Events & Routes Rome, Venice and Florence: your holiday at the theatre
A must-see show for each city between December and March for a culture-filled stay
Not only museums: your theater vacation in art cities
Galleries, monuments, exhibitions, gardens and artists’ houses. But that’s not all! For your winter stay in Rome, Venice and Florence we suggest three must-see shows for a theater vacation.
Paolo Fresu recounts Miles Davis at Venice’s Goldoni Theater
From Jan. 16 to 18 the historic Venetian theater is staging “kind of Miles,” a work written, composed and performed by renowned trumpeter Paolo Fresu as a tribute to one of the giants of jazz: Miles Davis. Flanked by seven outstanding musicians, Fresu interweaves autobiographical episodes with stories from Davis’ life to tell how his influence has shaped contemporary jazz. A musical and human landmark, a proponent of an unprecedented cultural revolution, determined to confront the discriminations of his time.
Pippo Delbono: a legend of the stage at the Vascello in Rome
Entitled “Amore” the latest work by the artist, director and actor who has made his mark on the history of theater in Italy and beyond, on stage Jan. 20-25. A musical and lyrical journey through an exterior geography – Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde – and an interior one, that of the strings of the soul. The notes are the melancholy ones of fado, exploding into energetic surges through the voices of its singers. The rhythm is now that of a parade, now of a tableau vivant, now of a slow procession. The image is a picture that changes in color, warms and cools.
An evening at the opera: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at the Teatro del Maggio in Florence, Italy
From Feb. 22 to March 3, the masterpieces of Ruggero Leoncavallo and Pietro Mascagni in a staging by the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, directed by Robert Carsen. Mascagni was a 20-year-old hopeful when he composed “Cavalleria Rusticana.” Right from its debut, at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on May 17, 1890, the opera earned a resounding success, aided by a highly topical subject, the novella of the same name by Giovanni Verga, and music that, from arias to duets, is pervaded by unparalleled passion. Also in the vein of veristic theater is “Pagliacci.” The libretto is based on a crime story, a crime of passion that really happened in Montalto Uffugo, the town inCalabria where the young Leoncavallo lived. Performed at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on May 21, 1892 under the baton of Toscanini, the opera achieved international fame in a very short time.
