ITALY: What's On 2017
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| Musica Riva Festival at Riva del Garda in the northern Italian province of Trento of the Trentino Alto Adige region: Jul-Aug 2017 Visit: http://www.musicarivafestival.com/ |
ROME
Van Gogh Alive – the experience, Al Palazzo Degli Esami in Trastevere
Until 27 March 2017, Palazzo degli Esami - Via Girolamo Induno, 4
www.vangoghroma.it/la-mostra/
Until 8 May 2017, Museo di Roma - Palazzo Braschi
www.museodiroma.it/mostre_ed_eventi/mostre/artemisia_gentileschi_e_il_suo_tempo
l’Ara Com’era – the Ara Pacis as it was (augmented reality)
Until 30 October 2017 Museo dell’Ara Pacis
www.arapacis.it
MILAN
MANET AND MODERN PARIS
Palazzo Reale, From 8 Mar to 2 July 2017
www.palazzorealemilano.it
KANDINSKY
Mudec – Museo delle Culture, From 15 Mar to 9 Jul 2017
www.mudec.it
INSIDE CARAVAGGIO
Palazzo Reale, From 28 Sep 2017 to 29 Jan 2018
www.palazzorealemilano.it
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
Palazzo Reale, From 19 Oct 2017 to 4 Feb 2018
www.palazzorealemilano.it
BRESCIA
From Hayez to Boldini. The faces and spirit of Italian paintings in the 19th century
Until 11 June 2017 at Palazzo Martinengo - BRESCIA
www.mostra800.it
FLORENCE
Giovanni dal Ponte (1385-1437) Protagonist of the Late Gothic
Galleria dell’Accademia, Until 12 Mar 2017
www.accademia.org/it/
MONTEPULCIANO
Siena’s Golden Century, from the Modern Mannerism to Caravaggio
Museo Civico, Montepulciano
www.ilbuonsecolodellapitturasenese.wordpress.com/
VENICE
Biennale d’Arte at various locations
www.labiennale.org
TURIN
Toulouse-Lautrec. la Belle Epoque, Until 5 March 2017
www.museireali.beniculturali.it/index.php/it/
GENOA
Modigliani
15 March 2017 - 16 July 2017, Palazzo Ducale
www.palazzoducale.genova.it
FERRARA
Art for Art’s Sake. New itinerary at the Castello Estense until 4 June 2017
www.castelloestense.it
FORLI’ (Emilia Romagna)
Art Deco in Italy, the Roaring Years
San Domenico Museum Complex from 11 Feb to 18 Jun 2017
www.mostrefondazioneforli.it
PAVIA
The Longobards – the Mediteranean and Europe
Castello Visconteo until July 2017
www.museicivici.pavia.it
BOLOGNA
Dali’ Experience: Salvador Dali
Until 7 May 2017 at Palazzo Belloni - Via Barberia
CREMONA
Veduta, Capriccio, Paesaggio, “vedutista’s genre in 19th century Italy”
Museo Civico, Ala Ponzone from 23 Mar to 25 Jun 2017
www.musei.comune.cremona.it
TREVISO
The History of Impressionism. Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Gaugain...
Museo di Santa Caterina until 17 April 2017
www.lineadombra.it
Tiziano, Rubens, Rembrandt
Museo di Santa Caterina until 17 April 2017
www.lineadombra.it
From Guttuso to Vedova to Schifano
Museo di Santa Caterina until 17 April 2017
www.lineadombra.it
PIACENZA
Guercino in Piacenza
4 March 2017 - 4 June 2017 at Cattedrale / Musei di Palazzo Farnese - PIACENZA
www.artcityemiliaromagna.com/events/piacenza/guercino-in-piacenza
VICENZA
Palladio. The Mystery of his Face
Until 4 June 2017 at Palladio Museum
www.palladiomuseum.org
NAPLES
Egypt Naples. Egyptian Collection
8 October 2016 - 31 December 2017 at Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
www.cir.campania.beniculturali.it/
BERGAMO
Lorenzo Lotto Re-discovered
Accademia Carrara and other venues until 26 Feb 2017
www.lacarrara.it
VERONA
Picasso. “Figures” Exhibition
AMO Museum until 12 Mar 2017
www.mostrapicassoverona.it/
NEW MUSEUMS/RE-OPENINGS/ SPECIAL EVENTS
Celebrations for Monteverdi’s 450th Anniversary of his Birth
He’s had everything from music schools and conservatories, the King's College choir in Cambridge and even an asteroid named after him. To mark the 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi’s birth, his hometown of Cremona has organised a festival packed with countless events all over the city as well as a calendar of evening concerts at Teatro Ponchielli. The “Monteverdi Festival” will also feature a weekend-long musical cruise on the Po, from Cremona to Mantua and finally Venice. Concerts will take place on board, at the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua and at the Teatro La Fenice.
www.teatroponchielli.it
New Archaeological Re-openings in Rome and Pompeii
After six years of works, the CIRCO MASSIMO in Rome has been re-opened to the public, 600
metres in length and 140 in width the Circo Massimo has seen during the course of its history “quadriga”races, exotic animals hunts, triumphal parades and executions, graveyards and artisan’s laboratories. You can now visit also the Torre Molfetta built in the 13th century and admire an evocative panorama across Rome.
The archaeological area of the IMPERIAL FORA has also recently been fully re-opened to the public after 20 years, 16 new illustrative panels will guide the tourist along the way to illustrate their venerable history.
Also re-opened after restoration is the IMPERIAL RAMP of the Roman Forum that linked the Forum to the Imperial Palace, follow it to arrive at an unusual panoramic point on the Fora.
CASA DEI VETTII has been partially re-opened in Pompeii, after a closure lasting 9 years. The Vettii were rich “liberti” (freed slaves) dating from the 1st century DC. Graceful paintings on the walls, statues and fountains in the enclosed garden and even pots and pans in the kitchen are all testimony of the wealth of its inhabitants.
New Museum “Federico II Stupor Mundi in Jesi (Ancona)
The Museum “Federico II Stupor Mundi” will open during Spring 2017. It is aimed at celebrating Frederick II of Swabia, born in Jesi on 26th December 1194, and narrates his influence in the context of local, national and European history. The museum is dedicated to the Swabian Emperor with an Arab heart: the "Stupor Mundi" which was the grandson of Barbarossa, patron of the arts, as well as a great innovator in the field of law, politics and sciences. The premises designated to house the future museum, Palazzo Ghislieri, is located in Piazza Federico II, Jesi.
The Papal Palace in Castelgandolfo, Now a Museum Open to the Public
The summer residence of the Popes since the 17th century, has been opened to the public and it is now a museum. The Papal Apartments will remain just as they were when the Popes were
visiting, you can visit the Pope’s bedroom, library, study, the Swiss Guards Hall and the
Meeting Room. This is in addition to the Papal Gardens already opened two years ago.
New Football Museum in Milan
Museo del Calcio, Football Museum has been opened in the fashionable Galleria V.Emanuele in the centre of Milan. On show are more than 150 objects belonging to the most iconic names and places in football: football shirts, boots, trophies and other memorabilia. An animated itinerary will celebrate the most famous 25 players in history and a new prize “The Stringa d’oro” will be given every year to the best football passes of the season.
Opening of “FICO/Eataly World” Bologna, Sep. 2017 (tbc)
FESTIVALS AND CULTURAL EVENTS
The Sanremo “Festival Della Canzone Italiana”
Sanremo, Liguria from 7-11 February 2017
The Festival of the Italian song, also known as Festival di Sanremo, began in 1951. Nowadays it is held in the Ariston Theatre of Sanremo. It is essentially a contest in which different singers propose original songs, composed by Italian authors, which are voted by a jury and by the public. An iconic event in the Italian modern music scene, the winner represents Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest. www.sanremo.rai.it
Verona in Love
Verona in Love is the event dedicated to Love and to Lovers; the event takes place in the main squares of the city and it is a tribute to San Valentine and to the Shakespearian tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. From the 11th to the 14th of February 2017 the city will host live concerts, tastings and handicrafts events, typical local markets and tourist can visit Juliet’s house for a special price. www.veronainlove.it
Ravello Concerts, in Ravello, Amalfi Coast
Villa Rufolo, Ravello –27 Mar – 3 Dec 2017
Ciliegi in Fiore – Blooming Cherry Trees Festival in Vignola, 1-9 April 2017
Vignola, in the province of Modena, is the start of the “Food and Wine Trail” and a town on the Po plain, which has been celebrating the production of outstanding cherry trees for 40 years. During the Festival the entire town is “blooming- with-cherry-trees”, with events, concerts, exhibitions, special restaurant menus, tasting sessions and related activities to enjoy. The “blossoming chariots” parade is a real celebration of the blossoming of cherry trees. www.emiliaromagnaturismo.com
Classical Greek Theatre Festival in Siracusa, Sicily
6 May – 8 July 2017
Arena di Verona 23 June – 27 August 2017
The International Opera Festival, now in its 95th edition presents a rich calendar of events. The operas to be performed this year are: Aida, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly and a Gala with Placido Domingo and a Gala for the 9th Symphony by Beethoven. Arena di Verona welcomes once again artists and public in its magnificent setting. www.arena.it
La Notte Rosa - Pink Night
Adriatic coast of Emilia Romagna and Marche 7 July 2017
Umbria Jazz, Perugia 7-16 July 2017
From its birth in 1973, Umbria Jazz was clearly different from the other Italian jazz festivals. While jazz was usually to be heard in small clubs and occasionally in theatres and concert halls, Umbria Jazz took the music into the historic town squares of Umbria to audiences of up to twenty thousand young people, and every concert was free. The music of the New World was performed in the setting of Umbria’s medieval towns and spectacular scenery, and it was this unusual combination which gave the Festival its special appeal. www.umbriajazz.com
Puccini Festival
Torre del Lago – 14 July – 19 August 2017
Torre del Lago hosts the Festival Puccini, created by Puccini himself, since 1930. The outdoor theatre, close to Villa Mausoleo where the Master’s remains lie, is an amazing setting to enjoy the music of one of the most outstanding and esteemed Italian artists worldwide. Operas on show in 2017 are: Madame Butterfly, Tosca, La Boheme and Turandot, La Rondine and Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamne’. www.puccinifestival.it
Sferisterio Opera Festival
Macerata, 21 July –14 August 2017
STRESA FESTIVAL
Jul-Sep 2017 (programme tbc)
Summer Jamboree
Senigallia, Marche 26 Jul- 6 Aug 2017
This music Festival is dedicated to the music and culture in America in the ’40s and ’50s with live concerts of DJ set swing, rock’n’roll, jive, doo-wop, rhythm’n’blues, hill-billy e western swing. Stands will sell: juke box, hats, gadgets, guitars, vynils, CDs and other objects of that era. There will also be a ‘40s and ‘50s classic cars show. www.summerjamboree.com
Musica Riva Festival
Riva del Garda – Jul-Aug 2017 (programme tbc)
Rossini Opera Festival
Pesaro, 10-22 August 2017
The festival is dedicated to the music and operas of Goacchino Rossini, who was born in the Le Marche city of Pesaro. This year’s edition of the festival will put on show: La siege de Corinthe, La pietra del Paragone, Torvaldo e Dorilska, Il viaggio a Reims, Stabat Mater and various other concerts. www.rossinioperafestival.it
La Notte Della Taranta
Salento, Puglia, August 2017 in Melpignano
La Notte della Taranta is the most important music festival in Europe dedicated to traditional music, and it collects every summer over 200.000 spectators from all over the world. Born in 1998, as an initiative promoted by Grecìa Salentina (Union composed by 11 Municipalities close to Lecce where Greek origins still strongly exist), in order to the tradition of “tarantati”, the Festival has grown a lot these past years. Every year the Festival arranges a set of itinerant concerts around the Municipalities of Grecìa Salentina (one per village) ending at Melpignano, the village where everything started 15 years ago, with the famous 'Concertone'.
Venice Film Festival
Venice, 30 Aug – 9 Sept 2017 (programme tbc)
Venice will host the 74th edition of this film festival, one of the oldest and most famous. Thousands of visitors, dozens of stars and hundreds of projections are crammed into ten days of fabulous festivities and parties. The Festival is hosted at the Lido Island in the Venice Lagoon. www.labiennale.org
Mito Settembre Musica
Turin and Milan - September 2017 – various locations (programme tbc)
Festival Della Mente
Sarzana – Liguria 1-3 Sep 2017
Festival Letteratura
Mantua – 6-10 Sep. 2017
This year’s “Festivaletteratura” builds on tradition, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner will take part to this ever more successful Festival of Literature hosted by the art city of Mantua. www.festivaletteratura.it
SPORT
RBS Six Nations Rugby Tournament
Rome – Stadio Olimpico
Rome Marathon
Rome – 2 April 2017
Bike Festival Garda Trentino
Riva del Garda, Trentino
28 Apr – 1 May 2017
This now classic appointment with the Bike Festival Garda Trentino is back in spring: a season opening for bikers, who will find themselves next to stars of the mountain bike international scene. The program includes exhibitions, shows, competitions, performances and stunts, testing of the industry novelties and lots of fun. www.gardatrentino.it
Giro D’Italia
5 – 28 May 2017
The most important bicycle race in Italy, the Giro d'Italia, dates back to May 1909 and has become an iconic race all over the world. This year the Giro will start on 5 May 2017 in Alghero, Sardinia, ends in Milan on 28 May. www.gazzetta.it
Mille Miglia
18-21 May 2017
The most beautiful vintage cars in the world chosen to participate
in the race each year are selected under rigorous guidelines. The
2017 edition plans a departure from Brescia, journeying through
Padua to Rome and then back to Brescia via Parma. www.1000miglia.eu
Monza Motor Grand Prix
1-3 September 2017, Monza
Iconic Formula 1 Motor GP in the Monza race track, an unmissable appointment for all fast cars lovers. www.motorsport.com/track/monza/
BARCOLANA – SAIL RACE
Trieste – 12 October 2017
HISTORICAL RE-ENACTMENTS/FOLKLORE
Feast of St Agatha in Catania
Catania, Sicily, 3-5 Feb. 2017 and 17 Aug 2017
Carnival of Venice
Venice – 11- 28 Feb 2017
have fun and becomes a multicoloured series of shows, parades, masks and much more. St Mark’s Square, the true centre of the party, is transformed into a continuous workshop of colours, masks, music and shows hosting Carnival’s traditional events such as 'Flight of the Angel' , 'Festa delle Marie' and 'La Colombina'. Palaces throughout the city host grand masked balls for those who want to immerse themselves in the Serenissima’s festive history. www.carnevale.venezia.it
Carnival of Viareggio
5,12,18,26,28 Feb 2017
One of the most flamboyant of Italian Carnivals, famous for its political satire, will hosts the traditional shows of gigantic paper-mache figures on colourful floats. www.carnevale-viareggio.it
Historic Carnival of Ivrea
Ivrea - Piedmont 11 Feb – 1 Mar 2017
The Explosion of the Cart
Florence - Easter Sunday – 16 Apr 2017
Tradition says that during the first Crusade of 1096 the Florentine knight Pazzo de 'Pazzi was the first manwho planted the banner of the Cross on battlements of Jerusalem and as a gift he received some fragments of the Holy Sepulchre. Upon his return to Florence the stones were used to start the Sacred Fire of Holy Saturday, and were paraded through the city as homage to it in a richly decorated chariot. Nowadays, on Easter Sunday a large wagon is pulled by white oxen in a procession in the streets of the centre of Florence to the front of the cathedral.
Festa dei Ceri (Race of the Candles)
Gubbio – 15th May 2017
of his death. Since then, every 15 May, the eve of the day of mourning, the devotional offering to the patron saint is a fixed appointment for the people of Gubbio who take part in a great mystical procession, carrying candles all around the town and up Mount Ingino (where since 11 September 1194 the body of Saint Ubaldo lies, in the church which bears his name). www.ceri.it
The Palio of Ferrara
Ferrara – 13 – 28 May 2017
kind of ride that is joyful and so different from other warlike palii. This is a very important moment for the city: all the Contrade participate wearing dress of different colours to gain the “palio”, but also and overall it is a festivity to remember the Renaissance, a period during which Ferrara was really a capital. The Palio is run on Sunday 28 May. www.paliodiferrara.it
Giostra dell’Archidado
Cortona, 4 June 2017
The Archidado Joust traces its origins back to the Middle Ages and was officially created in 1397 to celebrate the wedding of Francesco Casali, the Lord of Cortona, and Antonia Salimbeni, a noble woman from Siena. The streets are decorated in medieval style, ladies, knights, flag flyers, crossbow shooters, soldiers, pages, civil and religious authorities, all dressed with fine costumes, liven up the city centre, which is rich in history and artistic beauties of every time. www.giostraarchidado.com
Luminara and Race of San Ranieri
June 16th/17th 2017
The Feast of San Ranieri, Patron Saint of Pisa, is celebrated annually on 16-17 June, when the veneration of Saint Ranieri is renewed on the streets running along the river Arno (the so-called Lungarni). There are more than a hundred thousand candles which are meticulously set in smooth and white glasses and fixed then onto wooden white-painted frames, modelled on the outline of the palaces, bridges, churches and towers reflecting in the river. www.pisaunicaterra.it/en/villages-and-cities-of-art/pisa-en.html
Assedio di Canelli – Canelli’s Siege
Canelli – Piedmont ,17-18 June 2107
The historic Siege suffered in 1613 is not only an imposing re-enactment involving residents and tourists, but also a spectacular event, an occasion to discover the underground Cathedrals and the historic wine cellars of Canelli, tasting the delightful specialties of the Asti province. www.assediodicanelli.it
Quintana of Ascoli Piceno 8 Jul and 6 August 2017
Festival of the Redentore
Venice – 15- 16 July 2017
One of the most popular events in Venice is celebrated each year on the third Sunday of July. The festival dates back to 1576, and is named after the church Redentore that was designed by Palladio on the island of Guidecca. Venice was suffering from a terrible plague, and the Republic's senate voted
to build a temple on the Guidecca Island in honour of Christ the Redeemer, and the Venetians promised to go there every year on the third Sunday of July, if the plague stopped. Traditionally, the Venetians celebrate this day by having dinner on the Saturday night while watching an incredible display of fireworks that light up the skies over Venice for an hour or more. www.veneziaunica.it
The Palio of Siena
Siena – July 2nd/ August 16th 2017
Everyday life comes to a halt as Siena celebrates its most ancient and sacred ritual: horses and riders representing ten of Siena’s seventeen contrade, or districts, race around the ring of tufo rock in the Piazza del Campo. On 2 July and 16 August the afternoon begins in the heart of each contrada with the blessing of the horses, followed by the historical parade to the piazza. Finally, there is the race itself: the victorious contrada bears the banner triumphantly to the Provenzano Basilica for the 'te deum' or thanksgiving to the Madonna ( 2 June) or to the Madonna Assunta (16 August). www.comune.siena.it
Palio dei Normanni di Piazza Armerina
Piazza Armerina, Sicily – 12,13, 14 August 2017
Plutia (the old Piazza Armerina) is home to ancient medieval events in Southern Italy which takes place every year from August 12-14 in honour of Madonna Maria SS. Delle Vittorie. The event is a re-enactment of Sicily being conquered in 1060 by the Normans, led by Ruggero of Altavilla. At the end of the event, the whole procession parades through the main streets, triumphantly displaying the city flag. www.feditgiochistorici.it
La Torta Dei Fieschi
Cogorno and Lavagna (Genoa), 13-14 August 2017
Histotical Regatta
Venice – 3 September 2017
The Macchina di Santa Rosa Procession
Viterbo - September 3rd 2017
Trasporto della Macchina di Santa Rosa, a procession which takes place in the evening of September 3rd to commemorate the relocation of the body of Saint Rosa from the Church of Santa Maria del Poggio to the church of San Damiano (the Sanctuary of Santa Rosa). The Macchina di Santa Rosa, nearly 30 metres high, is carried through the streets by a large team of local men. www.facchinidisantarosa.it
Sagra del Fuoco – Fire Festival
Recco (Genoa) 7-8 Sep 2017
The celebrations in honour of the Our Lady of the Suffragio are known all over Italy, for the grandeur of the firework displays, which explode to illuminate the sky of Recco. It is the 7 quarters of Recco which challenge each other; they avail themselves of the best Italian masters of fireworks displays. During the same time the solemn procession of 8th September takes place through the streets of the town with the Arca Argentea Suffragina and the magnificent wooden Crucifixes of the Ligurian Brotherhoods. www.sagradelfuoco.it
Palio di Asti in Asti, Piedmont, 17 September 2017
This colourful event sees 21 contestants relive the ancient tradition of the Palio in the historic centre of this charming Piedmont town, famous for its sparkling wine, the Asti spumante. In the days preceding the race, visitors can enjoy many preparatory events: the Palio of the Flagwavers, the colourful flea market, the trials of the jockeys on the field. The Palio itself is a difficult challenge requiring all the participants’ strength and skill and courage as only one of them will win possession of the crimson banner with the coat of arms of the city and the image of its Patron Saint. www.comune.asti.it/index.php?id_sezione=943
The Festival of Madonna Della Salute
Venice – November 21st 2017
The Festival of Health is perhaps the least spectacular of Venice festivities, but in a religious context it is an event dedicated to the Madonna in thanksgiving for her intercession which put an end to the plague which struck Venice between the years 1630-1631. www.comune.venezia.it
Please note that information was correct at time of publication, Jan 2017
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