by Linda Bordoni
for up-to-date what’s on listings see www.wantedinrome.com ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI ROMA 29 Jan. Concert conducted by Claudio Choen. Music by Schubert and Bruckner (17.30). Repeated 30 Jan (20.30). 5 Feb. Concert conducted by Francesco La Vecchia, with Roberto Cappello. Music by Mercadante, Catalani, Gershwin (17.30). Repeated 6 Feb (20.30). Auditorium Conciliazione, Via della Conciliazione 4. Information tel. 800904560, www.orchestrasinfonicadiroma.it. TEATRO DELL’OPERA 27 Jan. Concert by the Orchestra of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma conducted by Wayne Marshall. Music by Gershwin and Ravel (20.30). Teatro Costanzi, Piazza B. Gigli, tel. 06481601, www.operaroma.it.
Wayne Marshall interprets Gershwin at the Teatro dell’Opera.
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THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY 24-29 Jan By Oscar Wilde. Adapted and directed by Simone Fioravanti, this production is part of this year’s “Palkettostage” programme especially geared for teachers, scholars and students in English. Palkettostage was founded in 1985 as a support to teachers and produces drama in English, French and Spanish to expose Italian youngsters to the language and to attract them to the world of drama. Special performances for school classes are organised during the morning. In English. Teatro Orione, Via Tortona 7, tel. 0677206960. THE ROME SAVOYARDS Arsenic and Old Lace 7-12 Feb By Joseph Kesselring, directed by Sandra Provost and produced in collaboration with
Dramatists Play Service Inc. This popular play was written in 1939 and originally entitled Bodies in Our Cellar. The plot focuses on the two Brewster sisters, Martha and Abby, who have lived in their father’s house in Brooklyn all their lives and now as elderly ladies share it with their nephew Teddy. The two fondly tolerate Teddy’s firm belief that he is President Roosevelt, even to the extent of allowing him to dig the Panama Canal in their cellar. Their domestic bliss is enhanced by the increasingly regular visits of Teddy’s brother Mortimer who grows ever more fond of Elaine Harper, living next door. It seems that things will lead to the inevitable happy conclusion but when Mortimer makes a disturbing discovery the path to a happy ending becomes anything but clear. In English. Teatro S. Genesio, Via Podgora 1, tel. 063223432. Bor booking and information tel. 3478248661.
FESTIVALS ROME EQUILIBRIO FESTIVAL DELLA NUOVA DANZA 5-27 Feb At its eighth edition, the cutting edge dance festival is headed once again by acclaimed choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. As always the festival offers a panorama of contemporary dance today, hosting both emerging artists as well as well-known international names. During the festival the “Premio Equilibrio Roma” will be awarded to a new talent. Some big names to look out for include Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui who presents TeZukA, a new work that inaugurates the festival inspired by the works of manga cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (6, 7 Feb); the Canadian Crystal Pite with her interesting Dark Matters (10 Feb); the Swedish Zero Visibility Corp in (Im)possible (11 Feb). The programme also features the two ex-equo winners of last year’s edition of “Equilibrio”: Giulio D’Anna and Valentina Buldrini/Martina la Ragione. Auditorium Parco
della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin. For booking tel. 0680241281, www.auditorium.com. For more details see Dance and our website www.wantedinrome.com/events. FESTIVAL CONTROTEMPO 2012 24-28 Jan Organised by the French Academy in Rome, this contemporary music festival is in its third edition. The programme highlights the ties between French and Italian contemporary composers. This year the festival pays tribute to composer Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004) whose research connected tonal harmonies with expressions of psychedelic rock. Important acts include the Ensemble Intercontemporain Controtempo, Garth Knox, the Itinéraire Ensemble, the Ensemble Multilateral and the Park Ensemble of Contemporary Music. Concerts take place in different venues with the closing event at the Auditorium Parco della Musica dedicated to the music of Romitelli under the direction of Jean Deroyer. For information www.villamedici.it.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presents TeZukA for the Equilibrio Festival della Nuova Danza.
FORUM AUSTRIACO DI CULTURA ROMA 27 Jan. For the International Day of Memory, Klezmer music concert by the Austrian ensemble “Di Brider” (21.00). 9 Feb. Piano jazz recital by David Helbock, winner of the Montreux Prize for piano jazz (20.00). 15 Feb. Conference focusing on the figure of Schnitzler on the 150th anniversary of his birth. By Lorenzo Bollettini (20.00). Forum Austriaco di Cultura, Viale Bruno Buozzi 113, tel. 063608371, www.austriacult.roma.it. AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME 15 Feb. Francesco Buranelli, Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church gives a lecture entitled Palazzo Farnese, ovvero una Accademia “ante litteram” (18.00). Via Angelo Masina 5, tel. 065852151, www.aarome.org. BELGIAN ACADEMY 25 Jan. Presentation of the book Demeter, Isis, Vesta and Cybele by A. Mastrocinque and C. Giuffrè Scibona. 15 Feb. Recital by Alice Depret soprano. Music by Fauré, Bellini, Rossini, Ravel and others (19.30). 16-18 Feb. International conference organised by E. Warmenbol and B. Toune entitled Choice Pieces. The destruction and manipulation of goods in the Later Bronze Ages: from reuse to sacrifice. Belgian Academy, Via Omero 8, tel. 0620398631, www.academiabelgica.it. JAPAN FOUNDATION Until 31 Jan. Cycle of films dedicated to director Satsuo Yamamoto. Film projections in original language with subtitles every Tuesday and Thursday at 19.00. Via Antonio Gramsci 74, tel. 063224794, www.jfroma.it. POLISH INSTITUTE OF ROME 19 Jan-29 Feb. Exhibition entitled Riflessi by Krystyna Piotrowska for the International Day of Memory (open from Monday to Thursday 10.00-17.00). 10 Feb. Chamber music concert by the Ensemble Cantate with Stefan Plewniak violin, Natalia Kawalek soprano, Karolina Herzig harpsichord and Pascale Clement cello. Music by Handel, Corelli, De Monteclair, Zebrowski, Veracini (21.00). Palazzo Blumenstihl, Via Vittoria Colonna 1, tel. 0636000723, www.istitutopolacco.it.
25 January 2012 Wanted in Rome