New Year's Eve in Florence is always celebrated with a leap into the past. The arrival of the new year will be celebrated with classic concerts in the square in the shade of a statue or within the walls of a sixteenth-century loggia. All with free admission and accompanied by that Florentine atmosphere steeped in art, poetry and natural beauty.
Il Florence Light Festival will be the protagonist until January 6 with artistic installations, projections, plays of light and events inspired by the moon landing. A New Year's Eve for everyone, art and culture will be the protagonists of this last day of the year, with open museums, concerts, shows, activities and offers for all tastes.
The concert par excellence is the one that takes place at Piazzale Michelangelo, with panoramic view and a fantastic scenery during the fireworks. Other squares also respond with music: for example, in Piazza della Signoria you will find symphonic and classical concerts and the philharmonic orchestra.
To open the dance the Museo Novecento will offer guided tours of the museum itinerary with free admission, inviting participants to elect the wish of the year in a real voting booth. The wish of wishes will be announced in early January and the outcome will become the subject of a special museum project.
They will also activate in the afternoon Le murate with guided tours of the complex and the hard prison. While in the evening there will be a live concert by Baba Sissoko, one of the greatest exponents of jazz and ethnic music, finishing the evening with a DJ set by the Literary Café.
Il Salone dei Cinquecento instead, with a performance by the Contempoartensemble string orchestra, it will offer music from the Baroque of Vivaldi to Mozart and Handel, also indulging in forays among the Bach brothers.
In Piazza della Signoria, the Cirk Fantastik in collaboration with Cirko Vertigo he will create an acrobatic and aerial dance show, Vertigini Circensi, a performance of strong visual impact with the projection of a video mapping on the facade of Palazzo Vecchio and the accompaniment of music inspired by the moon.
Soul, jazz and r&b: in the churchyard of Piazza San Lorenzo with great Italian and international protagonists, including Eric B. Turner, James Senese, historic saxophonist and vocalist to arrive at the countdown by Alessandra Cafiero, creator and presenter of projects such as Writers in Jazz and Salotto Jazz.
Big gospel evening in the churchyard of Piazza Duomo, with “He made the moon and stars” which will see religiousness, passion and beauty come together. The performances of two musical groups will alternate with two lunar readings by Fabrizio Checcacci, while the presentation and the awaited countdown will be entrusted to Eva Edili, journalist and radio speaker.
In Piazza Poggi, dance music performance, Dancing in the moonlight, with three very different artists such as Matthew Herbert, Interstellar Funk and Dukwa, accompanied by digital art and light design installations on the facade of Porta San Niccolò.
The New Year's Eve on the stage of Piazza della Santissima Annunziata will take place in an alternation of music and comedy thanks to a series of artists including: the very Tuscan Cristiano Militello, Prof Lorenzo Baglioni, the musical parodies of the Masa and a super grand finale with dance music, played live by Eurotunz.
In Piazza del Carmine, let's talk about New Year's Eve on the Moon: Radio Bruno will bring Mr.Rain's top-rated rap, X-Factor star Martina Attili, Florentine singer-songwriter D'Iuorno, DJ-V set, Karaoke Contest and much more.
The Forme Association will give life to “Party lodges” involving with a lunar walk, the Loggia del Grano, the Loggia del Pesce and the Loggia del Porcellino. In the first loggia, illuminated by the installations of the Skunk Control collective as part of F-Light, we will be able to listen to Italian music played by Lady Radio. In the second, there will be pop music by RDF DJs which will alternate during the evening with spectacular performances by the Dhakkan collective. At Porcellino, Enrico Tagliaferri will make everyone dance with a wide selection of disco music, new wave, rock and hits from the early 70s to 1989.
On the churchyard of Santa Maria Novella it will be possible to attend a classical music concert organized by the Artes Association under the artistic direction of maestro Giuseppe Lanzetta with a repertoire dedicated to the most famous waltzes and polkas of the Viennese tradition.
The Oltrarno will be crossed by two New Orleans-style bands, the Zastava Orchestra with Balkan and popular sounds and Pulsar, a young band.
Finally, the traditional will be held on January XNUMXst New Year's concert in the New Opera House, dedicated to Piero Farulli, created thanks to the Fiesole School of Music, curated by the V. Galilei Orchestra, the Boys' Orchestra, with Alberto Bocini double bass, conductor Edoardo Rosadini. Protagonists the music of Beethoven, Rota, Verdi and Strauss.
THEATER:
- Teatro Verdi: "Con Tutto il Cuore", a comedy written and directed by Vincenzo Salemme, which tells the story of a professor who is transplanted with the heart of a ferocious assassin.
- Teatro della Pergola: Eduardo de Filippo stages the comedy "Tell him always yes" which tends to vary the theme of normality and madness. In this comedy the vision of madness is reversed: a methodical madman, the protagonist Michele Murri, with a mania for perfection, makes us reflect on the blurred line between health and mental illness.
- Reims Theater: "Black Comedy" comedy written in 1965 by Peter Shaffer, the two protagonists, a young painter and his fiancée, find themselves in the house completely in the dark due to a sudden blackout, while they are waiting for their father's visit of her and of a very wealthy German collector. From the moment the entire building remains in darkness, everything becomes surreal and the alcoholic neighbour, the homosexual antique dealer, the ex-girlfriend, the future father-in-law, the irascible colonel and the rich collector begin to arrive at the house.
- Teatro di Rifredi: "Odore di Chiuso", written by Marco Malvaldi in which he takes up the challenge of the historical novel by narrating a nobility in decline, which however does not want to give up any privilege in the face of changes in the world. In "Stuffed Smell" the famous cook and gastronomic expert becomes an excellent detective thanks to the reading of a contemporary hero of his, Sherlock Holmes.
- Teatro Puccini: In "Ore Piccole" Alessandro Riccio creates a bandwagon of very funny, absurd characters, similar to each of us.
