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Events in Rome

Fabrizio De Andrè

Roma
from 24 of February to 31 of May
Ara PAcis

A week after the 70th anniversary of the birth of Fabrizio De Andre arrives in Rome and interactive multimedia exhibit designed by Studio Azzurro, which tells the life, music, experiences, passions that have made “Faber” unique and universal.

Even Rome, after Genoa and Nuoro, pays tribute to Fabrizio De André in hosting the exhibition spaces of the Museum of Ara Pacis, from 24 February to 30 May 2010 (one week after the 70th anniversary of his birth, February 18) “ Fabrizio De André. The exhibition “the course’s multimedia Studio Azzurro – a leading international group of video art – which tells the life, music, the passions that made it unique and universal, an interpreter and in some cases anticipating, changes and transformations contemporary. Through narrative virtual, multimedia, interactive is offered to the public an emotional experience, through which everyone can get in relation to the universe of “Faber”. The narrative and visual representation, textual and musical full of suggestions are offered and emotions and the public, may from time to time to choose which image of “Faber” develop itself in relation to one’s own experience.
The exhibition tackles the great themes of poetry De Andrè: the affluent society and the economic boom of the ’60s, the marginalized, and losers, freedom, anarchy and ethics, writers and cabaret, women el ‘ love, music and linguistic research, current events in the chronicle, the sites are part of its life, all gives us his ability to speak to the individual but to be both universal, recognized and loved by people of all types and ages.

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Technotown

Rome
from 5 of March to 23 of April
Villa Torlonia
Back in the splendid setting of Villa Torlonia the weekend Technotown, space by Educational Policies Under the Same School, Family and Youth of the Municipality of Rome, produced by Culture Project Zètema with the design and supervision of Paco Lanciano .
Friday 5, Saturday 6 and Sunday, March 7th will be three days devoted to fantasy, science and theater by the name of “saving the world.”
During the first meeting, 17 hours Friday, March 5, will be presented the book “Saving the world” with the author Giulio Levi to be followed by a lively reading of some passages.
Saturday, March 6 meeting at 16:30 with the laboratory ecological Technotown in collaboration with Giunti publishers and publishing Science: rrrr! Laboratory for environmental education and recycling.
Finally Sunday, March 7th at 16:30 of the Cultural Daniele Verri “Chariots of Culture and Gabriele Catanzaro, an astronomer at the Planetarium of Rome have worn on stage ecology, interactive with the show” How do you change the climate. Route to a possible future. A new adventure of dr. Nando and his young assistant Cornelius to the discovery of a planet that is changing, to try out as a simple daily act can help to change things.

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Pasqua Festival

Rome
from 28 of March to 4 of April

For lovers of classical music, the festival of Easter is an unmissable event.
The thirteenth edition of the Easter Festival, founded in 1998 by Italian director Enrico Castiglione – will take place from 28th March to 4th April 2010, for the duration of Holy Week 2010, with a rich program of concerts, events and exhibitions in the Town of Rome, confirming once again be no doubt “the most important manifestation of Sacred Music of the World” through which “Rome is now the world capital of Sacred Music.”

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Caravaggio

ROMA
from the 16 of Febbruary to June 13
Scuderie del Quirinale

An exhibition dedicated to the famous and celebrated, “Lombard genius” In a radically innovative and updated.
In recent years, much research, studies, exhibits and speeches about the events and artistic biography of Michelangelo Merisi called Caravaggio has confirmed the universal and growing interest around the artistic events of the painter and his pivotal role within the story art of the last four hundred years. And ‘this background and the climate in which the idea of a new and ambitious – even in its “simplicity” – exhibitions. An exhibit linear and exciting images as a criterion to be rigorous, presented to the public in a concise way, not anthology focusing on the sun works, “capital”, ie only on the works of Caravaggio historically established.
The option of supporting the authenticity of the paintings brought safely to exclude the production variously referred to his “shop”, as they have been put on the sidelines, almost momentarily on hold, the “additional versions and all matters on which the critique of the twentieth century has repeatedly faced, and continues to do so, with opinions do not always agree. The end result is a consistent and rigorous way that sheds new light on the different stages of the evolutionary process of language suffered by Caravaggio: an exciting and crystalline that purifies and exalts the exceptional and unique nature of his work.

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Edward Hopper

Roma
Museo Fondazione del Corso
from 16 of Febbruary to June 13

The first major exhibition of Edward Hopper in Italy arrived in Rome

For the first time in Italy, Rome and Milan pay tribute to the entire career of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), the most popular and well-known American artist of the twentieth century, with a great anthology unprecedented in our country. Received by the public with great success at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, with over 180 thousand visitors, the exhibition is eagerly awaited in Rome, where it will be open to the public February 16, 2010 in the Museum Fondazione Roma, with important changes: the arrival other works from American museums, an original and fascinating setting and a new edition of the catalog.

Promoted by Fondazione Roma, which has taken the initial impetus to the realization of the event, through the initiative of President Prof. Emmanuele Francesco Maria Emanuele, the show is produced by the City of Milan – Culture and Arthemisia Group, in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Fondation de l’Hermitage in Lausanne.

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Carnival at Rome

Rome
from 6 to 16 of Febbruary 2010

The Roman Carnival, extinct for over a century, still occupy a prominent place among the city’s most popular traditions, and from 6 to February 16, 2010 will again enliven the capital with a rich program of shows and events for everyone, while venue until 1871 the famous “Running of the Berbers”, will host a series of ‘rivisatazioni’ the old horse shows.

On 6 February will be the Grand Opening of the Carnival parade in Via del Corso to inaugurate the festival with a procession of representatives of artists, nobles, people and military, as the military band riding the 8th Regiment of Lancers in Montebello historic estate, the Palio of Rome opened and closed by a thick band of eaters and masks of Carnival.

From 11 to 16 February, the Village of culture and tradition in the Piazza del Popolo, will examine the cultural themes that bind Rome, the horse and the Carnival, with spaces reserved for morning schools and families, lectures and in-depth horse shows, promoted by the Department for Cultural Policy and Communication of the City of Rome, conceived and organized by Mark Hare for the Academy of Equestrian Theater.

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Valentine's Day, Lovers of art

Rome
February 13-14

This year the initiative lasts one day longer: 13 and February 14, 2010 all couples wishing to visit the museums in Rome and Italy, but will buy one ticket for two!
An initiative to promote art and to meet all the families and young people, in this moment of crisis.
Museums in Ontario participating in the initiative “Valentine’s Day, Lovers of art” are, in addition to the Roman Forum and the Colosseum, the Basilica underground Porta Maggiore, the Balbi Crypt, and Horace’s villa near Rome Caprarola not miss the opportunity to visit the magnificent Palazzo Farnese.

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6 Nations Rugby

ITALY vs England 6 Nations 2010
Date: 14/02/2010 Time: 15:30
ITALY vs Scotland 6 Nations 2010
Date: 27/02/2010 Time: 14:30 local
Rome – Flaminio Stadium

RBS 6 Nations Championship 2010 is approaching, promising another action-packed tournament. The 6 major European nations rugby aim for victory in another ardently championship.
Italy became stronger from year to year and under the guidance of new coach Nick Mallett will offer a major challenge to Rome.
This year’s RBS 6 Nations Championship, amplified by an unpredictable World Cup will be even more exciting and full of suspense. The new coaches and new recruits in the field will only make the ending more open.

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Momix-BOTHANICA

Rome
Teatro Olimpico
from February 2 to 28

Event in the 2009-2010 season. Presented the world premiere on 10 February at the Teatro di Bologna Europauditorium arrives in Rome last ingenious creation of choreographer Moses Pendleton.

Bothan The show passion for the nature of choreographer Moses Pendleton, founder of Momix. “I was inspired to first cycle of Vivaldi and his Four Seasons”, it says the choreographer. The show is divided into two parts: Winder Spring (the name of the first two seasons, Winter-Spring, but also in English, “the impetus (spring) winter”) and Summer Fall (Summer – Autumn, but also “the Summer Fall “). And in this simple but fascinating language game hides much of the elementary but interesting philosophy Pendletoniana. The choreography is a set of elaborate optical toys, woven of effective structures dynamics of modern dance. The sound landscape is impressive variety: thirty-five different sound sources. Underlying Bothan there is also a desire to draw lessons from the observation of nature in the sense, in fact, a bit ‘naive and perhaps even “hippies” of the term. “This – Pendleton says – is the essence of Momix: one sees a flower to a bird, a human being in a rock, a woman in a man. We must use fantasy, imagination and creativity. In our shows we try cause what I call “Optical Confusion”: a way to excite the nerves of the brain and stimulate creativity. “

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Our Planet

Rome
from 6 of Febbruary to 2 of May 2010
Palazzo delle esposizioni

How is the human condition on the Planet? What are the differences and similarities that we find among populations that are thousands of miles apart from each other? What can be understood through images of people living in social, environmental and economic radically different? They are the photographers to answer these and other questions in the exhibit “Our World”, third round of National Geographic Italy at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, after “Water, Air, Fire, Earth” and “Mother Earth”.

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Fiorello Show

Rome
19-20 February
Palalottomatica

And distributed the tour Fiorello Show. No word yet if the show will be recorded by the cameras of Sky as happened in Rome, because the contract with the Sicilian showman Rupert Murdoch’s pay TV expires in January, while the tour goes on until March. Surely there will be news soon safer.
The Fiorello Show Tour 2009/2010, directed by Giampiero Solari, will be a stream of stories and songs during the various stages will evolve and change to every appointment.

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Michelangelo architect in Rome

Rome
From October 6 to February 7 2010
Capitolini Museum

Piazza del Campidoglio, Palazzo Farnese and the Basilica of St. Peter. Santa Maria degli Angeli and the Sforza Chapel. Porta Pia. The “sign” of Michelangelo in Rome has increased and has impressed immortal. And where there has been carved in marble and stone, it was handed down in the drawings, and designs of buildings that never saw the light of day. A witness to a love and a passion for this city, that are fed only love and passion towards his Florence.
17 sections and 105 works through which you can draw a profile of architect Michelangelo in Rome by the two main times when the artist lived in the city between 1505 and 1516 and from 1534 until his death in 1564. An exhibition curated by Pina Accountants, director of the Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Mussolini and Mauro, architectural historian, who reports on time and the many prestigious commissions from the artist’s Roman years of youth to the extraordinary inventions of old age. Because of the many designs of the Master Collection from the Casa Buonarroti, the guardian of the world’s largest number of studies and architectural projects created by Michelangelo.

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