Five months of artistic-cultural events: the second edition of EUR Culture for Rome kicks off

The second edition of EUR Culture per Roma, the program of events, culture and shows conceived and promoted by EUR S.p.A., under the artistic direction of Oscar Pizzo, is kicking off, transforming La Nuvola, the Palazzo dei Congressi, the Parks and Gardens of EUR and the entire urban complex into a centrality of Capitoline culture from December 18, 2022 until May 23, 2023. The offer includes artistic-cultural events aimed at all age groups along five months of programming.

The collaboration between Arvo Pärt, the world’s most performed contemporary composer, and Bob Wilson, among the world’s leading directors, with choreography by Lucinda Child promoted by EUR S.p.A. in co-production with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, for the first time and exclusively in Italy, will set The Passion of Adam at the Cloud. But also singing opera, experiencing the thrill of the stage, knowing and loving symphonic music, understanding how a ballet develops, recognizing classical music in popular music, these are some of the main goals of the Europa InCanto Orchestra project. The project in co-production with the Rome Opera House, is supported by Poste Italiane. And also the International Festival of Figure Theater and Puppets that will bring to the monumental Waterfall Garden, the Museum of Civilizations, Teatro del Lido di Ostia, Teatro Verde, Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo and Teatro di Tor Bella Monaca a widespread festival with a rich calendar of performances, exhibitions, workshops, meetings, among which stands out the realization for puppet theater of Pinocchio Mal Visto dal Gatto e la Volpe a project by Andrea Camilleri and Ugo Gregoretti, during which the two writers, longtime friends, have fun dressing up and playing the parts of the Cat (Gregoretti) and the Fox (Camilleri) in a video at the opening of this surprising Pinocchio. And then the opera The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in an abridged version, set in the evocative Waterfall Garden, with the orchestra and voices of Europa InCanto Orchestra and the participation of Rome’s elementary schools as part of the “Scuola InCanto” project. And then for the Educational program, which will involve schools and institutions, meetings with architect Massimiliano Fuksas, constitutionalist Sabino Cassese, banker Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Father Maurizio Botta, Ambassador Michele Valensise, Geneva Cern scientist Mauro Iodice, film producer Riccardo Tozzi, and journalist Maurizio Mannoni. Issues such as the decolonization of art, responsibility of political and power renunciation between yesterday and today, globalization, and the spectacularization of antiquity, with Darius Arya and Mario Sesti, Giuseppina Muzzarelli and Massimo Franco at the Cloud, Giorgio Manzi and Chiara Francini, and Dan Hicks and Massimo Osanna at the Museum of Civilizations.

There are two macro-sections that set the pace for the programming of this second season: the major events and the educational program aimed at schools and families.

DECEMBER 2022

It starts on Sunday, Dec. 18 at the Cloud with “The Hour of Ballet,” the first of four encounters-concerts performed by the Europa InCanto Orchestra, in which the audience is an active part of the concert, bearing the name “Symphonic Dialogues, music is told.” The project in co-production with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, is supported by Poste Italiane and has the main objective of creating a new audience, interactively stimulating listeners to learn more about and appreciate the performing arts, particularly with regard to the world of classical music, but also ballet. At 11 a.m., the volcanic conductor Germano Neri will take the stage at the Cloud Auditorium to perform music by A. Ponchielli, M. Ravel and J. Strauss and introduce the audience to music and ballet, that is, the writing methods and compositional logic that allow the two arts to meet.

JANUARY 2023

On Jan. 19 at 10 a.m., the Cloud will be the ideal stage to welcome Ambassador Michele Valensise, introduced by Giancarlo Loquenzi, who will open the Educational program with the first meeting of the cycle “I like to imagine ...,” dedicated to the last classes of upper secondary schools. A format that aims to introduce children to people who do a particular job, a job that is often a point of reference for many, a job that carries with it great responsibility for others. Jobs and professions that sometimes, or perhaps often, kids know little about: the Diplomat, the Architect, the Journalist, the Banker, the Constitutionalist, the TV Series Producer, the Scientist, the Religious, the Craftsman. The meetings are organized together with Municipio IX Eur, Muciv, Planetarium, Basilica SS. Peter and Paul.

On Sunday, Jan. 22 at 11 a.m., the Fuksas Auditorium will host “Overtures to ...Mozart, Rossini and Verdi,” the second concert of the Europa Incanto Orchestra, which will offer for listening and audience interaction Le Nozze di Figaro and Il Don Giovanni by W. A. Mozart, G. Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and La Gazza Ladra, and G. Verdi’s Traviata Prelude and Nabucco, to learn about the great composers through an explanation of the historical and cultural reasons behind the overtures of their operas. An innovative listening experience that will provide audiences with new interpretive tools.

FEBRUARY 2023

The month of February continues with an intensive Educational program. There will be four meetings organized in collaboration with Più Libri Più Liberi. From Feb. 7 until Feb. 28 every Tuesday writers, historians, philosophers but also sportsmen, engineers, cooks, and scientists will dress the role of teachers or professors for an hour’s lesson in classrooms of all teaching levels in the southern quadrant of Rome, from elementary schools to high schools and technical institutes.

On Feb. 8 at 10 a.m. at the Cloud the constitutionalist Sabino Cassese, introduced by Marco Simoni, economist and president of EUR S.p.A., will animate the second meeting of the cycle “I like to imagine ...”; while on Feb. 22 the scientist Mauro Jodice of Cern in Geneva, introduced by Simone Gozzano will be at the Planetary Museum.

On Feb. 12 there is a renewed appointment at the Cloud: at 11 a.m. the third concert of the Symphonic Dialogues of the Europa InCanto Orchestra “Tra Musica Colta e Popolare” will be held, with music by F. Liszt, J. Brahms, G. Rossini, in which popular music enters cultured music and music ... changes, in an immersive, participatory journey through musical evolution to discover the mutual influences between the two genres.

MARCH 2023

The month of March closes with the most anticipated and symbolically significant moment of the 2022-2023 season: in co-production with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, on March 31 at 9 p.m.00 at the Nuvola, the opera Adam’s Passion, with music by Arvo Pärt, direction, sets and lighting by Bob Wilson, choreography by Lucinda Child, Orchestra of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma conducted by Tönu Kaljuste and Chorus of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma conducted by Maestro Ciro Visco in an original production by Eesti Kontsert / Estonia and Change Performing Arts, will make its national premiere and exclusive to Italy. In the spectacular setting of the Cloud, American director and universal artist Robert Wilson has created a poetic visual world in which the mystical musical language of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt maximizes his meditative spell. Three of Pärt’s major works-Adam’s Lament, Tabula rasa, and Miserere-as well as Sequentia, a new work dedicated to Robert Wilson and composed especially for this production, have been brought together using light, space, and movement to create a tightly woven “gesamtkunstwerk” in which the artistic visions of these two great artists mirror each other.

There are no less than five educational events during the month: for the Format “I Like to Imagine ...,” on March 8 high school students will be in the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul to meet religious Father Maurizio Botta introduced by Don Nicola Salsa and on March 22 at the Cloud to meet banker Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, introduced by Alessandra Sardoni. Then there will be two meetings for schools and open to the public for the cycle “Parallel Movements, Archaeology and Contemporaneity”: on March 29 at the Museum of Civilizations at 10 am.30 Dan Hicks and Massimo Osanna will discuss the theme “Brutish Museum or The Decolonization of Art”; on March 23, also at the Museum of Civilizations, Giorgio Manzi and Chiara Francini will instead address the theme “Globalization between Sapiens and the Anthropocene”; while on March 16 at the Cloud always at 10:30 a.m. it will be the turn of “Not Only Indiana Jones” with Mario Sesti and Darius Arya to address the theme of the spectacularization of antiquity.

March 26 will close with “The Symphonic Poem, Music and Mystery,” the cycle of “Symphonic Dialogues” produced in co-production with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, with the contribution of Poste Italiane. The appointment with the Europa InCanto Orchestra conducted by Germano Neri, who will perform music by P. Dukas and M. Musorgsky, for a journey to discover orchestral sonorities that lead inside a true musical noir, through the performance of two mysterious symphonic poems, is at the Cloud at 11 a.m.

APRIL 2023

The month opens at the Cloud on April 1 with a repeat performance of the Opera Adam’s Passion, with music by Arvo Pärt, direction, sets and lighting by Bob Wilson, choreography by Lucinda Child, Orchestra of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma conducted by Tönu Kaljuste and Chorus of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma conducted by Maestro Ciro Visco in an original production by Eesti Kontsert / Estonia and Change Performing Arts. On April 5 for the Format “Mi Piace Immaginare...” there will be architect Massimiliano Fuksas introduced by Marco Ferrante at the Nuvola. On April 21, on the other hand, for “Parallel Movements, Archaeology and Contemporaneity,” the Cloud will host “The Step Backward” at 10:30 a.m. with historian Giuseppina Muzzarelli and journalist Massimo Franco.

MAY 2023

On May 11 at 5:30 p.m. at the Waterfall Garden, the monumental masterpiece of garden architecture overlooking the Laghetto dell’Eur, “The Magic Flute,” W.A. Mozart’s opera in the reduced version for schools by Europa InCanto Orchestra, will be staged for the Scuola InCanto project. The Waterfall Garden with its baroqueism of lights, colors and mirrors is a suitable stage for the esoteric and dreamy scene of one of the most famous operas in music history. The project, co-produced with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, with direction, sets, costumes, orchestra and voices by Europa InCanto Orchestra, directed by artistic director and conductor Germano Neri, features the participation of elementary schools in the southern quadrant of Rome. Reduction and adaptation by Nunzia Nigro.

From May 9 to 14, the Figure and Puppet Festival “Imagine International Figure Theater Festival” will bring shows, workshops and dedicated exhibitions to Eur.

Puppets, puppets, shadows and all kinds of magical creatures created by the imagination and talent of artists from all over Europe are the protagonists of Immagina scheduled in the spaces of the Waterfall Garden, the Museum of Civilizations, the Quarticciolo Library Theater, the Villa Pamphilj Theater, the Tor Bella Monaca Theater and the Lido di Ostia Theater. It will therefore be a festival spread throughout Rome, with a calendar of performances, exhibitions, workshops, and meetings. The Festival’s main project is the new production of Figure Theater, in rhymed rhyme and sung along with puppets, for the puppet theater of “Pinocchio misseen by the Cat and the Fox” a project by Andrea Camilleri and Ugo Gregoretti. The Cat and the Fox are tired of the bad reputation that surrounds them. Collodi has not done them justice: it was absolutely not their intention to turlupinate the Puppet. On the contrary, they wanted to educate him, to teach him not to trust the first person who comes along. Instead. Just look at how much mud has been thrown at “two rank educators” like them! So they demand a new trial, complete with witnesses and prosecution and defense lawyers. Presiding, as always, is the Orango. Will they succeed in getting themselves rehabilitated? The two writers, longtime friends, enjoy dressing up and playing the parts of the Cat (Gregoretti) and the Fox (Camilleri) on video in the opening of this surprising Pinocchio.

The programming closes on May 23 with an event from the Educational program: the Palazzo dei Congressi at 10:30 a.m. hosts the screening and presentation of Charlie Chaplin’s The My New Job in the original version and in the new version made with the Charlie Chaplin Media School project, which with the supervision of Mario Sesti and Nicola Calocero replicates, adapting it, the 1915 short film starring Charlie Chaplin. More than a century after it was made, it already presents the basic codes of cinematic mise-en-scene based on editing and filming that are still the basis of contemporary audiovisual language that brings children closer to understanding the production mechanisms of film work. Boys from the Santi Savarino Comprehensive Institute, a secondary school in the Tor de Cenci neighborhood, will recreate a Charlie Chaplin short film by playing all the roles. Each boy, assisted by the staff of director and film critic Mario Sesti, will play a specific role within the film: directing, filming, lighting, makeup, actors, production, editing, music, accounting... to learn the rules for thinking, designing and producing a film or rather for designing their future life in the “film” of our society.

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Five months of artistic-cultural events: the second edition of EUR Culture for Rome kicks off

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