dvery difficult to summarize the billboard of Spoleto Festival of the Two Worlds that with 60 performances and more than 500 guest artists – “contaminates” and brings genres and disciplines into dialogue with intelligence.
Gabriele Gianni’s video installation created with AI tools
There is music with Antonio Pappano and the Budapest Festival Orchestrathe musical theater – with Alexander Baricco and Giovanni Sollima – and classic, with Antonio Latella, Silvio Orlando, Luca Marinelli, the dance with Benjamin Millepied and Marie Chouinard.
Not to mention the art with the beautiful exhibition project On the trail of Gian Carlo Menotti: documents, photos, sketches and furnishings that tell the story of 60 years of life of the event.
Everything is number. Artificial creation is the interdisciplinary project of the Carla Fendi Foundation, inside the former Baptistery of the Golden Manna, which with the video installation by Gabriele Giannicreated with AI tools reflects “on the profound relationship between number and the creative act”.
INFO: Spoleto, various venues, from 23 June to 9 July.
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Window on China
Two valid reasons to see China Now. Contemporary art from the Sigg Collection.
The first: the exhibition offers an interesting cross-section. Photos, sculptures, video paintings and installations (the result of the research of one of the most important collectors of contemporary Chinese art and more) they tell the evolution of the artists of that country between tradition and innovationwith the addition of works dedicated to China by the Italian Gabriele Di Matteo.
“Westward and Eastward” by Liu Wei, 2016 (photo Petrò Gilberti).
The second is the occasion for discover this new and suggestive space in one of the historic districts of the city, recently restored.
INFO: Brescia, Spazio Carme (former church of SS Filippo and Giacomop), until 3 September.
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One of the rooms of the exhibition “China Now. Contemporary art from the Sigg Collection” (photo Petrò Gilberti).
A special evening
Eden is a charity appointment in favor of Francesca Rava Foundation – NPH Italy ETSunder the banner of environmental and social sustainability, culture and music.
The splendid voice of American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonatoan artist who has long been involved in awareness-raising activities on green issues, is accompanied by the Il Pomo d’Oro Orchestraconducted by Maxim Emelyanychev, with a program including works by Handel, Gluck, Wagner, Mahler, Copland and Portman.
Joyce DiDonato (photo by Sergi Jasanada).
INFO AND BOOKINGS: tel 0254122917. Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 23 June, 8pm.
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From Gaber to Fresu
First edition for the Varzi Festival which hosts his shows – many first works, but also stops on summer tours by many artists – in the most suggestive corners of the area: gardens, arcades, Diffuso: squares, castles.
They participate Neri Marcorè with his new job Gabriel. Monologues and songs, Paolo Fresu & Daniele DiBonaventura with the choir “A Filetta” in the project Mystical Mediterranean. Free admission.
Neri Marcorè, protagonist of “Gaber. Monologues and songs”.
INFO: Varzi (Pv), various locations, until 25 June.
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Italy in music
The places that host concerts are full of charm Music with a view. Among the upcoming events, the pianist Philip Gamba at the Foresteria of Villa Valmarana ai Nani (Vicenza) and the arches of Dulce String Quartet at the Giacomo Puccini Museum in Pescaglia, (Lucca, both on 18 June). The cellist Catherine Isaiah will be in Catania, at Palazzo Biscari on June 21st.
Villa Valmarana ai Nani (Vicenza).
INFO: different locations, from north to south, until the end of September.
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The audience on stage
There are seven municipalities in the province of Lecco that host the Garden of the Hesperides Festival“use” appointment of performing art among villages, woods, farmhouses and historic villas which invites the public – especially young people, to whom many moments are dedicated – to become protagonists with the artists.
A moment from the show “Hamlet. A personal matter” (photo by Alvise Crovato).
Not to be missed, the mobile show, inspired by Shakespeare, Hamlet. ua personal matterthe path-discovery of nature Human ForestCampsirago Residenza’s reinterpretation of the famous fable Hansel and Gretel.
“Hänsel and Gretel” (photo by Alvise Crovato).
INFO: Colle Brianza, Olgiate Molgora, Ello, Unione Valletta, Sirtori, Valgreghentino, Olginate, from 23 June to 2 July.
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