What’s on & where to go by Linda Bordoni
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Accademia Filarmonica Romana Concerts at Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17, tel. 063265991. For information tel. 063201752, www.filarmonicaromana.org. 29 April. Violin and piano recital by Domenico Nordio and Mikhail Lidsky. Music by Tartini, Kreisler, Szymanowsky, Dallapiccola, Paganini, Vivaldi/Respighi (21.00). 6 May. Chamber music concert by Al Ayre Espanol, with Eduardo Lopez Banzo conductor and harpsichord. Programme of Spanish baroque music, in particular music composed for the Royal Chapel of the Court of King Philip V of Spain (21.00). Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia Concerts at Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, tel. 068082058, www.santacecilia.it. 2 May. Concert conducted by Tugan Sokhiev, with Fazil Say piano. Music by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich (18.00). Repeated 3 May (21.00), 4 May (19.30). 7 May. Recital by Ian Bostridge tenor and Antonio Pappano piano. Music by Mahler, Britten, Weill (20.30). 8 May. Concert conducted by Antonio Pappano, with Nicole Cabell soprano and Maria Radner contralto. Music by Mahler (18.00). Repeated 10 May (21.00), 11 May (19.30).
fronted oriental culture. The programme also highlights the relationship between art and science. More and more artists (choreographers, theatre directors, musicians, visual artists) and scientists are contributing to a new interdisciplinary approach to the contemporary performing arts. Fabbrica Europa provides them with the space for experimentation.The programme of dance, theatre and music, installations, workshops and meetings traces an itinerary between the west and the east. Stazione Leopolda and other spaces. For booking and information www.ffeac.org.
Rome Montemartini Blue Note. 9 April-5 June. The extraordinary industrial-archaeological spaces that make up the former Montemartini thermoelectric power station – today a modern museum that hosts precious archaeological remains side-byside with original electricity-producing machinery – set the stage for a brand new jazz festival in Rome. A recently restored engine room with spruced-up old machines provides the backdrop to a rich programme of jazz concerts directed by Federica Gentile. Every Friday and Saturday evening two concerts, the first starting at 20.00 and the second at 22.00, feature many big names of the Italian jazz panorama, with wine-tasting to follow. Some names to look out for in the near future include Gabriele Mirabassi, Enrico Pieranunzi, Maurizio Giammarco, Danilo Rea and Roberto Gatto. ACEA Montemartini Art Centre, Via Ostiense 106, tel. 065748042, www.centralemontemartini.org. Fluxus Biennale. 2010-2011. This two-year project put together by Achille Bonito Oliva is dedicated to Fluxus, the international collective of artists that formed in the 1960s and blended different artistic disciplines and media. The project is presented by Fondazione Musica per Roma and events take place at Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, tel. 0680241281, www.auditorium.com.
dance Danilo Rea performs at the Montemartini Blue Note jazz festival in Rome on 28 and 29 May.
Associazione Internazionale Amici della Musica Sacra Concerts in the basilica of S. Ignazio, Piazza S. Ignazio. For booking and information tel. 0668805816, www.amicimusicasacra.com. 30 April. Concert by the Fermaatti Choir from Finland. Sacred music programme (21.00). Concerti della Sagrestia del Borromini Concerts in the church of S. Agnese in Agone, Via S. Maria dell’Anima 30/a, tel. 331/8104144, www.santagneseinagone.org. 30 April. Piano recital by Gianluca Di Donato. Music by Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Wagner/Liszt (18.30). 7 May. Recital by Sigridur O. Kristjansdottir mezzosoprano, and Michelangelo Carbonara piano. Music by Grieg, Sibelius, Sjoberg, Ravel, De Falla (18.30). I Musici Veneziani Concerts in the church of St Paul’s Within-the-Walls, Via Nazionale 16a, tel. 064883339, www.stpaulsrome.it. 30 April. Lyrical concert. Excerpts and arias from well known operas (20.30). Repeated 1, 4, 7, 8, 11 May (20.30). Musica Per Roma Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, tel. 0680241281, www.auditorium.com. 8 May. Le Testament: for the cycle of events entitled Contemporanea, an event dedicated to Ezra Pound conducted by Tonino Battista (21.00). Oratorio del Gonfalone Via del Gonfalone 32, tel. 066875952. 6 May. End-of-season concert by the Orchestra Tartini, with Luis Bacalov conductor and piano. Music by Bacalov, Gardel, Morricone, Viloldo, Piazzolla (21.00). Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma Concerts at Auditorium Conciliazione, Via della Conciliazione 4. Information tel. 800904560, www.orchestrasinfonicadiroma.it. 30 April. Concert with Marco Braito trumpet. Music by Mascagni, Arutunian, Schubert (17.30). Repeated 2 May (20.30). 9 May. Concert conducted by Francesco La Vecchia, with Xu Zhong piano. Music by Beethoven (17.30). Repeated 10 May (20.30).
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Cremona Festival di Cremona Claudio Monteverdi. 7-26 May. Lovers of baroque music and above all fans of the 17thcentury composer Claudio Monteverdi flock to his birthplace every year for this festival’s promising programme of new versions of his work and illustrious ensembles and musicians. This year the programme celebrates the fifth centenary of the publication of Monteverdi’s masterpiece, the
Vespers of 1610, the main theme of the programme. Another focus this year is the third centenary of the birth of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, as well as a tribute to Alessandro Scarlatti 350 years after his birth. Big names include Alan Curtis, Ton Koopman, Antonio Florio, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Helmuth Rilling, the Tallis Scholars and The Hilliard Ensemble. The successful initiative entitled Contemporanea provides the link between ancient and contemporary music, featuring three world premieres by Giorgio Battistelli, Ivan Fedele and Luca Francesconi. For information contact Teatro Ponchielli, tel. 0372022001, www.teatroponchielli.it.
Florence Festival del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. 29 April-2 July. Richard Strauss’s Die Frau Ohne Schatten inaugurates the 73rd edition of the festival. This year’s theme is “Towards the East”, with a multiethnic programme that touches on Mozart and runs through to contemporary productions and concerts. In fact, Strauss’s Woman without a shadow, on a libretto by Hoffmansthal, is based on Indian, Arab and Chinese legends, just as Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail concerns the attempt of the hero Belmonte, assisted by his servant Pedrillo, to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the harem of the Turkish Pasha Selim. The other opera to look out for is the contemporary Natura Viva by Marco Betta. Zubin Mehta this year celebrates 25 years as the Maggio Musicale’s principal conductor and director, and features in many of the productions and concerts. Big names to book for in advance include those of pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim, young Palestinian pianist Saleem Abboud-Ashkar, Chinese conductor Long Yu, violinist Sergey Khachatryan, conductor Christopher Hogwood and Gidon Kremer at the head of his Kremerata Baltica. Dance features with a performance by the Ballet National de Marseille in Frédéric Flamand’s new creation, La vérité 25x par seconde, with sets and costumes designed by Chinese artist and designer Ai Weiwei, The Forgotten Seed by and with Indian Bharatanatyam dancer Alarmél Valli, and of course the traditional end-of-festival ballet gala by the resident Compagnia MaggioDanza. Teatro Comunale, tel. 05527791, www.maggiofiorentino.com. Fabbrica Europa 2010. 6-25 May. With this 2010 edition of the well-established contemporary dance festival, Fabbrica Europa completes a three-year cycle dedicated to artistic and cultural relations between Europe and the other continents. The theme Europe, the Mediterranean and the East demonstrates how western culture has always encountered and con-
The seven Vivancos brothers mix dance virtuosity and acrobatic prowess. In Milan.
Florence Shen Wei Dance Arts Education Project. 6 May. Mycelial Sketches, choreography by Kate Jewett, for the Fabbrica Europa Festival. This performance, under the supervision of Chinese choreographer Shen Wei, is the result of a seven-week dance project in Italy that explored Shen Wei Dance Arts movement concepts and qualities. Mycelial Sketches visits the underground world of the earth’s mushroom networks, celebrating the beauty of decomposition and paying homage to their life-sustaining work. Stazione Leopolda, for booking and information www.ffeac.org. Also in Milan from 17 to 19 May at the Teatro della Scuola d’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi. See Festivals.
Genoa Eifman Ballet of St Petersburg. 12-16 May. In Anna Karenina, choreography by Boris Eifman. Eifman translates emotion into motion, moving his dancers boldly and, like Martha Graham, has the theatrical instinct to know when the soul-searching duets and trios need a change of pace. Scenes of Anna, her husband Karenin and her lover Vronsky, who wrestle their emotions and each other, alternate with elegant, rowdy or gaudy ensemble sections, like the opening party where Anna meets Vronsky amidst a swirling sea of waltzing couples. Teatro Carlo Felice tel. 010589329, 010591697, www.carlofelice.it.
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