the weekend events in Rome

Friday 29th November 2024 07:07 AM

First weekend of December in Rome with a multitude of cultural events ranging from Christmas to exhibitions through great music. As usual on Sunday 1st December it will be possible to visit the spaces of the Museum System of Rome Capital and some archaeological areas of the city for free. As on every first Sunday of the month, the Celio Archaeological Park will be open to free admission. with the Forma Urbis Museum; the Sacred Area of Largo Argentina, the archaeological area of the Circus Maximus, Villa di Maxentius and the Imperial Forums. These are the civic museums open: Capitoline Museums; Trajan’s Markets – Museum of the Imperial Forums; Ara Pacis Museum; Centrale Montemartini; Museum of Rome; Museum of Rome in Trastevere; Gallery of Modern Art; Museums of Villa Torlonia (Casina delle Civette, Casino Nobile, Serra Moresca and Casino dei Principi); Civic Museum of Zoology. The initiative is promoted by Roma Capitale, Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage. And again. Christmas World, the large Christmas village, returns on Saturday 30 November to a Villa Borghese surrounded by Christmas atmospheres. Here you can walk among themed installations, explore themed markets and taste international culinary specialties. For the little ones, the meeting with Santa Claus and the creative workshops will make the village a magical place, where every corner tells a story. Great music for this new weekend in Rome.

From 30 November to 4 December, the Sala Santa Rita, a multifunctional space in Roma Capitale in via Montanara 8, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the death of Frida Kahlo, hosts the exhibition I paint flowers to keep them from dying, proposed by the Metamorfosi Association and curated by Carlo Lucidi. With over 80 artists from all over the world, the exhibition – promoted by the Department of Culture of Rome Capital – Cultural Activities Department – tells, through contemporary jewellery, the lasting and universal influence of the artist. On display, over 300 works that explore the link between creativity, resilience and female identity, through unique pieces made with materials ranging from gold to recycled metals, from ceramics to fabrics. A tribute to the legendary Mexican artist, but also an opportunity to reflect on the impact of female creativity in contemporary art. The jewel, which has always been a symbol of personality and identity, becomes the means through which the artists dialogue with Kahlo’s themes: pain, hope, the double, identity.

At the National Theater in via del Viminale, the Rome Opera Theater is now offering Dance Passports, a series of events conceived and conducted by Eleonora Abbagnato, director of the Corps de Ballet and the Dance School of the Capitoline institution, designed to create a dialogue with the public on the peculiar aspects of dance in relation to the artistic proposal. It starts on November 28th at 6pm with Contemporary Dance Passport in which, with the journalist and dance critic Carmela Piccione, we will get to the heart of two shows that will be staged at the National Theatre: Homage to Martha Graham, in December, and Trittico Contemporaneo, in March 2025. Jacqueline Bulnes and Lorenzo Pagano will also take part in the meeting and will illustrate to the public the “Graham Technique”, that revolutionary vocabulary conceived by a of the greatest American choreographers of the 20th century, who influenced and modified dance throughout the world. The students of the Dance School will demonstrate this. The dialogue will continue with Francesco Annarumma, author of Creature, the new creation of the Neapolitan choreographer in the March Trittico programme, with In Esisto by Vittoria Girelli and S by Philippe Kratz.

Furthermore, the programming of the Musica per Roma Foundation continues at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. On December 1st the day starts at 12.30pm with Jazz en France, a concert by the Jazz Campus Orchestra directed by Massimo Nunzi who, again in the Studio Borgna Theatre, will propose a repertoire inspired by France and, in particular, by the city of Paris, which since the 1910s has enthusiastically welcomed African-American musicians and was the first to recognize them as artists. At 9pm, in the Sala Sinopoli, a concert by Egberto Gismonti is scheduled, a virtuoso of both the guitar and the piano, who has created a corpus of works that stand at the crossroads between the popular tradition of his native Brazil and the world of music classic. On December 3rd, again at 9pm and still in Sala Sinopoli, there is great anticipation for Robben Ford who for his new Italian tour will be joined by an “All Star Band” made up of extraordinary musicians: Darryl Jones, historic bassist of The Rolling Stones, Larry Goldings on keyboards and Gary Husband on drums. Also at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone, where the programming of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia continues. From today to November 30, the Musical Director of the Academy, Daniel Harding, and the violinist Clara-Jumi Kang will propose, in the Sala Santa Cecilia, a repertoire of Russian, French and German music. The evening will open with Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune by Claude Debussy; second piece on the programme, Concerto nr. 2 for violin by Prokofiev. The evening ends with Johannes Brahms’ Second Symphony.

On Sunday the day will start in Sala Petrassi at 11.30 with a new appointment of Puccini 100, the series of meetings dedicated to the works of the Lucca master, on the centenary of his death, conducted by Michele dall’Ongaro who, this week, will guide the public to listen to the opera Gianni Schicchi, with musical examples, films and documents. At 5.30pm, with free admission, an appointment with Luigi Nono on the centenary of his birth: a tribute to the composer which will open with the screening of the documentary film Luigi Nono. Infinitipossibili by Manuela Pellarin followed, at 7pm, by the Nono Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima concert. On stage, the Prometeo Quartet composed of Nurit Stark (violin), Aldo Campagnari (violin), Danusha Waskiewicz (viola) and Francesco Dillon (cello). This last event is free to enter while places last.

And again. Appointment at Villa di Massenzio, from 30 November to 14 December, with Nuvola Creativa Festival of Arts, the multidisciplinary project presented by the Neworld Association which, for the seventh edition, has chosen the theme Earth / Reflections on the relationship between man and the environment. On November 30th, however, inside the Mausoleum of Romulus at Villa di Massenzio, the VII edition of the Nuvola Creativa Festival of the Arts organized by the Neworld Association kicks off at 10am with the inauguration of the exhibition Terra | Reflections on the relationship between man and the environment in which the works of various visual art artists – painting, sculpture, digital art, interactive installations, photography – emerging and established, Italian and international, will be exhibited. In particular, two installations will be available for the entire duration of the festival: Synesthesia Razionale by Marco Mirra, which explores the concept of synesthesia through the interaction between visual images and sounds; Emergency Call Center by Maria Korporal, an interactive multimedia video-telephone, with a strong narrative impact, which shows the public the devastating effects of extreme climatological events.