February in Rome

At the Parco della Musica
Via Coubertin (Flaminio)
tel 892 982 www.listicket.it

Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Andrey Boreyko, conductor, Rafal Blechacz piano
Sala Santa Cecilia, Saturday, January 30, 6 pm; Monday, February 1, 9 pm;
Tuesday, February 2, 7:30 pm €47-18
Chopin: Piano Concerto n. 1
Holst: The Planets, suite op. 32
Meyers: Gaja-(Earth) - The Giver of Life

Fratelli d'Italia
Chorus of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and the Italian army band perform music by Verdi in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.
Sala Sinopoli, Wednesday, February 3, 9 pm €10

Yefim Bronfman, piano
The Russian-Israeli pianist made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1989 and gave a series of recitals with Isaac Stern in 1991. He won a Grammy award in 1997 for his recording of the three Bartók piano concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Sala Sinopoli, Friday, February 5, 8:30 pm €33-15
Beethoven: 32 variations in C minor
Schumann: Carnival in Vienna op. 26
Prokofiev: Sonata n. 2 op. 14
Tchaikovsky: Sonata op. 37

Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Kurt Masur, conductor, Louis Lortie piano soloist
The 83 year-old German conductor succeeded Zubin Mehta as music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1991. In 2000, Masur became principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra , and held this position until 2007. In April 2002, Masur became music director of the Orchestre National de France, and served in this post until 2008, when he took the title of honorary music director. He also holds the lifetime title of Honorary Guest Conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. French-Canadian pianist Lortie has made over 30 recordings on the Chandos label.
Sala Santa Cecilia, Saturday, February 6, 6pm; Monday, February 8, 9 pm; Tuesday, Februrary 9, 7:30 pm €47-18
Schumann: Genoveva Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto n. 4
Brahms: Symphony n. 4

Krystian Zimerman, piano
The Polish pianist won the 1975 Warsaw International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition. He performed with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan in 1976 and he made his début in the United States with the New York Philharmonic in 1979. He has toured widely and made a number of recordings. Since 1996 he has taught piano at the Academy of Music in Basel, Switzerland.
Sala Santa Cecilia, Wednesday, February 10, 8:30 pm €33-18
Chopin: Sonata n. 2 op. 35
Chopin: Sonata n. 3 op. 58

Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia
Wayne Marshall, conducting: Leonard Bernstein Tribute
Sala Santa Cecilia, Saturday, February 13, 6 pm; Monday, February 15, 9 pm;
Tuesday, February 16, 7:30 pm €47-18
Bernstein:
West side story, symphonic dances
Chichester Psalms
Prelude, fugue and riffs
West Side Story, Suite n. 2
Candide Suite

Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble: Uccidiamo il chiaro de luna
Silvia Schiavoni vocals, Giancarlo Schiaffini trombone and electronics, Oscar Pizzo piano and Francesco Prode pianos, Antonio Caggiano, Fulvia Ricevuto, Gianluca Ruggeri percussion, and 11 percussionists of the conservatories of Rome and Frosinone
Contemporary music by composers Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Silvio Mix, Rodolfo De Angelis, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Giacinto Scelsi and others.
Teatro Studio, Wednesday, February 17, 9 pm €15

Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Tanja Tetzlaff, cello; Lars Vogt piano
In 2005 Musical America named Christian Tetzlaff "Instrumentalist of the Year". Orchestras / Chamber Music Partner he is a regular soloist at the major series of the most important US orchestras as well as the major European orchestras. Pianist Vogt won second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition, and made his debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 2004. That same season, he gave the inaugural concert of the new Carnegie Hall.
Sala Sinopoli, Friday, February 19, 8:30 pm €33-18
Shostakovich: Trio n. 2 op. 67
Schubert: Trio n. 2 op. 100

Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
James Conlon conducting with piano soloist Stefano Bollani
Stefano Bollani is a an extraordinary young pianist, performing in both the jazz and classsical genres. Conlon is an American Grammy-Award winning conductor and the current Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera. He received the conducting award of the American National Orchestral Association in 1974 and became the youngest conductor engaged for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra's subscription series.
Sala Santa Cecilia, Saturday, February 20, 6 pm; Monday, February 22, 9 pm;
Tuesday, February 23, 7:30 pm €47-18
Gershwin: Concerto in F
Zemlinsky: The Little Mermaid, symphonic poem

Maurizio Pollini, piano recital
Perhaps the greatest living Italian pianist, Pollini won the International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition in Seregno (Italy) in 1959 and the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1960. In 2002 Deutsche Grammophon released a 13-CD commemorative edition to celebrate the pianist's 60th birthday. In 2007, Pollini received a Grammy Award for his Deutsche Grammophon recording of Chopin nocturnes.
Sala Santa Cecilia, Wednesday, February 24, 8:30 pm €33-18
Music by Chopin

Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Tan Dun, conductor, with piano soloist Giulio Biddau
and cello soloist Amedeo Cicchese
Chinese contemporary classical composer Dun is most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero. In 2008, he was commissioned by Google to compose "Internet Symphony No. 1 'Eroica'" to be performed collaboratively by the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. That same year, he was comissioned by New York Philharmonic for Lang Lang to compose his First Piano Concerto, subtitled "The Fire".
Sala Santa Cecilia, Saturday, February 27, 6 pm; Monday, March 1, 9 pm;
Tuesday, March 2, 7:30 pm
Tan Dun:
Water Rock 'n' Roll
The Tiger and the Dragon, symphonic suite from the sound track
The Banquet, world premiere of the suite from the sound track
Internet Symphony

At the Aula Magna
Piazzale Aldo Moro (at La Sapienza university, San Lorenzo)
tel 06 361 0051 www.greenticket.it

Miserere e Magnificat: The Tallis Scholars
Music by Palestrina, Byrd, Tallis, Allegri, Pärt, Praetorius
Tuesday, February 2, 8:30 pm €25-12

Bennewitz Quartet
Winners of th 2008 Borciani prize, play music by Mozart, Webern, Brahms
Tuesday, February 23, 8:30 pm €20-10

Gautier Capuçon, cello with I Virtuosi Italiani
Music by Bach, Respighi, Vivaldi, Haydn, Rota
Saturday, February 27, 5:30 pm €25-12

At the Auditorium della Conciliazione
Via della Conciliazione (near the Vatican)
tel 899 5000 55

Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
Francesco La Vecchia conducting
Sunday, January 31, 5:30 pm; Monday, February 1, 8:30 pm €15
Stravinsky: Apollon musagete
Prokofiev: Symphony n. 1 op. 25 "Classic"
Bruckner: Symphony n. 1 in c minor

Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
Franacesco La Vecchia conducting
Sunday, February 7, 5:30 pm; Monday, February 8, 8:30 pm €15
Respighi: The Fountains of Rome
Respighi: Roman Festival
Musourgski: Pictures at an Exhibition

Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
Lior Shamadal conducting
Shambadal is the chief conductor of the Berliner Symphoniker and the chief conductor of the RTV Symphony Orchestra Slovenia, Ljubljana.
Sunday, February 28, 5:30 PM; Monday, March 1, 8:30 pm €15
The first in a series of concerts comprising all the orchestral suites and Brandenburg Concerti of J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerti numbers 1, 2, 3,
Orchestral Suites numbers 1, 2

At the Teatro Olimpico
Piazza Gentile da Fabriano (Flaminio)
tel 06 3201752

Quartetto Bernini
The quartet in residence at the Accademia Filarmonica di Roma.
Thursday, February 11, 9 pm €25,17 - €12, 59

Natalia Gutman: Bach Cello Suites
First in a series of concerts encompassing the complete Bach Suites for cello. The internationally acclaimed cellist has performed with the world's leading orchestras. She plays a 1731 Guarneri del Gesù.
Thursday, February 18, 9 pm €37,76 - €25,17

Discounts:
If you have a student ID card, be sure to ask at the box office for a "ridotto". Savings can be substantial.

Augusto Ranocchi Flower Illustration

POPULAR MUSIC

Carmen Consoli: Ventuonudieciduemilatrenta (21 10 2030)
One of Italy's most popular singers, Consoli, appearing for the first time playing bass guitar, launches two simulataneous tours of Italy. This concert explores her recent musical experiments.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Teatro Studio
Tuesday, February 2, 9 pm €28 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it

Carmen Consoli: Elettra
With her backup band, Consoli plays music from her latest album, "Elettra."
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia
Wednesday, February 3, 9 pm €40-30 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it

Rava plays Gershwin
Jazz trumpet player Enrico Rava, one of the most respected musicians in Italy, and dean of Italian jazz, with participants in his two-year jazz workshop program.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Sinopoli
Thursday, February 4, 9 pm €25-20 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova: The Swell Season
Hansard, leader of the Irish group Frames, with Czech pianist Irglova. Their first recording, "The Swell Season," has become a film, entitled "Once," and has won two Grammy nominations, and an Oscar for best song. Their second release, "The Strict Joy," takes its name from a work by the Irish poet James Stephens and is a collaboration with members of Frames.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Sinopoli
Saturday, February 6, 9 pm tel 892 982 www.listicket.it

Joss Stone
The English singer and actress has sold more than 10 million recordings worldwide and has been nominated for four Grammy awards.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia
Sunday, February 7, 9 pm €50-30 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it

Elio e le Storie Tese
The instrumental and vocal group, who perform an ironic brand of music, present their biggest hits and music from their latest album, "Gattini."
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Friday-Saturday, February 12-13, 9 pm
€35-25 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it

Richard Galliano Sextet
The accordion virtuoso and his group play music from Bach to Piazzola. Part of the "It's Wonderful" series at the Auditorium Parco della Musica,
Sala Santa Cecilia, Wednesday, February 17, 9 pm
€30-10 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it

Bill Frisell Trio: Takes on Keaton, Woodring and Morrison"
Guitarist Bill Brisell, one of the most respected jazz musicians in the world today, along with Tony Scherr on bass and Kenny Wollesen on drums, presents compositions inspired by the films of Buster Keaton, and by the animations and visual art of Jim Woodring and Bill Morrison, who created the 1926 film "The Mesmerist."
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Sinopoli
Wednesday, February 17, 9 pm €20-15 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it

Franco D'Andrea in concert
The pianist and composer has performed with jazz greats such as Gatto Barbieri, Dexter Gordon, Lee Koitz, Jean Luc Ponty and many others.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Teatro Studio
Thursday, February 18, 9 pm €15 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it

Nu Indaco "Su Maundu"
The Sardinian folk ensemble present their latest album.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Teatro Studio
Friday, February 19, 9 pm €12 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it

Dave Matthews Band: European Tour
The jam band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991, are known for the lengthy improvisational renditions of their songs, accompanied by elaborate video and lighting. Their most recent studio album "Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King", released last year.
Palalottomatica (Piazzale dello Sport, Eur)
Tuesday, February 23, 9 pm €57,50 - €40,25 tel 892 101 www.ticketone.it

Paco de Lucia, Flamenco guitar
The legendary guitarist and his band.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sunday, February 28, 9 pm
€60-40 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it

ART: In the Museums

Sacra Mirabilia. Tesoro da Castiglion Fiorentino
A collection of over 50 works of art extending from the Etruscan period through the Medieval and from the 13th through the 19th centuries. These works in gold, ceramics, painting, bronze, polychrome sculpture in wood and marble, normally housed in three Roman institutions, are brought together to show the range of the Castiglion Fiorentino region's (Arezzo) artistic heritage.
Castel Sant'Angelo, Via Lungotevere Castello 50
Tuesday-Sunday 9 am-7 pm; February 11 through April 11

Edward Hopper
The first retrospective exhibition in Rome of 143 works by the major exponent of American realism. His unparalleled portrayal of daily American life and the solitude of modern man remains unchallenged.
Museo Fondazione Roma, Via del Corso 320
Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am-7 pm; February 16 through June 13 tel 06 678 6209

Caravaggio
An iconic exhibition celebrating 500 years since the death of Caravaggio, one of history's most enigmatic artists. Works selected for the exhibition offer a rare opportunity to penetrate the essence of Caravaggio's work, examining the artist's "terribile naturale" (his natural tendency to genius).
Scuderie Del Quirinale, Via XXIV Maggio 16
Sunday - Thursday, 10 am-8 pm; Friday, 10 am-10:30 pm; February 16 through June 13 tel 06 399 67500

Charlotte Bonaparte: Dama di molto spirito
Through a selection of paintings, documents and objet d'arte, this exhibition traces the life of Charlotte Bonaparte, the princess, artist and niece of Napoleon.
Museo Napoleonico, Piazza di Ponte Umberto I 1
Tuesday-Sunday, 9 am-7 pm; February 5 through April 18

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 60 anni di pittura
Tracing the artistic career of American poet, painter, liberal activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who is best known for "A Coney Island of the Mind", a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages.
Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Piazza Sant'Egidio 1/b
Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am-8 pm; February 25 through April 25

Biographical Landscape. Fotografie di Stephen Shore 1969-1979
More than 160 photographs examining the relationship between Stephen Shore's photography and the conceptual art that unfolded during the same decade.
Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Piazza Sant'Egidio 1/b
Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am-8 pm; February 25 through April 25

La Campagna Romana dai Bamboccianti alla Scuola Romana
A selection of 140 works, including oils, drawings, engravings
and watercolors dating from the mid 17th century through the early decades of the 20th century, offers a survey of figurative painting throughout the Roman territories.
Complesso Del Vittoriano, Via Di San Pietro In Carcere (Piazza Venezia)
Monday-Thursday, 9:30 am-7:30 pm; through February 14 tel 06 678 0363

Beatrice Caracciolo - Tumulti
An exhibition of works, which include drawings, collages, spontaneous sketches, water marks, and sculpture in zinc, seeks to trace a prominent phase of the artist's career, comprising the years from the 1990s to the present.
Accademia di Francia- Villa Medici, Grandes Galeries, Atelier Balthus, Via Trinità di Monti (top of the Spanish Steps)
Tuesday-Sunday 11 am-7 pm; through March 14

Il segreto di marmo. I marmi dipinti di Ascoli Satriano
A group of 11 unique painted marble works, dating to the classical period of Magna Grecia, found in the ancient territory of Ausculum, known today as Asscoli Satriano in the province of Foggia (Puglia). The sculptures are important for the crystalline quality of the marble, which was quarried on the island of Paro and used exclusively for sculpture and painting.
Museo Nazionale Romano, Largo Di Villa Peretti 1
Tuesday-Sunday, 9 am-7:45 pm through April 18, 2010

Boldini e gli italiani a Parigi. Tra realtà e impressione
A group exhibition of the works of Giovanni Boldini, Giuseppe De Nittis, Federico Zandomeneghi and other Italian artists who sojourned in Paris during the second half of the 19th century, traces the artistic maturation of these artists while investigating their attraction to the mythical era of Paris as captured in portraiture, paintings of cafes, theaters, boulevards scenes and ateliers.
Dart - Chiostro del Bramante, Arco Della Pace 5 (near Piazza Navona)
Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am-8 pm; through March 2010 tel 06 688 09035

Marianne Werefkin - L'amazzone dell'avanguadia
One of the principal figures of modern art, Marianne Werefkin (Russia 1860 - Germany,1938) was known as the Russian Rembrandt. Her innovative spirit helped stir the course of art at the onset of the 20th century. In 1909, along with Jawlensky, Erbsloh, Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Gabriele Munter and others, Werefkin helped found and was the driving force behind Blaue Reiter (1909), the artistic movement that laid the foundation for the birth of abstract art. This exhibition is comprised of 50 paintings 12 drawings. 20 note pads of sketches and one diary.
Museo di Roma in Trastevere Piazza Di Sant'Egidio 1b
Tuesday- Sunday 10am-8pm; through February 14, 2010

Marino Mazzacurati - La felicità della compiutezza espressiva
This exhibition, celebrating the artworks of Marino Mazzacurati (Bologna,1908-Parma 1969) also signals his contribution to an important period in Italian Art, the years between 1920 and 1930. Mazzacurti, along with fellow artists Scipione and Mafai, helped found "La Scuola Romana" and the publication Fronte, which was a towering voice promoting the best of figurative art and Italian literature.
Casino Dei Principi, Villa Torlonia, Via Nomentana 70
Tuesday-Sunday 9 am-2 pm; through February 21, 2010

La riscoperta di Dada e Surrealismo
One of the most ambitious exhibitions of these two historic movements in recent times, the show is comprised of 500 works in oil, sculpture, ready made, assemblage, collage and automatic drawing, accompanied by posters announcing the events and exhibitions that heralded these movements, which were a subversive and evolutionary departure, disrupting the artistic avant-garde of the 20th century.
Complesso Vittoriano, Via Di San Pietro in Carcere (Via dei Fori Imperiali at Piazza Venezia)
Monday-Thursday, 9:30 am-7:30 pm; Friday-Saturday, 9:30 am -10:30 pm; Sunday 9:30 am-8:30 pm; through February 7, 2010 tel 06 678 0363

Grace Kelly - Principessa di Monaco
This exhibition captures the extraordinary moments and diverse aspects detailing the life of a marvelous woman. Curated by Frédéric Mitterrand, the exhibition unfolds like a familiar family album, replete with memories. Selected works of internationally celebrated photographers Howell Conant, Cecil Beaton and Irving Penn add the narrative to Kelly's life as she moved from the studios of Hollywood to life as the princess of Monaco.
Palazzo Ruspoli, Via Del Corso 418
Tuesday-Thursday, 10 am-7:30 pm; Friday-Saturday-Sunday, 10 am-8:30 pm;
through February 28, 2010 tel 06 687 4704

Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé - (1782-1859).
Disegni romani dalle collezioni del Louvre
From the Louvre's permanent collection of over 100 works, a selection of 24 drawings depicting urban scenes, bridges, the Tiber river, palaces and other scenes of Rome during the artist's many brief sojourns in the city during the early decades of the 19th century.
Museo Mario Praz, Via Giuseppe Zanardelli 1 (near Piazza Navona)
Monday 2:30-6:30 pm; Tuesday-Sunday 9 am-1pm and 2:30-6:30 pm; through February tel 06 322 1579

Calder
The artist's iconic mobile sculptures realized from iron wire, bronze sculptures, gouache, drawings and works in oil.
Palazzo delle Exposizioni, Via Nazionale 194
Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10 am-8 pm;
Friday-Saturday, 10 am-10:30 pm; through February 10

Astri e Particelle. Le parole dell'universo
Presented in concurrence with the closing celebration of the Anno Internazional dell'Astronomia e Galileiano (the International Year of Astronomy and Galileo), this exhibition emerges as a display of galactic special effects in two to three dimensions.
Palazzo delle Esposizioni Via Nazionale 194 (Esquilino)
Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10 am-8 pm; Friday, Saturday, 10 am-10:30 pm; through February 14

Michelangelo Buonarroti - Architetto a Roma
A unique opportunity to view Michelangelo's plans for projects executed in Rome. The works include drawings and plans for Saint Peter's; two of the most powerful works projected for the Sistine Chapel, the Creation of Adam and The Last Judgement; as well as plans for the splendid Palazzo Farnese (the inner courtyard), the Capitoline Square and the majestic Porta Pia.
Capitoline Museum, Piazza Campidoglio
Tuesday-Sunday, 9 am-8 pm; through February 10

Roma e Reggio Calabria insieme per l'Arte
This is a rare opportunity to view three master works outside regional boundaries; Il Cristo e l'adultero by Luca Giordano (Napoli 1634-1705); Il Martirio di San Lorenzo and la Caduta di Simon Mago, both by Vincenzo Cannizzaro born in Reggio Calbrio during the mid-1700's.
Capitoline Museum Piazza Campidoglio
Tuesday-Sunday, 9 am-8 pm; through February

Sandro Chia
The first comprehensive exhibition of Chia's work and his first retrospective since the 1992 show at the national galleryin Berlin. Chia is one of the leading exponents of the Trasavantguardia movement, which was launched by a group of Italian artists, along with Achille Bonito Oliva, who curates this exhibition of 56 paintings and 5 sculptures.
Galleria Nazionale D'Arte Moderna, Viale delle Belle Arti 131 (Parioli)
Tuesday-Sunday, 8:30 am - 7:30 pm; through February 28