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no. 3 / March 2016 editorials

BLOSSOM TIME Mary Wilsey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ROME AND THE EASTER RISING Mícheál MacCraith. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 METAMORPHOSES IN THE TURANO VALLEY Philip Biss . . . . . . . . 10

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EXHIBITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 classical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 POP, ROCK, JAZZ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 festivals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 DANCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 OPERA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 THEATRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Academies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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MUSEUMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 art galleries in rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 ROME’s cultural academies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 useful numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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Giancarlino Benedetti Corcos La fioraia di Arthur Schnitzler 2015, acrilico su tela ghinea.

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art

Mary Wilsey

BLOSSOM TIME Giancarlino’s flower cycle in Via dei Cappellari brings back memories of a vanishing city

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A detail of one of Giancarlino’s flower paintings on display at Via dei Cappellari.

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ono andato in giro tutto il pomeriggio per le strade...” is the opening of the short story, Blumen, by Austrian novelist Arthur Schnitzler. That is exactly what I had been doing all afternoon.

Schnitzler was walking in the Vienna snow; I was walking down the side streets of Campo de’ Fiori one grey afternoon in January. He was mourning his one-time lover. I was mourning the city I love, a vanishing Rome, once cheerful, busy, warm, noisy, full of cooking smells, a happy place – a city that was nowhere to be seen on that winter’s day.

A century and more after Schnitzler wrote Blumen he would probably have been just as surprised as I was to see flowers crowding a street-level window on Via dei Cappellari, one of the few remaining bastions of Rome’s artisans.

Not real flowers, but painted ones in a myriad of colours, shapes and sizes, all on creamy, unbleached linen and canvas, unframed and free, as alive in their own way as any real flower could be. It was a colourful spot, a happy sight on that drab winter afternoon. I tried the door. It was closed, but I felt a lifting of my mood as I walked on.

By chance the next day I bumped into the artist Giancarlino outside Caffè Perù, his local bar in Via di Monserrato, next to the office of Wanted in Rome.

art “Have you seen my show? I’m going there now. Come as soon as you can, Via dei Cappellari 49,” he said with his usual enthusiasm and urgency. I should have guessed that the blossoms were his.

The inside of 49 is bursting with flowers, higgledy-piggledy over every available space, small works on shelves, long drifts of material, large expanses draped from the ceiling, blooms on the bottom of wooden crates from the nearby street-market, paintings all over the cellar downstairs. Bright reds and greens, outline blacks, soft yellows and ochres, alluring pinks and violets, stark peacock colours, all inspired by his muse.

The small space seemed crowded and the conversation bubbled up, helter-skelter fashion, among those of us there: stories and more stories of Rome and art – happy art, commercial art, heartless art, new galleries, old galleries, disappearing trades, the travailed city in the grip of mafia corruption, economic disaster, incompetent politicians. The owner of the space, Carlina, relates that she and her husband Andrea want to escape and go where it is brighter and happier, perhaps to Crete. She admits that they are not the art-market types: they show the art they love, in their own house, when they want and for as long as it suits them. “How long will this show last?” I ask. “We haven’t decided yet,” Carlina says, “perhaps until the beginning of March, perhaps until the end, perhaps even longer.”

For the moment they are in love with the art of Giancarlino and that of the other great Rome name, Fausto Delle Chiaie, best known for his elongated figures outlined in chalk on the pavements in Piazza Augusto Imperatore, his carefully placed boxes, re-found toys and pungent messages. You will see his lean figures, the outlines of a scurrying rat, a trap or two, as well as his latest inspiration, enshrouded mummies standing upright in the cel-

The October 2010 cover of Wanted in Rome by Giancarlino.

lar. They could hardly seem more lifelike, friendly bedouin-looking figures, but a bit shrunken and wrapped in burial bandages, reminders of our nonnegotiable end as they wait at the bottom on the stairs.

And Schnitzler? Giancarlino is quick to explain. Blumen is a haunting tale of a man abandoned by his lover who regrets her decision and continues to send him a bouquet of carnations and violets each month, even after her death. Love and death, Schnitzler’s favourite themes. Inspired by the story, Giancarlino pours out flower upon flower in a new amorous dialogue with his muse in a life-death continuum.

I never met Laura, but she lives on in many of Giancarlino’s paintings, the willowy figure on our cover is just one.

The first time I heard her name was in a text message I received from Giancarlino with news of her funeral. I remember the occasion partly because I didn’t know Giancarlino very well at the time, and partly because it was the first text message I had ever received about a funeral. And with it came that feeling of grief and urgency that he just wanted everyone he knew to be there. But even more I remember it because it coincided with the death of Edith Schloss, another of Rome’s great contemporary artists and a long-time reviewer March 2016 | Wanted in Rome

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Giancarlino with one of his flower cycle series.

for Wanted in Rome. He was mourning Laura at the same time as many of us in the Anglo-American community in Rome were mourning Edith.

In another of those strange coincidences, Giancarlino just happened to be one of Edith’s favourites. She considered him one of the brightest, most creative and most naturally-talented of the city’s contemporary artists, as did one of her own muses Cy Twombly, who had also died about the same time.

I remember being in her apartment when Giancarlino came to deliver his artwork for one of the Wanted in Rome cover series we commissioned back in 2010. He had overshot his deadline, he arrived late in the day without warning and his illustration was on a brown paper bag, straight from the market in Campo de’ Fiori. Edith was furious because of his lateness and because of the brown paper bag, and she threatened not to use it. But it was so creative in all its Roman humour, fun and detail

that it would have been a crime to have left it out.

In her notes after the death of Twombly, which Edith wrote just before she herself died, she remembers that Giancarlino was the only one of Rome’s artists to fire Twombly’s imagination and admiration.

Coincidence on coincidence. And so to another of my chance meetings with Giancarlino, a few years back now. This time he was bursting with the news of a plaque to Twombly in La Chiesa Nuova – no mean tribute to an American artist, he pointed out. “You didn’t know?” he said, as though I should certainly have heard the news.

“Edith was convinced Twombly would be in the Non-Catholic cemetery,” I replied.

“No, it’s Chiesa Nuova. Go and look, on the first column on the right.”

Sure enough there it is, not just a small plaque but a very long and comprehensive scroll in Latin. I am told that

his ashes are also there.

Circles within circles, life within death. Memories fade to come alive again in different ways, as in the Schnitzler story.

Giancarlino is always bursting with news, not to mention ideas. He bubbles with life, is a powerhouse of energy.

Paintings, tiles, breathtakingly beautiful, small ceramics, people, stories, all pour out of him. Who else would have thought to find Schnitzler on a Roman street? Today he is off to Prati with ceramics, tomorrow on a commission to Tivoli, the next day to Civita Castellana.

But if you are lucky you may catch him at Caffè Perù, and if not him then you will see his ceramic tiles – and Laura – along the walls. If the show on Via dei Cappellari, just around the corner, is still open, you may find him there too, surrounded by his flowers.

See cover of this edition, La fioraia di Arthur Schnitzler by Giancarlino.

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HISTORY

Mícheál MacCraith

ROME AND THE EASTER RISING

Rome’s religious and cultural links with Ireland’s Easter Rising 100 years ago

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his year marks the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, which was the violent culmination of a long campaign for Home Rule from Britain that dated back to 1870. Home Rule, passed by the British parliament in 1912, was expected to come into operation by autumn 1914.

When Britain declared war on Germany

on 4 August 1914, however, it was postponed until the war ended. Fearing that Britain would ultimately renege on her promises, a group of advanced nationalists came together in September 1914 and started planning to stage an uprising in Ireland at Easter 1916. Their efforts seemed doomed when a ship carrying 20,000 rifles for the nationalists

from Germany was captured by British naval vessels two days before the intended insurrection was due to begin.

Despite the disillusionment and panic that spread through the insurgents’ ranks, not to mention the confusion caused by orders and counter-orders, a small group spearheaded by the Irish Republican Brotherhood decided to

Structural damage caused by the Easter Rising just off O’Connell Bridge, close to the GPO in central Dublin.

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HISTORY proceed with the original plans, come what may. On Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, about 1,300 volunteers seized a number of strategic buildings, most importantly the General Post Office, in the centre of Dublin and proclaimed an Irish republic. They held out for six days but, overwhelmed by superior forces and artillery, they surrendered unconditionally the following Saturday. A series of courts martial was immediately initiated and the seven signatories of the proclamation of the Republic were executed by firing squad between 3 and 12 May. Nine other leaders were also executed.

Though initially hostile to the rising, public opinion was speedily transformed by the summary and vindictive nature of the executions, not to mention the internment of 1,800 men in Frongoch in north Wales. The failed insurrection thus became a pivotal moment in accelerating the movement for Irish independence.

Due to its involvement on the Allied side in world war one since May 1915, Italy was undoubtedly not much interested in Irish affairs and Romans would have considered Ireland as part of the United Kingdom. Investigation of the leading insurgents’ lives, however, reveals cultural and religious links between the eternal city and the Easter Rising of 1916.

An interesting feature of the rising was the connections a number of the executed leaders had with Rome. While James Connolly, one of the signatories of the proclamation, did not visit the Eternal City, he learned fluent Italian during his time as a labour activist in order to facilitate the organisation of Italian workers in New York. Éamonn Ceannt, the last signatory of the proclamation, was a noted player of the uilleann pipes, Ireland’s national bagpipe. In September 1908 he accompanied a pilgrimage of the Catholic Young Men’s Society to Rome. The pilgrims paraded behind Ceannt, playing his pipes, to their papal audience in the Vatican.

Afterwards Ceannt entered the hall and feelings about the sufferings of Ireland walked up and down three times, play- at the hands of the English throughout ing a well-known martial air, O’Donnell the centuries. Despite the narration of abú. When he finally ceased playing a oppression and despite the death of few steps from the papal throne, Pius Eoghan Rua, the mysterious lady holds X summoned him forward to examine out a message of hope for the future, the strange instrument. Though initially if only the Irish can come together in startled by an “unearthly sound” that unity. was emitted by the bag and chanter, His In August 1915, Pearse delivered Holiness quickly recovered and asked the graveside oration at the funeral of him to play again. Ceannt responded O’Donovan Rossa, an old Fenian who with The Wearing of the Green. When he died in America and whose body was had finished the pope came down and brought back to Ireland for burial. Conpatted him on the back, before going to sidered to be one of the most important meet the rest of the pilgrims. political speeches in 20th-century Irish In June 1913, Thomas MacDonagh, history, it is memorable in particular another signatory of the proclamation, for its closing lines, delivered before asked Joseph Plunkett, also a signatory, 200,000 listeners: “The defenders of this to take over as editor of The Irish Review. realm … think that they have foreseen Among Plunkett’s first contributors was everything, think that they have proPatrick Pearse, later to be commander vided for everything; but the fools, the in chief of the insurgents and signatory fools, the fools! They have left us our to the proclamation.

Pearse’s contribution, which ran for a number of issues, was entitled Songs of the Irish Rebels, comprising translations of martial poems in Irish composed during the previous two centuries. One of the poems selected by Pearse was An Síogaí Rómhánach, The Roman Visionary.

Composed around 1650, the poem is basically a lament for the Irish military leader Eoghan Rua O’Neill who died in 1649. Weeping at the graves of the Ulster princes in S. Pietro in Montorio, the poet narrator encounters a lady from the otherworld who gives vent to her Éamonn Ceannt played the uilleann pipes for Pope Pius X. March 2016 | Wanted in Rome

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British troops mount a road block to support a search in Dublin.

Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”

Very recent research has shown that the style and rhetoric of Pearse’s address was closely modelled on the poem An Síogaí Rómhánach. While the poet’s identity is unknown to us, all the evidence indicates that he was a member of the Irish Franciscan community of S. Isidoro in Rome.

In April 1916, Joseph Plunkett swore his father George, a papal count, into the Irish Republican Brotherhood and sent him to Rome, where he was received by Pope Benedict XV. During their conversation the pope recalled a recent audience with the British prime minister Herbert Asquith, who had informed His Holiness that the Irish question had been finally solved, now that Home Rule had been granted. Plunkett countered that Home Rule had not been implemented but rather shelved for the duration of the war. The count made the pope aware of nationalist fears that it might not be implemented at all, and even then only with the

Pope Benedict XV was sympathetic to the Irish cause.

provision of an amending act to cater to the wishes of the Unionist population of Ireland. Briefing His Holiness on the real situation in Ireland, Plunkett informed him that an insurrection was in the offing. Speaking in French, he asked the pope to send his blessing to those who were setting out on an enterprise they believed to be just.

Geraldine Plunkett, one of the count’s daughters, recalled her father narrating this episode, noting that tears of sympathy streamed down the pope’s face as he gave his blessing, uttering: “Les pauvres hommes, les pauvres hommes.” When Plunkett arrived back in Ireland on 20 April he immediately set about visiting various bishops around the country, begging them to refrain from condemning whatever action might take place.

Because so many people scoffed at the idea of Pope Benedict XV giving the insurgents his blessing, Plunkett wrote to The Irish Press on 26 May 1933 and gave his own account of the event in Rome: “I was received in private audience

by His Holiness; for nigh two hours we discussed freely the question of the coming struggle for Irish Independence. The Pope was much moved when I disclosed the fact that the date for the Rising was fixed, and the reasons for that decision. Finally I stated that the Volunteer Executive pledged the Republic to fidelity to the Holy See and the interests of religion. Then the Pope conferred his Apostolic Blessing on the men who were facing death for Ireland’s liberty.”

Recent research in the archives of the archdiocese of Dublin unearthed a document entitled La recente Insurrezione in Irlanda. It was prepared at the insistence of Benedict XV in September 1916 by the rector of the Irish College in Rome, Mons. Michael O’Riordan. The only other known copy of this briefing document is in the Vatican Library, though the Irish College has a photocopy. The text has not yet been translated into English, but an accompanying note says that it charts the perfidy of British government from the early days of the Home Rule movement.

Fr Mícheál MacCraith OFM is the Guardian of St Isidore’s College in Rome.

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SABINA

Philip Biss

METAMORPHOSES IN THE TURANO VALLEY

The Turano Valley has been of strategic interest over the centuries

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he impressive fortress of Rocca Sinibalda overlooks and protects the tiny mediaeval village at its foot, dominating the meandering lower reaches of the Turano valley just east of the Via Salaria as it approaches Rieti. As such it features strongly in the contrasting elements that have trans-

formed this rural valley over the centuries. Indeed the word metamorphoses not only reflects the inspiration of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and is the name given to the 16th-century cycle of frescoes in the castle, but also accurately describes some of the changes which have taken place in the valley.

The fortress of Rocca Sinibalda helped protect Sabina from invaders.

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The strategic importance of the Turano valley became evident over time as the result of various foreign invasions. By the end of the eighth century AD, the Lombards had spread from south of the Danube into central Italy and as far as Sabina. Afraid for the safety of Rome, Pope Leo III appealed

sabina to the Frankish King Charlemagne to come to his defence. This led not only to the defeat of the Lombards but also to the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire and the crowning of Charlemagne in Rome on Christmas Day, 800.

Among his other tasks, Charlemagne personally undertook the protection of the fifth-century abbey at Farfa, which was growing in wealth and was to become one of the most important in Europe.

Donations of property and precious objects to abbeys such as Farfa were seen at this time as a means of ensuring salvation of the donor’s soul, “pro remedio anima”, and Farfa became not only rich and powerful but also the object of envy. In consequence, Sabina together with parts of southern Italy suffered more than 30 years of occupation by Saracens from north Africa, ending with their defeat at the battle of Garigliano in August of 916.

As defence against these invasions, important abbeys such as Farfa saw a period of castle-building in the high Middle Ages.

Sabina provides many good examples of this period of encastellamento, when defensive walls, towers and castles were built. The fortress at Rocca Sinibalda, owned by the abbots of Farfa until 1118, was probably constructed about this time. With the decline of Carolingian power it then passed through the hands of various important local families such as the Romania and Mareri in succeeding centuries.

Pope Clement VII confiscated the part of the castle held by Muzio Mareri in 1526 and gave it early the following year to Cardinal Alessandro Cesarini, who then set about acquiring the remaining portion of the castle and its feudal lands.

After the devastating sack of Rome in May 1527, Cesarini – who was one of the cardinals held hostage by the

Part of the Turano river became a lake following the construction of a dam at Posticciola in 1939.

mutinous troops of Charles V – decided to maintain a bolt-hole in the countryside and set about transforming his fortress into a more suitable residence.

The resulting palatial castle of Rocca Sinibalda is a prime example not only of the new wave of rebuilding which transformed strongholds into palaces, but of the metamorphoses in architecture and frescoes typical of the new 16th-century Mannerist movement.

Work at the castle started in 1532, with the architect Baldassarre Peruzzi chosen to transform the existing fortress.

He did so by extending it into a form described at the time as zoomorphic, resembling a severe-looking eagle with outspread wings perched on the rocky ridge of Rocca Sinibalda.

The Mannerist work of that era (1520-80) was a reaction to the preceding classical Renaissance art in

that it rejected naturalism in favour of elongated shapes, a distortion of perspective and unusual or thoughtprovoking composition. Although the transformation of other fortresses such as Villa Farnese at Caprarola during the same period was also carried out using a Mannerist approach (here the architect was Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, who also designed Via Giulia in Rome), that of Rocca Sinibalda is known as “the castle of metamorphoses”.

Registered as a national monument in 1928, the castle has recently undergone a seven-year restoration and now houses sculpture and art collections that contrast with and yet complement the artwork of the 16th century.* In another metamorphosis of the valley, the natural course of the Turano river was rudely interrupted in 1939 March 2016 | Wanted in Rome

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sabina when Mussolini’s government erected a dam at Posticciola, a frazione of Rocca Sinibalda, to help feed water to the hydro-electric plant at Cotilia powering the new steelworks at Terni. The river above the dam became a lake and a long road bridge was built over its upper stretches to link the villages of Castel di Tora and Antuni to Colle di Tora, Rocca Sinibalda and the lower river valley.

Another of the public works in the area undertaken by the Fascist government was the establishment of a school for the Corpo Forestale dello Stato in nearby Cittaducale. The equivalent of the British Forestry Commission, this organisation was responsible for managing woodlands and wildlife all over Italy (it is currently being dismantled and its staff absorbed into other forces such as the Carabinieri). In 1939, to recall the role Il Duce played in its establishment, the Corpo Forestale planted 20,000 pine trees on Monte Giano, not far from the ski resort of Terminillo, to form the Latin word DVX. The plantation, visible from Rome on clear days, became overgrown, but was restored to its original outline in 2004.

Running through the valley from Rieti to Carsoli and beyond is a section of the Via Benedetta, the pilgrimage route connecting St Benedict’s birthplace at Norcia in Umbria to the Benedictine monasteries he founded at Subiaco and Monte Cassino. According to Pope Gregory I’s Dialogues of 593 AD, Benedict, the son of a Roman consul in Norcia, was sent to Rome at the age of 12 for his education.

Appalled by the dissolute lifestyle of his companions, he was determined to seek a monastic life. In about 497 AD, still in his late teens or early 20s, he left home and set out in search of a life of solitude and prayer, passing along the Turano valley and over the Lucreti mountains to the Aniene valley where he stopped in present-day

The Italian forestry department honoured Mussolini with a plantation spelling DVX on Monte Giano.

Affile, just outside Subiaco and some 60kms east of Rome. In due course he founded various monasteries in the area and eventually moved on to Monte Cassino, where he founded his most famous abbey.

The events that occurred in the Turano valley in 1945 stand in marked contrast with the peace the youthful Benedict must have found there nearly fifteen hundred years earlier.

The Germans had established the defensive Gustav Line across Italy, with a stronghold based around Monte Cassino, Benedict’s famous abbey and his final resting place. In order to weaken these defences, the Allies mounted a bombing campaign called Operation Strangle to destroy the German’s over-extended supply lines by attacking the depots, railways, roads and bridges that could be used to move troops, weapons, food and ammunition from northern and central Italy to the front.

As part of this operation, bombs were aimed at the recently-built bridge crossing the upper part of

Lake Turano but, as with many highaltitude raids, the bombs failed to hit their intended target, instead completely destroying the church and damaging the Drago castle and many houses in the hamlet of Antuni, perched on a dome-shaped promontory overlooking the lake. Later, in their retreat from Cassino, Panzer Corps units of the German 10th Army were able to use the still intact bridge to reach Rocca Sinibalda in early June 1944 on their way north towards Perugia, Lake Trasimeno and the Gothic line north of Florence.

Today the Turano valley is a peaceful place where bombs no longer fall from the sky. The impressive historic castle at Rocca Sinibalda, the placid lake and charming old villages with excellent restaurants play host to the discerning visitor, a visitor aware of the metamorphoses that have taken place there over the centuries.

* To arrange group visits to the castle tel. 347 / 7279591 or 0746296949.

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rome’s major

Museums vatican museums

For more details see www.museiincomuneroma.it and www.beniculturali.it.

Below is a list of the major museums and archaeological sites in Rome. Book tickets for many Rome museums and archaeological sites on tel. 060608 or online at www.060608.it. Book tickets for the Borghese Museum, Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia, Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Corsini online at www.beniculturali.it.

Vatican Museums

Viale del Vaticano, tel. 0669883860, mv.vatican.va. Not only the Sistine Chapel but also the Egyptian and Etruscan collections and the Pinacoteca. Mon-Sat 09.00-18.00. Sun (and bank holidays) closed except last Sun of month (free entry, 08.30-12.30). All times refer to last entry. For group tours of the museums and Vatican gardens tel. 0669884667.

For private tours (museum only) tel.

0669884947. Closed 26 December and 6 January, Easter Sunday and Monday.

Advance booking online: www.biglietteriamusei.vatican.va.

Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums Tel. 0669881814, www.vatican-patrons. org. For private behind-the-scene tours in the Vatican Museums. state museums Baths of Diocletian Viale Enrico de Nicola 78, tel.

0639967700, www.archeoroma.beniculturali.it. Part of the protohistorical section of the Museo Nazionale Romano in the Baths of Diocletian plus the restored cloister by Michelangelo.

09.00-19.45. Mon closed.

Borghese Museum Piazzale Scipione Borghese (Villa Borghese), tel. 06328101, www.galleria. borghese.it. Sculptures by Bernini and Canova, paint­ings by Titian, Caravaggio, Raphael, Correggio. 09.00-19.30.

Mon closed. Entry times at 09.00, 11.00, 13.00 15.00, 17.00. Guided tours in English and Italian.

Castel S. Angelo Museum Lungotevere Castello 50, tel.

066819111, www.castelsantangelo. com. Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum used by the popes as a fortress, prison and palace. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed.

COLOSSEUM, ROMAN FORUM AND PALATINE Colosseum: Piazza del Colosseo. Palatine: entrances at Piazza di S. Maria Nova 53 and Via di S. Gregorio 30.

Roman Forum: entrances at Largo Romolo e Remo 5-6 and Piazza di S. Maria Nova 53, tel. 0639967700, www.colosseo-roma.it. 08.30-19.15. Single ticket gives entry to the Colosseum and the Palatine (including the Museo Palatino; last entry one hour before closing).

Guided tours in English and Italian.

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Crypta Balbi Via delle Botteghe Oscure 31, tel.

0639967700, www.archeologia.beniculturali.it. Museum dedicated to the Middle Ages on the site of the ancient ruins of the Roman Theatre of Balbus.

09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian.

Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia Piazza Villa Giulia 9, tel. 063226571, villagiulia.beniculturali.it. National museum of Etruscan civilisation. 08.3019.30. Mon closed.

of 21st-century art, designed by Zaha Hadid. Tues-Sun 11.00-19.00, Thurs and Sat 11.00-22.00. Mon closed.

Palazzo Corsini Via della Lungara, 10, tel. 0668802323, www.galleriaborghese.it/corsini/en.

National collection of ancient art, begun by Rome’s Corsini family. 08.3019.30. Tues closed.

Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna Viale delle Belle Arti 131, tel. 06322981, www.gnam.beniculturali.it.

08.3019.30. Mon closed.

Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale Via Merulana 248, tel. 0646974832, www.museorientale.it. Interesting national collection of oriental art with some special exhibitions from its own collection and special loans. Tues, Wed, and Fri. 09.00-14.00. Thurs, Sat, Sun. 09.00-19.30. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian on Sun (11.00 and 17.00).

MAXXI Via Guido Reni 6, tel. 063210181, www. fondazionemaxxi.it. National Museum

Palazzo Altemps Piazza S. Apollinare 46, tel. 0639967700, www.archeoroma.beniculturali.it. An-

Castel S. Angelo

Roman Forum

cient sculpture from the Museo Nazionale Romano, including the Ludovisi collection. 09.00-19.45. Mon closed.

Palazzo Barberini Via delle Quattro Fontane 13, tel.

064824184, www.galleriabarberini. beniculturali.it. National collection of 13th- to 16th-century paintings. 08.3019.30. Mon closed.

Palazzo Massimo alle Terme Largo di Villa Peretti 1, tel. 0639967700, www.archeoroma.beniculturali.it. Important Roman paintings, mosaics, sculpture, coins and an­tiquities from the Museo Nazionale Romano, including the Kircherian collection. 09.0019.45. Mon closed.

VILLA FARNESINA Via della Lungara 230, tel. 0668027268, www.villafarnesina.it. A 16th-century Renaissance villa with important frescoes by Raphael. Mon-Sat 9.00-14.00 excluding holidays. city museums Centrale Montemartini Art Centre Via Ostiense 106, tel. 060608, en.centralemontemartini.org.

Over 400 pieces of ancient sculpture from the Capitoline Museums are on show in a former power plant. 09.00-19.00.

Mon closed. Guided tours in English for groups if reserved in advance.

MACRO Via Nizza 138, tel.

060608, www.en.museomacro.org. The city’s collection of contemporary art, plus temporary exhibition space. 10.3019.00. Mon closed. Also MACRO Testaccio, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4, tel.

060608. Open for temporary exhibitions 14.00-20.00. Mon closed.

Museo Barracco Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 166, tel.

0668806848, www.mdbr.it. A collection of mainly pre-Roman sculpture. 09.0019.00. Mon closed.

Museo Canonica Viale P. Canonica 2 (Villa Borghese), tel. 060608, www.museocanonica.it.

The collection, private apartment and studio of the sculptor and musician Pietro Canonica who died in 1959.

09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian and English (book ten days in advance).

Museo dei Fori Imperiali and Trajan’s Markets Via IV Novembre 94, tel. 060608, en.mercatiditraiano.it. Museum dedicated to the forums of Caesar, Augustus, Nerva and Trajan and the Temple of Peace. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed.

Museo Napoleonico Piazza di Ponte Umberto 1, tel. 060608, www.museonapoleonico.it. Paintings, sculptures and jewellery related to

Capitoline Museums Piazza del Campidoglio, tel. 060608, en.museicapitolini.org. The city’s collection of ancient sculpture in Palazzo Nuovo and Palazzo dei Conservatori, plus the Tabularium and the Pinacoteca. 09.00-20.00. Mon closed. Guided tours for groups in English and Italian on Sat and Sun. Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna Via Francesco Crispi 24, tel. 060608, www.museiincomuneroma.it. The municipal modern art collection. 10.0018.00. Mon closed.

Borghese Museum

Napoleon and the Bonaparte family.

09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian and English.

Museo di Roma – Palazzo Braschi Via S. Pantaleo 10, tel. 060608, en.museodiroma.it. The city’s collection of paintings, etchings, photographs, furniture and clothes from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in English and Italian on prior booking tel. 0682059127.

private museums Casa di Goethe Via del Corso 18, tel. 0632650412, www.casadigoethe.it. Museum dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

10.00-18.00. Mon closed.

Doria Pamphilj Gallery Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Via del Corso 305, tel. 066797323, www.doriapamphilj.it. Residence of the Doria Pamphilj family, it contains the family’s private art collection, which includes a portrait by Velasquez, a sculpture

by Bernini, plus works by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto and Caravaggio. 09.0019.00.

Galleria Colonna Palazzo Colonna, Via della Pilotta 17, tel. 066784350, www.galleriacolonna. it. Private collection of works by Veronese, Guido Reni, Pietro di Cortona and Annibale Caracci. Sat 09.00-13.00 only. Private group tours are available seven days a week on request. For wheelchair access contact the gallery to arrange alternative entrance.

Keats-Shelley House Piazza di Spagna 26, tel. 066784235, www.keats-shelley-house.it. Museum dedicated to the lives of three English Romantic poets – John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. MonSat 10.00-13.00, 14.00-18.00. Guided tours on prior booking.

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rome’s most active and contemporary

art galleries 1/9 Unosunove 1/9 Unosunove focuses on emerging national and international contemporary artists and explores various media including paintings, sculpture and photography. Via degli Specchi 20, tel.

0697613696, www.unosunove.com.

A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna Gallery housing numerous works of contemporary design, photography, drawings and architecture projects. Via dei Banchi Vecchi 61, tel. 0668307537, www.ffmaam.it.

Associazione Culturale Valentina Moncada Gallery holds exhibitions of international artists who are active in the international scene today. Via Margutta 54, tel. 063207956, www.valentinamoncada.com.

Dorothy Circus Gallery Prominent gallery specialising in international pop-surrealist art. Via dei Pettinari 76, tel. 0668805928, www.dorothycircusgallery.com.

Ex Elettrofonica This architecturally unique contemporary art gallery promotes and supports the work of young international artists. Vicolo S. Onofrio 10-11, tel.

0664760163, www.exelettrofonica. com.

Federica Schiavo Gallery Hosts large solo and group shows of well-known contemporary artists. Piazza di Montevecchio 16, tel. 0645432028, www.federicaschiavo.com.

Fondazione Giuliani per l’Arte Contemporanea The Giuliani Foundation for Contemporary Art is a private non-profit foundation that produces three contemporary art exhibitions each year. Via Gustavo Bianchi 1, tel. 0657301091, www.fondazionegiuliani.org.

Fondazione Pastifico Cerere This non-profit foundation develops and promotes educational projects and residencies for young artists and curators, as well as a programme of exhibitions, lectures, workshops and studio visits. Via degli Ausoni 7, tel.

0645422960, www.pastificiocerere. com.

Galleria Lorcan O’Neill

FONDAZIONE MEMMO Contemporary art space that hosts established foreign artists for sitespecific exhibitions. Via Fontanella Borghese 56b, tel. 0668136598, www. fondazionememmo.it.

Galleria Frammenti D’Arte Gallery promoting painting, design and photography by emerging and established Italian and international artists. Via Paola 23, tel. 069357144142, www.fdaproject.com.

Fondazione Volume!

The Volume Foundation exhibits works created specifically for the gallery with the goal of fusing art and landscape.

Via di S. Francesco di Sales 86-88, tel.

06 6892431, www.fondazionevolume. com.

Galleria Lorcan O’Neill High-profile international artists regularly exhibit at this gallery recently relaunched near Campo de’ Fiori. Vicolo Dè Catinari 3, tel. 0668892980, www.lorcanoneill.com.

Franz Paludetto Gallery in S. Lorenzo that promotes the work of Italian and international contemporary artists. Via degli Ausoni 18, www.franzpaludetto.com.

Frutta This contemporary art gallery supports international and local artists in its unique space. Via Giovanni Pascoli 21, tel.

06 68210988, www.fruttagallery.com.

Gagosian Gallery The Rome branch of this international contemporary art gallery hosts some of the biggest names in modern art. Via Francesco Crispi 16, tel.

0642086498, www.gagosian.com.

Galleria della Tartaruga

Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch This contemporary art space is dedicated to exhibiting works on paper.

Via di Pallacorda 15, tel. 0668891936, www.galleriamlf.com.

Galleria della Tartaruga Well-established gallery that has promoted important Italian and foreign artists since 1975. Via Sistina 85/A, tel.

066788956, www.galleriadellatartaruga.com.

Galleria Il Segno Prestigious gallery showing work by major Italian and international artists since 1957. Via Capo le Case 4, tel.

066791387, www.galleriailsegno.com.

GALLERIA MUCCIACCIA Gallery near Piazza del Popolo promoting established contemporary artists and emerging talents. Largo Fontanella Borghese 89, tel. 0669923801, www.galleriamucciaccia.com.

Giacomo Guidi Arte contemporanea This contemporary art gallery presents exhibitions from a diverse group of Italian and foreign artists. Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, Corso V. Emanuele II 282-284, tel. 0668801038, www.giacomoguidi.it.

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MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea

GALLERIA VARSI A small but dynamic gallery near Campo de’ Fiori, known for its stable of street artists. Via di S. Salvatore in Campo 51, tel.

0668309410, www.galleriavarsi.it.

Il Ponte Contemporanea Hosts exhibitions representing the international scene and contemporary artists of different generations. Via di Panico 55-59, tel. 0668801351, www.ilpontecontemporanea.com.

La Nuova Pesa Well-established gallery showing work by prominent Italian artists. Via del Corso 530, tel. 063610892, www.nuovapesa.it.

MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea Gallery devoted to exhibitions by prominent Italian artists. Via di Monserrato 30, www.majartecontemporanea.com.

Magazzino d’Arte Moderna Contemporary art galley that focuses on young and emerging artists. Via dei Prefetti 17, tel. 066875951, www.magazzinoartemoderna.com.

Monitor This contemporary art gallery offers an experimental space for a new generation of artists. Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, Via Sforza Cesarini 43 A, tel. 0639378024, www. monitoronline.org.

Monserrato Arte ‘900 This gallery in the Campo de’ Fiori area represents a range of contemporary Italian artists. Via di Monserrato 14, tel.

348/2833034.

Monitor

Operativa Arte Contemporanea A new space oriented towards younger artists. Via del Consolato 10, www.operativa-arte.com.

PIAN DE’ GIULLARI Art studio-gallery in the house of Carlina and Andrea Bottai showing works by contemporary artists from Rome, Naples and Florence capable of transmitting empathy and emotions. Via dei Cappellari 49, tel. 339 / 7254235, 366 / 3988603, www.piandegiullari2.blogspot.com.

RvB ARTS “Affordable art” gallery specialising in contemporary painting, sculpture and photography by Italian artists. Via delle Zoccolette 28, tel. 3351633518, www. rvbarts.com.

Sala 1 This internationally known non-profit contemporary art gallery provides an experimental research centre for contemporary art, architecture, performance and music. Piazza di Porta S. Giovanni 10, tel. 067008691, www.salauno.com. s.t. foto libreria galleria Gallery in Borgo Pio representing a di-

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STUDIO SALES DI NORBERTO RUGGERI The gallery exhibits pieces by both Italian and international contemporary artists particularly minimalist, postmodern and abstract work. Piazza Dante 2, int. 7/A, tel.

0677591122, www.galleriasales.it.

T293 The Rome branch of this contemporary art gallery presents national and international artists and hosts multiple solo exhibitions. Via G. M. Crescimbeni 11, tel. 0688980475, www.t293.it.

The Gallery Apart This contemporary art gallery supports young artists in their research and assists them in their projects to help them emerge into the international art world. Via Francesco Negri 43, tel.

0668809863, www.thegalleryapart.it.

TraleVolte This contemporary art gallery focuses on the relationship between art and architecture and hosts many solo and group shows of Italian and international artists. Piazza di Porta S. Giovanni 10, tel. 0670491663, www.tralevolte.org.

Valentina Bonomo Located in a former convent, this gallery hosts both internationally recognised and emerging artists who create works specifically for the gallery space. Via del Portico d’Ottavia 13, tel. 066832766, www.galleriabonomo.com.

Wunderkammern This gallery promotes innovative research of contemporary art. Via Gabrio Serbelloni 124, tel. 0645435662, www. wunderkammern.net.

MONTORO12 Gallery promoting work by contemporary Italian and international artists. Via di Montoro 12, tel. 0668308500, www. m12gallery.com.

Nomas Foundation Nomas Foundation promotes contemporary research in art and experimental exhibitions. Viale Somalia 33, tel. 0686398381, www.nomasfoundation.com.

verse range of contemporary art photography. Via degli Ombrellari 25, tel.

0664760105, www.stsenzatitolo.it.

Z20 Galleria Sara Zanin

Z20 GALLERIA SARA ZANIN Started by art historian Sara Zanin, Z2o Galleria offers a range of innovative national and international contemporary artists. Via della Vetrina 21, tel.

0670452261, www.z2ogalleria.it.

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group of Italian painters active in Tuscany in the second half of the 19th century. In a similiar way to the Impressionists, the Macchiaioli spurned the outdated conventions of academies, the artists painted en plein air to capture natural light, shade and colour. The exhibition comprises some 120 works, many of which have long been hidden away in private collections. Highlights include Ponte Vecchio a Firenze (1879)

by Signorini; Il giubbetto rosso (c. 1895)

by Zandomeneghi; and Marcatura dei cavalli in Maremma (1887) by Fattori.

Chiostro del Bramante, Via Arco della Pace 5, tel. 06916508451, www.chiostrodelbramante.it.

MP5: OF CHANGES 20 Feb-24 March Wunderkammern presents an exhibition by Italian artist MP5, known for her striking black and white drawings, illustrations, mural works and video animations. Described by the gallery as “one of the most promising and versatile artists of the moment”, MP5’s works have featured in important national and international galleries and festivals. In addition to her exhibition at Wunderkammern, MP5 will undertake an outdoor work and an audio-video performance in Rome.

Wunderkammern, Via Gabrio Serbelloni 124, tel. 0645435662, www.wunderkammern.net.

exhibitions Conversion of Saul by Parmigianino at Scuderie del Quirinale.

Il giubbetto rosso by Federico Zandomeneghi in the Macchiaioli exhibition at Chiostro del Bramante.

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CORREGGIO AND PARMIGIANINO: ART IN PARMA IN THE 16TH CENTURY 12 March-26 June The Scuderie del Quirinale showcases the art of Parma in the first half of the 16th century, a golden age for the city whose most celebrated artists Correggio (1489–1534) and Parmigianino (1503–1540) contributed greatly to the Italian Renaissance. The exhibition presents a selection of paintings and drawings by both artists who were best known for their religious and mythological paintings. Also on display are works by four other artists from the so-called School of Parma: Michelangelo Anselmi, Francesco Maria Rondani, Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli and Giorgio Gandini del Grano. Scuderie del Quirinale, Via XXIV Maggio 16, tel.

639967500, www.scuderiequirinale.it.

I MACCHIAIOLI 16 March-4 Sept The Chiostro del Bramante dedicates an exhibition to the Macchiaioli, a

SILVIA CAMPORESI: ATLAS ITALIE 20 Feb-9 April This exhibition is the result of Italian artist Silvia Camporesi’s exploration of forgotten and abandoned villages and buildings across the 20 regions of Italy.

Camporesi has created an atlas of images, charting these vanishing places which barely exist on maps, paying homage to a disappearing country and forgotten memories. Held in collaboration with z2o Sara Zanin Gallery, the exhibition features a wide selection of images, from large-format colour prints to smaller black and white prints, coloured by hand.

Galleria del Cembalo, Largo della Fontanella di Borghese 19, tel. 0683081425, www.galleriadelcembalo.it.

RICHARD LONG: AVON TIBER 20 Feb-30 April Richard Long is among a generation of British land artists who has pushed the boundaries of sculpture beyond the confines of traditional materials. This exhibition includes large panels and works on paper created using the mud from the river Avon’s tidal banks, as well as sculpture made from basalt stone from the Italian Alps. Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Vicolo dei Catinari, tel. 0668892980, www.lorcanoneill.com.

Untitled, 2013 by British land artist Richard Long at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill.

RON ENGLISH: SUGAR HIGH 20 Feb-31 March American artist Ron English presents a project dedicated to the theme of food and health, in particular the “dark side of fast food.” The 13 works on display are centred around the anti-corporate mascot Mc Supersized, painted in the Pop Surrealism style in which the Dorothy Circus Gallery specialises.

Dorothy Circus, Via dei Pettinari 76, tel.

0668805928, www.dorothycircusgallery.com.

ALESSANDRO ROMA 20 Feb-16 April The z2o Sara Zanin Gallery presents One foot in the world and the other in the stillness, the first solo exhibition by Alessandro Roma at the gallery. Imagination, memory and nature all play central roles in the artist’s work which fuses the classical landscape tradition with informality and experimentation. z2o Sara Zanin Gallery, Via della Vetrina 21, tel.

0670452261, www.z2ogalleria.it.

PIXELPANCHO: ANDROIDÈI 19 Feb-3 April Exhibition by Turin street artist Pixelpancho who is known internationally for his complex and colourful compositions populated by surreal robot characters. Pixelpancho says his solo show at Galleria Varsi involves robots and gods becoming one entity in which “supernatural and sacred elements mingle and become iron and oxide.” To coincide with the exhibition, the artist is undertaking a mural in the disadvantaged west Rome suburb of Primavalle. The artist’s work, often

painted on a large scale, can be found on the walls of abandoned buildings in cities across Europe as well as in the US and Mexico. Galleria Varsi, Via di S. Salvatore in Campo 51, tel. 06 68309410, www.galleriavarsi.it.

BOTERO: VIA CRUCIS: LA PASSIONE DI CRISTO 13 Feb-1 May The Passion of Christ is a cycle of works

by Fernando Botero. Created between 2010 and 2011, the religious cycle comprises 27 oil paintings and 34 works on paper, and has been shown in numerous countries on the American continent and in Europe. The Colombian artist is famous for his style known as Boterismo which depicts

Fulvia by Pixelpancho at Galleria Varsi.

La Tour by MP5 at Wunderkammern.

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Carlo Bilotti - Aranciera, Viale Fiorello La Guardia 4, tel. 060608, www.museocarlobilotti.it.

GIORGIO GRIFFA: WORKS ON PAPER 1965-2015 5 Feb-9 April This retrospective of works on paper

by Giorgio Griffa presents images from the past five decades of the artist’s career. The exhibition features watercolours and drawings in pencil, pen, ink and crayon, and highlights the importance of the repetition of minimal gestures and signs in the artist’s work which “deserves a place in the global history of abstraction” according to The New York Times. Born in Turin in 1936, Griffa participated in the Venice Biennale in 1978 and 1980. Fondazione Giuliani, Via Gustavo Bianchi 1, www.fondazionegiuliani.org.

JIMMIE DURHAM: SOUND AND SILLINESS 5 Feb-24 April American artist, poet and political activist Jimmie Durham is celebrated for his lyrical, ironic and ethical art which incorporates drawing, writing, sculpture, architecture, video and performance. Rome’s MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo presents two of Durham’s audio works and two videos, recorded and filmed respectively in Italy since 2005. The two audio works are Domestic Glass and I rondoni di Porta Capuana, while the “brief and silly” videos are Fleur de pas mal and A Proposal for a New International Genuflexion in Promotion of World Peace.

MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Via Guido Reni 4, tel.

0632810, www.fondazionemaxxi.it.

Via Crucis, la Pasión de Cristo by Botero at Palazzo delle Esposizioni.

people in large, exaggerated sizes.

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale 194, tel. 0639967500, www.palazzoesposizioni.it.

Canone aureo 820 by Giorgio Griffa at Fondazione Giuliani.

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FRAGILI EROI: STORIA DI UNA COLLEZIONE 11 Feb-10 April More than 80 works by artists belonging to the various “Roman Schools” of art, from the 1930s to the present day.

The show begins with work from the expressionistic Scuola Romana which was formed by artists Mario Mafai and Antoinetta Raphaël at their home on Via Cavour and lasted from 1928 to 1945. The exhibition is formed around the collection of the writer and art critic Roberto Gramiccia whose book Fragili eroi (Fragile Heroes) is dedicated to important Italian artists from the era of Futurism in the early 20th century up to more contemporary times. Museo

PIER LUIGI NERVI: LE ARCHITETTURE PER LO SPORT 5 Feb-2 Oct Exhibition examining the contribution to sport by Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) who designed innovative sporting facilities around the world. On display are plans, models, photographs and three-dimensional graphic presentations for over 60 sports projects, outlining the architect’s design processes and constructional methods. The exhibition spans his career from early works such as the 1931 Stadio Berta in Florence (today known as Stadio Artemio Franchi) to the Palazzetto dello Sport in Rome’s Flaminio district, built for the 1960 Olympics, through to major international projects such as the Kuwait Sports Centre in 1968. Nervi was also responsible for designing the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall, which was completed in 1971. MAXXI Museo Nazio-

Pier Luigi Nervi’s plans for the Sport Arena at the Cultural and Convention Center in Norfolk (US) on display at MAXXI.

nale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Via Guido Reni 4, tel. 0632810, www.fondazionemaxxi.it.

VIA! FOTOGRAFIA DI STRADA DA AMBURGO A PALERMO 30 Jan-3 April The exhibition is the result of a photographic project begun in 2014 by the Goethe-Institut in Rome. Over the course of a year, ten photographers – five in Germany and five in Italy – photographed their cities on the lines of street photography, a process defined by capturing chance encounters and random scenes within public places, popularised in the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Frank and Alex Webb. Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Piazza S. Egidio 1B, tel.

065816563, www.museodiromaintrastevere.it.

MARGARETH DORIGATTI: LUNA/MOND 22 Jan-12 March MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea presents an exhibition of recent paintings inspired by the moon by Rome-based artist Margareth Dorigatti. Originally from Bolzano, Dorigatti has exhibited in galleries and museums all over Europe. Curated by Daina Maja Titonel.

MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea, Via di Monserrato 30, tel. 0668804621, www.majartecontemporanea.com.

STILL SHOWING TRANSFORMERS 11 Nov-28 March Group exhibition in which four artists examine contemporary visual culture

Domestic Glass by Jimmie Durham at MAXXI.

and how it interacts with the advances in technology of the modern world.

Korea’s Choi Jeong-Hwa injects folkinspired “happy life” vibes into art and architectural installations. The FrenchPortuguese artist Didier Faustino designs devices that confront our physical and mental limits. Italian Martino Gamper reinterprets the concept of do-it-yourself through recycling and reinventing, while the work of Mexico’s Pedro Reyes encourages peaceful social interactions. MAXXI Museo

Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Via Guido Reni 4, tel. 0632810, www.fondazionemaxxi.it.

PABLO ECHAURREN: CONTROPITTURA 20 Nov-3 April An exhibition dedicated to the colourful career of contemporary Roman artist Pablo Echaurren, whose avantgarde style incorporates elements of surrealism, pop art and futurism.

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Cina Addio by Pablo Echaurren at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna.

200 works, focusing in particular on the political and social commitment of the multi-faceted but unassuming artist. The show contains a large amount of drawings and collages, most of which have never been published or exhibited, dating from the late 1970s and reflecting the highlycharged political climate in Italy at the time. Many of these works relate to Echaurren’s experience with the Indiani Metropolitani, a small faction active in the Italian far-left protest

movement between 1976 and 1977, during the so-called anni di piombo (Years of Lead). The works on display range from the artist’s early “square” watercolours – paintings comprising a collection of postage stamp-sized individual images; followed by a series of large canvases from the 1980s and 1990s – dealing with world events and environmental issues; as well as satirical collage works and political posters from the 1990s. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Viale delle Belle Arti

Animals by Karel Appel at the CoBrA exhibition at Palazzo Cipolla.

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GILLO DORFLES: ESSERE NEL TEMPO 27 Nov-13 March The MACRO hosts a major retrospective dedicated to the long and distinguished career of Gillo Dorfles, the 105-year-old Italian art critic, painter, poet and philosopher. The exhibition ontains works that Dorfles has painted over the last eight decades — from 1935 until last summer. The show celebrates his entire opus, including his artistic output, critical thinking and aesthetic theories, and features over 100 works, including paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics and jewellery. It traces Dorfles’ founding role in Italy’s abstract Arte Concreta movement in the late 1940s, and presents his critical essays on a vast range of topics, including art criticism, aesthetics, philosophy, psychology and sociology.

MACRO, Via Nizza 138, www.museomacro.org.

CoBrA UNA GRANDE AVANGUARDIA EUROPEA 1948-1951 4 Dec-3 April The Fondazione Roma at Palazzo Cipolla dedicates a major exhibition to CoBrA, the first major European avantgarde movement to emerge from the ashes of world war two. Formed in Paris in 1948, CoBrA takes its name from

La Diavoleria by Ferruccio Ferrazzi at the Affinità Elettive exhibition at Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale.

the three cities of its founders: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam.

The movement only lasted three years, was characterised by spontaneity and experiment, and is considered a catalyst for European Abstract Expressionism. The work of the CoBrA artists, many of whom later moved to Liguria in northern Italy, was inspired in particular from children’s drawings, from primitive art forms and from the work of Klee and Miró. The exhibition features 150 works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, documents and photographs relating to CoBrA’s leaders Alechinsky, Appel, Constant, Corneille, Dotremont, Götz, Jorn, Lucebert and Pedersen. Palazzo

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Cipolla, Fondazione Roma Museo, Via del Corso 320, tel. 066786209, www. fondazioneromamuseo.it.

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC 4 Dec-8 May Some 170 works by Henri ToulouseLautrec come to Rome from the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, currently closed for renovations.

Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) is famed for his prolific output of PostImpressionist paintings and posters, lithographs and Art Nouveau illustrations, the majority of which recorded scenes from the brothels, theatres and bars of late 19th-century Paris.

The works exhibited in Rome were

created during the last decade of the bohemian artist’s life, who died aged 36, and include rare limited-edition prints, illustrations and posters. Of particular interest are the designs leading to the final images, showing the evolution process behind the printed poster or lithograph. The exhibition comprises sections dedicated to Parisian nightlife, actresses from the Belle Epoque, and horseracing at Longchamp. It also provides poignant insights into the artist’s personal life and his warm relationship with the prostitutes and dancers who feature in so much of his work. Ara Pacis, Lungotevere in Augusta, tel.

06820771, www.arapacis.it.

ISTANBUL: PASSION, JOY, FURY 11 Dec-30 April Exhibition dedicated to Istanbul, continuing the series of MAXXI shows exploring the cultural milieu of the Mediterranean basin and the relations between the Middle East and Europe.

The show examines the changing social, political and cultural demands of contemporary Turkey, a bridge between the western and eastern worlds.

The show features artistic productions, and audio and visual projects by important Turkish artists, architects and intellectuals, and is divided into five sections: urban transformations; political conflicts and resistance; innovative models of production; geopolitical urgencies; hope. MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Via Guido Reni 4, tel. 0632810, www.fondazionemaxxi.it.

AFFINITÀ ELETTIVE: DA DE CHIRICO A BURRI 17 Dec-13 March Exhibition of works by Italian artists from the first half of the 20th century, from Rome’s municipal modern art gallery and the Fondazione Magnani Rocca in Parma. Both galleries have contributed about 40 works each to the show which documents key developments in early to mid 20th-century Italian art, with a particular focus on the period between the world wars. Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale, Via Francesco Crispi 24, tel. 060608, www.galleriaartemodernaroma.it.

ANIMAUX SAUVAGES: ANIMALI SELVAGGI VISTI DA SCHILI 18 Dec-14 March Some 60 paintings by Roman artist Salvatore Schilirò, better known as Schili, representing the wild animals of Africa and Asia. Schili is a passionate enviornmentalist and his colourful painting style mixes a modern graphic approach with echoes of Byzantine mosaics. Museo Civico di Zoologia, Via Ulisse Aldrovandi 18, tel. 0667109270, www.museodizoologia.it.

RENZO ARBORE: LA MOSTRA 19 Dec-3 April Celebrating the 50-year career of Renzo Arbore, the Italian television and radio host, showman, singer, musician, actor and film director. The exhibition examines the effect Arbore has had on popular culture and the entertainment industry in Italy, and features his collection of memorabilia and documents picked up over his five decades in show business. MACRO Testaccio, La Pelanda, Piazza O. Giustiniani, tel.

060608, www.museomacro.org.

FORGOTTEN STREET ART PROJECT Portuguese artists transform Rome with street art The Forgotten street art project continues to generate positive reaction in Rome, following the recent intervention of its fourth artist ±MaisMenos± who, in late February, created a series of temporary murals themed around the continuing closure of the capital’s cinemas.

Supported by, among others, the embassy of Portugal in Italy, the project involves five Portuguese artists being commissioned to enliven abandoned or “forgotten” buildings in Rome.

The works by ±MaisMenos± were based around his trademark word games, in this case words and phrases connected to Rome and cinema, and were created outside some of the city’s best known former cinemas. Among them was the Alcazar, in the Trastevere district, which recently closed its doors after 28 years in business.

Although known for its quality programming including undubbed Englishlanguage films, the Alcazar could no longer meet the annual €50,000 operating costs – the same running costs as a multiplex. Its closure reflects a national trend: over the last ten years 1,150 cinemas have closed across Italy, with the curtain coming down on 45 movie theatres in the capital alone. ±MaisMenos± followed in the footsteps of his compatriot, the street artist and sculptor Bordalo II, who gifted Rome a refreshingly different mixed-media mural – a goat’s head entitled Uma Cabra – outside S. Pietro train station in January.

Located at the otherwise drab side-entrance on Clivo di Monte del Gallo, the large-scale work combines the artist’s use of strong colour with discarded mechanical parts.

Bordalo II is known for his bas-relief creatures made using paint and items such as broken bicycles, car parts and tyres.

His murals can be found throughout Portugal and also in Azerbaijin, numerous European countries and the US. The artist told Wanted in Rome: “The Rome piece is part of the international series Big Trash Animals that draws attention to a current problem involving waste production, materials that are not reused, pollution and its effect on the planet.” Bordalo II says these problems risk becoming forgotten or trivialised, and that the idea behind his work is “to depict nature using materials that are responsible for its destruction.”

The artist sourced all the parts for his installation at local recycling centres as well as around the streets of Rome.

Curated by architect Alessandra Arpino and art director Hugo Dias, Forgotten began last October with This Connection, a mural by Add Fuel near the marine ministry in Piazza della Marina, in the Flaminio district.

The second mural, created by Frederico Draw in November, featured a hopefullooking Pier Paolo Pasolini on a silo at the former Mira Lanza soap factory in Ostiense, the site of Teatro India.

Eime will be the final artist to participate in the Forgotten project which concludes in April with an exhibition at MACRO Testaccio.

For full details see website, www.forgottenproject.it.

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MACRO testaccio BIZHAN BASSIRI: LA RISERVA AUREA DEL PENSIERO MAGMATICO 10 Feb-29 March The work of contemporary Iranian artist Bizhan Bassiri combines painting, sculpture, music and poetry, fusing the cultures of East and West. His art is created using materials including papier-mâché, photographic processing, steel, bronze and gold-plating. Bassiri moved to Rome in 1975 and his exhibition at MACRO is promoted in collaboration with the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts.

CLASSICAL For details of the main musical associations and auditoriums in Rome see: Auditorium Conciliazione, Via della Conciliazione 4, www.auditoriumconciliazione.it.

Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, www.auditorium.com.

Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17, www.filarmonicaromana.org.

Accademia S. Cecilia, www.santacecilia.it. All the concerts take place at the Auditorium Parco della Musica (see address above).

Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti, Aula Magna, Università la Sapienza, www.concertiiuc.it.

Oratorio del Gonfalone, Via del Gonfalone 32a, www.oratoriogonfalone. com.

ACCADEMIA FILARMONICA ROMANA

Outflow by Faig Ahmed at MACRO Testaccio.

FAIG AHMED: POINTS OF PERCEPTION 10 Feb-29 March Azerbaijanian artist Faig Ahmed presents a series of site-specific works, comprising video works and installations, created around the theme of Sufism, the inner mystical dimension of Islam. Ahmed’s contemporary “carpet works” are a highlight of the MACRO exhibition which is promoted by the embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Italy, in collaboration with Rome’s Montoro12 Contemporary Art gallery.

MACRO Testaccio, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4, tel 065742647, www.museomacro.org.

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STABAT MATER PERGOLESI 10 March Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, his most celebrated work, was written just before the composer’s death at the age of 26 in 1736. It is considered one of the masterpieces of Italian baroque music.

Teatro Argentina, Largo di Torre Argentina 52, www.filarmonicaromana.org.

QUARTETTO MODIGLIANI WITH BEATRICE RANA 17 March The Modigliani quartet, which was founded in Paris in 2003, plays Schumann’s quartet no 3 and then is joined by Beatrice Rana on the piano for Schumann’s quintet in E flat major for strings and piano. Rana – a young Italian championed by Martha Argerich – made her successful debut in London at the end of last year, as well as releasing a recording with Antonio Pappano of Prokoviev’s piano concerto no 2 and Tchaikovky’s piano concerto no 1. This concert is in collaboration with the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti (see below for date). At Teatro Argentina, www.filarmonicaromana.org.

S. GIOVANNI BATTISTA

BY ALESSANDRO STRADELLA 7 April As the programme notes point out, this is no ordinary oratorio but a key text in Italy’s musical history, as important as Bernini sculpture or Guido Reni’s paintings. This Baroque work was per-

formed first in Rome in 1675 on Palm Sunday, commissioned along with 13 oratorios that year by the confraternity of the Church of S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini to mark the Holy Year of 1675.

Stradella, who was murdered in Genoa in 1682 at the age of 42, composed some 300 works of various genres during his life time. His music and importance was later overshadowed by that of Corelli and Vivaldi. Teatro Argentina, www.filarmonicaromana.org.

ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE S. CECILIA MYUNG-WHUN CHUNG 5-8 March Myung-Whun Chung is both the conductor and the pianist of Mozart’s concerto no 23. He then conducts Bruckner’s ninth symphony, the composer’s spiritual investigation of “the beloved God”. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, www.santacecilia.it.

BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA 13 March Conducted by Ivan Fischer, its founder, the Budapest Festival Orchestra plays Mahler symphony no 3, with mezzosoprano Gerhild Romberger. The Budapest orchestra is at present recording a series of Mahler’s works. Mahler’s third symphony was written between 1893 and 1896 and with its six movements is one of the longest in the standard repertoire. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, www. santacecilia.it.

SCHUMANN SYMPHONIES CONDUCTED BY DANIELE GATTI 12-15 March 19-22 March In this series Daniele Gatti and the S. Cecilia orchestra and chorus perform two Schumann symphonies alongside two choral works by Brahms.

In the first series Schumann’s the first and third symphonies are performed along side Brahms choral works Rhapsody for contralto, with soloist Sara Mingardo. In the second series Schumann’s second and fourth symphonies are coupled with Brahms Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) which is considered one of his best choral works. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, www.santacecilia.it.

ANTONIO PAPPANO 2-4 April Antonio Pappano conducts works by two Russian composers, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky alongside a new composition by the young Italian composer Riccardo Panfili, Aurora Probabilmente, in its new version. The original ver-

Quartetto Modigliano with italian pianist Beatrice Rana plays in concerts for the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, at Teatro Argentina and for IUC.

sion was conducted by Pappano a La Scala in 2014. Panfili, who comes from a small mountainous village near the steel-making town of Terni in Umbria, had no musical background. He was inspired first by Milos Foreman’s film Amadeus and his secondary school music teacher who then persuaded his parents to send him to the conser vatory in Terni – considered a foreign country by the 80 inhabitants of his hamlet of Buonacquisto. A turning point for his career was winning an international composition contest for S. Cecilia. The three major influences on his music are composers Ivan Vandor, Azio Corghi and Hans Werner Henze and on his career Antonio Pappano who launched his work in the S. Cecilia repertoire in 2009 with the composition Danzario. The spark for both Danzario and Aurora Probabilmente comes from Nietzsche who Panfili admits is one of the guiding principals behind the spontaneity of his creativity. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, www.santacecilia.it.

GRIGORY SOKOLOV 15 April Grigory Sokolov is back again at S. Cecilia in April playing two works by

Schumann and two by Chopin. The incomparable Sokolov has an average of eight concerts a month this year in one European city after another. In April alone he begins with Florence on 11 April and ends with Bregenz on 27 April, with Milan, Rome, Bologna, Stuttgart, Munich and Budapest in between. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, www.santacecilia.it.

ISTITUZIONE UNIVERSITARIO DEI CONCERTI YUNDI LI WINNER CHOPIN PRIZE 2000 12 March This is the first time that pianist Yundo Li performs in Rome, even though he won the coveted Chopin prize 16 years ago. He plays two Chopin nocturnes, two Beethoven sonatas, and Schumann’s Fantasie in C major (dedicated to Liszt) and loved by all great pianists. He has also included some traditional Chinese works in the programme. Yundi Li is an exact contemporary of fellow countryman Lang Lang (both were born in 1982) but there is little love lost between the two. Li shines at solo performances March 2016 | Wanted in Rome

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but came apart badly with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Seoul last autumn. Aula Magna, Università la Sapienza, www.concertiiuc.it.

EMMANUEL PAHUD FLUTE ERIC LA SAGE PIANO 15 March Emmanuel Pahud, flute soloist of the Berliner Philharmoniker with Karajan, Abbado and Rattle, and one of the world’s top and most versatile flautists, plays music by Poulenc, Prokofiev, Dutilleux and Faure with Eric Le Sage at the piano. Pahud was first inspired to play the flute as a young boy living in Rome with his parents. Aula Magna, Università la Sapienza, www.concertiiuc.it.

QUARTETTO MODIGLIANI WITH BEATRICE RANA 22 March See Accademia Filarmonica Romana above for details. Aula Magna, Università la Sapienza, www.concertiiuc.it.

ORATORIO GONFALONE TRIO RAFFAELLO 10 March This trio – Marco Fiorino, one-time first solo violinist of S. Cecilia orchestra, Ivo Scarpone cello and Stefano Scarcella piano – plays music by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Oratorio del Gonfalone, Via del Gonfalone 32A, www.oratoriogonfalone. com.

J.S.BACH CONCERTOS 23 March Played by the Archi del Cherubino and Antonio Anselmi violin. The Archi del Cherubino was founded in June 2007 and has a repertoire of mainly 17th- and 18thcentury music with some contemporary compositions. The ensemble was presented with the key to the city of Aquila after the 2009 earthquake in recognition of its commitment to the city’s cultural revival.

Oratorio del Gonfalone, Via del Gonfalone 32A, www.oratoriogonfalone.com.

POP, ROCK, JAZZ JOE JACKSON 7 March Rome concert by the English musician and singer-songwriter who has recorded 19 studio albums and is best known for his first release, the 1979 hit Is She Really Going Out with Him?, and the 1982 single Steppin’ Out. Teatro Brancaccio, Via Merulana 244, tel.

0680687231, www.teatrobrancaccio.it.

URIAH HEEP 19 March This veteran English rock band was formed in London in 1969. The group had its most success in the 1970s, becoming one of the world’s leading rock acts along with Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. The band, which is best known for the 1971 hit Lady in Black, has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. Orion Club, Viale Kennedy 52, Ciampino, tel.

0689013645. www.orionliveclub.com.

MARLENE KUNTZ 23 March This Italian band was formed in Cuneo in 1990, initially inspired by the sound of New York alternative rockers Sonic Youth. The group is known for tracks such as La canzone che scrivo per te and Impressioni di settembre. Quirinetta Caffè Concerto, Via Marco Minghetti 5, www.quirinetta.com.

Italian rock band Marlene Kuntz performs at Caffè Quirinetta Concerto.

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TELEVISION 29 March Rome concert by this American rock band whose debut album Marquee Moon is considered one of the defining records of the punk era. Formed in New York City in 1973, the group was hugely influential in the development of punk and alternative music. Orion Club, Viale Kennedy 52, Ciampino, tel.

0689013645. www.orionliveclub.com.

CHRIS CORNELL 18 April The American rock musician and singer-songwriter Chris Cornell performs at Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica on 18 April. Best known as the frontman for Seattle rock band Soundgarden, Cornell played a seminal role in the 1990s grunge movement, along with contemporaries Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Alice in Chains. He is also the former lead vocalist and songwriter for supergroup Audioslave which disbanded in 2007. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin, tel. 892982, www.auditorium.com.

Spirit of Scotland offers a vast selection of whisky.

Bruce Springsteen concludes his European tour in Rome.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 16 July Tickets are on sale for the much-anticipated concert by American rocker Bruce Springsteen at Rome’s Circus Maximus on 16 July, concluding his European River Tour. Accompanied by the E Street Band, Springsteen’s Rome concert will be his ninth in the capital, following his most recent performance at the Ippodromo delle Capanelle in July 2013. His first Rome concert was at the Stadio Olimpico in June 1988. The River Tour features tracks from his successful 1980 double album The River, as well as other Springsteen classics.

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festivals SPIRIT OF SCOTLAND 5-6 March This two-day event showcases a vast range of Scotland’s whisky, from wellknown to rare, and includes tastings and masterclasses by industry experts.

Now in its fifth year, the festival also involves traditional Scottish fare such as shortbread, salmon and jams displayed alongside Italian delicacies, and a novelty this year is a section devoted to American bourbon as well as whiskies from Japan, Taiwan and India, and the Japanese spirit Shochu. There is also a particular emphasis on mixology, providing the chance to sample classic mixed drinks with a twist, courtesy of six different cocktail bars within the festival, linked to well-known Roman bars. The festival, which enjoys the patronage of the British embassy in Rome, takes place at the Salone delle Fontane, EUR. For full details see website, www. spiritofscotland.it.

ST PATRICK’S DAY IN ROME 17 March St Patrick’s Day in Rome begins officially on Thursday 17 March at 10.00, with the annual Mass for Lá Fhéile Pádraig being celebrated by Mons. Ciarán O’Carroll at St Isidore’s College on Via degli Artisti 41 in the Via Veneto area. The Mass is always extremely well-attended by the city’s Irish community and friends of Ireland, who join together in a misty-eyed rendition of Hail Glorious, St Patrick. Festivities continue over the weekend with

the Celtic Ball – Rome’s most important social occasion in Irish circles – on Saturday 19 March at 19.30. This year marks the 25th edition of the annual black-tie event which is held at the fivestar Grand Hotel Parco dei Principi near Villa Borghese. Tickets are still available and can be purchased by contacting irishclubofrome@gmail.com. For those who wish to raise a toast to St Patrick with a pint or two of Guinness, some of the Irish pubs most favoured by the capital’s Irish expats include the Druid’s Den, the Fiddler’s Elbow, Finnegan’s, and Scholars Lounge, all of which attract large crowds on the days around St Patrick’s Day each year. An increasing amount of the action takes place at Scholars which this year hosts several Irish acts on the night including the inimitable Dublin balladeer Liamo Kelly and lively Wexford performer Darren Byrne.

IRISHFILMFESTA 7-10 April The ninth edition of the IrishFilmFesta coincides with the 100th anniversary of Ireland’s Easter Rising, the pivotal moment in Ireland’s insurgency against British rule (see article page 6). Dedicated to screening the best of contemporary Irish cinema, the popular festival takes place as usual at the Casa del Cinema in Villa Borghese from 7-10 April.

The four-day event showcases Irish feature films, documentaries and short films, and provides conferences and public interviews with special guests from the Irish film sector. This year’s festival has 15 short films in competition as well as a special focus on Ireland 19162016. The programme includes a selection of episodes from 1916 Seachtar na Casca (The Easter Seven), a series of historical documentaries about the seven Easter Rising leaders. In addition there is the screening of nine films created as part of the After ‘16 initiative funded by

the Irish Film Board as part of the centenary commemorations. This year’s Irish classic is Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins, which is being screened in Rome 20 years after it won the Golden Lion award at the 1996 Venice Film Festival where its star Liam Neeson was voted best actor. All films shown in their original versions with Italian subtitles. Entry is free but it is advisable to arrive early due to high demand for seats. Casa del Cinema, Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1 (Villa Borghese), tel. 06423601, www. irishfilmfesta.org.

dance MILAN TEATRO ALLA SCALA THE NUTCRACKER

BY TCHAIKOVSKY 9 Feb-13 March This is a re-run of Nacho Duato’s successful choreography staged at La Scala last year with Roberto Bolle and Maria Eichwald. It has the classical foundations of the original with Duato’s modern touches. The Spanish choreographer, who studied at the Rambert in London, with Maurice Bejart in Brussels and Alvin Ailey in New York, is now the artistic director of ballet at the Mikhaylovsky Theatre in St Petersburg.

He is the first foreigner to lead the Russian company for more than a century.

Duato’s Nutcracker premiered at the Mikhaylovsky in 2013. Teatro alla Scala, Via Filodrammatici 2, www.teatroallascala.org.

DON CHISCIOTTE

BY MINKUS 6 March-1 April Nureyev’s choreography of Don Quixote has been part of La Scala’s repertoire since 1980. The guest artists are Alino Somova, principal dancer of St Petersburg Mariinsky Ballet and Leonid Sarafanov who moved to the Mikhailovsky Theatre, St Petersburg’s number two theatre, after nine years with the Mariinsky. Sarafanov says that part of the reason he moved was so that he could work with Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato and have a chance to dance not just the classical repertoire but also more contemporary choreographies. Teatro alla Scala, Via Filodrammatici 2, www.teatroallascala.org.

IL GIARDINO DEGLI AMANTI 9-19 April This is the first staging of this work to

music by Mozart and choreography

by Massimiliano Volpini with Roberto Bolle and the La Scala ballet company.

The setting is in a baroque villa (sets are by Erika Carretta) where a chamber orchestra plays Mozart quartets and quintets and Mozart’s characters emerge and then mingle and disappear among the guests at the party.

Teatro alla Scala, Via Filodrammatici 2, www.teatroallascala.org.

PISA SHAKESPEARE DEAD DREAMS 10 March Inspired by four Shakespeare tragedies – Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth – in a new production by Versiliadanza under the the young Armenian director Vahan Badalyan and choreographer Angela Torriani Evangelisti.

Chiesa S. Andrea, Pisa, www.teatrodipisa.pi.it.

THE MAN. THE PASSION 24 March This work by Verona’s RBR Dance Company, founded by Cristiano Faglioli and Cristina Ledri, coincides with Holy Week and takes its cue from Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ, to music

from the film. Teatro Verdi, Pisa, www. teatrodipisa.pi.it.

ANNA KARENINA 2 April Created by Estonian choreographer, Teet Kask, for Balletto di Milano. This new work, based on the Tolstoy novel, transforms Anna Karenina from victim to the model of a free woman who is liberated from the prejudices of her society and is ready to take the consequences. Kask, who is still relatively unknown in Italy, uses both classical and modern techniques and has chosen to base this work on Tchaikovsky’s music. Kask’s Anna Karenina debuted at Teatro di Milano in November last year. Teatro Verdi, Pisa, www.teatrodipisa.pi.it.

REGGIO EMILIA NETHERLANDS DANS THEATRE 16 March This is the Netherlands Dans Theatre’s only Italian appearance with these three choreographies. Shoot the Moon is to the music of Philip Glass. The Missing Door by Gabriela Carrizo, founder of the Brussels based Peeping Tom dance theatre company, is a short

ROME TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA At the Rome Opera house there is a lull between the Grandi Coreografi, which finished on 2 March, and Angelin Preljocal’s Le Parc which begins on 5 May, both of which carry the signature of the new head of ballet, Eleonora Abbagnato.

Her’s is also the hand behind the appointment of Rebecca Bianchi as the new principal dancer. Bianchi’s formation was with the La Scala ballet school under the direction of Anna Maria Prina and then Frederic Olivieri but on graduation she moved to the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in 2009, after a short time with the Balletto dell’Opera Nazionale di Bordeaux.

She was spotted by Abbagnato when she took up her role as head of the ballet at the Teatro dell’Opera in 2015 and Bianchi’s first solo role was last October in Giselle, followed by The Nutcracker over Christmas and her official appointment.

Rebecca Bianchi and Eleonora Abbagnato in rehearsal.

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work of dance theatre created by the Argentinian-born dancer and choreographer in 2013. In Stop-Motion, to music

by Max Richter, seven dancers interpret themes of farewell and transformation.

Teatro Municipale Valle, Reggio Emilia, www.iteatri.re.it.

OPERA MILAN I DUE FOSCARI VERDI 25 Feb-25 March This promises to be must-see new production. Whether it is the cast, the director or the conductor it will be a feast for all opera lovers. Placido Domingo is in the role of Francesco Foscari and Francesco Meli as Jacopo. And there are also two young promising singers, Anna Pirozzi, and Luca Salsi, the new star at the Met who is alternating with Domingo. Alvis Hermanis returns to La Scala to direct the opera after his success last year with Di Soldaten, and conductor Michele Mariotti is one of Italy’s best. Teatro alla Scala, Via Filodrammatici, www.teatroallascala.org.

LA CENA DELLE BEFFE

BY UMBERTO GIORDANO 6 March-1 April This new La Scala production is a continuation of its project to bring Verismo repertoire back to the Milan opera house. Giordano’s opera, one of his later works, was first performed at La Scala in 1924 conducted by Toscanini. It was adpated from the play of the same title by Sem Benelli which premiered at Rome’s Teatro Argentina in 1909. Here it is conducted by Carlo Rizzi, an expert of Italian repertoire, with the theatrical, operatic and cinematographic experience of Mario Martone as the director.

Teatro alla Scala, Via Filodrammatici, www.teatroallascala.org.

ROME BENVENUTO CELLINI

BY BERLOIZ 22 March-3 April This is the third consecutive new production at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, this time a co-production with the English National Opera (ENO) and the Amsterdam National Opera. The conductor is Roberto Abbado and the director Terry Gilliam.

The cast includes Varduhi Abrahamyan, John Osborn, (both new names for the Rome opera who have rarely performed in Italy), Alessandro Luongo and Nicola Ulivieri. Gilliam first staged this rarely performed hybrid of an opera – where romance mixes with outrage and humour – for the ENO. A spokesman for the ENO said that Gilliam combined his anarchic style with Berlioz’s epic score to tell the story of Cellini, the notorious Italian goldsmith and sculptor – an artist and scoundrel – whose scandalous lifestyle rivalled that of Casanova. Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Piazza Beniamino Gigli 7, www. operadiroma.it.

LO SCOIATTOLO IN GAMBA

BY NINO ROTA 15-20 April This late addition to the season’s programme (specially for schools judging by the times of the performances) is a work

by Rota on a text by Eduard De Filippo and will be introduced by a presentation of the orchestra’s instruments, a sort of Peter and the Wolf idea. Lo Scoiattolo in Gamba was composed by Rota in 1959 for the Venice international music festival and the text was inspired by a fable written by De Filippo’s daughter as a school assignment. All eight performances are in the morning or early evening. Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Piazza Beniamino Gigli 7, www.operadiroma.it.

Terry Gilliam’s version of the rarely performed Berloiz opera Benvenuto Cellini at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

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Nicoletta Braschi in Giorni Felici (Happy Days) at Teatro India.

THEATRE TUTTO SHAKESPEARE IN 90 MINUTI 3-13 March Some of the most significant and best known lines from the complete works of William Shakespeare are delivered in just 90 minutes. The action-packed production takes place on the year in which the world celebrates the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death, and stars Alessandro Benvenuti, Nino Formicola and Francesco Gabbrielli. In Italian. Teatro Vittoria, Piazza S. Maria Liberatrice 10, Testaccio, tel. 065781960, www.teatrovittoria.it.

TEATRO INDIA 9-14 March Teatro India stages a production of Il vantone by Pier Paolo Pasolini, a Romanesco translation of Miles gloriosus, a comedy in five acts by Plautus. Directed by Federico Vigorito, with Ninetto Davoli and Edoardo Siravo.

16-24 March The poems and letters of Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarotti are adapted into play form in Michelangelo – Vita, written by Antonio Piovanelli and directed by Giacomo Andrico.

31 March-10 April Samuel Beckett’s two-act play Happy Days is centred around Winnie who, although buried up to her waist, continues to waffle about happier times to her henpecked husband Willie. Andrea Renzi directs Nicoletta Braschi and Roberto De Francesco.

All plays in Italian. Teatro India, Lungotevere Vittorio Gassman, tel.

06684000311/14, www.teatrodiroma. net.

HAMLET 31 March-10 April In celebration of this year’s 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare, the English Theatre of Rome presents one of the Bard’s best loved plays in a fresh re-imagination directed by Douglas Dean and produced by Gaby Ford. The

entirely-female cast takes the audience on a rollercoaster of murder, revenge, devotion, manipulation and tragedy, challenging viewers to re-evaluate their previous understanding of this powerful piece of theatre. In English. 31 March, 1-2 April 20.00, 3 April 17.00, 20.00, 7-9 April 20.00, 10 April 17.00, 20.00. For tickets email rometheatre@yahoo.com or text 348/935562. Teatro l’Arciliuto, Piazza Montevecchio 5, www.rometheatre.com.

ROME’S COMEDY CLUB 1 April The March edition of this monthly evening of hilarity (in English) has been moved to April. The line-up includes the club’s founder Marsha De Salvatore, along with regulars Liz Knight, Francesco De Carlo and Denise McNee. begins the new year with plenty of new material from the club’s regular crowd of comedians. Doors open as usual at 20.30, show begins at 21.30, and guests should reserve in advance, tel. 347 / 6753522 or email teatrodouze@gmail.com. Teatro Douze, Via del Cipresso 12, Trastevere.

Academies AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME 9 Feb-7 April The 2016 edition of Cinque Mostre at the American Academy in Rome features five separate exhibitions and collaborative projects by current Rome Prize Fellows from several disciplines. Under the title Across the Board: Parts of a Whole, the show is centred around the fragment, or individual part, as the starting point of a story rather than its conclusion. The exhibition takes place in several areas of the academy’s McKim, Mead & White Building and features art works, scholarly research, architectural studies, musical compositions and literary texts.

American Academy in Rome, Via Angelo Masina 5, tel. 065852151, www.aarome. org.

BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME 9-23 March The BSR holds several interesting lectures in March including Dancing backwards through time: subverting Baroque and Roman architecture (9 March) by Liz Rideal from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, and The naturalness of ancient urbanism (23 March) by Greg Woolf from London’s Institute of Classical Studies.

Both events are in English and take place from 18.00-19.30.

18-25 March The BSR launches its Fine Arts Mostra on Friday 18 March from 18.30-21.00. The exhibition includes works by current Fine Arts award-holders: Rachel Adams,

Tutto Shakespeare in 90 minuti at Teatro Vittoria.

Damien Duffy, Anne Ryan, Jonas St. Michael, Ross Taylor, Michelle Ussher. MonSat 16.30–19.00.

British School at Rome, Via Antonio Gramsci 61, tel. 063264939, www.bsr. ac.uk.

FRENCH ACADEMY 18 March-19 June The exhibition Yan Pei-Ming Rome presents the Franco-Chinese artist’s vision of Rome and its history, ruins, popes, politics and films with 24 large-format works, specially conceived for Villa Medici. The show by Yan Pei-Ming, who was a fellow at the French Academy in Rome in 1993-1994, is curated by another distinguished former resident, the art historian Henri Loyrette who has previously served as a director of both the Musée d’Orsay and the Louvre. The exhibition highlights the relationship between the French Academy in Rome, which currently celebrates its 350th anniversary, and its host city. Villa Medici, Viale Trinità dei Monti 1, tel. 066761305, www.villamedici.it.

JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE 5 Feb-7 April Under the subheading Il fumetto contemporaneo legge il maestro, the exhibition Manga Hokusai Manga focuses on comics, prints, and illustrated books showcasing the influence of the Japanese master printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), best known for woodcut prints such as The Great Wave off Kanagawa, on Japan’s contemporary manga scene. The Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome is the starting point of the exhibition which begins a worldwide tour in April.

3-18 March The Donne Protagoniste film festival is dedicated to the role of women in recent Japanese cinema. The films include Tamako in Moratorium, Petal Dance, Tokyo Losers, and My Little Nightmare: The Mov-

ie. Screenings take place at 17.00 and 19.30 on select dates, and all films are in original version with subtitles in Italian.

Until 31 March Free guided tours for small groups of the institute’s gardens but bookings can only be made by telephone, tel.

0694844655. The gardens are the work of the renowned designer Ken Nakajima, who was also responsible for the Japanese section of Orto Botanico in Trastevere. With their cherry trees, wisteria, irises and dwarf pines they feature all the essential elements associated with the Sen-en style, including a waterfall, ponds, an ornamental bridge and a traditional tōrō stone lamp.

Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Via Antonio Gramsci 74, tel. 063224754, www. jfroma.it.

Innocent X rouge by Yan Pei-Ming at the French Academy. Photo André Morin.

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rome’s cultural

academies AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME The American Academy in Rome works to promote research and independent study in the arts and humanities. Via Angelo Masina 5, tel. 065810788, www. aarome.org.

French Academy

AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM The Austrian Cultural Forum hosts events dedicated to the history and culture of Austria. Viale Bruno Buozzi 113, tel.

063608371, www.austriacult.roma.it.

BELGIAN ACADEMY The Belgian Academy facilitates scientific and cultural relations between Italy and Belgium by sponsoring researchers and artists in Italy. Via Omero 8, tel.

063201889, www.academiabelgica.it.

BRITISH COUNCIL The British Council promotes the English language and appreciation in Italy of the UK’s creative ideas and achievements.

Via di S. Sebastianello 16, tel. 06478141, www.britishcouncil.it.

BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME The British School at Rome brings scholars, artists, researchers and architects from Britain to create a cultural exchange between Britain and Italy. Via Gramsci 61, tel. 063264939, www.bsr.ac.uk.

CASA DI GOETHE Rome’s museum dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe offers exhibitions and cultural events throughout the year.

Via del Corso 18, tel. 0632650412, www. casadigoethe.it.

CENTRE CULTUREL SAINT-LOUIS DE FRANCE The centre offers cultural events such as film screenings, lectures, debates and theatre. Largo Toniolo 20, tel. 066802629, www.ifcsl.com.

British School at Rome

CENTRO CULTURAL BRASIL-ITALIA The centre offers courses of Brazilian Portuguese and samba and hosts meetings with writers and filmmakers, conferences on Brazilian literature and screenings of Brazilian movies. Piazza Navona 18, tel.

0668398284, www.roma.itamaraty.gov. br/it/centro_cultural_brasil-italia.xml.

FINNISH ACADEMY The Finnish Academy provides a base for Finnish students and researchers working in Italy, as well as promoting Finland’s work in the arts and humanities. Villa Lante, Passeggiata del Gianicolo 10, tel. 0668801674, www. irfrome.org.

DANISH ACADEMY The Danish Academy is an institution that offers support to Danish artists in Rome. Via Omero 18, tel. 063265931, ww.dkinst-rom.dk.

FRENCH ACADEMY The French Academy at Villa Medici hosts artists from France and provides exhibitions and festivals throughout the year. Viale Trinità dei Monti 1, tel.

066761305, www.villamedici.it.

DUTCH INSTITUTE The Dutch Institute offers courses for students and researchers and serves as a bridge between Dutch universities and Italy. Via Omero 10, tel. 063269621, www.knir.it.

EGYPTIAN ACADEMY The Egyptian Academy brings Arabian, Egyptian and African culture and art to Italy. Via Omero 4, tel. 063201896, www.accademiaegitto.org.

GERMAN ACADEMY The German Academy offers German artists, writers, musicians and architects the opportunity to study in Rome. Largo di Villa Massimo 1, tel.

064425931, www.deutsche-kulturinternational.de.

GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE This institute conducts research into the history of Germany and Italy, in

American Academy

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Danish Academy

particular the relations between both countries. Via Aurelia Antica 391, tel.

066604921, www.dhi-roma.it.

GOETHE INSTITUT The Goethe Institut promotes education in Italy about German culture, language and history. Via Savoia 15, tel. 068440051, www.goethe.de.

HUNGARIAN ACADEMY The Academy of Hungary in Rome hosts concerts, literary events and exhibitions by Hungarian artists and scholars. Via Giulia 1, tel. 066889671, www.roma.balassiintezet.hu.

INSTITUTO CERVANTES Instituto Cervantes is a cultural institution created to promote the teaching of Spanish language and culture.

Via di Villa Albani 16, tel. 068551949, www.cervantes.es.

ITALIAN INSTITUTE FOR LATIN AMERICA The Italo-Latin American Institute facilitates research into the cultural, scientific, economic and social aspects of Italy and Latin American countries. Piazza Benedetto Cairoli 3, tel.

06684921, www.iila.org.

JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE The Japanese Cultural Institute hosts hosts regular cultural events and also offers courses in Japanese. Via Gramsci 74, tel. 063224754, www.jfroma.it.

KEATS-SHELLEY MEMORIAL HOUSE Museum dedicated to the lives of three English Romantic poets – John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

Piazza di Spagna 26, tel. 066784235, www.keats-shelley-house.it.

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NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE The Norwegian Institute in Rome offers undergraduate and graduate courses in art history, ancient studies and Italian.

Viale 30 Aprile 33, tel. 0658391007, www. hf.uio.no.

POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE Institution dedicated to Polish history and culture as well as the promotion of dialogue between Poland and Italy.

Via Vittoria Colonna 1, tel. 0636000723, www.istitutopolacco.it.

tre dedicated to scientific research in art and archaeology. Via Omero 14, tel.

063201596, www.isvroma.it.

SWISS INSTITUTE The Swiss Institute offers exhibitions, events and classes dedicated to the culture of Switzerland. Via Ludovisi 48, tel.

064814234, www.istitutosvizzero.it.

Belgian Academy

POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCE The Polish Academy is a research centre for the humanities and a scientific exchange between Poland and Italy.

Vicolo Doria 2, tel. 066792170, www.accademiapolacca.it.

ROMANIAN ACADEMY The Romanian Academy hosts events and promotes cultural relations between Romania and Italy.

Piazza Josè di S. Martin 1, tel. 063201594, www.accadromania.it.

RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF CULTURE AND LANGUAGE The Russian Institute provides classes in Russian language and culture. Via Farini 62, tel. 064870137.

SPANISH ACADEMY The Spanish Academy hosts artists in many fields of study and holds events that provide a cultural bridge between Spain and Italy. Piazza S. Pietro in Montorio 3, tel. 065818607, www.raer.it.

SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES The Swedish Institute is a research cen-

Romanian Academy

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apartment in old castle, completely

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restored, living room, 2 bedrooms. Un-

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furnished. €350. Other: 3 bedrooms,

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living room, dining room, 2 fireplaces, 2

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066786400. fedel@email.it.

be native speakers and have a

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and 30 years old, to teach and play with a 4 year old, afternoons for a minimum of 5 hours per week. Fixed wages offered.

Quartiere Trieste. Contact pilargrazioli@

AND DIRECTOR OF GENERAL EDUCATION. The American University of Rome invites applications for the full-time, tenure track position of Associate Professor and Director of the General Education program to begin on or before 29 August 2016. Can-

didates must have a Ph.D in a field within

ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT / SECRETARY.

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tion. He or she will also serve the University

Applicants should send a CV authorizing

through membership in committees and in

personal data treatment pursuant to Legis-

other functions coordinated by the Dean of

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English will be considered. Contact wante-

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dinrome.aassistant@gmail.com.

this is an opportunity for a creative and

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TEACHERS REQUIRED. Mothertongue

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TEACHER WANTED. For private afternoon

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program of scholarship and excellence in

The student is a male teenager with a rudi-

teaching.Applicants should apply by email

mentary knowledge of the language.Please

to humanresources@aur.edu (quote in the

call +39 0697610631 to set up an interview.

which The American University of Rome has

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interviewed via Skype or in person, then a

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campus visit. Application review will begin

arts to another level: discovering it, using it,

29 February and interviews will begin as

enjoying it and learning techniques to con-

soon as possible. AUR is an equal opportu-

tinue on your own. First meeting 2016/2/20,

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diately at International House – Accademia

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whithout work,children whithout food.They

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with window, eat-in kitchen with window,

fight to cope.Somebody tell to believe in

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overhead storage, updated modern electric,

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au pair room (or in-law suite) on separate

limarco@gmail.com.

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floor, lovely panoramic views above the

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love is like simmer,unfortunately my flame

VILLA WITH SWPOOL - VIA NOMENTANA

was too high,but I don’t burned laura, be-

KM15.700. 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom villa

EMERGENCY ROOM. Once upon a time

cause.Once she made me taste her......bio-

(porzione di bifamiliare) with garden and

there was a doctor with his bag and bag-

logical apples!sernicolimarco@gmail.com.

swimming pool located in a gated commu-

trees, very quiet. Contact eh1821@yahoo.fr.

gage.He went door to door to look after our

nity in north east of Rome, with 24h porter,

health,we were proud of him and the cold

security services and commercial facilities at

disappeared. Today there are millions of doctors with their bag and baggage. They go door to door to look after our health we

Property for sale in town

walking distance.The property is located on via Nomentana, just 15km from the centre of Rome. Although closer to Rome than

are proud of them but if now the cold don’t

it is to Guidonia (a town on the outskirts

disappeared please take care of Ebola

of Rome) it is part of the Guidonia council and benefits from much lower council and

disease.sernicolimarco@gmail.com.

VIA ADELAIDE RISTORI, 5MN WALK FROM

property tax compared to Rome council.

PARIS, JANUARY 2015. We will say that

LUISS UNIVERSITY. Very bright restruc-

Surfaces:Lower Ground Floor : 73.45 sqm +

you are bad killers, we will combat you with

tured top-floor, chic apartment in presti-

43.50 sqm private garage (2 cars); Ground

our big sense of freedom. We won’ t permit

gious and central neighborhood, located

Floor: 101.00 sqm + 291.00 sqm private

you to take possess of our hope, we won’t

on a highly sought after street: Via Adelaide

garden, Swimming pool: 13.00 x 2.50 mt ( h:

surprised if somebody could assert that

Ristori, in an elegant turn of the century

mt 1.50); First Floor: 80.00 sqm + 20.00 sqm

the massacre at charlie hebdo is just a little

villa. Third floor, walk up. 115 sqm : 2 bed-

veranda. Contact cavion.d@gmail.com.

weirdo.Sernicolimarco@gmail.com.

rooms with double exposition, bathroom

Property for sale out of town

FLAT IN CASAPE ROMA. Flat in the Castle Newly Remodeled Fully Furnished 1 hour from Rome, 60 sqm, ready to move into.

Contact info@personalshopperroma.it.

Rooms and flat shares

TRASTEVERE - VIA DELLA LUNGARA. Large bright room with private bathroom, comfortable and well equipped + kitchen use. Including internet. Tel. 339 / 7857565.

Available as from March.

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useful

numbers ASSOCIATIONS American International Club of Rome tel. 0645447625, www.aicrome.org American Women’s Association of Rome tel. 064825268, www.awar.org Association of British Expats in Italy britishexpatsinitaly@gmail.com Association of Malaysians in Italy tel. 389 / 1162161, malaysiansinitaly@ gmail.com Canadian Club of Rome canadarome@gmail.com Circolo di Cultura Mario Mieli Gay and lesbian international contact group, tel. 065413985, fax 065413971 Commonwealth Club of Rome ccrome08@gmail.com International Women’s Club of Rome tel. 0633267490. www.pwarome.org Irish Club of Rome irishclubofrome@gmail.com, www.irishclubofrome.org Luncheon Club of Rome tel. 338 / 5094448 Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums tel. 0669881814, www.vatican-patrons.org Professional Women’s Association www.pwarome.org United Nations Women’s Guild tel. 0657053628, unwg@fao.org, www.unwgrome.multiply.com Welcome Neighbor tel. 347 / 9313040, dearprome@tele2.it, www.wnrome-homepage.blogspot.com

Saint-Louis de France (French) Largo Toniolo 20-22, tel. 066802637, www.saintlouisdefrance.it La Librairie Française de Rome La Procure (French) Piazza S. Luigi dei Francesi 23, tel. 0668307598, www.librairiefrancaiserome.com Libreria Feltrinelli International Via V. E. Orlando 84, tel. 064827878, www.lafeltrinelli.it Libreria Quattro Fontane (international) Via delle Quattro Fontane 20/a, tel. 064814484, Libreria Spagnola Sorgente (Spanish) Piazza Navona 90, tel. 0668806950, www.libreriaspagnola.it Open Door Bookshop (second hand books – English, French, German, Italian) Via della Lungaretta 23, tel. 065896478, www.books-in-italy.com S. Susanna Lending Library Via XX Settembre 15, tel. 064827510 Opening times: Sun 10.00-12.30 Tues 10.00-13.00, Wed 15.00-18.00, Fri 13.00-16.00

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The following bookshops and libraries have books in English and other languages as specified.

Almost Corner Bookshop Via del Moro 45, tel. 065836942 Anglo American Bookshop Via della Vite 102, tel. 066795222 Bibliothèque Centre Culturel

24-hour, multilingual information line for services in Rome, run by the city council, tel. 060606

cinemas The following cinemas show films in English or original language when available – see Wanted in Rome website for details.

Casa del Cinema Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1, Villa Borghese, tel. 06423601, www.casadelcinema.it Cinema dei Piccoli Viale della Pineta 15, Villa Borghese, tel. 068553485 Farnese Persol Piazza Campo de’ Fiori 56, tel. 066864395 Fiamma Multisala Via Bissolati 47, tel. 06485526 Filmstudio Via degli Orti d’Alibert 1/c, tel.

334 / 1780632, www.filmstudioroma.com Greenwich Via G. Bodoni 59, tel. 065745825 Intrastevere Vicolo Moroni 3, tel. 065884230 Lux Via Massaciuccoli 31, tel. 0686391361 Multisala Barberini Piazza Barberini 24-26, tel. 0686391361 Nuovo Olimpia Via in Lucina 16/g, tel. 066861068 Nuovo Sacher Largo Ascianghi 1, tel. 065818116

• emergency Ambulance tel.

118 numbers • Carabinieri tel. 112 • Electricity and water faults (Acea) tel. 800130336 • Fire brigade tel. 115 • Gas leaks (Italgas-Eni) tel.

800900999 • Police tel. 113 • Rubbish (Ama) tel. 8008670355

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religious All Saints’ Anglican Church Via del Babuino 153/b, tel. 0636001881, Sunday service 08.30 and 10.30 Anglican Centre Piazza del Collegio Romano 2, tel. 066780302, www.anglicancentreinrome.com Bible Baptist Church Via di Castel di Leva 326, tel. 334 / 2934593, www.bbcroma.org, Sunday 11.00 Christian Science Services Via Stresa 41, tel. 063014425 Church of All Nations Lungotevere Michelangelo 7, tel. 069870464 Church of Sweden Via A. Beroloni 1/e, tel. 068080474, Sunday service 11.15 (Swedish) Footsteps Inter-Denominational Christian South Rome, tel. 0650917621, 333 / 2284093, North Rome, tel. 0630894371, akfsmes.styles@tiscali.it International Central Gospel Church Via XX Settembre 88, tel. 0655282695 International Christian Fellowship Via Guido Castelnuovo 28, tel. 065594266, Sunday service 11.00 Jewish Community Tempio Maggiore, Lungotevere Cenci, tel. 066840061 Jewish Reform Group in Rome Congregation Lev Chadash, Piazza della Libertà 10, tel. 339 / 3824815, Shabbat services at 10.00, Friday night service once a month Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas Largo della Sanità Militare 60, tel. 067726761 Lutheran Church Via Toscana 7, corner Via Sicilia 70, tel. 064817519, Sunday service 10.00 (German) Ponte S. Angelo Methodist Church Piazza Ponte S. Angelo, tel. 066868314, Sunday service 10.30 Pontifical Irish College (Roman Catholic) Via dei Santi Quattro 1, tel. 06772631. Sunday service 10.00 Rome Baptist Church Piazza S. Lorenzo in Lucina 35, tel. 066876652, 066876211, Sunday

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service 10.30, 13.00 (Filipino), 16.00 (Chinese) Rome Buddhist Centre Vihara Via Mandas 2, tel. 0622460091 Rome International Church Via Cassia km 16, www.romeinternational.org Rome Mosque (Centro Islamico) Via della Moschea, tel. 068082167, 068082258 St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Via XX Settembre 7, tel. 064827627, Sunday service 11.00 St Francis Xavier del Caravita (Roman Catholic), Via del Caravita 7, www. caravita.org, Sunday service 11.00 St Isidore’s College (Roman Catholic) Via degli Artisti 41, tel. 064885359, Sunday service 10.00 St Patrick’s Church (Roman Catholic) Via Boncompagni 31, tel. 0642903787, Sunday service 10.00 St Paul’s within-the-Walls (Anglican Episcopal) Via Nazionale, corner Via Napoli, tel. 064883339, Sunday service 08.30,10.30 (English), 13.00 (Spanish) St Silvestro Church (Roman Catholic) Piazza S. Silvestro 1, tel. 066977121, Sunday service 10.00 and 17.30 St Susanna Church (Roman Catholic), Via XX Settembre 15, tel. 0642014554, Saturday service 18.00. Sunday service 09.00 and 10.30 Venerable English College (Roman Catholic), Via di Monserrato 45, tel. 066868546, Sunday service 10.00 support groups Alcoholics Anonymous tel. 064742913, www.aarome.info Archè (HIV+ children and their families) tel. 0677250350, www.arche.it Associazione Centro Astalli (Jesuit refugee centre) Via degli Astalli 14/a, tel. 0669700306 Associazione Ryder Italia (Support for cancer patients and their families) tel. 065349622/0658204580, www.ryderitalia.it Astra (Anti-stalking risk assessment) tel. 066535499, www.differenzadonna.it

Caritas soup kitchen (Mensa Giovanni Paolo II) Via delle Sette Sale 30, tel. 0647821098, 11.00-13.30 daily Caritas foreigners’ support centre Via Zoccolette 19, tel. 066875228, 066861554 Caritas hostel Via Marsala 109, tel. 064457235 Caritas legal assistance Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano 6/a, tel.

0669886369 Celebrate Recovery Christian group tel. 338 / 1675680 Comunità di S. Egidio Piazza di S. Egidio 3/a, tel. 068992234 Comunità di S. Egidio soup kitchen Via Dandolo 10, tel 065894327, 17.00-19.30 Wed, Fri, Sat Information line for the disabled tel. 800271027 Joel Nafuma Refugee Centre St Paul’s within-the-Walls Via Nazionale, corner Via Napoli, tel. 064883339 Mason Perkins Deafness Fund (Support for deaf and deaf-blind children), tel. 0644234511, masonperkins@gmail.com, www.mpds.it Overeaters Anonymous tel. 064743772 Salvation Army (Esercito della Salvezza) Centro Sociale di Roma “Virgilio Paglieri”, Via degli Apuli 41, tel. 064451351 Support for elderly victims of crime (Italian only) Largo E. Fioritto 2, tel. 0657305104 The Samaritans Onlus (Confidential telephone helpline for the distressed) tel. 800860022 transport • Atac (Rome bus, metro and tram) tel. 800431784, www.atac.roma.it • Ciampino airport tel. 06794941, www.adr.it • Fiumicino airport tel. 0665951, www.adr.it • Taxi tel. 060609 – 065551 – 063570 – 068822 – 064157 – 066645 – 064994 • Traffic info tel. 1518 • Trenitalia (national railways) tel.

892021, www.trenitalia.it