alle radici della storia
Section of Spoleto / Largo Giuseppe Ermini State Archives
Spoletosphere / Piazza della Libertà
Posterna / Piazza Campello
Commercial activities of the Old Town
Information:
aciemmearte@gmail.com, mob. 339.5993281.
National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto tel. 0743.224952 – info@museoducato.it
Municipality of 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
PROGRAMME
Friday 1 – Sunday 3 December
from 10.00 to 20.00 – Corso Mazzini
SPOLETO CHOCOFEST – Feast of Craft Chocolate
A long weekend featuring chocolate in all its shapes, workshops for children, animation and music, organised by Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”, featuring the special presentation of sapphrane flavored chocolate
Friday 1 December
h 17.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
NARRATING HISTORY
By Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Enrico Benelli (Ancient Mediterranean Study Institute – CNR Rome): The Sabines: an Italian people among myth, history and archaeology. New lights from the excavations in Colle del Forno
h 20.00 – Zengoni Restaurant
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER… FEATURING DON MATTEO
An evening to say hello and goodbye to the Don Matteo tv cast, by Con Spoleto – Hotel Managers’ Association
Saturday 2 December
h 17.00 – Salone d’Onore, Palazzo Leti Sansi (Via Arco di Druso 37)
Book presentation: SPOLETO CINEMA, 1969 – 1971. MYTH AND MYTHS OF THE SEVENTH ART IN THE CITY OF THE FESTIVAL by Antonella Cristina Manni, preface by Gian Luigi Rondi and afterword by Marco Rambaldi, by Associazione Amici di Spoleto
Sunday 3 December
h 9.00 – start from the Museum of the Railway (via Fratelli Cervi 10), toward the Caprareccia Station
SANTA IS A TRAINMAN
Photographic excursion on the former Spoleto – Norcia railroad, organized by the Italian Red Cross, Spoleto Section, in collaboration with Umbria Mobilità and CO.MO.DO. Elders and children will be allowed to reach Caprareccia on board the Dotto train, that’ll leave from the Museum at 11.00
11-00 – 16.00 Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
VIETATO NON TOCCARE!! (Please do touch!!)
By: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre – Tactile guided visits ath the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre, on the occasion of the World Day for the Rights of Challenged People
Monday 5 December
h 16.00 – Rocca Albornoz
NEW VISIT ITINERARIES AT THE MUSEUM OF THE DUCHY
Project presentation by Polo Museale dell’Umbria and Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
Thursday 7 December
h 17.00 – Public Library
GIUFÀ’s STORIES
Born To Read Fest
Meetings featuring animated readings dedicated to children, parents, grandparents, teachers, featuring storyteller Mirko Revoyera
By Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci” and Sistema Museo
Friday 8 December
h 8.00 – viale Trento e Trieste
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION FAIR
By Associazione culturale L’Arte e La Terra
h 9.30 – Track-and-field plants, piazza d’Armi
RUNNING COMPETITION
15-km-long running race, start and arrive at the track-and-field plants in piazza d’Armi, organized by Atletica Spoleto 2010 and Spoleto Run Event
h 17.00 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
The concert is by the “Città di Spoleto” music ensemble, including AVIS Grand Gala, featuring baroque, opera, film and pop music. Conductor: maestro Angelo Rosati
Saturday 9 – 16 / Sunday 10 – 17 – 24 December
from 15.30 to 18.30, Corso Garibaldi 23 (Palazzo Antonelli)
ELVES’ WORKSHOP – LET’S BUILD CHRISTMAS TOGETHER
A project by cultural associations “Spoleto A Colori” and “Il Borgo”
A parade of industrious elves will welcome children to their workshop, where they will learn how to creatively wrap Christmas gifts; joinery, robotics, painting, theatre, dressmaking and cribmaking along Corso Garibaldi, Via dei Gesuiti and Via Portafuga. The best Christmas of all is that we make together. Bring your used toys with you and take part in the great gift exchange of 24 December. Info on www.spoletoacolori.it
from 16.00 to 19.00, from piazza Torre dell’Olio to piazza del Mercato
The former newsstand becomes Santa’s Post Office
The natural prosecution of the Elves’ work, children will find special hints along the streets in downtown Spoleto, that’ll finally lead them to discover Santa’s house; by Cittadinanzattiva, Associazione Be Human and Associazione Orizzonti
Saturday 9 December
h 16.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre and church of St. Agatha
60 YEARS OF EMOTIONS. 1958-2017. THE CITY IN THE FESTIVAL, A FESTIVAL IN THE CITY
Guided tour by Sistema Museo for Spoleto Card holders
h 16.30 – Spoleto Public Library, Congress Hall, 2nd floor
SERTORIUS’ PARCHMENTS – THE ROMAN WHO CHALLENGED ROME
Book presentation featuring author Nelson Martinico, alias Giuseppe Elio Ligotti
h 18.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
RENDEZ-VOUS DANSE FRANÇAISE
French dance exhibition by Carole Magnini and Francesco d’Oronzo
h 21.00 Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
UN BORGHESE PICCOLO PICCOLO (An Average Little Man)
By Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, 2017/2018 Prose Season
Sunday 10 December
from 8.00 to 21.00, Piazza della Libertà, Corso Mazzini and around
ANTIQUES MARKET
h 15.30, Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, Carandente Library
PLOT AND PLOTS… THE LONGOBARDS
Readings and weaving workshop for families and children (8 yo and above)
By Public Library and Sistema Museo
h 8.30 – Rocca Albornoz, Courtyard of Arms
CHRISTMAS DOG SHOW
Beauty competition for pedigree and non pedigree dogs, by C.S.A.A. and ARCI CACCIA
Tuesday 12 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
DANCING WITH CHILDREN
The reading that turns into movement, giving word to the body.
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
For children aged 3-5
Featuring Carole Magnini, organized by the City Library
Friday 15 December
h 21.00 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
ONCE IN A LIFETIME
by Gianni Clementi, organized by the Compagnia Teatrale Sipario, directed by Graziano Petrini. Shows organized in collaboration with “Comitato Soci Coop di Spoleto” and intended for fundraising in favour of the Association “Women Against War”
from Saturday 16 December
Inauguration at 14.30 – Downtown Spoleto
Collicola onthewall presents URBAN SCREENS
Curated by Gianluca Marziani
This highly innovative project consists of works by some of the artists who have been featured the last few years at Palazzo Collicola, printed on panels and installed over the windows and shutters of some rooms at the ground floor of currently unused buildings in downtown Spoleto. Workshops with schools: the students meet the artists.
Saturday 16 December
h 17.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
(H)AS CHRISTMAS SOUND
Christmas concert of the “Alessandro Onofri” Music and Dance School
h 18.30 – Church of St. Agatha
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
by the ensemble Canto Ergo Sum conducted by maestro Mauro Presazzi, organized by the Associazione Progetto Arte in collaboration with the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre.
Sunday 17 December
h 16.30 – National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto
Catalogue Presentation: FRAGMENTS OF AN EXPERIENCE
curated by Progetto Arte, Edizioni AddArte Spoleto with National Archaeological Museum and Teatro Romano. Some works by the artist Gianluca Murasecchi linked to the Valnerina will be re-proposed and a performative re-enactment will be held on the theme, curated by Carole Magnini
h 16.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
A HIP-HOP CHRISTMAS
Show produced by Compagnia Mattioli as part of the family theatre festival “La Domenica dei Sogni”
Monday 18 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
SANTA’S SLEDGE
Party for children
Thursday 21 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIFT
Animated reading meeting on Christmas for children, parents, grandparents, educators.
By Francesca Cenciarelli and Maria Luisa Morici
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library
18.00 – Sala Pegasus
OPEN LESSONS. READING ALOUD, THE DIFFICULT ART OF THE TRANSLATOR WHO CREATES
Meeting with Anna Leonardi, organised by the Teodelapio Association
Friday 22 December
h 17.00 – National Archaeological Museum
RECOUNTING HISTORY
The necropolis of Piazza d’ Armi, new readings, restoration and reconstructions. Presentation of copies of the bronze and iron sceptres made thanks to the contribution of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto.
Curated by: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Saturday 23 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
A HOUSE MADE OF CLOUDS
Fairy tale by Sabina Antonelli
Followed by A small workshop
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library
Friday 22 and Saturday 23 December
h 21.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
BAD-BLOODED RELATIVES
Theatre performance presented by Wood Pictures, curated by the Company Teatro della Mandarina. A Comedy in two acts
Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 December and Saturday 6 January
from 17.00 – Old village of Rapicciano – Spoleto
5th edition of the LIVING NATIVITY SCENES
Curated by the Parish of San Giovanni in Baiano, the Proloco di Baiano, the Opera Segno dell’Alta Marroggia Association, the La Traussa theatre company and with the artistic direction of Danilo Chiodetti
Tuesday 26 December
h 17.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
GOSPEL CONCERT, CHERYL PORTER BAND
Cheryl Porter’s unique voice for a concert full of emotions
Thursday 28 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
THE MOON IS A SILVER GIRL TOO
Fairy tale by Sabina Antonelli
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library
Friday 29 December
h 17.00 – First floor of the Monumental Complex of San Nicolò
END-OF-THE-YEAR CONCERT
Baroque music for harpsichord, soloist Marco Mencoboni, organized by the Academy of the Obtuses
Saturday 30 December
h 20.00 – Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
THE WORLD ON STAGE
Projection of documentary film on the history of the Spoleto Festival – curated by the Fondazione Festival dei Due Mondi. Directed by Benoît Jacquot and Gérald Caillat, on a concept by Giorgio Ferrara, the film is produced by Maurizio and Manuel Tedesco for Baires Produzioni, Françoise Gazio for Idéale Audience and Fondazione Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto in collaboration with RAI COM and is realized with the contribution of the Fund to support the development of co-productions of cinematographic works between France and RAI COM.
Sunday 31 December
from 22.30 – Piazza della Libertà
NEW YEAR’ S EVE
TRANCE CONTINENTAL EXPRESS
In the heart of Spoleto, on the façades of the palaces and on the floor of Piazza della Libertà, a journey of images and sounds in the colours of the world will take place on the night of December 31.
A Danny Rose Paris project, curated by BIPEDE Booking and Production and Danny Rose Paris
Wednesday 3 January
h 11.00 / 16.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
60 YEARS OF EMOTIONS. 1958-2017. THE CITY IN THE FESTIVAL, A FESTIVAL IN THE CITY
Guided tours to the Monumental Complex of St. Agatha and to the Exhibition.
Curated by: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Thursday 4 January
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
FRIENDS UNDER THE SUN
Animated reading meetings dedicated to children, parents, grandparents, educators, with live music with Sabina Antonelli
Curated by: G. Carducci City Library and Sistema Museo
Friday 5 January
from 8.00 to 21.00 – Piazza Garibaldi
EPIPHANY FAIR
h 11.00 / 16.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
THE TRUE LIGHT: SIGNS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
Guided tours linked to the themes of Christmas holidays, organized by the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Saturday 6 January
h 15.00 – Piazza Garibaldi
FEAST OF CHRISTMAS WITCHES
Organized by the Italian Red Cross – Spoleto Section in collaboration with young CRI volunteers. Paint-Your-Face for children, lots of games, balloons and surprise arrival of the Befana at 16:30
Monday 8 January
h 21.00 – Sala Pegasus
HOW STORIES WORK
Projection of the film “AMAHL AND THE NIGHT GUESTS”
by Gian Carlo Menotti
Something about Menotti, something about Spoleto
Curated by the City Library “G. Carducci”
Monday 8 through Wednesday 10 January
Mon at 21.00 – Tue at 21.00 – Wed at 18.00 – Teatro Caio Melisso – Spazio Carla Fendi
TODI IS A SMALL TOWN IN THE CENTER OF ITALY
Curated by Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria for the 2017/2018 Prose Season of the City of Spoleto
Tuesday 9 January
VOICE AND BODY IN THEATRE – Workshop for kids
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
Featuring Carole Magnini
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library
Friday 12 January
h 18.00 – Sala Pegasus
HOT ANTHOLOGY – THE ILLUSTRIOUS EXTINCT
Pirandello read by Claudio Trionfi
Organised by the Teodelapio Association
Saturday 13 January
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
Book presentation: GAIA E I FRULLI
i.e. the earthquake explained to children
Featuring the author Maria Luisa Morici and Francesca Cenciarelli
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library
Sunday 14 January
from 8.00 to 21.00 – Piazza della Libertà, Corso Mazzini and surrounding streets
ANTIQUES’ MARKET
EXHIBITIONS
LIGHTQUAKE 2017 BLACK LIGHT ART
from 6 December 2017 to 25 February 2018 – Rocca Albornoz and Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto.
Curated by Polo Museale dell’Umbria, MIBACT
Opening: Tuesday 5 December 2017 at 18.00, Rocca Albornoz
THE GAME OF PAINTING. PAOLA MASINO’S COLLECTION OF PAINTED CARDS
from 7 December 2017 to 2 April 2018 – MAG Palazzo Bufalini Piazza Duomo
Curated by: Cultural association Metamorfosi Art Gallery
Opening: Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 17.00
Attendees will include exhibition curators Marinella Mascia Galateria and Patrizia Masini
ENRICO CORTE / ANDREA NURCIS EXCERPTA
from December 16 – Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, Piano Nobile and Exhibitions’ Floor
Curated by Gianluca Marziani
Opening: Saturday 16 December 2017 at 11.30
2017 VALNERINA REPORT
from December 16 – Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, Sala Sten&Lex
curated by Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia
Lecturer: Agostino Lucidi (Cedrav Researcher)
Project: Studio A’ 87 / Curated by Viaindustriae – Studio A’ 87
Opening: Saturday 16 December 2017 at 11.30
SPOLETO, THE CITY IN A CRIB
from 8 December 2017 to 14 January 2018
Nativity scene exhibition: Church of San Simone – Sala degli Ori – Former Monte di Pietà – Auditorium della Stella
Curated by: Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”
Inauguration: Friday 8 December at 12.00, Church of St. Simon
ARTISTIC CRIBS
Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Curated by: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in collaboration with the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “Sansi – Leonardi – Volta” – Liceo Artistico Leoncillo Leonardi di Spoleto.
Opening: Friday 8 December 2017
COLLICOLA ON THE WALL PRESENTS URBAN SCREENS
Street art evolved on the city windows and displays
curated by Gianluca Marziani
Opening: Saturday 16 December at 11.30
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBITION
THE SIGN OF COMMAND
from December 22nd – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Made in collaboration with Associazione Astra Onlus and Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “Sansi – Leonardi – Volta” – Liceo Classico Pontano Sansi di Spoleto, with the contribution of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto.
Opening: Friday, December 22nd at 18.30
LIGHTQUAKE 2017
Exhibition by artists Mario Agrifoglio, Nicola Evangelisti and others.
Opening: Tuesday 5 December 2017 at 19.00
Info:
Galleria ADD-art
via Palazzo dei Duchi 6 – Spoleto
info@add-art.it | +39 334 5380780
www.add-art.it
LIGHTQUAKE 2017
Black Light Art and Light Art Exhibition
Rocca Albornoziana – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto
6 December 2017 – 25 February 2018
Dukes’ Palace – Gubbio
8 December 2017 – 25 February 2018
When Christmas will turn its lights on, those in Spoleto and Gubbio won’t be just Christmas lightings, but true works of art by the artists involved in the artistic project Lightquake 2017, who will give life to the first Light Art and Black Light Art exhibitions in Umbria, featuring artists who have always been manipulating light.
The artistic project Lightquake was started to support the recovery of the cultural heritage damaged by the 2016 earthquake in Central Italy. A double exhibition will involve the cities of Spoleto and Gubbio, starting in December 2017. From 6 December to 25 February 2018, the exhibition Black Light Art will take place in the inner and outer spaces at the Rocca Albornoziana – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto. From 7 December to 25 February 2018, the Dukes’ Palace in Gubbio will be enlivened by Light Art, through works by Federica Marangoni, Saverio Mercati and Stefano Frascarelli.
During the exhibition, a luminous installation by Umbrian artist Carlo Dell’Amico will be inaugurated at the Tempietto del Clitunno, thus symbolically joining two museums and a monument through light.
The Spoleto core of Black Light Art is composed of: Leonilde Carabba, Claudio Sek De Luca, Ria Lussi, Mario Agrifoglio, Alessio Ancillai, Giulio De Mitri, Nicola Evangelisti, Maria Cristina Fioretti, Yari Miele, ancora un’opera di Federica Marangoni, Sebastiano Romano, Ugo Piccioni, Nino Alfieri. This exhibition has already been organised in Milan and Como, and aims at exploring the artistic values of black light, proposing works by more than 10 artists who experiment with light. Mario Agrifoglio, an artist who made Black Light the core of his artistic experimentation, is the outstanding figure here. Black Light as expressive tool, that can involve the spectator in a sensorial experience where reality, far from appearing in its usual shape, is dressed with unusual, surprising colours and shapes. Light will colour the dark, to bring back the light of life across the earthquaked lands.
The artistic curatorship is held by Gisella Gellini and Claudia Bottini, the exhibition is supported by Polo museale dell’Umbria, Regione Umbria, Cities of Gubbio and Spoleto, in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano and Fondazione Mario Agrifoglio, with the contribution of Associazione Rocca Albornoziana. Società Sistema Museo is entrusted with its production.
WHEN
Spoleto
Opening 5 December at 18.00
The exhibition will be open to visits from 7 December 2017 to 25 February 2018
Gubbio
Opening 7 December at 16.30
The exhibition will be open to visits from 8 December 2017 to 25 February 2018
MetaMorfosi Art Gallery Cultural Association presents:
THE PAINTING GAME
PAOLA MASINO’S COLLECTION OF PAINTED PLAYING CARDS
7 December/2 April – MAG Palazzo Bufalini, Piazza Duomo – by MetaMorfosi Art Gallery Cultural Association
Opening: Thursday December 7 h. 12.00
The exhibition will bring to Palazzo Bufalini an extraordinary collection of painted cards coming from the Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi.
Conceived by Paola Masino, an unconventional writer and intellectual, the collection was created with the intention of considering playing cards as a work of art, reinvented according to the creativity of her many artistic friends. Carried out with patience and tenacity for four decades, Paola Masino’s project produces a very original bouquet of French, Neapolitan and tarot playing cards, created by the best interpreters of twentieth century art.
From Carla Accardi to Alberto Burri and Consagra; from Carlo Carrà to Campigli and Capogrossi, passing through Cagli, Carlo Levi, Renato Guttuso, Prampolini, Fausto Pirandello, Giosetta Fioroni, Antonietta Raphael Mafai, Pietro Dorazio, Mario Sironi – just to name a few – many important artists took up her invitation, creating these small works of art.
The exhibition The Painting Game. Paola Masino’s collection of painted playing cards, curated by Marinella Mascia Galateria and Patrizia Masini, is organized by MetaMorfosi, thanks to the precious collaboration with Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence for Cultural Heritage with the Archive of the twentieth century of Sapienza University of Rome and under the patronage of the Municipality of Spoleto and the City of Rome.
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The 8th edition of Spoleto, la città in un presepe, the cribs exhibition organized by the Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”, will be held from December 8, 2017 to January 14, 2018
Opening:
December 8, at 11.00 a. m. Former Church of San Simone (Piazza Campello)
Program:
Auditorium della Stella (Piazza Garibaldi)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
Monumental Crib by Masters Stefano and Alessandro Fiasca from Avezzano. The Nativity Scene extends over an area of more than 20 square meters.
Ex Chiesa di San Simone (Piazza Carducci)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
7th Competition of Crib Art “Youth Creativity in Schools”.
Exhibition of Nativity Scenes of vast dimensions curated by Anna Maria Donati and Nando Zannoli
Life-size Nativity scene by “Il Borgaccio” association
Exhibition of Nativity scenes by Spoleto’s artists
Sala degli Ori (Via Aurelio Saffi)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
Opening December 10, 2017 at 17.00 p. m.
Christmas according to sculptor Giorgio Carlini and Danila Diglio
Electrode welding on iron sheets and dremel work with glass colours on iron.
Ex Monte di Pietà (Via Aurelio Saffi)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
Exhibition of wooden handicrafts “The small ancient world”, collection by M° Mario Bartoli
Exhibition of rural objects with iron miniatures by Giacomo Cintio.
Ex Monte di Pietà (Via Visale)
Opening hours: 10.00-13.00 / 15.00-19.00
Artistic crib made by Spoleto prison inmates
Christmas 2017 Traditional charity fishing tournament
Pievania Santa Maria Centro Caritas (Saint Ansano charity fishing)
Ex Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Piazzetta SS Giovanni e Paolo)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
Exhibition of ‘500 and ‘700 nativity scenes – private collection
Palazzo Mauri 1st floor – Saturday December 16, 2017 at 17.00
Conference “Il Presepio” (The Crib) – speaker M° Andrea Tortora – member of “Italia Amici del Presepio” association.
Ex Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Piazzetta SS Giovanni e Paolo) 15.00 – 18.30
Meetings with Art “The Nativity scene in the Medieval Tradition”
Curated by Mrs Caterina Sapori
Ex Chiesa di San Simone – Saturday December 23, 2017 at 17.00
Reading of poems “Tender innocence: Jesus in the manger” curator Sandro Costanzi in collaboration with “Fare Cultura” Cultural Association.
Competition for families – Best domestic nativity scene – 8th edition
Registration by December 20 at Pro Spoleto.
Palazzo Mauri 2nd floor – Saturday January 27, 2018 at 10.00
Award day
Organization:
Association Pro Loco of Spoleto “A. Busetti” – Pro Loco Association of Spoleto
Via Minervio n° 2 – Spoleto (PG)
Tel / Fax: 0743 46484 Mob: 331 8855493
e-mail: prospoleto@gmail.com
from Saturday 16 December
Opening h 14.30 – Downtown Spoleto
Collicola onthewall presents
SCHERMI URBANI
Curated by Gianluca Marziani
SCHERMI URBANI is a Christmas event of public art, strongly wished for by the City administration which entrusted director of Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts Gianluca Marziani with its artistic curatorship.
The event involves some twenty sites in downtown Spoleto, including two former newsstands (Piazza Collicola, Piazza della Libertà), Palazzetto Ancaiani’s six displays (Piazza della Libertà) and some further fifteen dispays scattered across the city centre (Corso Mazzini, Via del Mercato, Via Salara Vecchia, via Minervio): the locations will be coated with great images of contemporary art, created by five artists who already collaborate with Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts.
“After last summer’s performance by street artist Ob Queberry in Piazza del Mercato – said Head of Culture and Tourism Camilla Laureti and Head of Town Planning Antonio Cappelletti – for the Christmas period we wanted the displays of closed shops to become the base for artistic interventions. It is a way to have the city centre live again and to try and envision a different future for this part of the city. We thank the shop owners who accepted to be featured, director Gianluca Marziani and the artists who joined in.”
EXCERPTA is the widest, most articulated exhibition ever by Enrico Corte and Andrea Nurcis, two artists considered to be among the most unclassifiable, experimental and visionary among the Italian contemporary artistic panorama.
It is the very first time that both the Piano Nobile and the Exhibitions’ Floor at Palazzo Collicola are used together for a single exhibitions that intertwines languages, themes, concepts and narrative forms.
The exhibition features two anthological, individual routes and a good number of works signed together, a usual exhibition pattern of the two artists.
Opening: 16 December at 11.30
18th Itinerary / 2017 VALNERINA REPORT
Saturday 16 December 2017 at 11.30 at Palazzo Collicola, the 2017 VALNERINA REPORT collective exhibition will be opened. The exhibition features a series of photographs taken during organized trips to the cities in the Valnerina in the frame of the 10th edition of Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia.
ACERA di Campello sul Clitunno / CASCIA / CERRETO di Spoleto / FERENTILLO / MONTELEONE di Spoleto / POGGIODOMO / SANT’ANATOLIA di NARCO / SCHEGGINO / SELLANO / VALLO DI NERA.
With the collaboration of CEDRAV – Centro Documentazione e Ricerca Antropologica in Valnerina.
Relator: Agostino Lucidi (Cedrav researcher) / the event is open to public speeches
Project: Franco Troiani (Studio A’87); curated by Emanuele De Donno, Giuliano Macchia, Fulvio Porena.
Organization: Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia, Ass.ne Viaindustriae, Studio A’87.
With the support of the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum, Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts and the administrations of the cities involved in Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia 2017
Second cycle of conferences Recounting History, a project in collaboration with GraficArte Severini and Astra Onlus.
At each meeting, participants will receive didactic kits and an ebook will be created, featuring last year’s conferences’ contents.
On the occasion of the conference, admission to the Museum is free. All conferences are in Italian.
Future meetings:
Friday 22 December
THE NECROPOLIS AT PIAZZA D’ARMI, NEW INTERPRETATIONS, RESTORATIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS
Nicola Bruni – Associazione Astra
Joachim Weidig – Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
Fabio Fazzini – Archaeologist
Friday 19 January
ROMAN ASSISI
Laura Manca – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria
Friday 9 February
THE ABBEY OF SASSOVIVO: ARISTOCRACIES AND RELIGIOUS CONGREGATION UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE LATE OSTEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Roberta Taddei, Lia Barelli, Maria Romana Picuti – Università La Sapienza, Rome
Friday 23 February
THEATRES AND POLITICAL POWER: THE SPOLETO CASE
Giulia Rocco – Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Storia, Patrimonio Culturale, Formazione e Società
Friday 9 March
THE EXCAVATIONS AT THE SPOLETO TEATRO NUOVO: THE LATE-ANCIENT BUILDING IN THE CITY’S URBAN FABRIC
Matelda Albanesi – Archaeologist
Moreno Orazi – Architect
Friday 23 March
CARSULAE: RESULTS OF THE LATEST EXCAVATION CAMPAIGNS
Luca Donnini, Massimiliano Gasperini – Associazione Astra
Friday 13 April
THE CHARIOT OF MONTELEONE DI SPOLETO
Francesco Roncalli – Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli
Friday 16 May
THE ANCIENT CITY OF GUBBIO: NEW DATA FOR ITS KNOWLEDGE
Luana Cenciaioli – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Musei Archeologici Nazionali di Perugia e Orvieto
Friday 1 June
TOMBS FROM THE VALNERINA AT THE SPOLETO ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Chiara Procacci – Archaeologist
Maria Angela Turchetti – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano di Spoleto
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #219
Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts
Participation fee:
Guided visit – full fare- € 7,00
Guided visit – reduction – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00
INFO:
Reservation is strongly encouraged, for organizative reasons, deadline is at 13:00 of Friday.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
Ph. 0743 46434
Friday 22 and Saturday 23 December
h 21.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
PARENTI SERPENTI (Bad-Blooded Relatives)
Theatre play presented by Wood Pictures, featuring Compagnia Teatro della Mandarina. A comedy in two acts.
Ticket presale at Bar Catarinelli (Piazza Garibaldi)
every day from 17.00 to 20.00 (except Sunday)
Ticket cos:
€ 12+1 (presale fee) – parterre and first stage balconies
€ 10+1 (presale fee) – other balconies
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Friday 22 and Saturday 23 December
h 21.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
PARENTI SERPENTI (Bad-Blooded Relatives)
Theatre play presented by Wood Pictures, featuring Compagnia Teatro della Mandarina. A comedy in two acts.
Ticket presale at Bar Catarinelli (Piazza Garibaldi)
every day from 17.00 to 20.00 (except Sunday)
Ticket cos:
€ 12+1 (presale fee) – parterre and first stage balconies
€ 10+1 (presale fee) – other balconies
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 December and Saturday 6 January
from h 17.00 – Ancient village of Rapicciano – Spoleto
5th edition of the NATIVITY SCENE
Organised by the Parish of San Giovanni in Baiano, Proloco Baiano, Associazione Opera Segno dell’Alta Marroggia, La Traussa theatre company, artistic direction by Danilo Chiodetti
GOSPEL CONCERT: CHERYL PORTER BAND
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
26 December – h 17.30
Mixing Spirituals, Gospel, Jazz and Classical music, Cheryl Porter stands out for his vocal talents and boasts prestigious collaborations including Paolo Conte, Katia Ricciarelli, Sugar, Tito Puente, Mariah Carey, David Crosby and Amii Stewart.
Free admission upon reservation (within December 23):
Spoleto Tourist Office
+39 0743 218620-21
info@iat.spoleto.pg.it
From Wednesday, October 11, 2017 the #Spoletolegge reading group’s meetings will be held every Wednesday at the Library of Palazzo Mauri, at 9 pm. The event is organized by Carducci and Carandente libraries in collaboration with Andrea Tomasini.
This year’s readings program is entitled Not as it seems, and will be dedicated to crime and mystery stories.
Readings will be in Italian.
Program:
La fine è nota by Geoffrey Holiday Hall
L’assassinio di Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie,
Sei problemi per don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges e Adolfo Bioy Casares
Uno studio in rosso by Arthur Conan Doyle
Il segreto di padre Brown by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirk Gently, agenzia investigativa olistica by Douglas Adams
NOW READING:
Quer Pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Il club dei mestieri stravaganti by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Il detective cieco by Bramah Ernst
Requiem per il romanzo giallo by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Omicidio a Road Hill House, ovvero invenzione e rovina di un detective by Kate Summerscale
Friday 29 December
h 17.00 – San Nicolò Monumental Complex, first floor
END-OF-THE-YEAR CONCERT
Harpsichord baroque music, soloist Marco Mencoboni, organised by the Academy of the Obtuses
Baroque music and a great soloist such as Marco Mencoboni: Spoleto’s end-of-the-year Concert, entitled Touch my soul, will be held on Friday, December 29, 2017 at 17.00 at the Monumental Complex of San Nicolò. The concert is organized by the Academy of the Obtuses (formerly Spoletina) in collaboration with the Municipality of Spoleto and with the artistic direction of Francesco Corrias.
The event will be open for free to the public and will offer music by great authors such as Gerolamo and Marcantonio Cavazzoni, Susanne van Sold, Samuel Scheidt, Marcantonio da Bologna, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jacob Froberger, Louis Couperin, Georg Böhm and others.
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #220
Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts
Participation fee:
Guided visit – full fare- € 7,00
Guided visit – reduction – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00
INFO:
Reservation is strongly encouraged, for organizative reasons, deadline is at 13:00 of Friday.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
Ph. 0743 46434
Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 December and Saturday 6 January
from h 17.00 – Ancient village of Rapicciano – Spoleto
5th edition of the NATIVITY SCENE
Organised by the Parish of San Giovanni in Baiano, Proloco Baiano, Associazione Opera Segno dell’Alta Marroggia, La Traussa theatre company, artistic direction by Danilo Chiodetti
The documentary film IL MONDO IN SCENA (The World on Stage) will be screened at Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti on Saturday, December 30th at 8 p. m.
The documentary film, inspired by an idea from Giorgio Ferrara, tells the story of the Festival of Spoleto.
Directed by Benoît Jacquot and Gérald Caillat
Produced by Maurizio and Manuel Tedesco for Baires Produzioni, Françoise Gazio for Idéale Audience and Fondazione Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto in collaboration with RAI COM.
Sponsored by the Support Fund for the co-production of cinematographic works between France and Italy, and the Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’image animée
Free entrance, on reservation
Reservations:
Spoleto Tourist Office: Tel. 0743 218620/21 – info@iat.spoleto.pg.it
Box 25 (Piazza della Vittoria) Tel. 0743 47967
Spoleto will celebrate New Year’s Eve with TRANCE CONTINENTAL EXPRESS, starting from 22.30.
In the heart of Spoleto, on the palaces’ façades and on the floor of Piazza della Libertà, a journey around the world will come to life through images and sounds. The five continents will meet and contaminate each other with incredible visual suggestions, accompanied by the compelling rhythm of Italian folk music performed by Rione Junno and then, after midnight, by a Trance live set, specially designed for the most magical night of the year.
A Danny Rose Paris project, curated by BIPEDE Booking and Production and Danny Rose Paris.
Sala Pegasus, h 11.30
Chamber music concert
by the students of the Ashley Hall School from Charleston, S.C.
featuring organist M. Angelo Silvio Rosati
Music by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky
Free admission
Wednesday 3 January
11.00 / 16.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
60 YEARS OF EMOTIONS. 1958-2017. THE CITY IN THE FESTIVAL, A FESTIVAL IN THE CITY
Guided visits to the St. Agatha monumental complex and to the exhibition curated by the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Wednesday 3 January
11.00 / 16.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
60 YEARS OF EMOTIONS. 1958-2017. THE CITY IN THE FESTIVAL, A FESTIVAL IN THE CITY
Guided visits to the St. Agatha monumental complex and to the exhibition curated by the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
From Wednesday, October 11, 2017 the #Spoletolegge reading group’s meetings will be held every Wednesday at the Library of Palazzo Mauri, at 9 pm. The event is organized by Carducci and Carandente libraries in collaboration with Andrea Tomasini.
This year’s readings program is entitled Not as it seems, and will be dedicated to crime and mystery stories.
Readings will be in Italian.
Program:
La fine è nota by Geoffrey Holiday Hall
L’assassinio di Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie,
Sei problemi per don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges e Adolfo Bioy Casares
Uno studio in rosso by Arthur Conan Doyle
Il segreto di padre Brown by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirk Gently, agenzia investigativa olistica by Douglas Adams
NOW READING:
Quer Pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Il club dei mestieri stravaganti by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Il detective cieco by Bramah Ernst
Requiem per il romanzo giallo by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Omicidio a Road Hill House, ovvero invenzione e rovina di un detective by Kate Summerscale
Thematic Guided Tours
JANUARY 2018
Saturday 6 January
h. 15.30
Spoleto Roman House
Meeting place: Roman House – ticket office
Sunday 14 January
h. 11.30
A noble promenade
Meeting place: Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts – ticket office
Sunday 21 January
h. 11.30
Black Light Art_the light that colours darkness
temporary exhibition
Meeting place: Rocca Albornoz – ticket office
Sunday 28 January
h. 11.30
Spoleto Roman Theatre
Meeting place: National Archaeological – ticket office
Other January activities:
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura
friday 5, 12, 19, 26 January h. 19.00
Meeting place: Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts
Guided visits to the Rocca’s Chemins de Ronde
upon reservation
Meeting place: Rocca Albornoz – ticket office
Cost: € 3,00 + Spoleto Card or museum’s entrance ticket
Information and reservation: Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Piazza Collicola – Tel. 0743 46434 – 0743 224952 – e-mail: info@spoletocard.it
Information: IAT di Spoleto – Tel. 0743 218620 info@iat.spoleto.pg.it
Further info on www.spoletocard.it
The traditional, yearly EPIPHANY FAIR will take place at Piazza Garibaldi, starting at 8.00
The true light: signs of heaven and earth
Double appointment, on 5 January at 11.00 and at 16.00 by the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum with a guided visit linked to Christmas, organised by the museum director and staff.
The true light: signs of heaven and earth
Double appointment, on 5 January at 11.00 and at 16.00 by the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum with a guided visit linked to Christmas, organised by the museum director and staff.
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #221
ALEXANDER CALDER
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, the event by Palazzo Collicola – Arti Visive and Sistema Museo, returns on Friday 5 January 2018 at 19.00.
The meeting will focus on Alexander Calder, whose artistic evolution will be shown through a video that will help retrace the extraordinary life of one among the greatest XXth-century artists.
The evening goes on with an aperitive.
The event is organised in collaboration with Con Spoleto – Hotel Managers’ Association.
Partecipation fee:
Guided tour – full fare € 7,00
Guided tour – reductions € 5,00 – for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00
Reservation is strongly encouraged, deadline at 13:00 of Friday:
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434
She will come to Spoleto on Saturday 6 January, in piazza Duomo, on a rumbling vintage car. She’s a supportive Befana who carries a tangible aid to the lesser lucky ones in her traditional stockings.
It is a charitable event organised by Scuderia Campello and by C.U.A.E. (Club Umbro Automotoveicolo d’epoca) – Terni, chaired by Liborio Libori, true “charity veteran” and vintage cars enthusiast.
The Raduno della Befana will start at 09.00 by the Spoleto Sud access to town; 40ish teams will attend aboard as many vintage cars, that’ll then stroll through downtown Spoleto, and arrive at Piazza del Duomo, one of the most beautiful squares in the world, featured in films, fictions and tv ads by great film directors.
Participants will then reach the Sala Frau on foot, to attend a concert by pianist Elena Moschetti of the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, starting at 10.00.
After the concert, participants will return to Piazza Duomo, to attend the Epiphany Mass at 11.30, celebrated by Spoleto – Norcia Archbishop and President of the Episcopal Conference of Umbria, Mons. Renato Boccardo.
The Choir of the Duomo Musical Chapel conducted by Maestro Francesco Corrias will perfom during the mass.
Archbishop Boccardo will bless the teams at the end of the celebration. From Piazza Duomo, the parade will then stroll again through downtown Spoleto, to head out toward the Fonti del Clitunno.
Included in the End-Of-The-Year’s events, the Italian Red Cross local section organises the Christmas Witch Fest on 6 January at 14.30 in Piazza Garibaldi.
At 15.30 the Christmas Witch will arrive on a “special” vehicle made available by Aleandro Piccioni, handing out candies and sweets.
The event aims at arousing children through the emotional arrival of the Christmas Witch, and to spread the knowledge on the Red Cross activities, that include public health, promotion of well-being and collective aggregation.
Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 December and Saturday 6 January
from h 17.00 – Ancient village of Rapicciano – Spoleto
5th edition of the NATIVITY SCENE
Organised by the Parish of San Giovanni in Baiano, Proloco Baiano, Associazione Opera Segno dell’Alta Marroggia, La Traussa theatre company, artistic direction by Danilo Chiodetti
Church of San Filippo, h 18.00
CHRISTMAS’ LURE with the Laudesi Umbri
Concert
The Laudesi Umbri choir ensemble proposes a concert to experience the mystery of the Saviour’s birth, featuring classical and modern Christmas chants.
Performers: LAUDESI UMBRI DI SPOLETO
Organist: M° Angelo Silvio Rosati
Conductor: P. Matteo Ferraldeschi, OFM
In collaboration with the Associazione “L’Orfeo”, Spoleto
Out-eating the planet – Agriculture and Capitalism
Sunday 7 January 2018 at 18.00
Libreria Aurora – Via Anfiteatro 12
Meeting on the economic-ecologic problems deriving from the capitalist food industry
Speakers:
Giulio Sapori
Filippo Capponi Brunetti – Spoleto Communist Party representative
How stories work:
film projection “Amahl and the nocturnal visitors” while talking about Menotti and Spoleto, Sala Pegasus h 21.00.
By Biblioteca comunale G. Carducci.
2017/2018 Prose Season
27 October 2017 – 8 March 2018
Ottavia Piccolo, Massimo Dapporto, Monica Guerritore, Francesca Reggiani, Asia Argento, Filippo Dini, David Coco, Liv Ferracchiati are but some of the protagonists of the Spoleto 2017-2018 Prose Season that includes 7 plays, six at the Teatro Nuovo and one at the Caio Melisso.
The start is on Friday 27 October at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo “Menotti” with Occident Express (Haifa è nata per star ferma). Written by Stefano Massini, it features Ottavia Piccolo and the Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo. In 2015 an old woman from Mosul flees with her 4-yo granddaughter, covering 5.000 Km from Iraq to the Baltic Sea, across the so-called Balcan Route. This is her story.
Friday 24 November at 21, at the Teatro Nuovo, it’s the turn of Mariti e Mogli, adapted and directed by Monica Guerritore who is also in the cast along with Francesca Reggiani. The play is freely adapted from Woody Allen’s much praised film.
Saturday 9 December at 21, again at the Teatro Nuovo, Massimo Dapporto is the protagonist of Un borghese piccolo piccolo, extraordinary novel by Vincenzo Cerami who inspired Monicelli’s cinema masterpiece, a tragic comedy that offers hilarious moments. Adaptation and direction by Fabrizio Coniglio.
Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 January at 21 and Wednesday 10 January at 18 at the Teatro Caio Melisso – spazio Carla Fendi, it is the time of Todi is a small town in the center of Italy, written and directed by Liv Ferracchiati. What is life like in an Italian small town? Michele, Stella, Elisa and Caroline are four guys from Todi. A fifth character, a documentarist, connects fiction to reality observing and noting the features of the city and its inhabitants. What is life like in a place where everybody knows everyone? What should you rather avoid doing in Todi? These are but some of the questions that were actually asked to more than a hundred people in Todi, that the play aims at giving back through a collage that supports the story of the four protagonists.
Saturday 20 January at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo, the Györ Ballet Company (one of the oldest, most praised European contemporary dance companies) will stage two masterpieces, Maurice Ravel’s Bolero and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Friday 9 February at 21, Teatro Nuovo, Il Giuramento by Claudio Fava, directed by Ninni Bruschetta and featuring David Coco. Heads, you can count them or cut them. The fascist regime didn’t choose one. It counted 1238 and cut twelve, casual heroes of those who only have left an extreme resource of dignity, that of refusal. This happened on 13 November 1931. The theatre play tells the story of one of them.
Thursday 8 March at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo, the closing play will be Rosalind Franklin. Il segreto della vita by Anna Ziegler, directed by Filippo Dini, featuring Asia Argento, Filippo Dini. The Great History, the discovery of DNA, and the extraordinary tale of scientist Rosalind Franklin’s last years, facing one of the most important, debated discoveries in the history of scientific research.
Tickets
On the day of the plays, starting from 16, please call the Botteghino Teatro Nuovo GIAN CARLO MENOTTI – tel. 0743 222647
Online
www.teatrostabile.umbria.it
phone reservation
weekdays, from 16 to 20, till the day before the play
Botteghino Telefonico Regionale del Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria – tel. 075 57542222
Reserved tickets shall be picked up at the theatre’s box office not any later than 20.00 on the day of the play
subscriptions
Botteghino del Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti – tel. 0743 222647
from Monday 16 to Monday 23 October, from 17.00 to 19.00
pre-emption for last season’s subscribers
from Monday 16 to Wednesday 18 October
new subscriptions
from Thursday 19 to Monday 23 ottobre
Subscription prices
€ 91 – € 84 – €77 – € 63 depending on the age and the chosen seat
Ticket prices
€ 21 – € 18 – € 17 – € 14 – €10 depending on the age and the chosen seat
2017/2018 Prose Season
27 October 2017 – 8 March 2018
Ottavia Piccolo, Massimo Dapporto, Monica Guerritore, Francesca Reggiani, Asia Argento, Filippo Dini, David Coco, Liv Ferracchiati are but some of the protagonists of the Spoleto 2017-2018 Prose Season that includes 7 plays, six at the Teatro Nuovo and one at the Caio Melisso.
The start is on Friday 27 October at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo “Menotti” with Occident Express (Haifa è nata per star ferma). Written by Stefano Massini, it features Ottavia Piccolo and the Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo. In 2015 an old woman from Mosul flees with her 4-yo granddaughter, covering 5.000 Km from Iraq to the Baltic Sea, across the so-called Balcan Route. This is her story.
Friday 24 November at 21, at the Teatro Nuovo, it’s the turn of Mariti e Mogli, adapted and directed by Monica Guerritore who is also in the cast along with Francesca Reggiani. The play is freely adapted from Woody Allen’s much praised film.
Saturday 9 December at 21, again at the Teatro Nuovo, Massimo Dapporto is the protagonist of Un borghese piccolo piccolo, extraordinary novel by Vincenzo Cerami who inspired Monicelli’s cinema masterpiece, a tragic comedy that offers hilarious moments. Adaptation and direction by Fabrizio Coniglio.
Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 January at 21 and Wednesday 10 January at 18 at the Teatro Caio Melisso – spazio Carla Fendi, it is the time of Todi is a small town in the center of Italy, written and directed by Liv Ferracchiati. What is life like in an Italian small town? Michele, Stella, Elisa and Caroline are four guys from Todi. A fifth character, a documentarist, connects fiction to reality observing and noting the features of the city and its inhabitants. What is life like in a place where everybody knows everyone? What should you rather avoid doing in Todi? These are but some of the questions that were actually asked to more than a hundred people in Todi, that the play aims at giving back through a collage that supports the story of the four protagonists.
Saturday 20 January at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo, the Györ Ballet Company (one of the oldest, most praised European contemporary dance companies) will stage two masterpieces, Maurice Ravel’s Bolero and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Friday 9 February at 21, Teatro Nuovo, Il Giuramento by Claudio Fava, directed by Ninni Bruschetta and featuring David Coco. Heads, you can count them or cut them. The fascist regime didn’t choose one. It counted 1238 and cut twelve, casual heroes of those who only have left an extreme resource of dignity, that of refusal. This happened on 13 November 1931. The theatre play tells the story of one of them.
Thursday 8 March at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo, the closing play will be Rosalind Franklin. Il segreto della vita by Anna Ziegler, directed by Filippo Dini, featuring Asia Argento, Filippo Dini. The Great History, the discovery of DNA, and the extraordinary tale of scientist Rosalind Franklin’s last years, facing one of the most important, debated discoveries in the history of scientific research.
Tickets
On the day of the plays, starting from 16, please call the Botteghino Teatro Nuovo GIAN CARLO MENOTTI – tel. 0743 222647
Online
www.teatrostabile.umbria.it
phone reservation
weekdays, from 16 to 20, till the day before the play
Botteghino Telefonico Regionale del Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria – tel. 075 57542222
Reserved tickets shall be picked up at the theatre’s box office not any later than 20.00 on the day of the play
subscriptions
Botteghino del Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti – tel. 0743 222647
from Monday 16 to Monday 23 October, from 17.00 to 19.00
pre-emption for last season’s subscribers
from Monday 16 to Wednesday 18 October
new subscriptions
from Thursday 19 to Monday 23 ottobre
Subscription prices
€ 91 – € 84 – €77 – € 63 depending on the age and the chosen seat
Ticket prices
€ 21 – € 18 – € 17 – € 14 – €10 depending on the age and the chosen seat
The Lions Club Spoleto has recently commissioned the restoration of the Crucifix of St. Pontianus, remarkable work of art dating to the XIVth century, whom the Spoleto populace is particularly devout to.
On Wednesday 10 January at 10.30 at the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum – Sala Barberini, there will be the presentation of the restored work, in a lecture attended by art and restoration experts.
Attendees:
Mario Di Spirito, President of Lions Club Spoleto
Renato Boccardo, Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia
Maria Elena Bececco, Spoleto vice-mayor
Marica Mercalli, Superintendent for Cultural Assets, Perugia
Alessandro Del Priori, Art historian
Bruno Bruni, COOBEC Spoleto
Pietro E. Rindinella, former president of Lions Club Spoleto
Video projection: “The Restoration of St. Pontianus’ Crucifix”
2017/2018 Prose Season
27 October 2017 – 8 March 2018
Ottavia Piccolo, Massimo Dapporto, Monica Guerritore, Francesca Reggiani, Asia Argento, Filippo Dini, David Coco, Liv Ferracchiati are but some of the protagonists of the Spoleto 2017-2018 Prose Season that includes 7 plays, six at the Teatro Nuovo and one at the Caio Melisso.
The start is on Friday 27 October at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo “Menotti” with Occident Express (Haifa è nata per star ferma). Written by Stefano Massini, it features Ottavia Piccolo and the Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo. In 2015 an old woman from Mosul flees with her 4-yo granddaughter, covering 5.000 Km from Iraq to the Baltic Sea, across the so-called Balcan Route. This is her story.
Friday 24 November at 21, at the Teatro Nuovo, it’s the turn of Mariti e Mogli, adapted and directed by Monica Guerritore who is also in the cast along with Francesca Reggiani. The play is freely adapted from Woody Allen’s much praised film.
Saturday 9 December at 21, again at the Teatro Nuovo, Massimo Dapporto is the protagonist of Un borghese piccolo piccolo, extraordinary novel by Vincenzo Cerami who inspired Monicelli’s cinema masterpiece, a tragic comedy that offers hilarious moments. Adaptation and direction by Fabrizio Coniglio.
Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 January at 21 and Wednesday 10 January at 18 at the Teatro Caio Melisso – spazio Carla Fendi, it is the time of Todi is a small town in the center of Italy, written and directed by Liv Ferracchiati. What is life like in an Italian small town? Michele, Stella, Elisa and Caroline are four guys from Todi. A fifth character, a documentarist, connects fiction to reality observing and noting the features of the city and its inhabitants. What is life like in a place where everybody knows everyone? What should you rather avoid doing in Todi? These are but some of the questions that were actually asked to more than a hundred people in Todi, that the play aims at giving back through a collage that supports the story of the four protagonists.
Saturday 20 January at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo, the Györ Ballet Company (one of the oldest, most praised European contemporary dance companies) will stage two masterpieces, Maurice Ravel’s Bolero and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Friday 9 February at 21, Teatro Nuovo, Il Giuramento by Claudio Fava, directed by Ninni Bruschetta and featuring David Coco. Heads, you can count them or cut them. The fascist regime didn’t choose one. It counted 1238 and cut twelve, casual heroes of those who only have left an extreme resource of dignity, that of refusal. This happened on 13 November 1931. The theatre play tells the story of one of them.
Thursday 8 March at 21 at the Teatro Nuovo, the closing play will be Rosalind Franklin. Il segreto della vita by Anna Ziegler, directed by Filippo Dini, featuring Asia Argento, Filippo Dini. The Great History, the discovery of DNA, and the extraordinary tale of scientist Rosalind Franklin’s last years, facing one of the most important, debated discoveries in the history of scientific research.
Tickets
On the day of the plays, starting from 16, please call the Botteghino Teatro Nuovo GIAN CARLO MENOTTI – tel. 0743 222647
Online
www.teatrostabile.umbria.it
phone reservation
weekdays, from 16 to 20, till the day before the play
Botteghino Telefonico Regionale del Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria – tel. 075 57542222
Reserved tickets shall be picked up at the theatre’s box office not any later than 20.00 on the day of the play
subscriptions
Botteghino del Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti – tel. 0743 222647
from Monday 16 to Monday 23 October, from 17.00 to 19.00
pre-emption for last season’s subscribers
from Monday 16 to Wednesday 18 October
new subscriptions
from Thursday 19 to Monday 23 ottobre
Subscription prices
€ 91 – € 84 – €77 – € 63 depending on the age and the chosen seat
Ticket prices
€ 21 – € 18 – € 17 – € 14 – €10 depending on the age and the chosen seat
From Wednesday, October 11, 2017 the #Spoletolegge reading group’s meetings will be held every Wednesday at the Library of Palazzo Mauri, at 9 pm. The event is organized by Carducci and Carandente libraries in collaboration with Andrea Tomasini.
This year’s readings program is entitled Not as it seems, and will be dedicated to crime and mystery stories.
Readings will be in Italian.
Program:
La fine è nota by Geoffrey Holiday Hall
L’assassinio di Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie,
Sei problemi per don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges e Adolfo Bioy Casares
Uno studio in rosso by Arthur Conan Doyle
Il segreto di padre Brown by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirk Gently, agenzia investigativa olistica by Douglas Adams
NOW READING:
Quer Pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Il club dei mestieri stravaganti by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Il detective cieco by Bramah Ernst
Requiem per il romanzo giallo by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Omicidio a Road Hill House, ovvero invenzione e rovina di un detective by Kate Summerscale
The return of Don Matteo – The 11th season’s first two episodes on the big screen at San Nicolò
Thursday 11 January, while RAIUNO will air the 11th season’s first episode, the city of Spoleto will celebrate the return of Don Matteo through a public projection of the first two episodes at San Nicolò, starting from 21.00.
Admission is for free, but a reservation is required, deadline h 17.30 of Thursday 11 January, by emailing to iat.spoleto@comunespoleto.gov.it or calling 0743.218620 (Mon-Sat from 9 to 13. 30 and from 14.30 to 18.15; Sundays and holidays 9.30-13).
The first two episodes are “The most beautiful mistake” and “Scenes from a marriage”, they show the city’s turmoil for the arrival of the new captain. An anxious Cecchini does not dare entering the caserma; Don Matteo arrives and supports him, he shall not be sad for Tommasi’s departure, his undisputed experience will be needed by the new captain.
Don Matteo’s 11th season was shot in Spoleto and elsewhere from June to December 2017. It is an all-Italian successful format, first aired on 7 January 2000. The series enjoyed worldwide success since in inception, from France to Finland, from the US to Australia.
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #222
FRANCESCO REFINI
XVIIth-century Spoletan painter
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, the event by Palazzo Collicola – Arti Visive and Sistema Museo, returns on Friday 12 January 2018 at 19.00.
The meeting will focus on on of the XVIIth-century’s most prolific Spoletan painters: Francesco Refini. Thanks to his many works kept at Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, it will be possible to narrate his life and retrace his stylistic evolution.
The evening goes on with an aperitive.
The event is organised in collaboration with Con Spoleto – Hotel Managers’ Association.
Partecipation fee:
Guided tour – full fare € 7,00
Guided tour – reductions € 5,00 – for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00
Reservation is strongly encouraged, deadline at 13:00 of Friday:
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434
The Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore Sansi-Leonardi-Volta participates again in the Notte Nazionale del Liceo Classico, that reaches its 4th edition.
Friday 12 January 2018, from 21.00 to 23.00, it will be possible to attend theatre plays, animated readings, concerts, photographic and visual arts exhibitions, ancient world themed tastings, lectures, debates, meetings with the authors, book presentations, poetry events.
From Wednesday, October 11, 2017 the #Spoletolegge reading group’s meetings will be held every Wednesday at the Library of Palazzo Mauri, at 9 pm. The event is organized by Carducci and Carandente libraries in collaboration with Andrea Tomasini.
This year’s readings program is entitled Not as it seems, and will be dedicated to crime and mystery stories.
Readings will be in Italian.
Program:
La fine è nota by Geoffrey Holiday Hall
L’assassinio di Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie,
Sei problemi per don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges e Adolfo Bioy Casares
Uno studio in rosso by Arthur Conan Doyle
Il segreto di padre Brown by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirk Gently, agenzia investigativa olistica by Douglas Adams
NOW READING:
Quer Pasticciaccio brutto di via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Il club dei mestieri stravaganti by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Il detective cieco by Bramah Ernst
Requiem per il romanzo giallo by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Omicidio a Road Hill House, ovvero invenzione e rovina di un detective by Kate Summerscale
Second cycle of conferences Recounting History, a project in collaboration with GraficArte Severini and Astra Onlus.
At each meeting, participants will receive didactic kits and an ebook will be created, featuring last year’s conferences’ contents.
On the occasion of the conference, admission to the Museum is free. All conferences are in Italian.
Future meetings:
Friday 19 January
ROMAN ASSISI
Laura Manca – Formerly at the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell’Umbria
Friday 9 February
THE ABBEY OF SASSOVIVO: ARISTOCRACIES AND RELIGIOUS CONGREGATION UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE LATE OSTEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Roberta Taddei, Lia Barelli, Maria Romana Picuti – Università La Sapienza, Rome
Friday 23 February
THEATRES AND POLITICAL POWER: THE SPOLETO CASE
Giulia Rocco – Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Storia, Patrimonio Culturale, Formazione e Società
Friday 9 March
THE EXCAVATIONS AT THE SPOLETO TEATRO NUOVO: THE LATE-ANCIENT BUILDING IN THE CITY’S URBAN FABRIC
Matelda Albanesi – Archaeologist
Moreno Orazi – Architect
Friday 23 March
CARSULAE: RESULTS OF THE LATEST EXCAVATION CAMPAIGNS
Luca Donnini, Massimiliano Gasperini – Associazione Astra
Friday 13 April
THE CHARIOT OF MONTELEONE DI SPOLETO
Francesco Roncalli – Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli
Friday 16 May
THE ANCIENT CITY OF GUBBIO: NEW DATA FOR ITS KNOWLEDGE
Luana Cenciaioli – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Musei Archeologici Nazionali di Perugia e Orvieto
Friday 1 June
TOMBS FROM THE VALNERINA AT THE SPOLETO ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Chiara Procacci – Archaeologist
Maria Angela Turchetti – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano di Spoleto
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #223
SILVER AND GOLD
Masterpieces of sacred goldsmith art
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, the event by Palazzo Collicola – Arti Visive and Sistema Museo, returns on Friday 19 January 2018 at 19.00.
It will be the occasion for disclosing the precious objects kept in the closets of the Palazzo Collicola chapel, that include candle holders, censers, incense-boats and a precious, Bernini-school angel.
The evening goes on with an aperitif.
The event is organised in collaboration with Con Spoleto – Hotel Managers’ Association.
Partecipation fee:
Guided tour – full fare € 7,00
Guided tour – reductions € 5,00 – for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00
Reservation is strongly encouraged, deadline at 13:00 of Friday:
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434