Pfollows with Mimmo Jodice. Timeless the project “The great Italian photography” curated by Roberto Koch. The exhibition, in 6 sections – Anamnesis, Languages, Views of Naples, Cities, Nature, Seas – and about eighty shots, presents the work of the Neapolitan photographer through major themes which inspired his expressive language “of intense and engaging poetry” that goes far beyond the chronicle of reality.
The project is completed by a documentary on Jodice’s life made by Mario Martone, a friend of the photographer, presented here for the first time.
INFO: Turin, Gallerie d’Italia, until 7 January.
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Mimmo Jodice, “Punta Pedrosa”, 1998 (© Mimmo Jodice).
Mediterranean sounds
Two days full of shows at Positano Theater Festival. Hannibal Rbird Award (the recognition goes to Tosca D’Aquino) which opens with ‘O ssaje comme fa ‘o corepoetic homage in music to Massimo Troisi and Pino Daniele.
Tosca D’Aquino, this year awarded at the “Positano Teatro Festival”.
The evening of the 24th is also dedicated to Mediterranean sounds acoustic worldthe concert by Enzo Avitabile accompanied by Gianluigi Di Fenza, guitar, and Emidio Ausiello on frame drums.
INFO: Positano, square of tales 23 and 24 July.
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Opera, pop and…
In the context of Collinarea Sound Festival is on stage Turandot. Shadow of light“multidisciplinary and contemporary reinterpretation” of Puccini’s work with the contribution of Franco Battiato.
Filippo Brancato, in the cast of the show “Turandot. shadow of light”
The event, thanks to a particular technology, can be enjoyed in three different places in the village and is the result of the collaboration between the Goldoni Theater Orchestra of Livorno directed by Mario Menicagli, a rock band of 6 elements, a choir of 40 singers and 11 actors.
INFO: Borgo di Lari (Pi), piazza Matteotti, Garden of the Municipality, Piazza dei Vicari, 28 and 29 July.
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See you in the square
“Emigrate me inside and out” the leitmotif of the “Betweenthefestival walls“, which offers theatre, art, music and journalism. Dario Vergassola presents in an interview-show with the director Livia Grossi who is also artistic director), the book True stories from an imaginary world. Five tales of the Cinque Terre while Lucia Vasini closes the event with Migrant readings.
INFO: Framura (SP), Piazzetta and Antica Corte di Casella Theater, from 27 to 29 July. All appointments with free admission.
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East wind
Reflects on the Inevitable – in the sense of “going beyond the path that appears already traced” – the Mittelfestwith a program that ranges from prose to dance, from circus to music with particular attention to the Central European and Balkan area.
Vinicio Marchioni (photo by Cosimo Buccolieri).
Vinicio Marchioni celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Calvino with The viscount halvedwhile Erri de Luca, Cosimo Damiano Damato and Giovanni Seneca’s Tiny Balkan orchestra recall with The roses of Sarajevo the Bosnian poet Izet Sarajlić.
INFO: Cividale del Friuli (UD), various locations, until 30 July.
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Between Drusilla and Dante
Between prose and music the evenings of La Spezia Summer Festival. There are Drusilla Foer with Very elegant Summer Tour 2023 (23 July), Andrew Pennacchi author and interpreter of A little odyssey (on the 31st), Simone Cristicchi with Paradise. From Darkness to Light, poetic-musical journey into Dante’s universe (August 1st). Closes Stephen Fresi with Zither… oncehomage to the famous quartet.
Drusilla Foer protagonist of “Eleganzissima”.
INFO: La Spezia, piazza Europa, until 17 August.
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Widespread art
Twenty villages and towns, one for each region, host A breath of artthe project that involves as many artists invited to carry out interventions consistent with the territory and local traditions.
“Follow the braid”: the sculpture, which portrays its author Laetitia KY (left), is exhibited in Rocca Sinibalda (Rieti).
Thus was born, from the Val d’Aosta to Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia, a large open-air art exhibition where different techniques and artistic languages dialogue with the context that inspired them.
INFO: throughout Italy, until 24 September.
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Music on Monte Amiata
If you are in Tuscany, don’t miss the Santa Fiora International Music Festival. From 23 July to 24 August the village of Santa Fiora (GR), on the slopes of Monte Amiata, will be enlivened by many free concerts and shows.
The official opening will be on July 27 with the night concert of the State Police Band, in what used to be the fishing garden of the Counts Sforza. A jewel of plants, flowers and ponds born around the sources of the Fiora river that can still be visited. And between ducks and swans, the Auditorium della Peschiera (below) becomes a natural stage for shivering, not just musical.
The Peschiera, Santa Fiora (GR)
They will always perform here Nicola Piovani and Fabrizio Bosso. The Oscar-winning composer will present a piano performance, Marginal notes with drawings by Milo Manara, to make the night of August 10th even more stellar.
While the internationally renowned trumpeter with his quartet will pay homage to Stevie Wonder, interpreting his most famous ballands in We Wonder.
INFO: Santa Fiora (GR), from 23 July to 24 August. All shows are free except on the dates of August 7 and 8 (booking is recommended).
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